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8am Friday morning - all my kit ready to go for Easter services (and a dog who has just realised I'm not taking him!).
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I've got the little Aguilar 350 to use as a DI box/preamp and then some power if need be - been very happy with it especially as it is small and light enough to fit in my cable bag/case. The preamp takes a bit of getting used to but apart from that it's a lovely piece of kit. Not tried it on upright though.
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Am playing the Cajon in a stripped back Good Friday service (just acoustic guitar, keys & cajon) tomorrow morning which should be fun. I was just listening to some of the songs and reminded myself of Iona's awesome cover of "When I Survey". We won't quite be doing it that slowly or with Dave Bainbridge's guitar work - but will try to get the Celtic feel! Then we undo all the sobreity of Good Friday by having a full band practice for Easter Sunday straight after the service... "Greatest Day" etc. etc. back on bass.
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Decent power supply at a reasonable cost? Not Truetone?
SimonK replied to Minininjarob's topic in Effects
I've had a onespot for years and never had a problem - you can still plug it in without the earth pin and just pretend you are in the US/Europe! -
Someone who knows about speakers will probably tell me I was wrong, but twenty years ago I used to borrow a mates 8x10 on occasion, and as the stage had a step at the back I used to routinely lay it on its side as I thought it gave better dispersal, and it meant all 8 speakers were above waist height. The bass didn't go through the PA.
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@Richard R I've got pillar envy - yours hides the keyboardist AND the drummer! @Risk101 RE the Trace.. heh heh heh... don't think I've ever had it above 2...
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My stone pillar has been plastered a nice white colour and prevents me seeing the keyboard player at all - I feel very priviledged. It also holds up a balcony that ensures bass frequences are propagated around the back of the hall, rewarding all those who choose to sit on the backrow!
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I've got two US 3EQ Stingrays, one fretless, one fretted. I really like the 3 EQ setup as it is the most powerful onboard EQ I've played. My only regret is that neither have roasted maple necks. The necks on mine are fine, but there is something about the way Musicman roasts a neck that is just aesthetically awesome: from: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/stingray-special-hh-roasted-flamed-maple-neck-fingerboard-special-edition.1530091/
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This mornings setup - so beautiful I set my thumbnail to it and posted it on the Stingray thread as well!
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Ashdown RM 500-EVO II 500w Bass Combo, replace speakers
SimonK replied to damien b's topic in Repairs and Technical
Cheap cabs or broken combos come up facebook, reverb, ebay etc. all the time. Just wait for something local to come up and switch the speakers. Mind you, if it is a combo amp you are far more likely to have fried something other than the speakers as they are normally spec'ed to handle the amp they are with (puts on hard hat and waits to be told that combo designers are not this bright...). -
...what if everyone else on basschat is AI...
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Snapped this morning - fretless and fretted US Stingrays, with some bonues Trace Elliot - so good I used the thumbnail on my profile!
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Did hybrid IEMs and wedges in the end this morning. I downloaded the Yamaha Monitor Mix app with the hope of doing my own mix and trying IEMs again, but it seems the desk needs a firmware update before I can use it. I'm playing again next weekend (twice) so we will see what progress can be made - possibly see if I can get the app working first, and then move on to IEMs again. Mind you I thought it sounded pretty good in the room this morning and had some very positive comments - including from my son who told me I should bring the extension speaker next week so 8x10 rather than IEM!!
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Following a few further Whatsapp messages overnight I'm going to try to download an app to control my own monitor mix as the sound chaps were clearly unable to cope with both the FOH and four IEM mixes. I think in the past, using wedges, we've got things to sound OK on stage with our own amps and mainly only having just the worship leader & his guitar/keyboard through the wedges - so minimum intellectual input by the guys running the desk. Suddenly when we had four/five people actually wanting specific mixes on different channels the whole thing fell apart. I have no doubt that using IEMs well make the FOH sound better/easier to mix, but if the band can't hear anything it is net loss.
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...and that was a disaster - seems cheap IEMs sound OK for one or two instruments but can't cope when everyone starts to play - just distorted and kept cutting out. Although the electric guitarist and drummer kept theirs, I went back to my wedge and amp, as did the worship leader. We never quite got the mix right so are meeting early on Sunday to hope we can get it to work. The other learning point is that you need a mic on the acoustic drum kit to at least capture the kick and snare for the IEM feed as otherwise even sitting next to the drums you need to take an ear piece out. I struggled to get the sound guys to understand I was only wanting the feed for the IEM and not the front of house - "but the drums are loud enough"... "yes but I can't hear them clearly with an ear piece in!"
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1) Depends on the floor - as someone said above if the stage is hollow it really is a good idea not to have the cab directly on it (I use an old beer crate that doubles as a cable/random junk carrier for this). 2) Currently I'm playing mostly on carpeted floors. I've preferred the cab directly on the floor as I feel more of the bottom end. When tilted up I can definitely hear the mids & highs better, but I feel it loses something into the room. 3) All such problems are solved by using a full stack 🙂 ! 3.5) using a "bass-board" is something I've been meaning to try however: https://www.eich-amps.com/bassboard-s
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I'm in Schipol airport at the moment and apparently the Scots are playing Netherlands this evening - I've never seen so many kilts before - but luckily no bagpipes... yet... I'd go second hand at that price point - lots of good looking combos on ebay.
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...and it's happened - IEMs for all this weekend - although the worship leader doesn't want a "faff", so whether the sound guys can get them to work before he makes us go back to the monitors is another matter!
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I just had a whatsapp message from our guitarist saying don't bring my amp this weekend as we are Di'ing and using IEMs. However, my "DI" is my Aguilar 350 and a convenient seat/table is the 2x10... just in case... I think if I ever had to rely on public transport or storage space/money became a problem I would think again, but the security of having my own amp as a backup is not something I'm willing to give up.
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So granted this is called reinventing the guitar, but he has got one string closer to the bass, and as usual his approach to music is so inspirational:
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Welcome Matt - do check out the playing in church group:
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Well that worked well - kids giving out flowers during mercy road so queue a bit of a slap bass, wah guitar and drum jam - it's relatively rare to get a moment to jam properly in a service!
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Different King of Kings! We do that one as well, but the song we are doing tomorrow is the Hillsong one:
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But I do have favourite classical guitar albums that I put on in the background from time to time - I'd absolutely play an album of this type of stuff so long as it didn't sudenly descend into a slapping apocalypse! Indeed while being uber impressed with his slapping stuff, I agree it is less listenable to than the OP video.
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I'd be interested to hear that - the song has a very recognisable motif and as we have no keyboardist this week it's up to me to make sure it gets in the right place!
