TimR

If everyone wants their own personal sub mix that's going to either be expensive or complicated. The XR-12 and 18 will allow you to have several sub mixes. Fairly expensive, especially if you have to factor in a tablet. Else if your mixer has thru I/O (unlikely for a 4 chanel mixer) then each person will need their own mixer and a bunch of leads. Most bands have a mixer with 2 Aux outs and live with 2 slightly different mixes out to headphone amplifiers or monitor speakers. We just have one monitor 'mix' with vocals only (sometimes a touch of guitar) driving 2 powered speakers in series. Sounds to me like you just need more monitors but turn everything down. Which seems to be the main cause of all issues on this forum when it comes to stage volume and hearing yourself.

I don't think it does.

You can't take a single mixed signal and then de-mix it.

Just buy more monitors and connect them into the current monitor chain. Depending on whether its a passive or active monitor, and what connections it has will depend exactly how you do that.

Drummer sells his mixer and buys a new one. World peace is restored.

Wonder if it's playable. 50 years in a loft, going to need a bit of truss rod love.

Isn't the Bass of Doom Jaco's bass held in trust by Trullio?

I'll stick to using my finger. 🤣 At the end of the day it's 4 LED PAR lamps.

Currently playing with Barbara Dickson. https://www.barbaradickson.net/my-own-adventure She's currently on a farewell tour but seems the bass parts on the Album were recorded in France and I can't find out who is in her live band.

Yes. Was considering just limiting the travel to a 220 ish degree arc so the band and dance floor don't get the beam.

I have a couple of moving heads. Not used them in anger yet, but played with them via the Obey. Again fiddly to get your head around the programming especially as the positioning is done by fader rather than joystick and but does the job.

6 chases is fine. You also have scenes so can have the whole stage set as a single colour during set up and breaks. You can vary the speed with the tap button, there's probably a midi switch that you could program to do that. Would need looking at the manual. As you can have colours other than the 7 basic ones you get from automatic mode you can program a load of scenes with custom colours. So already that's an improvement. If you want to have different colours for each song, then you'll need more chases but I don't think anyone will notice. And it's a lot of programming and a lot of selecting and matching scenes with songs.

iPad DMX solution is expensive for a few par cans. Software that does what you want is a few hundred quid. I have a Chauvet Obey 40. Just program a bunch of chases in and select a different chase for each track. Programming is a bit fiddly at first but with a bit of work it's a reasonable solution.

I think my SR400 is in need of some serious attention. It's 20+ years old. So I got to thinking £400 over 20 years is less than 40p a week! Maybe a new bass rather than swapping out the jack and preamp and probably the frets are worn as well. I haven't tried either of the SR600E or the Premium. The Premium is double the price but maybe the SR600E with swapped out Gotoh machineheads (The ibanez ones get a bad press amd I've broken 2!) would suit my needs. Anyone experience of either or both?

I was going to be in a signed band at one point. Unfortunately it transpired that the A&R mam was just interesting in grooming the 17 year old singer. Who told him in no uncertain terms that he wasn't into men. Well, that and I got thrown out of the band because I wouldn't grow my hair long because my day job required me to look smart. 🤣 My dad was semi-pro and out playing every weekend and he told me to get proper job and play music as a paid hobby. He was right.

It's a nice idea. But ultimately you still need to ask people before you book in case they or their significant other hasn't put something in their diary. We have 2 WhatsApp groups. One for general chatter and one for gigs. Organise gigs and tunes etc in the general chatter and transfer to the gig chat when confirmed. One person regularly asks for dates people are busy and gets all the gigs. This doesn't Delete conversations in the gig group regularly.

Sometimes we also need a reality check. A 4 piece covers band playing a local pub...

If he is the drummer, how does he know you need all those lights? I played with a similar drummer. Always wanted more lights and louder PA. We were playing small functions and pubs. The main problem was he was pointing all the lights at the audience and people who came to see us complained they were being blinded by the lights and couldn't see us. I told him we were a band not a disco and the lights should be on us, with a smattering of dance floor lights. What are you using? Are they being used effectively? We have 4 large 8"/10" LED PAR cans that are on stands and light the stage, and 4 mini 4" LED PAR cans mounted on the speaker stands as fill-in lights. Then we have a laser/coloured floor filling light and a smoke machine that is aimed onto the dance floor.

Ah. Sorry. It was the guitarist rushing. Learning versions of songs is only useful to get an idea of how the song goes in a rough fashion. Once you know its a blues progression, everyone will just play around. They'll throw in solos, extra verses, double, triple, quadruple choruses etc. The point of learning to read charts is; if there is someone with a chart, you can just step in and follow it. If someone is expecting you to follow a chart on first viewing without knowing the tune - it will be a very simple chart/song. Even better, take your own charts for songs you know and hope there's a singer who knows the tunes.

As others have said, it's a jam. Everyone's interpretation of a tune will be different because you haven't rehearsed together. That's the whole idea. Not much you can do with a drummer who doesn't play solid time other than hope they have a different one available next time. If it's too loud make sure you're wearing ear plugs. Learn to read charts.

This Brad Lang? https://www.taxi.com/members/tMUWdre-QSa6sorKSEufiA-brad-lang

If you're just playing pubs you only need vocals and kick drum, possibly guitar. You need to be able to have a separate monitor just for vocals. The band doesn't need any extra kick or guitar messing up stage volumes. The PA is just bringing a bit of presence over the top as kick drum and guitar will get absorbed by front row of anyone dancing. However, you're not trying to fill a pub with sound, if people want to listen to the band or dance they can come forwards. You don't want to turn the pub into a concert venue. If you're regularly playing big functions then go the full works with a big mixer, but really you can hire that kind of thing in for the odd big gig. Yes, sure, lots of bass players seem to revel in owning a PA and carting it around and setting it up and operating it during the gig. But you will be the one doing all this. Nowadays I prefer to turn up with my bass gear, plug in and play, and concentrate on my own performance.

I have an old soft toothbrush.

Thanks, but I am suitably jaded by my experience. I was sure I'd bought the winning tickets.

I didn't win a nice Ibanez on Friday night and I just haven't won a Blue Stingray 4. Back to the Euromillions then....