How was your gig last night?

[tubbybloke68]

Another dep job tonight (seem to be doing alot lately) with a fairly local funk/soul outfit down in a Worthing pub. Went well I think, the band members seemed very happy with my performance. Used my yammy TRB 5 through my trusty puma 900 and a single LFsys Monza. Very happy with that rig. Pissing down for the load out but hey ho! A fun evening! X 

[Bluewine]

We had an acoustic gig at a Holloween party tonight. Way out in the country. It was freezing. Very low key gig. Excellent food.

 

Daryl

 

Edited yesterday at 01:05 by Bluewine

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, tubbybloke68 said:

Another dep job tonight (seem to be doing alot lately) with a fairly local funk/soul outfit down in a Worthing pub. Went well I think, the band members seemed very happy with my performance. Used my yammy TRB 5 through my trusty puma 900 and a single LFsys Monza. Very happy with that rig. Pissing down for the load out but hey ho! A fun evening! X 

Seems an odd positioning of your bass cab there @tubbybloke68 ? Angled inwards towards the drum monitor rather than out front. Any particular reason. Just curious.

I do like those Yamaha TRB basses.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

We had an acoustic gig at a Holloween party tonight. Way out in the country. It was freezing. Very low key gig. Excellent food.

 

Daryl

 

Come on Daryl. Its sad when your highlight from a gig is the food but i get and appreciate where you're coming from. 😂

Dave

[tubbybloke68]

9 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Seems an odd positioning of your bass cab there @tubbybloke68 ? Angled inwards towards the drum monitor rather than out front. Any particular reason. Just curious.

I do like those Yamaha TRB basses.

Dave

Yeah I did move it round a bit before we started, so many bloody cables behind it as usual. Yes the yammy’s been a bit of a revelation since I got it actually. Extremely light bass as well, quite handy seeing as it was a very long setlist last night! 
all my best, Jeff 

[Norris]

I DON'T have a gig tonight. It doesn't stop me thinking my phone is going to ring any moment and have a bandmate asking where the heck I am because we're on in a minute!

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one

[Bluewine]

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Come on Daryl. Its sad when your highlight from a gig is the food but i get and appreciate where you're coming from. 😂

Dave

 

Dave, it was also good musically.  After playing together for over 15 years we just seem to know where everything is going whether we've played the song before or not. We had some cool improvising happening. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

47 minutes ago, Norris said:

I DON'T have a gig tonight. It doesn't stop me thinking my phone is going to ring any moment and have a bandmate asking where the heck I am because we're on in a minute!

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one

 

We played Thursday night. I had no idea we had another gig on Friday last night until I found out on Thursday. 

 

Daryl

[bassbiscuits]

Had a solo gig in Leicester which was just hard work.
 

The venue had had some issue with noise complaints so a local came in with a sound monitor thing while I was setting up. Told me I had to be under 90db. I pointed out that even without playing, the busy bar full of people talking was 95db and when I talked to him loudly it shot up to 110db. He set up his device. I ignored it. 

 

Then a big group of fairly “refreshed” punters came in and were in total disbelief that I didn’t know some obscure song they insisted upon. They kept trying to play it to me on their phones (like that would make me know it suddenly?) so eventually I told them firmly no, it wasn’t gonna happen.

 

I sensed the atmosphere get quite aggro for a bit and I didn’t take my eye off these guys through the second half. 

 

I just played singalong stuff I thought drunk people would like to stand up, dance and shout along to (which turned out to be accurate) and things seemed to get back on track.

 

By the time I’d finished and was packing down everyone seemed to have chilled out a bit (though I did get the classic demand of: “Go on - set the kit back up and I’ll sing it for you blah blah…”) 

 

Some other cool punters there who were very appreciative and a decent enough size crowd. 

 

Glad to get out and get home tbh.

 

Gear - Mackie SRM350s, Allen and Heath ZedFX10 desk, Shure SM58, Simon and Patrick SP6 guitar with a Seymour Duncan Woody pickup, small effects board (tuner, compressor, EQ pedal). 
 

Alas no pics from last night. (Imagine an acoustic guitar and a mic stand and you’re pretty much there).  
 

[dmccombe7]

Last night was our first gig in 4 weeks but things starting to build up as we head towards Christmas. 🎅

65th birthday party, always difficult at these trying to motivate the audience to dance but we had dancers up early and altho not a full floor it was encouraging. By the end of the night we had the floor pretty full.

Considering we haven't played in weeks the band was spot on. One or two very minor mistakes that only we would notice so that was good.

Had trouble with drums going thru digital desk. We were getting incoming signals but nothing going out the front. We eventually managed to get drummers vocal mike going and then his bass drum but we were now at doors open time and had to leave it at that and get the sound check done. 

Digital desks are way over-complicated for my liking but it looks like part of his grouping or his drum presets are somehow muting. 

Overall everything was well balanced out front tho. Bigger venue than we expected with a decent sized stage so all good there.

The tone i had was spot on for me. Deep but not boomy with that little bit of growl when digging in. That Handbox WB-100 and Barefaced 212 set up is just sublime.

Used the Sandberg VM4 with MarloweDK as back up. 

Dave

 

[Stub Mandrel]

We were scrappy  but the punters were happy. two gigs in a few months with no rehearsals. A month before next gig so we're going to get some rehearsals in.

 

We all made silly mistakes. 

 

I was way too loud playing Uprising through my Joyo XVI but it was fun 😈

[mcnach]

44 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Last night was our first gig in 4 weeks but things starting to build up as we head towards Christmas. 🎅

65th birthday party, always difficult at these trying to motivate the audience to dance but we had dancers up early and altho not a full floor it was encouraging. By the end of the night we had the floor pretty full.

Considering we haven't played in weeks the band was spot on. One or two very minor mistakes that only we would notice so that was good.

Had trouble with drums going thru digital desk. We were getting incoming signals but nothing going out the front. We eventually managed to get drummers vocal mike going and then his bass drum but we were now at doors open time and had to leave it at that and get the sound check done. 

Digital desks are way over-complicated for my liking but it looks like part of his grouping or his drum presets are somehow muting. 

Overall everything was well balanced out front tho. Bigger venue than we expected with a decent sized stage so all good there.

The tone i had was spot on for me. Deep but not boomy with that little bit of growl when digging in. That Handbox WB-100 and Barefaced 212 set up is just sublime.

Used the Sandberg VM4 with MarloweDK as back up. 

Dave

 

 

 

What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there.

 

I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. 

I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.

 

 

[dmccombe7]

1 minute ago, mcnach said:

 

 

What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there.

 

I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. 

I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.

 

 

Easthouses Miners near Dalkeith. A nice venue and staff very friendly and helpful too. 

I'm more used to old analogue desks. 

We've been using a pa hire company on a few gigs and will be going down this route from start of next year. At the moment we're half and half so not using our own desk every gig.

Dave

[mcnach]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Easthouses Miners near Dalkeith. A nice venue and staff very friendly and helpful too. 

I'm more used to old analogue desks. 

We've been using a pa hire company on a few gigs and will be going down this route from start of next year. At the moment we're half and half so not using our own desk every gig.

Dave

 

 

Aha! Indeed, we played a new year's gig there this year. It's funny how a lot of this kind of venues look the same, yet they're distinct enough.

 

[Boodang]

2 hours ago, mcnach said:

 

 

What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there.

 

I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. 

I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.

 

 

Digital mixers are the mutts nuts for live work. We got an xr18 and have never looked back. I love the studio FX you can use, fully parametric EQ on every channel, and 100 band rta, really helpful you get a professional sound. 

[mcnach]

6 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Digital mixers are the mutts nuts for live work. We got an xr18 and have never looked back. I love the studio FX you can use, fully parametric EQ on every channel, and 100 band rta, really helpful you get a professional sound. 

 

 

The RTA together with the parametric EQ makes it soooo easy to tune out feedback frequencies. That function alone is amazing. 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, mcnach said:

 

 

Aha! Indeed, we played a new year's gig there this year. It's funny how a lot of this kind of venues look the same, yet they're distinct enough.

 

That would be a good night in this club. Its a decent size with a good stage area too.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Boodang said:

Digital mixers are the mutts nuts for live work. We got an xr18 and have never looked back. I love the studio FX you can use, fully parametric EQ on every channel, and 100 band rta, really helpful you get a professional sound. 

To be fair the desk was working fine until he decided to mic all the drums up and something changed.

The big advantage i saw was that we could store the settings for each venue.

I think you need to be operating these desks regularly to keep on top of them but unfortunately we play venues with their own PA's or we have hired a PA company for some. Before the drums were added we only had vocals and sound effects thru the PA. Everything else was backline even in larger 200 capacity venues. It just seemed to work for what we were trying to copy from early 70's when sounds was a lot simpler 😂

Dave 

[Stub Mandrel]

Last night the desk defaulted to our last gig using their house pa for the first set. and as the pub had loud background music a decent setup was tricky.

[Lozz196]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

It just seemed to work for what we were trying to copy from early 70's when sounds was a lot simpler 😂

Dave 

And probably a lot better too, Dave

[HeadlessBassist]

Nice weekend all in all - Friday was a local charity gig. Nice little five piece with an old friend and his son and daughter involved too. Sadly, a total 'Guitard's valve amp setup was far too loud, so we just did the usual backing right off until he realised he couldn't hear us due to his own row! Nice evening all in all, although was a little broken after three hours' playing!

 

Saturday was a Duo job in a large club in Stoke-on-Trent. Club land can often be depressing and I've not worked the clubs for a long time, but this was a nice and welcoming one. As a complete contrast to Friday, it was a joy to play quietly and we had folks up and dancing all night, right from the start of the evening. We also used no monitors this time and had the system behind us. (Sometimes tricky for feedback issues), but it sounded really good. I hate monitors.

 

These two jobs were also a good opportunity to road test my recently acquired GB Spitfire, which I have to say has punch and tone in spades. Dig in a little harder and it's metallic-like punch is like a hammer hitting an anvil! Noice 😎

Edited 2 hours ago by HeadlessBassist

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

To be fair the desk was working fine until he decided to mic all the drums up ...

 

Is this still a 'thing'..? S'been a very long time since I 'needed' a mic for each piece; a bass drum, snare and a pair of overheads was easily enough for even enormous stages. All moot now, with e-drums, where a simple stereo feed does the job, whatever the venue. If he really is married to acoustic drums, it's cheaper and easier to fit a set of triggers and go digital, instead of all those mics, stands, cables, kerfuffle etc... Just sayin'.

[dmccombe7]

39 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Is this still a 'thing'..? S'been a very long time since I 'needed' a mic for each piece; a bass drum, snare and a pair of overheads was easily enough for even enormous stages. All moot now, with e-drums, where a simple stereo feed does the job, whatever the venue. If he really is married to acoustic drums, it's cheaper and easier to fit a set of triggers and go digital, instead of all those mics, stands, cables, kerfuffle etc... Just sayin'.

He normally has a small clip on thing that attaches to each drum rather than full mics, except for bass drum where he prefers a proper drum mic. 

I'm no expert in all of this and tend to leave him to it.

Dave