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OK, considering that I used a boss bass overdrive, 3(ish) mics, and a DI channel going through some EQing. I think I did pretty well to get this! oh and I've boosted the bass track a little on this recording so you can hear it better Enjoy! EDIT uploading....

:S Updated!

Woohoo, just played my first wedding gig. OK it was the service, but it paid well - £100 in fact. Not only my best-paid paid gig yet, but also my shortest! We did FOUR songs. Meaning the groom paid £75 each time we played. Anyway, it was acoustic guitar, drums and me Was really cool playing with 2 world-class musicians. Time Cooke the drummer who has played huge stuff. I mean proper huge. Plays 'newday' - 6000+ people. Is playing 'Soul Survivor' this year - 25,000+ people over 3 weeks. The guitarist/singer Martin Cooper who has released a solo instrumental album, and has played with Paul Oakley and a load of other people. So here I am, the little bassist who has probably never held £100 in cash before, suggesting we should play a E/B instead of E/A to make it more melodic. ...and they listened!! Thankfully we got paid before (and made jokes about having £20 taken away for each muck-up ), which is great cos it wasn't like "hey I know you just got married, but we want money!" It was a good crowd of about 300(?) people there. Had a blast, and am very grateful that I am a kind of '2nd call' kind of person (behind Mark Prentice, but probably in front of Les Moir and Paul Stevens!! - google them). A success! Didn't get to the buffet before the guests

Tuner (ok, it's not an effect - but it does help my sound!!) --------- Synth (EHX BMS) Overdrive Wah. and all 3 at the same time!!

Yeah, I saw that thread and it's what inspired me to make this one. I thought it would be easier for me to have them all in one place, and then people don't have to trawl through pages looking for a venue. I'm just going to start putting some up now!

I hate it but.... what about Windows Movie Maker?

I Want That Custom Bass +1 for spending all their spare money on picks - one place does them 75p per pick!!

Sky+'d!! I'm having a 24 day today with some mates, so I'll write a full review when I watch it!! [size=1]yeah right...[/size]

oooh! Booth is coming along nicely!

I'm sorry, but the best chocolate is clearly ASDA smart price white chocolate!!

OK, so there's a lot of venue-searching going on, so I thought it would be a good idea to whack them up onto one thread with this first post containing things like: Venue, Capacity, Reccommended genres, Website. And then for the locations: [size=3][u][b]England[/b][/u][/size] [u][b]North-West[/b][/u] Ruby Lounge - Manchester [u][b]North-East[/b][/u] [u][b]Yorkshire & Humber[/b][/u] Cockpit/New Roscoe/Wardrobe/Brudenall Social Club/Faversham/Irish Centre/Rio's/Fenton - Leeds [u][b]West Midlands[/b][/u] [u][b]East Midlands[/b][/u] [u][b]East Of England[/b][/u] Barhouse, Chelmsford, large capacity, The Twist, Colchester, Chinnerys, Southend-on-Sea, [u][b]London[/b][/u] The Waterats, Kings Cross ([b]BE CAREFUL!![/b] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...p;hl=water+rats)"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...;hl=water+rats[/url]) [u][b]South-East[/b][/u] The West End Centre, Aldershot, 200-300 capacity The Boileroom, Guildford. [u][b]South-West[/b][/u] [u][b]West Midlands[/b][/u] [u][b]East Midlands[/b][/u] [u][b]Wales[/b][/u] [u][b]Scotland[/b][/u] -------------------------------------------- Now I'm a bit of a gigging noob, so I don't really know of any venues that are that good around me. I'm relying on people to post here with venues they can [b]trust[/b]. My goal isn't to get 100 venues on here, it's to get the most trusted venues on here. I'll do my best to visit daily here, updating the post as I go!

How about playing the Spinal tap song 'Christmas with the Devil'? EDIT and how about playing it in a church?

Queen - Under Pressure. Surely thats one of the all-time greats? (and the all-time overplayed but hey, it's effective)

Call yourself a basschat global mod!! bah!

just thought I'd point out this phunky chap! And he's just released a forum which (tbh) needs quite a few people to hang and get some convos going! He's an amazing chap, and thought he's worth a mention! [url="http://www.marcorodi.com/forum"]http://www.marcorodi.com/forum[/url] and [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/propea"]http://www.youtube.com/user/propea[/url]

haha, welll I've got a list, but it's on facebook - I'll grab it when I'm at home and whack it on here.

Get a horse!! I hear there's one in the recycling section... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9015"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9015[/url]

OK, I'm not a huuuge jazzer, but I find it a lot easier to solo with some accompanyment - usually just drums, but it's what the song asks for. One of the main reasons why I don't play a huge amount of jazz is because it kind of gets a biiiit repetative *ducks*. I just think that you can hava lot more options when you can solo in a band with AND without accompanyment. So you can have breaks in oen song with crazy bass filling, and then in another song you can have a very melllow just bass solo. just my opinion!

ahhh, I've been asked to play at a wedding service (the worship music stuff) with a drummer (Tim Cooke) and acoustic g-tarder/singer (Martin Cooper) this saturday and I'm getting paid 100 quid! Funnily enough, the first ever live performance was filling in for my cousin (Carl Stanbridge) for 'superstition' at a wedding for 1 song. I got mah bass solo!

I'm a tad paranoid when it comes to buying basses - especially expensive (over £200 :brow:) basses - and gear. I mean, it kinda feels better going into GAK and trying out stuff, and then handing over cash to guys who you know arn't going to screw you over. it's paranoia! Effects I'm a bit better on - I'd happily buy a £150 effect from someone on here as long as i've either heard extensive reviews and sound clips of it and/or tried out the effect for myself.