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we play Mold food festival, an outdoor gig third week in September , to be fair its not been to bad , but most times we do outdoor it just seems to p155 down

[quote name='tom1946' timestamp='1440690594' post='2853031'] ..................... but I think he just turned up and pleased himself [/quote] I've got to be honest , last time I did that I was asked to leave , .........................Oh sorry , I read that as pleasured

For cover bands , it might even be argued that even if its a different band every night , the set-list will probably be the same Take the gig

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1440525548' post='2851603'] Voted. If there are six people who have voted as of the time of my posting, how come there are only 16 votes in total? [/quote] That question pops up a bit , it appears that some people either don't want 3 votes or don't realise they have them to use.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1439972012' post='2847100'] So two years ago we moved into Northamptonshire and one of the things I really wanted was an outbuilding / shed so I could do lots of woodworking etc. At the time I was building pa cabs (BFM included) as a sideline income. The place we found fit the bill perfectly and had a huge shed and the house / garden was exactly what we wanted. So after being on the market just three hours we made the offer and bought it. [attachment=198777:IMG_6975.JPG] Last year we had a little girl and I also gave up cab building. I needed somewhere to practice without waking littl'un and the shed seemed like the perfect space. This spring I finally got round to pulling my finger out and making use of the space. The shed was already lined, insulated and had full electrics. I built a frame inside, insulated with acoustic insulation, used what seemed like 1,000,000 genie clips and floated acoustic plasterboard and then had my first ever go at plastering. The end result was pretty decent. I still have half of the shed as workshop and as you can see a really useable practice / recording / band rehearsal space. Found a drum kit for £80 on gumtree and with the addition of some decent drum heads we are up and running! I made some window inserts from an old memory foam mattress and some acoustic foam and used a whole mattress on the inside of the door. The result is we can have full band rehearsal in the shed and you can't hear a thing from the house. [attachment=198778:IMG_6969.JPG] [attachment=198779:IMG_6971.JPG] [attachment=198780:IMG_6973.JPG] Just finishing our first band demos this week [/quote] that is brilliant , I would love that solution, complete with workshop !![quote name='Shedua511' timestamp='1439973253' post='2847115'] This is mine... at the moment only a slab of concrete, but in the next few months it will be a studio! For the moment, everything is crammed up in a smallish room [/quote] keep the build thread going , its looking tidy already

OK then , i offer for submission this month Grind My Bones https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/grind-my-bones hope you enjoy

A Sunday , lunch-time-ish would give me the best chance of attendance , I would support it by paying for a ticket whether I could get there or not .

I have one well on the way now , I might need to put some words on it so that it can relate to the picture though

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1439508864' post='2843533'] That's a good example of things I have no interest in. I'm not the boss and would not want to be. We have a band leader she's the boss and calls all the shots. You identified the functions of a bass player, not things related to how to be in a band. Blue [/quote] So, you want a job then , you want to be told what to do and this job in music ticks your boxes , that's fine. Lots do it as a hobby , and it brings a whole different set of needs , money not necessarily being one of them , and this brings a different outlook to a greater or lesser degree. Compromise is always there though .

I have found myself an 'in' to the picture , as I guess the tiger is in fact an Asian tiger of one type or another , I intend to use my Spector Legend for this challenge , this bass was made in Korea which is in Asia , so linkage established. Its just what sort of tune to play with it is the next problem , but I see a lolloping kind of groove as tigers mostly lollop , when they are not running on the sea that is , though it could be fishing for jellyfish , and they kind of flop around a bit , so its definately a lollopy floppolly groove I need

[quote name='largo' timestamp='1439220482' post='2840976'] Do you mean something like this? [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_foot_8_dmx.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_foot_8_dmx.htm[/url] [/quote] The reviews for that seem very poor

Is it actually available yet , I am not sure that they have it on sale anywhere , even the you tube clips don't actually show it working , they say that it does loads , normally when they bother with a you tube they do a demonstration !

If you are actually trying to get a feel for an instrument or listen intently to a new one , then I find that it saps the talent straight away , I am probably expecting too much from my simple head . Similarly with the bands sound check , they all want to try fancy pieces to show off , but as I am out front listening , I want to play E , so , roadhouse Blues it is , without any chord changes !! I would often fluff the first song aswell as I would be trying to listen to the mix , but I am past that now , I just fluff it up cos I'm crap

For me , a 'go to ' flood , and a 'go to' blackout , is what I use most , everything after that is done on a whim , some songs played on sound to light , some on fades and chases , I would like the ability to go from a fade chase to a strobed type chase then come straight back to the previous fade , for a solo or a specific effect . I may well be asking for too much as I can quite close already

Wow , that seems a bit complex !! I would say 4 press buttons Flood , Blackout Program up , Program down Then the light chases, sound to light , or timed , can be selected from the program list when needed , To be honest the Ryger does a lot of that and a bit more , BUT, once you have changed to the next sequence , you have to go through 9 more to get back to the first one as it only changes sequence upwards . It sounds like a great idea though, good luck with it

I really don't know all the spec numbers , but I guess the more complicated you intend the process the better laptop needs to be , I started on a knackered old laptop that jumped around s bit , but it got me started , SWMBO bought the last PC and it gas a lot of numbers , but I don't know what they all mean !!

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1438987773' post='2839312'] i will if i can find some free samples and loops somewhere [/quote] That's what I am looking for , especially for 'tigers called Jesus running on water' ones

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1439030110' post='2839478'] My cans have an adjustment knob. I'm really surprised there are no decent programmable foot controllers out there. I keep toying with the idea of building one. [/quote] It amazed me too , the Ryger does a great job though, but lacks the programmability , though it does have lots of options to create a show on the fly , so I like it , my previous method was a remote control linking lights as slaves and running the master on a fade program , flooding and blackout on a hand held remote. Again, it worked ok but lacks the controllability , but the sound to light was far to sensitive even using the adjustments allowable , unless we are just too loud !!

In respect to the Ryger though Dad , it is pre-programmed, so if you want the lights to do what the programme tells them to do , they all have to be talking the same language ,

I have found the sound to light on the cans I have is next to useless , it's far to sensitive , I have recently bought a Ryger foot controller and daisy chain the lights to it , it is brilliant , you do need all the lights to talk the same Dmx language to make it run properly ie all he same make , as manufacturers often use different channels for different commands

[quote name='julietgreen' timestamp='1438551975' post='2835437'] They had a damned good drummer. That's not even in the ratings. [/quote] Have you got long legs and a black dress I would ask the question of Discreet , but I reckon we could guess the answer to that one

I haven't checked the reaper statuses but I am a bit of a wuss when it come to messing around with software that currently seems to work fine , I just know it will break on me , or throw a spanner that takes 2 weeks to sort out , and me, I am an optimist

The original old spice ads for me as well , but I didn't recognise the lady from them

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1438433742' post='2834501'] Well, that's me stuck. Every time I look at the pic I get "digadigadigadiga BAMP digadigadiga BAMP BAA BAMP digadigadiga BAMP BAA BARRR" [/quote] Hmmmm, that sounds like an homage to a vintage JCB in a folk stylee , but I'll Iet you run with that one , I am getting more 'Old Spice meets chariots of fire ' kind of vibe , but quite how the tiger fits in has me stuck

we played a pub in Chester tonight and we smashed it , it was incredible , what a night , it was bouncing from start to finish , and rhythm guitar was on fire, both his playing and witty banter had everyone with us from the off . we brought loads of people both friends and a couple of dozen people from a pub 5 miles away that we often play , that venue would have been a bit quiet tonight our sound was spot on, and a friend mentioned that there were loads of people who walked into the pub and were very offish that a band was on , and before they even got to the bar they were waiving their arms and bouncing with everyone else Singist had been doing some number crunching and had worked out that we were on gig number 100 , so we partied it , what a blast , here's to the next 100