How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

9 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Selling 65 tickets is a big deal to me. Outside of our festival and fair gigs where people pay at the gate to get in, Maple Road does horribly with "pay to get in" gigs. Most are canceled due to low ticket sales.

 

Actually most ticketed events in my area are for signed national touring bands not local weekend warriors.

 

Daryl

Think it depends on the venue over here Daryl. Bar gigs are usually free but most of the Clubs are tickets. The clubs are usually Bowling Clubs or Ex-Services type clubs rather than the usual Sat night clubbing scene from when we were younger 😂

Dave

[Obrienp]

11 hours ago, Cat Burrito said:

We planned to play an originals only set of Gothic rock with me dusting down my USA 2008 Jazz bass. I have been struggling with the lack of bottom end from J-basses but the addition of the Boss GE-7 to my board was hopefully going to fix this. I also added the Boss IR-2 as I often go ampless.

 

Surprised by that. Can’t say I have experienced lack of bottom end on a Jazz, compared to say a Precision. Maybe I have been lucky with mine (current one being a Maruszczyk Elwood 4a 32”) but perhaps your yardstick is a humbucker equipped bass?

[Cat Burrito]

3 minutes ago, Obrienp said:

Surprised by that. Can’t say I have experienced lack of bottom end on a Jazz.

I did a thread on it a couple of years back. I love the tone of Jazz basses and I love the look but I definitely noticed a drop in low end frequency when playing in small bands with this one. I've had it since 2015  and usually play a range of different basses, from Precision to Rickenbacker to Hofner to Thunderbird. We never did get to the bottom of whether it was me, my settings, my bass, the pickups or something else. Coincidentally there was a younger band on after us and the bass player had a Fender Jazz which had no bottom end too - far worse than mine. The first Jazz bass I owned had different string volumes so I sold that on but I have had a couple of good ones in-between. I bet the Maruszczyk sounds good as I think it's some of the Fender ones that can be a bit of a mixed bag. Anyhow, it sounded good last night so hopefully the problem is solved. 

[EssexBuccaneer]

We played a 30th birthday private event on Saturday. Our first ‘function’ as opposed to a pub or charity gig. Strange experience, especially before the crowd were suitably lubricated with booze. Lots of people standing around chatting and ignoring us, kids playing with balloons and running around. Quite disheartening in the early part of the evening, for sure. Some songs ended with barely a smattering of applause 

 

The second half was much better, with punters singing and dancing and plenty of raucous applause and cheers. 
 

Ultimately we got paid and a few pats on the back afterwards, and back home for midnight. 

[casapete]

1 minute ago, EssexBuccaneer said:

We played a 30th birthday private event on Saturday. Our first ‘function’ as opposed to a pub or charity gig. Strange experience, especially before the crowd were suitably lubricated with booze. Lots of people standing around chatting and ignoring us, kids playing with balloons and running around. Quite disheartening in the early part of the evening, for sure. Some songs ended with barely a smattering of applause 

 

The second half was much better, with punters singing and dancing and plenty of raucous applause and cheers. 
 

Ultimately we got paid and a few pats on the back afterwards, and back home for midnight. 

Sounds like a typical function gig audience! We did one a couple of weeks ago and it was

exactly the same scenario. Thank god for alcohol though eh? 😅

[BigRedX]

30 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

I did a thread on it a couple of years back. I love the tone of Jazz basses and I love the look but I definitely noticed a drop in low end frequency when playing in small bands with this one. I've had it since 2015  and usually play a range of different basses, from Precision to Rickenbacker to Hofner to Thunderbird. We never did get to the bottom of whether it was me, my settings, my bass, the pickups or something else. Coincidentally there was a younger band on after us and the bass player had a Fender Jazz which had no bottom end too - far worse than mine. The first Jazz bass I owned had different string volumes so I sold that on but I have had a couple of good ones in-between. I bet the Maruszczyk sounds good as I think it's some of the Fender ones that can be a bit of a mixed bag. Anyhow, it sounded good last night so hopefully the problem is solved. 

 

I found the same. I could never get on with Squier Jazz, no matter what I did it sounded thin and weedy compared with all my other basses including my 60s Burns Sonic. Also whenever I let a Jazz Bass user play through my rig I would have to turn it up massively compared with my usual settings in order to get anything like a usable sound.

[Geek99]

My sire jazz sounds huge even in passive mode, and even with a hefty dose of back pickup mixed in. 
 

perhaps it’s because I run it through the ampeg modelling on my ancient zoom b2?

[Gasman]

Phoenix Rising! I had another full-gig dep with my old band at a nice pub in Gillingham (Dorset) on Sunday afternoon. I don’t think the pub's name (‘The Phoenix’) was inspired by my gently-reviving bass career, but who knows?

 

Mrs G came a long as it was a 4-7pm daylight gig in the pub garden, on a very pleasant sunny day, with free drinks for the band all afternoon and a good crowd – whoopee! I took the H-B Mustang-alike along with my usual AG700 and Darkglass 2x12 through an Aguilar boost pedal. It’s nice how my set-memory sprang to mind after months of not playing bass, even down to those unfortunate (but thankfully occasional) bum notes.

 

I unwittingly added a little street-theatre to the second set – the KB player uses a bespoke drink-glass holder screwed to his mic-stand. This works fine with normal beer glasses, but the pub was (for some reason) using stemmed glasses with a C of G was a lot higher than normal, and his drink-holder had a gap in its circumference neatly judged to allow the stem of a glass to fall through. During an enthusiastic bout of pogo-ing I managed to swipe the glass with the head of the bass, the glass fell through the holder and upended a good ¾ pint of beer all over and into the KB - cue some interesting electronic noises and a mild ‘bang’. The KB-ist started laughing, removed the KB from its stand then stood in the street pouring beer out of a vent in the side of it, left it to dry in the sun, drove home (nearby) and got a replacement KB – back on the stand after we had done 20 minutes as a four-piece to cover – what a trouper!  Here’s hoping it dried out and just needed a fuse…

 

I did my usual sax-set, we finished at 7.15, Ms G and I were back nursing a cup of tea and an upset cat (‘What time do you call this?!’) by 9.15, then we slept like whacked haddocks. ‘Yes’, I thought just before starting to snore, ‘this gigging is as exciting (and tiring) just as I remember it! ‘ ZZzzz…

[dmccombe7]

13 hours ago, cetera said:

Played a Wedding gig in the beautiful Surrey Hills yesterday. Packed with beautiful, horsey ladies in flowing summer dresses and, doh, their dumb other halves in polo shirts and tight trousers ending mid calf with NO socks and loafers... 🤦‍♂️

 

Played my Betsy with the GK Legacy and LFSys Monaco so sounded fab as usual.👍😎

 

Spent most of the night fending off huge hornets that liked the lights above our heads, which kinda ruined our performance vibe a little though.....!! 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Nice. What basses have you chosen ? Is that a Sire Jazz in front ?

Dave