Buddster

Ah, well then... I was doing sound for a live jazz/dub/funk/improv thing at a venue just off Caledonian Road in London back in the 90's (I forget its name now). This involved a lot of working the desk (echo, sweep eq etc). Head down I was really getting into it. 'A quick blast on the smoke machine will add a bit of atmosphere'... 10 minutes later I look up and the whole venue was just smoke! However, with the stage lighting, everything looked awesome, with just the silhouettes of the band and this heavy dub going on. It really added to the vibe. Me and the other guy on the desk just wet ourselves laughing.

@ped & @Woodinblack Loving your work guys. ❤️

Thankfully not me, but I used to do the live sound for a band in the early 80's. Keyboard player had a Prophet 5 and occasionally on sound check it would just totally crap out and lose all presets/sounds. Which means he'd have to reload them all from a cassette. This took ages, and didn't always want to load. Closest he got was finally getting it to load 5 mins before they went on.

Back in 1986, I had the privilege of being the assistant engineer on a couple of sessions when he was the bass player (along with Ray Russell on guitar), full sessions with drummer, bass, guitar, strings, brass, recording for a well known singer. But this was before the Internet (and I was young!) and had no idea who these guys were. But I did know they were phenomenal players and marvelled at how they could read the dots. I recently went to The bass Gallery where they are selling his basses. Odd to think he probably played one of those at the time.

We did an outdoor street gig a few years ago, set up under a gazebo, on the driveway /pavement. Fairly tight for space. Guitarest had his Les Paul on it's stand behind where he'll be playing. Normal stuff, although not really out of harms way. But as we were still setting up, people were moving around, plugging things in etc. As the drummer is getting in behind his kit, he knocks over the Les Paul which falls onto the pavement at such an angle that the headstock breaks off at that weak joint particular to Les Pauls. We're all good friends, so no fights break out, but the drummer is understandably mortified and there's an odd vibe in the air Thankfully he had his Strat with him, so the gig went ahead, but he had a terrible gig as the 2 guitars are so different. So yes, I take a spare bass to gigs, even if it's left in the car. And the bass stays in the gig bag untill we start sound checking.

As I fall into both these categories, I completely concur with your statement 😊

Thats great turn of phrase

Then go and try it. What's to lose. I drive 1 1/2 hours to work everyday.

Thormann add the top of the page, and isn't effecting the screen. Thanks for sorting Kiwi ❤️

Sky Arts, 21.00 Bagpipes :A celebration. One to miss I think. 👉😬👈

Had an interesting experience with my inears at Saturdays gig. Sound checked, all fine, as normal. 1st set, sounded great and really happy. Few adjustments on the pad to my aux send (using Soundcraft ui24 system). Great 1st set. Start of 2nd set. Quick check, make sure it's working. Hmm, sounds a bit less bassy than it did. Checked the volume pedal. Ok. Checked the plugs. Ok. Checked the jack wasn't 1/2 out. Nope. Ah, maybe the FoH isn't up yet. That'll be it. Start the set. Better, but still not as before. A bit treblely than before too. And more ambient. Ah well, carry on. Gig went very well, and at the end took off my iem's and turned to pick up my hearing aids and couldn't find the dammed things. Had they dropped on the floor? Nope, I'd left the stupid things in my ears and put the iam's in as well! Dooh!

I've found that if I get a 'long ad', refreshing the page until the Rotosound ad comes back helps

Back to normal with Rotosound ad now

@mep Yes, glad it's not just me. I'm having the same issue on my phone browser page. It's throwing the menu off screen to the right. It's very annoying.

Agree with you there. It's sometimes week before others have learnt their parts. It's very frustrating when I take the week to learn the bass part and they havnt even bothered to listen to it. Especially frustrating if it's a song they've suggested.

After an expensive year last year, this year has been quiet on the purchasing front. But last week I bought the Boss GT-B1. First gig with it tonight and I'm really happy with it. I've programmed 6 different patches to match different tracks and they all sounded great. We're silent stage/IEM, so direct into the desk. Plus it fits into the front pouch on the gig back, so one less thing to carry.

I play all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order Sorry, someone had to say it

Tonight, 22:15. Super Show - The last Great Jam of the 60s

Just in case you want to add some personal traits to add to the authenticity to the part https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/07/u2-bassist-adam-clayton-when-i-was-drinking-there-were-many-times-when-i-was-out-for-the-night-and-didnt-come-back-for-a-week

Those Renaissance bass players had the right idea

Just bought a bag. Let's give 'um a go!

Bought for the wife who said she'd ware it to our gigs 👍

I hope your next gig goes well. It's a tough situation you have, and there's not always an easy resolve it.