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27 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

For me it’s more of a cultural clash between being a blinged up, revenue driven persona and a more down to earth, less sell your soul kind of ethos.

One is from up north.

One is from across the pond. 

It's probably that simple. 

I'd contact them, as new batteries every 8 weeks seems wrong to me. 

11 minutes ago, Linus27 said:

I thought this was the norm and everyone does it this way but there was nothing impressive or amazing to me what Mohini did in this video. 

Yep. That's the norm.

I'm impressed that you can do it with just one listen through though, without ever hearing the song before. 

Generally I give the song several listens and then pick out the chords while playing along with my bass as reference. Not do it all by ear. 

• Battery drain in passive mode: Some East UK preamps draw power from the battery even in passive mode. This is a design feature to avoid loud thumps when switching between modes, but it means the battery will drain regardless of the selected mode. 
• Make sure the black battery lead terminal has only one wire connected.
• Always remove the jack plug from the instrument when not in use, as inserting the jack activates the battery connection.
• Use a new, high-quality battery for best performance.
• Check that the jack socket is not touching any wiring outside of the preamp circuit, as this can cause unnecessary power drain.

5 minutes ago, kiat said:

try to limit battery drain by removing the instrument cable at every opportunity. 

That's confusing. Do you sometimes leave the bass plugged in for days?

Unplug whenever you have finished playing.

Other than that, check your jack plug isn't shorting and if it's not factory fitted, that it's wired correctly in the first place. 

This was the first I saw of her. She can play! 

10 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Just a quick look at some of those (checked them with obligatory, opening ad paused, so no ‘watched’ registered) and that video has really backfired for her.

People will not have heard of her before. People will have subscribed to her.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. 

10 hours ago, SimonK said:

She does have a good point RE AI being a tool that we need to get used to (and work out the best way to use)

There is a separate thread about AI, probably loads of Rick Beato content.

But she is right, not because it's better, but because it's easy for people to use than spend a lifetime becoming an expert musician. 

It won't matter because pretty soon music tracks will all be 30 seconds long in the same way as songs reduced down to 3 minutes in the 60s. 

And when no one knows how to play instruments we will be worse off.

Demolition Man stops being another dystopian Sci-Fi film.

If it's the same as this you can have 14 and 26 channel mode and/or trigger the differenent built in chases via DMX. 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://avs.2dimg.com/resources/1738244068_865.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjI9s6tyrqRAxVTWkEAHdsTK544ChAWegQIUBAB&usg=AOvVaw2IPYtO95mlcMgVXo0YnZT0

3 hours ago, Rosie C said:

they need 50+ DMX channels

Are the 50 channels fixed or can you set each individual lamp to an address.

You could perhaps have every 5th one the same address and then just have '4 fixtures' per bar that just repeat. 

14 hours ago, Beedster said:

I did a pickup gig years ago and the singer without warning shouted ‘bass solo’. So I just carried in playing the exact line I’d been playing albeit with just drums for company…..

 

 

 

…… and the audience loved it. Made me wonder whether us bassists really need s band 😆

Repetition, tension and release. That's all music is. 

Next time; increase and decrease the volume and get the drums to go with you, miss the riff and sit on the root for the same number of bars the riff is. Add a gliss. or an octave.  

They'll lap it up. 

He's obviously not a serious Bass Player, even SD has posted on this forum. Well, in two threads anyway. 🤣

Anyone knkw where I can get these cheaper than £20? One at £20 is fine but think 3 is starting to stretch my budget.

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4way IEC splitter. 

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

I've always really liked these guys' lighting set up for a 3/4 piece band:

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR7JilxjEMB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The static wash they use at every gig looks good. 

I mentioned this in the DMX thread.

Although I have 4 par cans that are 4 chanel so I can run all 4 off two pages of faders by setting adresses to 1, 5, 9 and 13.

My mini spots are 5 chanel? Go Figure. To keep the desk simple I program 1, 9, 1, 9. Losing about 12 channels, but I don't have hundreds of fixtures and multiple universes. 

This is where software comes in handy. 

Useful to have a cheat sheet printed referencing each page, fixture and what chanels you're using. In case you want to alter lights on the fly instead of using programmed scenes. Essential when programming anyway. 

13 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

Has anyone found a wireless DMX system that does not operate on 2.4GHz?

 

Tgere is too much WiFi, Bluetooth and microphones/IEM systems working on 2.4GHz to make it reliable for lighting. 

Each data packet is 512 bytes and it runs at a baud rate of 250kbps.

What issues are you encountering at 2.4GHz? 

14 hours ago, MrDinsdale said:

 

Did people get signature instruments and gear in the past because of their musical prowess or was it more of a commercial decision based of how much units they’d shift. I’m not sure that anything’s changed in that respect.

Its always gone on. Sponsorship, not necessarily signature instruments, that's a more recent phenomena with mass production making it simple to do a run of 1000 instruments all exactly the same. 

Certainly bands sponsored by strings companies, some BassChatters have got free strings for tours etc.

I imagine Paul McCartney got given a fair few basses. 

One tip is not to have bright lights pointing out at the audience from the stage. It makes you difficult to see. 

If you're going to have lights for the dance floor, have a good think about their location. If lights are to light up the band, they need to be at the front, as high up as possible, down onto the band. Side fills are ok, but they will put the band into silhouette if there's nothing from the front. 

You're not a disco, people want to be able to watch you. 

21 hours ago, Uncle Rodney said:

Ya know, I did give this some careful thought at the time, but I wasn't expecting the answerphone because Mr B was expecting my call.

I've found sometimes no matter how carefully I choose my words, it all depends how the receiver interprets them at that precise moment. For example asking "how are you?" can get "f**k off don't waste my time" because they are not the type of person who responds to that (apparently German people hate that question as do many Northeners).

Another "I'd like to talk with you regarding the band" can produce "why just not say it then!" or "you're not the BL so fo" and so on. It all depends how the person feels at that specific moment.

I think my on-the-spot message was "I'd like to talk to you about recent events in the band.."

 

As an aside I have used the "it's not you it's me" tactic and found some people REALLY hate that. My Hungarian friend (really nice young man) we were discussing this phrase and he got really animated! 🤣 He said "we eastern Europeans say exactly as we see it, if you smell we will say "YOU STINK! non of this nonsense you Brits comeout with." 🤣 I did laugh.

 

Shoot me 😆

Don't overthink it.

I left a band because people who knew my situation were too immature to recognise how it was affecting me mentally, even when I told them to cut me some slack. 

If you are not aware of things going on in his life that are preventing him from picking up the phone you can't temper your response accordingly.

If he has always been rubbish with comms, that may be why A wants to get rid of him. If it's a new new thing then it probably needs a chat, or he will walk anyway. 

Yeah, but what's with the thumb over the top of the fretboad?

Everything else pales into insignificance compared to that heinous crime. Even the faux leather engine driver's hat. 

I have 

Chauvet Obey 40

4x QTX LED parcans (4 channel)

4x Mini Led spots (6 channel)

Galaxian Gem LED Moonflower and Lazer (5 channel)

2x 8 Led Moving Head lights (7/12 Channel modes)

With the wireless I'm ulltimately planning on having 2 pairs of parcans either side of the stage linked locally by cable with a wireless receiver on each pair.

The Moving Heads just linked with a single cable and wireless reciever to one. 

4x mini spots along the front all linked via cable with 1st one wireless receiver. 

The Laser/moonflower to light the audience I'm thinking it can go anywhere now, where previously it was behind the band - not ideal. But it doesn't seem to have many useful modes. Just speed and direction of rotation of the laser and 8 preset chases for the moonflower plus speed.

I'm likely to operate the moving heads by switching between sound mode so they pan and tilt on their own, and then stop with a set colour as a chase. Programming in a slow pan and tilt is a mission that I haven't got to grips with yet.

The kit comes with 3 receivers, but can add more later. 

Learn Binary, you may find some fixtures still have dip switches for addressing. But it helps if you can visualise the assignments.

Try and assign each DMX fixture 8 channels (or one page) even if they only need 5 or 6.

Some may need 12 or more, but most seem to need at least more than 4 but less than 8. 

Then set them out logically before plugging any DMX cables in.

Parcan 1 - Address 1 - 00000001

Parcan 2 - Address 9 - 00001001

Parcan 3 - Address 17 - 00010001

Parcan 4 - Address 25 - 00011001

Etc.

Although if you are using software this is probably less important. 

I have a Chauvet Obey 40. It's only been used at home so far but I did use one in a band about 20 years ago and setting up 5 simple chases and using the 'rate' slider to vary the speed of the chases was all I needed. Select a different chase each song. 

About to buy some WiFi transmitter/receivers as the amount of long cables that have to be run and packed up. It'll pay for itself in cables and time. 

Currently only DMX control is 4 mini spotlights linked together with one as master (and sound to light) and everything else is just sound to light solo. It can look a bit manic. 

I have

4 8" led Par Cans

4 mini Led spotlights

2 Moving head lights.

We have a laser with coloured lights in it as well.

I link the 4 mini Led lights together spread across the front to illuminate the band.

2 of the par Cans on stands either side.

The 2 moving heads linked together and they mimic each other in reflection.

It's ok but the sound to light just means random flashing lights all over the shop. 

I also have a Chauvet Obey 40 controller. I've played with the controller at home with everything connected but it's too many cables to connect. Next purchase will be WiFi DMX transmitter and rechargeable receivers. 

My plan is then to take everything off sound to light and program some simple chases where everything is a bit less manic. Will leave the moving heads in auto as programming sweeps with them is challenging using the Obey.