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That's an old one. When using SMPTE to sync 2 24 track machines you soon leant to run from 1:00:00:00 because if you went past 00 the slave machine would spin off backwards trying to make up - 24hrs! I used to work in a studio that ran 3 Alesis ADats in sync. Great in theory but I recon Alesiscused studios as thier R&D dept. Quite difficult to explain to a band at 2am that one of the machines has chewed up the tape and lost the days work! I think for a new band to studios it's quite difficult to understand that playing live and recording in a studio are very different animals. What's recorded is there forever, mistakes and all and it take time to get it right. Otherwise you'll be listening to those mistakes ever after.

Ah, apologies, that wasn't quite clear. Yes, the guy was wrong. Studios are a very odd environment if you're not used to it. I've worked with many new to studio bands as well as seasoned pros. Both will try your patience! It's a very intimidating place to walk into first time and for the engineer /producer social skills are sometimes more important than technical skills.

Or mains leads. I've had "well you're a studio, you should have mains leads", or "i couldn't be bothered to unplug it all"

I'm afraid in this case (and I hate to say it) the drummers right. His need to play how he plays overrides your need to place your mics. Always ask if the mics are in the way. Having said that, he should have asked you if you coud move them rather than do it himself.

I don't need/I swear by a compressor Delete where appropriate

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Saw them at the Bristol Hippodrome 5 years ago. Fantastic show. Sat in 4th row. You're in for a treat. They just look like they're enjoying themselves. Tried to get tickets myself but they sold out very quickly. Enjoy

I'm new to the thread but love my funk bass, so will be going back over the pages. Don't think this has been posted.

Just don't turn up with the attitude that the engineer fits one of the above. The same list can be applied to musicians

Yes, kind of. I use 1st finger on E and little finger on D (or A and G). A slight rockung motion between the two to mute/play each string. As Huw says, index low, middle hi. Car Wash is a very obvious example but there's load of disco stuff. It takes practice, thats all.

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@neepheid glad you made it back. Very nice to meet you and your collection of basses. Thanks to Mike and the family Scrumpy, and everyone else involved in the organisation of the day. Nice to put faces to names. Never ceases to amaze me how different we all like our basses. Sound, string hights, shape etc. How one person's setup can be unplayable for someone else. But it was a great opportunity to try different instruments you'd never have a chance to try. Thanks again, was a grand day out.

I too ordered a pair, and certainly all the packaging and bits looked genuine. Even if I don't use them, a back up pair for £40 isn't bad

Yeah Bristol's pretty big. And stop calling me Shirley. Thanks for the link. Recommendations are always helpful, hence the ask.

Hi The speaker system we use is an HK Audio line array (4 active, 4 passive subs, 8 tops) along with Soundcraft Ui24r (it's the drummers setup). Excellent system all round, very clear and we always get comments on how good it sounds. He and I do our sound and we also run small festivals /hires. He bought it 10 years ago but now a few things need fixing. The main repairs are based in Leeds, and we're based in Bristol. So transport is a bit of an issue. Anyone in the Bristol/South West /West know any good PA repair shops we could try? We'd prefer to drive the stuff there ourselves, so looking for somewhere closer. Cheers in advance

Looks like a losing battle with the guitar player, but is his amp pointing at his calves. Get him a stand so it leans vack and aims at his head. Did a PA this weekend and guitarist in one of the bands couldn't hear his Marshall jcm 100. It was 2ft behind him pointing straight at the back of his legs. 🤔

And Usb plugs/sockets (the older larger ones). 50% chance of getting it right that 100% of the time you'll get wrong.

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Just finished 2 days of running the PA for the stage at the annual Nailsea 'international' Bike Show (Bristol). Excellent weekend. 12 really good bands of different genres of music. They were all great. All went very smoothly and all the bands were happy with their sounds. We played last on Saturday night. Unfortunately, it didn't start so well for us. Guitar player broke a string 2nd song, singers mic went intermittent and a bit of feedback. But after that, we went down a storm. Great gig. If anyone on here played, thanks for a great time.