How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Ah, that's great to hear. Everyone was very welcoming.

 

Up early the next morning for a rainy 7-hour drive to the Laundry Theatre in Bowness the following night. Another lovely venue.

 

 

...and then back to 'proper' work for 8am Monday morning.

 

Even so, I'd do it again tomorrow.

 

 

That's an unusual layout Michael. How did it go soundwise ?

Dave

[wateroftyne]

13 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

That's an unusual layout Michael. How did it go soundwise ?

Dave

Absolutely fine - we just kept the volume down and let the PA do the work. Matt, our lovely sound chap, is a genius.

[tauzero]

13 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Shoes were a pair of very wet brown Clarks ones that need a bit of attention now. We've a couple of months off now until our next gig in November, so plenty of time for string changes and learning new songs.

 

And drying your shoes out.

[Bluewine]

We're doing an outside 12:00-2:30 full Maple Road gig this Saturday at The Harley Motor. We'll be leaving at 9:00. That's very early for me.

 

This one will be a little  different Usually we do our acoustic offering inside 5:00-7:30.

 

I'm hoping there's some type of special event to ensure a decent crowd.  I hope we can keep our streak going.  We've had 3 really good gigs in a row.

 

Daryl

Edited yesterday at 01:59 by Bluewine

[dmccombe7]

17 hours ago, Bluewine said:

We're doing an outside 12:00-2:30 full Maple Road gig this Saturday at The Harley Motor. We'll be leaving at 9:00. That's very early for me.

 

This one will be a little  different Usually we do our acoustic offering inside 5:00-7:30.

 

I'm hoping there's some type of special event to ensure a decent crowd.  I hope we can keep our streak going.  We've had 3 really good gigs in a row.

 

Daryl

Have a good one Daryl.

First gig in 5 wks tomorrow night with the Glam band. Leaving the house 3pm for an 8:30pm start and 11pm finish. Two 1hr sets so should be a fun night. Our new PA company is doing the PA so that saves me humphing those blooming large QSC cabs in and out of my car especially at the end of the night. Should be back home for approx 2am. An 11hr day for me but i do miss it when we have these long gaps between gigs plus my wee plucking fingers get soft and will be painful by the end of the gig unless i really take it easy and concentrate on playing lightly.

That'll last for approx 3-4 songs then i just get carried away and into the zone. 😂

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

Small venue tonight so I went DI with one of the 'baby' devices.

 

Struggled all first set until nearly done when I realised the PA on my side had the top turned down.

 

Used it to Bluetooth music to the pa in the interval... then struggled for two songs until I realised it had reset and was on a preset, then I got my sound back.

 

All this combined with gigging flats gor the first time,  I couldn't relax and felt awkward.

 

Ironically a bass player in the audisaid I had a really good sound... I  just wish I could have heard it better.

 

Conclusion... if I go ampless again, I will need IEMs. But it took me decades to find earplugs I like so...

 

 

Took me a few minutes to pack away, then 50 minutes helping the others...

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Small venue tonight so I went DI with one of the 'baby' devices.

 

Struggled all first set until nearly done when I realised the PA on my side had the top turned down.

 

Used it to Bluetooth music to the pa in the interval... then struggled for two songs until I realised it had reset and was on a preset, then I got my sound back.

 

All this combined with gigging flats gor the first time,  I couldn't relax and felt awkward.

 

Ironically a bass player in the audisaid I had a really good sound... I  just wish I could have heard it better.

 

Conclusion... if I go ampless again, I will need IEMs. But it took me decades to find earplugs I like so...

 

 

Took me a few minutes to pack away, then 50 minutes helping the others...

 

I think DI is the way to go for small venues. I use a pretty basic DI. I wonder if I should shop some of the high end bass DI/ pre-amps with all the bells and whistles. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

7 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Have a good one Daryl.

First gig in 5 wks tomorrow night with the Glam band. Leaving the house 3pm for an 8:30pm start and 11pm finish. Two 1hr sets so should be a fun night. Our new PA company is doing the PA so that saves me humphing those blooming large QSC cabs in and out of my car especially at the end of the night. Should be back home for approx 2am. An 11hr day for me but i do miss it when we have these long gaps between gigs plus my wee plucking fingers get soft and will be painful by the end of the gig unless i really take it easy and concentrate on playing lightly.

That'll last for approx 3-4 songs then i just get carried away and into the zone. 😂

Dave

 

Thanks Dave,

 

I hope you guys have a good one too.

 

Yeah, August was slow for me. September has been busy.

 

Daryl

Edited 16 hours ago by Bluewine

[Rayman]

 

 

The Blossoms, Stockport. Great little venue. Leaf is the promoter, not the new name of the band. Our smallest setup due to the size of the place, so just the ABM500 combo, but it sounded pretty good, although I could’ve done with raising it up a bit. The P bass was great, a bit zingy with new strings, but very happy with it. Cool little gig. 

[Franticsmurf]

6 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Small venue tonight so I went DI with one of the 'baby' devices.

 

Struggled all first set until nearly done when I realised the PA on my side had the top turned down.

 

Used it to Bluetooth music to the pa in the interval... then struggled for two songs until I realised it had reset and was on a preset, then I got my sound back.

 

All this combined with gigging flats gor the first time,  I couldn't relax and felt awkward.

 

Ironically a bass player in the audisaid I had a really good sound... I  just wish I could have heard it better.

 

Conclusion... if I go ampless again, I will need IEMs. But it took me decades to find earplugs I like so...

 

 

Took me a few minutes to pack away, then 50 minutes helping the others...

When I went DI it took a few sessions to get used to not having the sound behind me, and not having instant access to change that sound. It took a while longer to tune the pre-amp I was using to work through the PA speakers. At about the same time I went to a rudimentary IEM system using a Behringer P1 wired to the desk and £10 Sony earbuds (I wanted to get a feel before investing in wireless). Although it was the cheap end of the market, I could see the potential and I liked the control over the volume in my ears - if nothing else the earbuds gave me some protection from the onstage volume. The big difference came when I was singing BVs - even with the cheap set up I could hear my voice much clearer than when using floor monitors and it gave me more confidence to harmonise. With IEM it took a while to get used to the isolation, and since our singer often talks to the band off mic between songs, I usually have one earpiece more loosely fitted so I can hear him. 

Edited 11 hours ago by Franticsmurf

[martthebass]

Did a fund raiser for the local tennis club last night, it was interesting….id originally volunteered to play bass in a 70s covers set but ended up playing in a Lizzy tribute, Dr Feelgood tribute, and a 70s glam thing as well. But of a work out but thoroughly enjoyable. It was a pleasure to meet Alan Jones, Shadows bass player who played on a Shadows tribute - really nice guy and awesome talent. He used my MarkBass set up and he had loads of stories from his time in the industry. A more normal night out in Sheffield with Glam Viva! tonight.

Edited 11 hours ago by martthebass

[dmccombe7]

6 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Thanks Dave,

 

I hope you guys have a good one too.

 

Yeah, August was slow for me. September has been busy.

 

Daryl

Just the one gig in Sept and same for Oct. 

Now looking at a 2nd band again to fill in the long gaps between Glam gigs.

Dave

[Woodinblack]

A bit too up close and personal.

A local place in the next village that we hadn't played before so didn't really know much about it. Seemed to be a lot of space when we started but there was a pinch point between the door and the bar and my microphone stand! 

So in the first half, the first hour there wasn't that much interaction, a few dancers, mostly of people we knew who came out because we were there, and applause from them, and a few other intersted crowd that just watched.

The last 15 minutes of the first half we tailed off the rock stuff and the crowd got more interested and interactive, as is generally the way. The second half was pretty well flat out the whole time and we had to retreat back a bit closer towards the wall as space became trickier. The guitarist put some small stools in front of his pedalboard to stop people from jumping on it! There was a security woman who thankfully kept pushing them back a bit when they were bashing into my microphone - the joys of pubs huh?

Still they all seemed to enjoy it and the barstaff seemed happy at the end of the day so its nice to open up new venues.

 

Usual problems, took a while to work out why no sound when I started, transmitter and receiver the wrong way round! Drummers drum lights burned out half way through, forgot to charge my page turner. On the plus side, sax player got a new wireless (nux sax thing instead of shure) and no longer got clicks and pops from it - a bit of feedback but probably at the moment it is still set for the shure so needs some adjustments. It is a lot easier to setup.

 

 

 

[basexperience]

@Woodinblack I feel your pain. I depped a full-tilt rock band a few years back, and the pub use a pair of old church pews to separate the crown from the floor-level window alcove the band set up in. We had to play with one food on the pew (facing inwards to us) to keep them in place, which works well when you're in full rock mode (hello Harris and his Monitor Foot Stance)

 

I'm gigging tonight in Reading with Jagged Little Alanis (http://jaggedlittlealanis.co.uk) at the Facebar (just off Reading's internal ring road, easy access and chatham street car park very close by). Should be a good one!

Edited 5 hours ago by basexperience

[Obrienp]

Played a gig at the Glaven Bistro at Glandford near Holt yesterday evening with Bandwidth (covers and originals). This is our third gig there. Unfortunately our keyboard player had a lurgie and couldn’t make it. TBH I don’t know how we managed to fit all 5 of us into the available space before. It felt cramped last night. Essentially we get the space against the wall half way down a very long converted barn. Hard walls and floor, straight up to the roof. Acoustics are tricky and I wasn’t happy with my sound all evening but apparently the overall band sound was good out front.
 

It is very intimate, with the dinners literally a couple of feet away and I always wonder if we are an appropriate act. Smooth jazz or lounge music might be more appropriate but we always get a great reception. I guess we are people of a certain age, playing music for people of a certain age 😏. We got lots of praise from the punters and another invitation to return early next year, plus the possibility of playing for a Christmas party to celebrate their 2 year anniversary. Lovely people who looked after us as always. Free coffees to start and bowls of chips during our break. Home by 10pm (result)!

 

Sorry no pics yet. Gear: Guild Starfire 1 and Sire U5 fretless, Bass Flyrig 2 into Harley-Benton GPA-100 power amp (and the PA), LFSys Monza sitting on Auralex isolator. Black suede desert boots.