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TheRev

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  1. Love that solo - it's probably the only bass solo that I actually perservered with bothering to learn. Andy Fraser is a legend and one of my three big influences when I started playing bass. He was only 17 or 18 when he recodred 'all right now', which is frankly bonkers.
  2. My band are loud... this is my recipe for feedback free playing. 1) Krivo magnetic pickup (available from promenade music in the UK) 2) HPF. I also have an EA doubler, but find the HPF a bit feeble. I *think* the EA HPF is a 12db per octave roll off, wheras Fishman and the wonderful Fdeck HPF is 24db per octave, but the EA will be better than nothing.. A phase inversion switch is also useful. 3) Plug your f-holes. I use F-its. www.f-itsfeedbackblockers.co.uk 4) Raise your cab up of the ground, as close to ear height as possible so it's not firing at the body of your bass and making it vibrate. I use a folding keyboard stand. Also, putting your cab to yor side rather than behind you can help as youre pesenting the ribs of your bass rather than the whole back (i.e a smaller & less resonant surface area) towards the amp. Dave
  3. Me! Me! I'm in Bristol mind, so not uber close to Chard. I have a gig in Cerne Abbas on Saturday, which is a bit closer. I'd be interested to hear how it compares to my Mike Arnapol cabs.
  4. Except that Wormley and The Dread Pirate Druzil (his real name is actually Drew Sexsmith) have left and been replaced by Aled Jenkins (ex Smokey Bastard) on mandolin with Leroy (aka Seamus O'Flanaghan in previous incarnations of the band) covering fiddle and acccordian duties. Fang (AKA Uncle Touchy) occasionally plays with my band as Vinnie Blue (on accordian or mandolin or whatever he's into on that particular day) and stepped in on guitar for a small USA tour when our guitarist flounced off in a huff 10 days berore the tour started.
  5. Auralex Gramma pads. I bought one, used it a buch of times. left it backstage at a festival somewhere, never bothered to replace it.
  6. @BigRedX 🤣 Good point...luckily anyone we've used has been happy to dress up and neck cider.
  7. Yep, this. If you have paid gigs and a professional approach then you can find professional musicians to get the job done. When our guitarist threw his toys out of the pram 10 days before a small tour in the USA, we called up a guitarist that we knew in New York, sent him the songs and flew him to Portland, Oregon to start the tour. This wasn't even a big money tour - it was classic punk style, relying on mates & other bands to supply gear and drive between dates, sleeping on floors and in s**tty motels. It can be done. Stop worrying about a stable lineup and look for people who actually want to play gigs (money helps...). In the circles my band moves in, there are bands who have had 6 different drummers in 10 years, or will have 3 bass players who know the songs and they use whoever is alailable.
  8. I usually refer to them as 'FOH sound' as in "Is James doing FOH sound on our stage again this year? I've also used 'sound bloke/dude' (when it's a bloke/dude) and 'that grumpy c**t' (when it's a grumpy c**t).
  9. I quite like having a stage name - it's like an alter-ego that gives you that allows you the freedom to be a different persona on stage, cmpared to your day job. In a previous band I was The Rev (hence the user name), in the current band it's Magners O'Magnersson: http://skimmityhitchers.co.uk/who-we-arr/
  10. After 30+ years of playing in bands, I am still surprised at the number of people in bands who don't actually want to be in a band. The trick is spotting these joy sponges before they rip all your enthusiasm out.
  11. We've done a handful of gigs in the past year, each time we've been asked by the promoter to bring our own mics. Before plague, when I've worked as a stage manager at festivals, there would be people wanting to use their own mics for hygiene reasons. The FOH and monitor engineers didn't have a problem with that, as long as the mic wasn't cheap rubbish, which yours isn't. Asking to use your own mic in the current situation isn't an unreasonable request - the promoter might even insist on it.
  12. Ohhh, that is nice.
  13. I hadn't even heard of Oceansize until 7 years after they split up. Still don't know why they passed me by, they were exactly the sort of music I was listening to in the late 2000s.
  14. I have a set of Velvet Garbo and a set of Velvet Blues. The Garbos are pretty old and have been on and off various basses many times. The Blues are on better condition. The green silks are the Garbos, the blue silks are the Blues.
  15. I may subscribe just to have the pleasure of unsubscribing.
  16. Longview by Green Day? Down in the tube station at midnight by The Jam. (Are The Jam mod or punk?)
  17. Has anyone on here actually benefited from the exposure of 90,000 (or however many) plays in terms of more punters at gigs, better paid gigs or better festival slots? I could suck up the pittance per play if it actually translated into more gigs or better paid gigs.
  18. Lovely looking mic - I occasionally wander into the Talkbass Nadine thread and then have to remind myself that I don't to buy a mic that costs more than my bass.
  19. XTC - Making plans for Nigel. Apart from no-one born in the last 20 years being called Nigel, 'he has his future in British Steel'.
  20. Thwaites in Watford and The Double Bass room in Kent both have stocks of old eastern European basses around the £1000 mark. If you're buying new, then Stentor, Strunal and the Thomann '2' (actually rebadged Strunals) basses are all perfectly decent basses for the money. I use a Stentor Student 2 in our rehearsal studio and I've played one of the Strunal/Thomann basses - I'd happily have either if I didn't already have enough basses. I'd avoid the £500 laminate basses you see on Gear4music, etc. Our singer's missus has one and it's not great. It can be made playable, but the sound is pretty insipid.
  21. TheRev

    Volutes

    That was fun - kinda like a Bob Ross episode but with a headstock instead of a painitng.
  22. https://www.themusicinn.co.uk/bass-guitars/electric-bass/jedson-short-scale-bass-pre-owned https://reverb.com/uk/item/578786-jedson-telecaster-bass-1969-75-sunburst https://reverb.com/uk/item/1701501-jedson-short-scale-telecaster-bass-sixties-3-tone-sunburst https://thebassgallery.com/products/jedson-short-scale All £300 + Although, no idea how much much the Bass Gallery one went for, but the fact that it sold means that someone paid actual money for it, which is still ridiculous.
  23. My first bass was a short scale Jedson tele stye thing that I paid about £40 for in 1984. If I could have bought any other bass, I would have, but it was all that was available in my remote corner of Ireland. It was bad- so bad that when I eventually replaced it with a Marlin Swidewinder, it was a significant improvement. Those Jedson basses regularly go for £300 plus on ebay and gawd knows how much more on Reverb. Utterly bonkers. You could spend a third of that on a new Harley Benton and get a bass that was three times better.
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