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!

[Bluewine]

7 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. 

 

How much band experience does this guitarist have?

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

24 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

How much band experience does this guitarist have?

 

Daryl

Our guitarist used to use Marshall stacks with various distortion etc pedals before joining us. He was using a Freidman 50W all valve amp into a Freidman 212 cab with a few pedals maybe 5 or 6. He then upgraded his amp to the Freidman 100W at a cost of £4k and his pedal board now consists of his Shure wireless, distortion/ boost pedal for solos and a delay of some kind. All the other effects he used to have are now built into the amp but what a great on stage tone he gets compared to his 50W Amp that i regularly found a bit boomy. The new amp has a much more even tone across his range. Amazing the difference between a 50W & 100W head. I guess you get what you pay for. Have to say he gets no noise between songs now either.

He generally uses Gibson Flying V and Les Paul and occasionally brings a Strat.

Dave

[dave_bass5]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

How much band experience does this guitarist have?

 

Daryl

Well he has been playing for over 40 years I believe. Ive only known him for 3 of those. I joined the band and  I had a lot of work to put in. I was happy to put the work in to get them up to speed, but it seems he is so stuck in his ways that it will impact the band getting gigs. Having played the club/function scene for a  good 20+ years I know the standard thats needed. All are competent players, but struggle with the fact that thy have to be professional about it if they want paid gigs. 

Edited Tuesday at 21:49 by dave_bass5

[YellowLedBetterBass]

Tonight was the penultimate rehearsal with the new lineup before our first gig together. If we play like that on stage at the weekend, the punters will be in for a treat

 

Mixed all the levels right on the XR18 for a good room sound, and everyone was happy with their individual in ear mixes.

 

I was especially pleased with my Tonex One sounds, having gone back to Amalgams Bassman amp+DI captures from their Tonex One pack. It's the exact same captures I used for guitar but it sounded mega on bass too, so maybe the answer for me if I go back to using a proper amp for guitar is to just buy a bassman and have it cover both guitar and bass.

[kwmlondon]

Rehearsal last night at Pirate in Dalston. Air con was faulty which meant room got up to about 26 degrees, but that's not a huge issue.

We tried out a new drummer and she's okay. Lacking in confidence and experience and very chatty, but very very interesting and maybe we can get somehwere. When it locked in there was definitely a bit of power behind the sound. Mostly original songs but a couple of covers. 

 

Bit of a boo-boo for the first song. The room had a Blackstar 250w 15" combo and I THOUGHT I'd set all the controls to 12 o clock or off (EQ centred, distortion, compression deactivated etc) but the sound was awful. I was running the Dingwall into it via a Tech 21 VT and had the combo on flat all the way gain and master out but still sounded weak and .... oh. I'd accidentally turned the bass all the way down! The second song was very different! Great!

Towards the end I was putting a bit more dirt in for a nasty tune we were working on and OH MY GOD the sound of that bass on the 5th string with the humbucker-type setting and a pick put shivers up my spine then ... the Blackstar just died. No sound. Dead. I think something inside overheated because it came back on after 5 minutes but then shut down again.

By that point we were cooked and tired so went off to the pub for a much-needed beer. It was a shame though as I was really getting into the sound!

[Stub Mandrel]

Our drummer evaporated after last week's rehearsal due to back issues.

 

We have a new one on board for the originals as of last night. A bit more oomph but not too loud.

 

Interestingly we started with a song that has an awkward stop with a five-beat bar. This used to cause the previous drummer to slow down, the new chap was rushing it.

 

I took my Epiphone Embassy, I think I've found the right bass for this band. It has a growly sound but the blend and tone controls are effective. Not loud last night but even the singer described my sound as having 'girth'.

 

Working on originals is fascinating. I had two competing basslines for the next song, the one originally on fretless is now the chorus. The chords don't change but what we all play changes.  my line is a harmony line up an octave and not following the roots. I've also come up with a really unusual intro.

 

We finished with a third song that demands a JJ Burnell style plectrum line, with some jagged rhythm and lots of clanky growl. Working on this one is improving my plectrum skills.

 

Very different from sitting alone learning songs then just getting together to polish arrangements.