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I'd also go listen to some isolated bass tracks from famous recordings - there's stuff on YouTube from James Jamerson, McCartney and many more. When you hear all the buzz, finger noise and string clanks on iconic bass performances that you can barely perceive once they're sat in a mix, you'll feel better about your own! Analysing your own playing on an isolated recording is a great way to improve but without context you can also go right down a rabbit hole and best yourself up far too much!

11 hours ago, Simon. said:

Bill Bailey's musical output is always worth a look. Makes up a fair chunk of his stand-up shows, so he puts plenty of effort on to it.

If you haven't seen it, his Enter Sandman is a work of genius, and his take on the Match of the Day and BBC News theme's are splendid.

His bit in his first stand-up DVD, Cosmic Jam, on how cockney music influenced the great classical composers, is absolute brilliance. Love his musical bits. 

11 hours ago, Graham said:

I'm a big doom fan, looking forward to seeing Conan and Bell Witch at Damnation Festival in November 

I know Jon from Conan, lovely dude. We both do splitter van hire in the same area so have passed gigs back and forth over the years. The man certainly has good taste in giant fuzzy amps!

On 05/02/2021 at 23:44, jimmyb625 said:

I like it for mixing, but I'm less keen for tracking.

I've heard this from a fair few people. Seems common that folk are tracking and editing elsewhere then throwing the audio across to Mixbus for mixing. 

Sceptical as to whether it'll give me anything I'm not getting from sticking Waves SSL channels everywhere in Reaper but might give it a go!

1 hour ago, Mcgiver69 said:

Yeah, try them and if they don't show a small screen sending you to their shop then it is part of the T-Racks CS bundle. From the top of my head you have:

- Classic Compressor

- Classic EQ

- Classic Optical Compressor

- Classic Quad Comp (multiband compressor)

- Classic Quad Lim (multiband limiter)

- Classic Clipper

- EQP 1A - Pultec EQ

- Linear Phase EQ

- Brickwall Limiter

Check them out they are great additions to your toolbox.

 

You must have picked up some freebies along the line - looks like the Classic Equaliser is the only one that comes free when you download the CS pack. I got the 76 in the free offer, and had a code for the EQual from Bedroom Producers Blog that I'd not got round to activating - everything else is inviting me to give them some cash! 

4 hours ago, Mcgiver69 said:

yes it is a bit stupid from IK Multimedia but that's how they do things unfortunately. Try all of them, make a list of the ones that tell you you can't use and delete them. It seems you downloaded the T-Racks free version. there are some free gems there (Optical compressor, Classic compressor, Classic EQ and some other).

Hadn't realised there was other free ones in the T Racks bundle. I'll have a dog through that. The 76 is great!

Bandcamp, or see if the artists have their own store on their website. 

Top work! Looks and sounds great. 

Just now, M@23 said:

@mike257 that’s a good point. I love the M18, but you’re right on the mic inputs. We have a very small setup and run 2 x Helix, TD50 and SPD and 3 x vocal mics, so it’s great for us. 

Yeah, if it's just for one specific band and it ticks your boxes, then it's all good. 

In a more traditional band setup or with a bigger group, it'd get restrictive pretty quickly. I run a small production company so mine has to be flexible - goes out (or did do!) on all sorts of small gigs, function bands, corporate events, and I've even been able to squeeze a 10 piece soul band through it without too much fuss. 

53 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Does the self-contradictory fallacy of this paragraph even need pointing out?

How could an article about an artist featuring a photo of some bloke pretending to be said artist not be considered to be harming, or at least embarrasing the brand of the actual artist?

No matter how hearfelt the love for an artist, it doesn't give an imitator any right to the intellectual property involved. It is completely and utterly up to the creator of the material (or whomever to which they have sold it) to decide what is done with it, and by whom.

I think it says more about the dreadful standards of quickfire internet journalism these days, that someone writing an article about a famous bloke fails to make sure they're using a picture of the right person!

I absolutely agree that IP rights are immutable and that the control of their use sits with the owner, and I agree that the owner of said IP has every right to act to protect it.  I'm also aware that it's an important part of trademark law that you have to demonstrably act against infringement or risk having your failure to act used against you in a future trademark case. 

I do think, for a group of artists that have made it their business to stand up against corporate interests that they disagree with, it doesn't sit very well as a way to treat people and could have been handled in a more sensitive and constructive manner. 

15 hours ago, goingdownslow said:

Apparently there have been some changes...

https://youtu.be/AbnIMXAgWIA

 

Thanks for the post. I'll have a proper watch through that when I've got time. James Eade is very highly respected in the live production industry and runs a lot of training courses on temporary electrical installation for events, amongst other things. Anything coming from him will be spot on. 

The RCF mixers in this range are really short on mic inputs and that just makes them a non starter for me. I honestly don't think you can best the XR18 for the price. 

I have an Allen & Heath SQ5 in my own stock, and regularly tour with Digico and Midas consoles, but for little "chuck it in the back of the car" gigs the XR is a great solution. 

I've got mine in a shallow rack case, and I've drilled out the rack ears and fitted a Powercon input and link out to chain to other kit, and a 13a socket to charge a tablet that I leave a USB plug in. I've got a little TPlink mini router velcroed in the back, and the rack lid has a zip compartment where the tablet and cables live. Everything in one small light box and a great portable solution for recording too. 

It's not just one band they've gone after - I've got a few mates who are in "Pearl Jam UK", previously called Pearl Jammer. They've been a (very very good) working PJ tribute for over ten years, are genuine massive fans of the band, and everything they do is very very clearly marketed as a tribute show.  They've had exactly the same legal smackdown sent their way as the other tribute that seem to have had all the press over it. Someone in Pearl Jam HQ has obviously decided to turn the lawyers loose and just go hunting for tribute bands.

I don't think anybody sees anything put out by a tribute act and confuses it for the original (although a news article about PJ did once run a photo of my mate Kev "being" Eddie Vedder on stage instead of the real Eddie by mistake 🤣).  More often than not, tribs are superfans of the original artist so it's even more of a kick in the teeth. I'd find it hard to argue that they're harming the brand of the real deal. 

Used to run a soul/Motown function band that used a lot of does and the regular frontman and I had a pretty well worked out set of hand signals that we both used to lead the rest of the band - ones to indicate the chorus (a C shape), repeats of the current section (wave your finger in a circle), that the end was nigh (a clenched fist held up meant we're all ending after this bit), or to drop the dynamics down for a section (frantically gesturing downwards 🤣). Very handy, could be quickly explained and saved a lot of fuss when short notice deps were involved. 

To take it to extremes, I mixed monitors in 2019 for an artist with very exacting requirements and we had a complex language of hand signals for everything from turning up and down individual band members to increasing/decreasing reverb times in her IEM to adjusting the tonal balance of her vocal sound (with signs for bass, mid and high end). Took some remembering but was very effective for quick communication!

On 12/01/2021 at 08:48, Bilbo said:

My studio (shed) is 8x10. 

That's a very bass player friendly set of dimensions!

40 minutes ago, lurksalot said:

How do you add another screen without slowing the whole shooting match down to a crawl ? 

I'm running a Surface Pro 4 from 2015 (the tiny screen in the pics) with a dock that has two MiniDisplayPort outputs. Runs the extra screens without any fuss at all. There's the occasional bit of scaling confusion when you drag something from one screen to another but for the most part it's worked effortlessly with no noticeable impact on performance so far. 

I've just built myself a studio desk at home as I'm doing more post production mixing now we're not allowed to gig. 

I was given the bay window space, with the strict directive that it wasn't to protrude in to the room. Think I've squeezed as much out of it as I can here!

The two end bays under the monitor shelf are sized so that I can add rack strip if I want to fit kit in there in future. Going to build a small guitar rack to hold two or three off to one side too. 

On 29/12/2020 at 09:44, skidder652003 said:

I just got Lindell Audio PEX-500 for free with this, much thanks!

I was looking at this, chucked in the extra tenner to get the full Lindell channel strip, seemed like a good deal! Haven't tried it yet but it might break my habit of using Waves SSL E Channel on absolutely every track 🤣

I've got about 8 AKG D5 in my mic stock, they're belters for the price. 

However, regarding this whole phantom power issue - I can categorically tell you that no matter what someone at Roland may have told you, an SM58, or any other dynamic mic, does not require phantom power and engaging it will make literally zero difference to the sound your mic makes. 

Phantom power is for dynamic mics and active DI boxes that actually require that DC voltage to function. Applying it to mics that don't need it shouldn't damage them, but also shouldn't alter their performance in any way, with the exception of some old school ribbon mics, which will be toasted by it. 

On 01/12/2020 at 20:46, soundhound said:

Amazing value if they really are available at £9.99:

https://www.kennysmusic.co.uk/news/yamaha-sessioncake-guide/

"we are currently selling them both for £9.99 (the RRP is £124)"

I got the red one from Kenny's Music for a tenner. There was a thread in here at the time and half the forum seemed to buy one. Was a few months back, don't know if they're still stocking them at that price now!

Good to see your collection still being put to good use, glad the DM has proved a worthwhile investment!

I'd highly recommend the SQ. I'm a big dLive fan, and you can see the lineage in it. Sounds wonderful and is incredibly powerful for the price and size. Was a bit of a punt getting a new console given the state of the industry this year but already had a few jobs in that I couldn't have done without it (without paying to hire in) so I'm feeling slightly less regret as each week passes!

How's this year been for you? 

I got one of those little Yamaha things with the daft name (Sessioncake?) that everyone here was jumping on a while ago. Handy little box for practicing, although I've not used it as much as I thought I would. 

I thought this thread was going to be about spotting notable bassists on public transport!

Sad times this month, finally parted with one of my 01v, and the second is up for sale! 

I have got this little beauty in now though - picking up a bit of streaming and recording work in the absence of any gigs so it made sense to stop hiring in and get something more capable!

Might be late to the party, but if you want to do it with off the shelf parts yourself and spare the expense of custom, you could use Neutrik Powercon rather than C13, then you can get everything in standard D-type panel mounts, with the added bonus of a power connector that can't be accidentally whipped out of your rack.