How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[dave_bass5]

Just now, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Suggedt he gets a noise gate?

I have as well. He also has a tuner that can mute, it's just that he doesn't see the need to. 

[Leonard Smalls]

We had our final rehearsal before Rebellion Festival - we're playing on Sunday twice...

I was a bit worried before that we lacked practice, and this would result in sloppy, missed or messed up changes (we have quite a lot!), or songs would be started at dirge-like pace when they're meant to be punkfunk stompers.

However, if it goes like last night we'll have no problem at all; Knockout stopped on 3 as it should, there was distinct variation between the funky chorus, punk verse and funkabilly middle 8. All 9 changes in Reaper were perfect, Conspiracy had a millisecond tight ending, and I'd managed to download the filthiest bass tone from Line6 which worked surprisingly well with my Parker bass.

However, after some solo fiddling this morning (Keep your filthy minds out of the gutter!) I've decided to use my Sandberg through a tube driven Aguilar sound with a spot of reverb and chorus which clanks'n'danks like a Sherman tank dragging a chain over a steel pontoon bridge. I'll probably change my mind again though!

 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Suggedt he gets a noise gate?

Our guitarist uses one of them. Does make quite a difference.

Dave

[kwmlondon]

2 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

Had a good rehearsal last night, but one of my guitarists still thinks it's the 70s. Small Marshall combo with a stack of Gain and drive pedals. Sound was good when playing (although really too heavy for most of our songs), but my god the noise when we stopped. Its sounded like there was a rain storm in the studio. I just dont get how he (or anyone else) can have that sort of noise when not playing. I have all the answers to how he can stop it, and if I ask him (got to the point where I was telling him) to turn if off he would, but totally clueless to the fact that he needed to. Even worse, I was the only one that this bothered. 

Dreading the next gig. 

Hmm. We had a guitarists who ended up picking up the radio on his Marshall valvestate. He was mortified though and, I think, got a Hughes & Kettner and a guitar with humbuckers and that got rid of the issue.

 

At least you still have some high-frequencey hearing though, that's good to know!