How was your gig last night?

[YellowLedBetterBass]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I lied... they are only £2.62 each and I have two. Photo exaggerated as you'd expect, but worked well considering it was a pub with the lights on.

 

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

It's insane that such cheap stuff is so good. Saw them at a club and couldn't believe how effective they are.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

Where do they get their power from..? 

[Stub Mandrel]

22 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Where do they get their power from..? 

 

I have a 7 output usb psu.

[Dad3353]

29 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I have a 7 output usb psu.

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

For a second there I thought you were talking about well polished boots.

[tauzero]

26 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

 

You could use a powerblock - admittedly you'd still need a cable between light and powerblock, but you wouldn't need a mains socket for it.

 

I've got five of them incoming for the grand total of £11 (two for £4.50 and a minimum order of £10), so need to think about how to power them.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

Great gig last night. A long long day and all for charity.

7 tribute artists across three back line bands. The event was sold out a couple of hours before doors.

Line up was Bon Jovi (Jon Bovi), Alanis Morissette, Elton John, ABBA, Elvis, David Bowie (ChangesTwoBowie) & Queen (Queenage) - plus encores from 4 of them. I played Bowie and Queen plus the encore set.

It's nice to get paid, but to have an audience go this nuts for the songs they love, I'd do it again tomorrow.

A truly remarkable ensemble who I'm honoured to have as friends.

Not sure what the final total is yet, but I'm expecting it to be lots of thousands.

 

Edited 14 hours ago by hiram.k.hackenbacker

[MichaelDean]

A fun one at The Golden Lion in Bristol last night. Our friends from Motorik Road Trip added us onto the lineup with some other doomy bands, and also brought up our Cornish friends, Tüsk. 

 

The main annoyance of the evening was getting across Bristol. With the massive amount of roadworks across the south, one accident combined with the rugby ending had the city backed up for hours. It took about an hour and a quarter to get my band mates and get to the venue. It should have taken about half that. 

 

We had a few mistakes, but it was a fun gig nonetheless! Gear was my usual Dingwall Combustion, Boss GX-100, Laney Digbeth head and then into a misc 410 bass cab. 

 

The first act was a guy just playing bass and synth into three valve amps (Thunderverb, Matamp 200w hobby, and a big Fender bass tube head in a big cage). Big Sunn((())) vibes. 

 

Knackered now after being woken up by my daughter at 5:50 😴

[Norris]

7 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

Not quite as sophisticated, but I have some lights like these which are very cheap, surprisingly effective and are rechargeable via USB. Apologies for the Amazon link...

https://amzn.eu/d/3CG5H8O

[Leonard Smalls]

We (Weeds) played at a small and rather intimate venue in Chester (G21)...

It was our first gig as a full band for nine years so we'd spent a couple of days at my house rehearsing and drinking tequila.

We don't really rely on any guitar solos - guitar is mainly rhythmic noise - and our singer uses a vocal synth to make weirdness. After being fine in rehearsal it packed up, so some improvisation was called for. 

So first song was a false start due to laptop sequence mismanagement, but once we got going it seemed to work reasonably well - cock ups were mainly guitar based which was good as much of the set is drum, bass sequence and vox. And vox coped very well without vocal synth, all was generally groovy and I even managed slap bass plus improvised jazz funk solo.

No cans were thrown so we could take down the chicken wire after the first song, and towards the back I could see our own @lurksalot pogoing about.

It's possible we may be asked back in the spring to play in a larger venue...

Gear was ACG-Helix-BBE& Crown amps- Markbass 4x10 with pedal distortion and autowah.

Shoes were zebra creepers.

[lurksalot]

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

We (Weeds) played at a small and rather intimate venue in Chester (G21)...

It was our first gig as a full band for nine years so we'd spent a couple of days at my house rehearsing and drinking tequila.

We don't really rely on any guitar solos - guitar is mainly rhythmic noise - and our singer uses a vocal synth to make weirdness. After being fine in rehearsal it packed up, so some improvisation was called for. 

So first song was a false start due to laptop sequence mismanagement, but once we got going it seemed to work reasonably well - cock ups were mainly guitar based which was good as much of the set is drum, bass sequence and vox. And vox coped very well without vocal synth, all was generally groovy and I even managed slap bass plus improvised jazz funk solo.

No cans were thrown so we could take down the chicken wire after the first song, and towards the back I could see our own @lurksalot pogoing about.

It's possible we may be asked back in the spring to play in a larger venue...

Gear was ACG-Helix-BBE& Crown amps- Markbass 4x10 with pedal distortion and autowah.

Shoes were zebra creepers.

It was a most excellent performance , absolutely brilliant , a great room and you made a superb sound in it, fantastic grooves meant that no-one could stand still.

 

recommended ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Cat Burrito]

We got a couple of pro shots from the night before, courtesy of Pacific Curd, so I thought I’d share one.

 

 

Moving swiftly on to last night, we did a home town “Early Halloween Special” at the Cellar Bar in Devizes. Ahead of our next single, “Gloss”, coming out this Friday, we went all out on the makeup. At the risk of looking like a Temu Pennywise, I liked this pic…

 

 

We were supporting the fantastic JP Oldfield who does a Johnny Cash type thing. I had my 57Ri P-bass through my board with a Boss IR2. Again, we played well and I enjoyed it. We did £70 in merch sales, which is a record for us. 
 

 

An hour of mostly original music, it rounded off what has been a really great weekend. 

[Dad3353]

2 hours ago, Norris said:

Not quite as sophisticated, but I have some lights like these which are very cheap, surprisingly effective and are rechargeable via USB. Apologies for the Amazon link...

https://amzn.eu/d/3CG5H8O

 

Aha..! Just right, perfect..! I've found a French Amazon version of these same Fx, and ordered a pack of four, for 25€. Thanks for the link. 

[cetera]

Great dep show last night at the lovely South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell with Duran/Spandau tribute 'From Gold To Rio'.

 

Gear was my usual (with this show) of Spector Dimension HP4, Shure wireless/tuner, Thumpinator, EHX Signal Pad, HAZardlAMPS Pre and HX Stomp (GK head/Ampeg 810 sim), straight to the desk.... then back to my KZs & Sennheiser IEM system. Back up bass was my upgraded Spector Coda 4.

 

Apparently it sounded great out front and the audience was very receptive. A fun night!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by cetera

[warwickhunt]

I'm always (genuinely) interested why folk add certain pedals to something like a Stomp, when that effect is likely replicated within the Stomp.  Your Thumpinator in particular @cetera is effectively a HPF of which there are many in various stages of the Stomp... why the external Thumpinator? 

 

I should add that I've presently got a Broughton Resonant Filter Equalizer on my pedalboard instead of using the Stomp HPF/LPF, as the Broughton gives a bump at the filter point which is easier to tweak and sounds more musical than going into the Stomp and adding a para EQ to a HP/LP filter.   Actually I'm also guilty of using an external GK800RB preamp pedal which I use instead of the Stomps GK block (which is actually a great simulation)!  LOL

 

[cetera]

1 minute ago, warwickhunt said:

I'm always (genuinely) interested why folk add certain pedals to something like a Stomp, when that effect is likely replicated within the Stomp.  Your Thumpinator in particular @cetera is effectively a HPF of which there are many in various stages of the Stomp... why the external Thumpinator? 

 

I should add that I've presently got a Broughton Resonant Filter Equalizer on my pedalboard instead of using the Stomp HPF/LPF, as the Broughton gives a bump at the filter point which is easier to tweak and sounds more musical than going into the Stomp and adding a para EQ to a HP/LP filter.   Actually I'm also guilty of using an external GK800RB preamp pedal which I use instead of the Stomps GK block (which is actually a great simulation)!  LOL

 

 

Fair question. It's because the Stomp moves on/off the pedal board depending on the gig and I always like to use the Thumpinator at the start of my signal chain, regardless of what comes after. 👍

[tauzero]

With the Bonnevilles at the Wagon Load of Lime last night - a bit tight for space with the bikes around us (that's a T140V Bonneville behind the guitarist and the front wheel of a pre-unit 650 Triton poking out in front of me).

 

 

A bit more visible in this shot. Tablet is for the set list and brief notes on a couple of the songs.

 

 

The all-important glasses.

 

 

Should be getting more bookings next year, and some for my other band too (if we can negotiate a better fee).

 

Same rig and footwear as last night. More relaxed as I don't do the PA.

 

No pale ales in the pub. Sharp's Doom Bar and Sea Fury only, so resorted to Madri.

[warwickhunt]

1 minute ago, cetera said:

Fair question. It's because the Stomp moves on/off the pedal board depending on the gig and I always like to use the Thumpinator at the start of my signal chain, regardless of what comes after. 👍

 

Ah ha!  That makes sense.  

 

I sometimes see boards that have 5-6 'effects' + a Stomp and the effects are invariably available in the Stomp, which I find strange but each to their own.  I bought into the Stomp idea as a means to do ALL of my tone shaping, effects, active crossover, IEM routing et al and so far it does 90% of it but little add on's like the Broughton and DiMarco pre, do lift the overall output in terms of richness of tone.  

[basexperience]

A great little gig last night for jagged little Alanis. A fan of ours wanted an extra special birthday… so we played a full gig in their kitchen!

 

great little event. Drum kit was a scaled back cocktail one, the vibe was excellent. 
 

my gear was the usual pedalboard plus my stingray HH, which sounded great. I used a little Roland bass cube RX as a monitor at head height, worked quite well but I reckon I’ll use my own in-ears if we do this again 😂

[dmccombe7]

12 minutes ago, basexperience said:

A great little gig last night for jagged little Alanis. A fan of ours wanted an extra special birthday… so we played a full gig in their kitchen!

 

great little event. Drum kit was a scaled back cocktail one, the vibe was excellent. 
 

my gear was the usual pedalboard plus my stingray HH, which sounded great. I used a little Roland bass cube RX as a monitor at head height, worked quite well but I reckon I’ll use my own in-ears if we do this again 😂

Brilliant. Love the fact you altered your gear to fit the venue. That's ingenuity for you right there. 

Well done 

Dave

Edited 12 hours ago by dmccombe7

[Staggering on]

A busy week so this is a bit late. Last Tuesday Simply Blu (not my idea!) played to packed house of over 120 with extra chairs crammed into the corners and we had a great night. We normally play summer bluegrass festivals that are mostly open air and this was the first time we have played in a hall. Some debate amongst the organizers if this was the biggest crowd they have had since starting monthly concerts in 2017 so we were very happy with the turnout that included some friends and family and a whole bunch of bluegrass fans and some who were just regular attendees. We were up for it and from the opening notes of Freeborn Man until the last chord of our encore we put on a good show. We played a set of about 70 minutes and took a short break before another good hour of energetic bluegrass and the crowd loved it. The band members are scattered over a large area so our only rehearsal was on the Sunday before the gig, first time together since early August but it came together fast. These guys are fantastic musicians and I am lucky to be playing with them, I joined the band almost 4 years ago when the leader saw me playing with a jazz band and asked if I had ever played bluegrass. The answer was "no but I'll give it a go" and it has turned out to be great fun and a good learning experience.

Given the setting we decided to abandon the usual laid back festival approach and went with energy and entertainment in mind and it worked. Lots of amazing solos throughout the show but the only bass solo was in I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome where I tossed is nice gliss on the G string and apparently got the most applause of the night for a solo. I'm not a great bass player but sometimes a schticky lick will fool most of the people!

A memorable night.😄

 

Not the best photo but it's all I have now...

[martthebass]

Nice little gig at a wmc just outside Barnsley last night. Nice audience but numbers were a bit down, this was our first visit so hopefully it’ll be higher on a return next year based on the favourable comments. That’s it for 4 weeks as we always take a break at this time of year to recharge and get ready for the pre silly season stuff.

Normal gear set up, Markbass with the EBMM shorty Ray which I’m now managing to tame sound wise with a few eq adjustments. 
Footwear - silver converse.

[Stub Mandrel]

21 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

 

Two of them run on about 0.2A, so you could use a usb powerbank.

[markbunney]

Played in Sevenoaks on Saturday. My new amp had developed a fault and its replacement didn’t arrive on time. As such for the first time ever I had to go straight to the PA and use in ears.

 

The gig went very well, but I found it a strange experience not having an amp behind me. Ours is quite a basic PA and so we could only put a bit of bass through it, but it all seemed to work OK and the crowd all seemed to enjoy it.