woodyratm

Cheers man! Just found out it’s a 45 min set. You might read “local bassist passes out and dies on stage” in the P&J 😂😂😂😂

My band are supporting a band named Kuro from Glasgow! Krakatoa and we are on 3rd. if anyone is kicking around it would be awesome to say hello!

Interesting read this. We moved to ampless last year, drums still acoustic but we have a click track in our ears anyway. It was great, but we kept feeling something missing on stage. We played a venue in December and I was forced to use an amp - so we turned bass down in the ears and that thump was from the amp. It worked well, could hear everything but still had the low end feeling. I just need to be careful with volume! 😂

I was just thinking that I should consider insuring my gear. It’s covered under household but think I’d like dedicated insurance. 200 odd quid for the year. Maybe worth it.

Another Status arrived recently so another family photo required!

Hi folks, I’m considering taking two basses to gigs - just in case anything happens to one whilst performing. I use hard cases normally but the venues we play, are quite small. So multiple hard cases are probs a bad plan. I have a fusion dual gig bag but it’s a bit bulky I feel. Are there any recommendations for a less chonk option? I know mono have their dual case which looks alright, and I’ve seen the gator pg one. Are there any others to consider? Only goes from car to venue. Ideally enough space for a cable, pedal sized wireless and two Hercules small stands.

I played a gig this Friday past. IT WAS AMAZING. I’ve never sounded better, I could hear everything. Crowd was loving it. Actually had someone come up and say my bass tone was the best he’d ever heard 😂😂😂, the band after were dumbfounded that we were on before them and apparently crapping it following us. Even had someone ask for my setlist… like, we’re a crap band from Aberdeen! But sure - go wild! My singer posted on his channel (we need to do more with our YT):

This arrived today! Status Stealth 5 string with side LEDs. 😊

I’ve a Status Chris Wolstenholme 4 in woven chrome/burst. With red LEDs. and a 1988 S2 headless 5 string. Amazing basses. I’m after another 5 string with wider spacing when their books open again. 😊

Hey folks, I had a bass built a few years back. Whilst it was in getting a setup, I asked the shop to change the batteries on the LEDs (so I wouldn’t need to worry for several years again!) however, when it came back it seems that every other LED is not working, or cutting out and flickering. I’m imagining a cable has shorted somewhere. Does anyone have a rough idea on how much it may cost to remove the fingerboard and sort this out? IMG_3972.MOV

Played our first gig at a venue in Aberdeen. It was supposed to have been professionally recorded but they didn’t start the feed so it’s a crowd recording - with the live audio from the desk. This was our last song Suffocate. I was dead at this point 😂

Oddest thing though - he had me go into a DI which had a parallel out to onstage amp that was mic’d. Kept saying it would sound terrible with just my QC. I don’t think he understood that my amps and cabs were coming from the QC. I’m going to create emergency patches with no amps as a just in case measure, I’m also going to sum the two channels to one. Single cable might not scare the crap outta him!

This sounds like my kinda night!

I’m seeing Alice Cooper in Glasgow on the 28th. We saw him up here but my wife was sat with her disabled brother so saw a grand total of zip. He’s like one of her favourite artists so hopefully she sees him this time!

I think so. Frustratingly - we told the dude in advance what our setup was and what we needed. Nice that I wasn’t doing something that silly!

The clean runs all the time. In my band, I perform the role of bassist and rhythm guitar technically. So that low end is needed to remain when heavy fuzz is used.

Exactly! I was like “so what’s the difference between a modelled high gain amp vs a modelled heavily fuzzed bass sound?!” Curiously, I think you’re from my neck of the woods so you might be surprised at the venue in question 😂

Honestly, you and me both. He claimed it would sound crap FOH without the cab mic’d and then started talking about how it would blow his super expensive PA using two DIs. I’ve never been more confused before a gig to be honest.

Nah, in practice room it’s perfect - but we just use IEMs. I think it was just a bit more rough on stage because it was going through my QC amps, into the DI then into the house markbass and ampeg 8x10 (mic’d). So my DI tone was actually fine but the FOH mic tone would have been weird but I couldn’t hear any mud on the videos- so I guess he didn’t use much, if any.