How was your gig last night?

[Franticsmurf]

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Do the speaker stands actually light up? Or is it an illusion?

As has already been said, yes they do. There are LEDs in each leg that can be programmed (with a small remote) for a variety of patterns. I think they look great and, of course, there's the added high visibility which hopefully keeps punter clear. The singer also has a light-up mic stand - it resembles a perforated steel tube about 30mm in diameter with the light coming through the perforations. IN addition last night we had two small LED lights pointing at the bottles. 

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

You get those AJD lit up speaker stands, looks like that:

https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/ADJ-Colour-Stand-LED-Speaker-Stand-With-LED-Legs/27VU

 

That's a great idea. Might stop people tripping over them. 👍

Dave

[dmccombe7]

15 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

£100 tip jar is exceptional here, but the uk is reticent about tipping.

I've never actually seen a band use a tip jar here.

Dave

[colleya]

First gig for 6 months, first gig as a 5 piece and only our 3rd in total for TTFC - a 30th birthday party at The Lescar in Sheffield.

 

Cool place, great acoustics and staff. Went ampless with my Fender jazz 5 into a HX stomp - easy peasy.

 

The birthday girl was the bass player in a previous band with our keys, sax and singer. So the crowd was made up of lots of their mates, a proper home fixture.

 

We played well, I was happy with my end, my improved discipline in practising and staying focused onstage is starting to pay off.  Recorded the whole thing, I'll post some stuff once it's all edited down.

 

Birthday girl got up on bass for a couple of times, so I got the chance to listen to my own band and take a few pics. A great room for photography too.

 

We've already got more gigs coming in, very gratifying after an extended period spinning the project up and getting the set sorted. 

 

 

[basexperience]

3 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

Oh, I so need those! Our speaker stands get yellow/black hazard tape stuck on the front-most leg for some gigs. 

 

 

I literally had a first dip gig with Full Flavour last night and they have these. I was wondering where they were from!

 

BTW - if anyone gigs in the Camberley / Blackwater area, Mr Bumble is a nice venue to play - audience skews slightly older, so the classics go down well - and for a 5-piece we got £75 each, so for a pub gig, that's pretty good.

 

Appreciative audience, good beer, and they have 3 pool tables out back, where apparently if the band stops everybody asks why the music stopped, so there's that!

 

Here's the setlist (ignore the key sigs, we sorted that out later :-D) - indication of what works.

 

The Weekend track (blinding lights) was amazing (no rehearsal, first go!) - the keyboard player I know from the Alanis covers band, and he'd spent some time on the synth sounds for it. I'd found a great Moog patch for the C4 synth pedal which swelled beautifully and brought in the texture with harder playing, and it all sounded amazing. Lovely when that happens.

 

Has anyone dug out the tools and adjusted their bass action halfway through a gig? First set (I didn't get the chance to warm up properly) I realised the action was a little high, and after a quick quarter-turn down on the bottom 3 strings, things were a lot less difficult (I keep the neck really flat on my basses). Always take tools 🙂

 

 

Set 1

Let me entertain you 125 E 💯

You should be dancing 125 Gm 💯

Don’t stop me now  151 A 💯       

I’m still standing 89 Bb 💯

Video killed the radio star 131 C#/Db 💯

Cosmic Girl 120 B 💯

Angels  150 E 💯

I feel good 142 D 💯

Dancing in the dark 149 C#/Db - write out the structure

Superstition 100 E 💯

Baby when you’re gone 125 C 💯

Hard to Handle  104 E 💯

Simply the best 120 F 💯

Blinding lights 171 D#/Bb - write out a structure (not a complex song)

Uptown Funk  115 C 💯

Summer of 69 139 D 💯

Set 2

Final Countdown  118 F#/Gb 💯

All right now  120 D 💯

Mama Mia  138 D 💯

Pinball Wizard  123 C - write out the structure and watch for the modulated last verse

Don’t stop Believing (Journey)  119 E 💯

Sweet Home Alabama  98 G 💯

Remember us this way 130 C - write out the structure, not too complex

Rebel yell  166 E 💯

Man I feel Like a Woman  125 Bb 💯

Don’t stop (FMac) 119 A 💯

Proud Mary  171 D 💯

It’s my life  120 C - write out the structure

Highway to Hell  116 F#/Gb 💯

We will rock you  81 D 💯

I love rock and roll  94 E 💯

Bat out of Hell  (Introduce band??)  172 F - DEFINITELY write out the structure - LONG SONG

Sweet Child of mine  125 F#/Gb 💯

Sweet Caroline (Last tune)  63 B 💯

Extras:-, 500 miles  132 E 💯

[basexperience]

1 minute ago, colleya said:

First gig for 6 months, first gig as a 5 piece and only our 3rd in total for TTFC - a 30th birthday party at The Lescar in Sheffield.

 

Cool place, great acoustics and staff. Went ampless with my Fender jazz 5 into a HX stomp - easy peasy.

 

The birthday girl was the bass player in a previous band with our keys, sax and singer. So the crowd was made up of lots of their mates, a proper home fixture.

 

We played well, I was happy with my end, my improved discipline in practising and staying focused onstage is starting to pay off.  Recorded the whole thing, I'll post some stuff once it's all edited down.

 

Birthday girl got up on bass for a couple of times, so I got the chance to listen to my own band and take a few pics. A great room for photography too.

 

We've already got more gigs coming in, very gratifying after an extended period spinning the project up and getting the set sorted. 

 

 

@colleya - interested to know your ampless setup on the HX stomp - did you use an XLR adaptor, or do you have a DI box you use?

[colleya]

 

43 minutes ago, basexperience said:

@colleya - interested to know your ampless setup on the HX stomp - did you use an XLR adaptor, or do you have a DI box you use?

Our resident keys player/tech wizard has a cool solution.

 

He's customised one of these stage boxes for each of us.

 

I take a balanced jack to XLR from stomp to stage box on my pedalboard. Also plug my mic XLR in there. A single cat 6 cable then runs to the desk.  One of the stage box ports has been reworked to act as a return signal, which then goes to my wired IEM adapter (a little Behringer power play). 

 

My pedalboard looks like this (the MXR pre/DI isn't used, it's purely a backup). TBH, I've stripped my use of mid song octave/chorus back now, so I could probably ditch the TC tuner and use the onboard stomp one. Which would mean I don't need the additional FS4/5 pedal either.  Hang on........

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by colleya

[colleya]

39 minutes ago, colleya said:

 TBH, I've stripped my use of mid song octave/chorus back now, so I could probably ditch the TC tuner and use the onboard stomp one. Which would mean I don't need the additional FS4/5 pedal either.  Hang on........

 

 

 

And after 30 mins of fettling - simplicity.

 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, basexperience said:

 

I literally had a first dip gig with Full Flavour last night and they have these. I was wondering where they were from!

 

BTW - if anyone gigs in the Camberley / Blackwater area, Mr Bumble is a nice venue to play - audience skews slightly older, so the classics go down well - and for a 5-piece we got £75 each, so for a pub gig, that's pretty good.

 

Appreciative audience, good beer, and they have 3 pool tables out back, where apparently if the band stops everybody asks why the music stopped, so there's that!

 

Here's the setlist (ignore the key sigs, we sorted that out later :-D) - indication of what works.

 

The Weekend track (blinding lights) was amazing (no rehearsal, first go!) - the keyboard player I know from the Alanis covers band, and he'd spent some time on the synth sounds for it. I'd found a great Moog patch for the C4 synth pedal which swelled beautifully and brought in the texture with harder playing, and it all sounded amazing. Lovely when that happens.

 

Has anyone dug out the tools and adjusted their bass action halfway through a gig? First set (I didn't get the chance to warm up properly) I realised the action was a little high, and after a quick quarter-turn down on the bottom 3 strings, things were a lot less difficult (I keep the neck really flat on my basses). Always take tools 🙂

 

 

Set 1

Let me entertain you 125 E 💯

You should be dancing 125 Gm 💯

Don’t stop me now  151 A 💯       

I’m still standing 89 Bb 💯

Video killed the radio star 131 C#/Db 💯

Cosmic Girl 120 B 💯

Angels  150 E 💯

I feel good 142 D 💯

Dancing in the dark 149 C#/Db - write out the structure

Superstition 100 E 💯

Baby when you’re gone 125 C 💯

Hard to Handle  104 E 💯

Simply the best 120 F 💯

Blinding lights 171 D#/Bb - write out a structure (not a complex song)

Uptown Funk  115 C 💯

Summer of 69 139 D 💯

Set 2

Final Countdown  118 F#/Gb 💯

All right now  120 D 💯

Mama Mia  138 D 💯

Pinball Wizard  123 C - write out the structure and watch for the modulated last verse

Don’t stop Believing (Journey)  119 E 💯

Sweet Home Alabama  98 G 💯

Remember us this way 130 C - write out the structure, not too complex

Rebel yell  166 E 💯

Man I feel Like a Woman  125 Bb 💯

Don’t stop (FMac) 119 A 💯

Proud Mary  171 D 💯

It’s my life  120 C - write out the structure

Highway to Hell  116 F#/Gb 💯

We will rock you  81 D 💯

I love rock and roll  94 E 💯

Bat out of Hell  (Introduce band??)  172 F - DEFINITELY write out the structure - LONG SONG

Sweet Child of mine  125 F#/Gb 💯

Sweet Caroline (Last tune)  63 B 💯

Extras:-, 500 miles  132 E 💯

I take basic tools with me and my bass soft cases have the respective allan keys in the pockets but i always take a spare bass if one fails.

I've had to adjust the E string saddle on my MIM P bass once but it was because the saddle screws were very loose and dropping the saddle. I replaced the full bridge on it. 

Dave