How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

9 hours ago, ossyrocks said:

We had a lovely gig last night, in what must be a unique venue, The Heron Theatre, Beetham, Cumbria. It's a grade 2 listed building in a small village, run as a charity entirely by volunteers. It serves a large rural catchment around south Cumbria where there aren't really many other venues of its kind. It was sold out well in advance at £15 a ticket. Great people to work with, nice dressing room, free tea, coffee & beer! 

 

We ran our own PA but spent the time to get the sound right and it really did sound great in the room as well as on stage. The audience loved it and many of them told us so. They are booked up June 2026, but we'll get another date after that.

 

Rob

 

 

I like those pics. Very clean !

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 07/11/2007 at 09:27, beerdragon said:

I must be getting old because I couldn't hear a note I was playing during certain songs and kept thinking I was playing flat.

I would have thought if you could'nt hear what you were playing it meant you were at least in tune with the rest of the band, hit a few wrong notes and they seem to stick out like a sore thumb plus the stares you get from other band members. speaking from personal experience that us. http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/smile.png

 

I'm also having hearing issues. Last weekend I thought I was playing out of tune while my tuners indicated I was perfectly tuned.

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, ossyrocks said:

Hi Dave,

 

No it's the 3x10. Same height and width as a SuperTwin, but slightly shallower front to back, which is great as it slides under the boot cover in my estate car. I've heard the 6x10 in close quarters and they are great, but I can't imagine me ever needing something that big. The 3x10 has been just perfect in any setting so far. I've had the 12" BF cabs but I just don't get on with them in the same way I do their 10's.

 

Rob

Thanks Rob all good to know how they fair live. Watched the 310 v 212 cabs on BF youtube clips and the 310 had a bit more punch but still kept its depth.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

 

I'm also having hearing issues. Last weekend I thought I was playing out of tune while my tuners indicated I was perfectly tuned.

 

Daryl

I occasionally come across that too. Never understood it so i just ignore it and start digging in a bit more. Keeps me happy 🤣

Dave

[dmccombe7]

On 17/05/2025 at 17:45, Norris said:

I didn't take any photos of last night, but someone passed on a video of us making a passable attempt at Fanfare. Unfortunately they missed off the initial fanfare, but hit record in time for the important bit 😜

 

Don't ask me what effect that is. It's a combination of a lot of things, I set it up years ago and can't remember the ingredients! I do end on a bottom B though 😄

 

 

Used to play that in early 80's and loved it then and that's a great version of it. Very nice indeed and that sound effect works really well with it.

Great to see a 3 piece band cover songs like this.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, casapete said:

The nice GK amp will certainly be more than partly responsible too.😊

Had a GK1001RBii and couldn't take to it. Was very loud but just couldn't get a sound i liked.

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

16 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I'm also having hearing issues. Last weekend I thought I was playing out of tune while my tuners indicated I was perfectly tuned.

 

Daryl

 

Been there

 

Usually lasts half a song. It's possible that it's actually someone else being a bit off...

[Woodinblack]

Two gig weekend this weekend. First was an evening gig at a local working mens club that we do a few times a year. Better than it sounds, it has a good stage, easy load in through the back door and a generally attentive crowd. I think numbers were a bit down on normal, but with quite a lot on that weekend around here, its not really that surprising, but the crowd were good, sound was good playing the spector for the first half and the #1 ibanez for the second half (to give my shoulder a break, the spector weighs a bit!).

Went back to stereo IEM, and after taking my X18 in the house and going through it I found that the reason it didnt work well the last time I tried, Aux 5&6 that I was using for the IEM output was tied (for some reason) to the main output rather than bus 5&6, which is why adjusting them made no difference.

Also I had fed the output from a multitrack I had recorded another time through the mixer again so I could offline concentrate on what I could do with the vocals of the singer - people have always complained he sounds muffled. I think I got it a lot better and he was really happy with how it sounded this weekend, in fact for the first time he said maybe it was too loud and clear! Noone complained they couldn't hear him.

Sundays gig was an ourdoor pavillion, one of those venues that in the sun is fantastic, and in the rain is cramped and not so good. It was sunny so loads of space and everyone was in the mood for music. Setting up was easy, the cars are parked just on the left of the building on the grass, the bar part on the right and the crowd goes on a long way to the right in front of the bar. However setting up there was a panic as the original Evox PA on the left of this photo wouldn't switch on - we fiddled around, swapped leads etc, and nothing. In the end while I was looking elsewhere the guitarist and drummer noticed that when you rocked the pa forwards the power came on, and went off when it went back. so we moved it to be on one slab and put beer mats to make sure it was level and it stayed on for the whole gig. That si this weeks job. Didn't want to do the whole gig with just one evox 8 and there wasn't enough time to get home and get something else.

Tried the soundcheck, my bass sounded terrible.Playing my Orange OLP, it was a summer day, that is a summer bass. Unfortunately there was no bass and it sounded weedy. I know it wasn't the battery as I had tested it during the week. Fiddle round, boosted the bass on the bass, and it sounded a little better, figuring that maybe a 10" speaker and Bam200 into the PA wasn't good enough for an open air (this is what I use all the time now), then I spotted it - the Bam200 as it is so small it lives in the gig bag, the bass and middle were fully anticlockwise, the treble fully clockwise, they just move in the bag. Put them all at 12 and suddenly I had a bass again (too much, turned the bass on the OLP down)

 

The audience were in party mode and despite us doing exactly the same set list as saturday night and quite a few people from the previous night in attendance, they were really enjoying it, as did we.  We have introduced 3 new songs in the last gigs, and they went well, I only messed up on some of the ones we have been playing for ever!

 

So for info on the photo, that is my position on the right, microphone stand with iPad and sample pad (for pianos for 'In the End'), pedal board - mod dwarf, 12 step, critical mass vocals, going to the bam200 on the gnome 10" feeding through that line of wires to the PA (xlr from bam to mixer and jacks from the sampler and keyboard output of the dwarf to the mixer). The other leads are right speaker and ethernet from the mixer to the X-Control surface on the stand.

 

This morning I woke up and feel like I lost a boxing match - too old for this shit!

 

[Woodinblack]

17 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I'm also having hearing issues. Last weekend I thought I was playing out of tune while my tuners indicated I was perfectly tuned.

 

 

Had that on one song on saturday, I was convinced the bass was out of tune as it seemed really off. Checked at the end of the song, it was spot on and I was playing the right thing - no idea what was going on there.

[Muzz]

A pfffft sort of gig Satdy night up in Blackburn (and a single vital road closure added 20 minutes to the nearly-an-hour trip there), mostly empty pub ("Oooo, you're up against Eurovision tonight") and apparently a complaint later that the drums were too loud. I'm not surprised; the pool team is apparently the big thing about the pub, so they can't move the table, it having been professionally levelled or something, so we were in front of it, with a big chunk of empty pub behind us that had more natural reverb than a church. Tricky to keep as quiet as they wanted, but ironically the half dozen drunks in there were deafening before we went on in their conversational volume, literally shouting at each other while all sitting round the same table. They buggered off at some point, as did most other folk, but hey. Didn't help that I'd been out on the bike for a 130-mile blatt in the sun, and that took it out of me (I seem to recall riding a big bike was a lot less physically demanding when I was 21), so I hit the Energy Wall about half ten. Anyhoo, earlish finish, and we got paid.

 

Last minute dep call for hosting a jam night in Tyldesley last night, which was good fun, tho I was the soberest person in the place by eleven (with a 25 mile drive home to do), and we didn't finish till pushing midnight. Used the QSC 12.2, but it was wayyy too much, I need to look at the EQ settings for a less bassy, more focused preset for using a foot from you on a small stage. No inears, my ears are singing today. 😐

 

Light Sonic P, Stomp, inears/QSC. Green Sketchers for both gigs.

Edited 5 hours ago by Muzz

[neepheid]

3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Had that on one song on saturday, I was convinced the bass was out of tune as it seemed really off. Checked at the end of the song, it was spot on and I was playing the right thing - no idea what was going on there.

 

Blame the guitarist, simples!

[Al Krow]

After two very late night finishes on Thursday and Friday at a couple of our pub residencies and back home in the small hours, which included having to deal with one of the venues that had hitherto supplied the drum kit not having one anymore, but not bothering to inform us(!), we had a real treat Sunday morning as the course band for the Hackney half-marathon for our fourth year.

 

8am arrive to set up and then 25,000 runners streaming passed over 2 hours which we played solidly without a break - so a bit of a marathon for us too! Made doubly special for me by having my daughter participating as a runner again this year. A complete blast and a great atmosphere!

 

A little insta clip here to give you more of a feel for the event. 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Al Krow

[Obrienp]

One of my daughters was running the Hackney Half too. She got a PB. Your music must have lifted her to new levels! 😀👍

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Blame the guitarist, simples!

I usually blame the drummer when its tuning issues. 😂

TBH i just blame the drummer for everything. Is that not why we have them ? 🤣

Dave

Edited 3 hours ago by dmccombe7

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Had that on one song on saturday, I was convinced the bass was out of tune as it seemed really off. Checked at the end of the song, it was spot on and I was playing the right thing - no idea what was going on there.

 

I get that occasionally too. I just have to trust my eyes and proprioceptors.

[mep]

We were back at The Queens Arms in Brixham on Saturday night. I managed to bag a parking space right outside, which is unheard of. Another good night with an appreciative landlord and crowd. During the break a guy came up to ask me about my rig as he didn't recognise my Ashdown RM 500 evo ii and BF 210 cab, so we had a chat about them. He was actually a guitarist and did recognise  my stingray, and was very complimentary on my sound and the balance with our guitarist. 11pm finish luckily, so no too late arriving home.

[Stub Mandrel]

I am astounded how many of you report 'out of tune syndrome' ... I  thought it was just me.

[Jack]

11 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I am astounded how many of you report 'out of tune syndrome' ... I  thought it was just me.

It is. We're just being nice.

[Lozz196]

I had this at a rehearsal last week, with one band, didn`t happen with the other and was using the same bass. I did check the intonation at the weekend just to make sure and all was good. So I now think it`s the guitar in the first band needs a set-up.

[dmccombe7]

55 minutes ago, Jack said:

It is. We're just being nice.

Wish i thought of that reply. Made me almost fall of my chair. 🤣🤣🤣

Dave