WalMan

Well I will give a thumbs up to the BF Super12T as that is what I use with the Streamliner 6.0 and it is lurverly My warning would be based on what sort / size of gigs do you do as the STM6 & BF S12T are more than adequate for the classic rock gigs I do and I do wonder how people who use the 9.0 ever manage to gig that more powerful amp. I cannot imagine being able to do so with any of the bands I work with. Anything larger than standard club gigs and it's through the PA anyway

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Damn you!! you made me look on there and the GAS is back So I suppose the innocent "What this? Noooo I've had it yonks" won't work then

Blimey. That was a difficult choice. Voted

Technology is here to stay, but to nail a track is in many ways more satisfying. I still have a track we recorded years back on 8 track that was a bit fiddly in one of the fills at the end and was tracked as a band that ends, there is a short pause & then the drummer can be heard to shout "NAILED!" Still makes me chuckle & I have never bothered to cut it off the mix

Tom has just taken my BOD xT Pro off my hands - I miss it already even though it had been languishing in a box for a while. Pleasure to do business with him. Good comms & quick easy payment.

First gig at a dive in Reading. Punky band but with my hair"style" I still look like Hair from the Hair Bear Bunch. Band outnumbers crowd (3 mum dad & [i]probably[/i] daughter), who appear to be expecting a WMC type band. First set ends. Crowd: "You're all a bunch of punks!!" Us: "If you say so" Short break whilst they dredged up a response to that, which was "If you're punks, why's he got a w*gs haircut" Nice. Funnily enough we didn't go back.

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Sounds similar to a dep I did with a function big band where we had to play some "music while they ate" unexpectedly. At least one of the songs played with the keys calling chords from a Buskers book (that was missing a page) sounded like the most bizarre free form jazz you have ever heard...but at the end the diners put down their cutlery & applauded I still get the nerves thing after 30+ years, particularly with the prog band. Well possibly not nerves but I do tend to retreat into my shell & can really do without MrsW bubbling away before the gig. As others have said mistakes, particularly bass mistakes will 99 out of 100 fly over the heads of the crowd - except that bass player lurking at the back taking notes - and they will come up to you after the gig and say it was great when you are feeling it was cr@p and still obsessing over all the little fluffs you made. Being able to play through and catch up / find your way out of it also helps. We had a couple of moments last Friday where the vocalist came in at slightly the wrong time, or the drummer was at the wrong point in a song and missed a fill / change, but we soldiered on & got out of it and I would suspect that unless I put the video / audio up for post gig analysis noone was any the wiser, except us

Last Friday. Drummer "[i]Why do we bother[/i]"

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1349717673' post='1829570'] Hi Col, not as yet I'm afraid . I called Matamp and they ran through a few things, non of which sorted it, plus checked all the the fuses and they were fine. They would sort it for me, but I'd have to get it too Huddersfield and it's a bit of a trek. Hamster recommended I try Steve's Amps in Surrey, but he's flat out and not taking any new work for a couple of months. That's as far as I've got. [/quote]Depending where you are you might try Peter Hall in Gerard Street Brighton who did a good job of rebuilding my Marshall Superbass...mind the only link I could find for him was on another forum, one as a rec followed by & no no no from someone else. Don't understand that one as the work he did for me on the rebuild and also my sons Engl seemed fine. Who knows?

Well thanks again

[quote name='warriorbass05' timestamp='1349662968' post='1828859'] That was awesome....well played! [/quote]Thanks, though to be clear / fair it was a cheat & three seperate tracks of bass recorded onto the multitracker and then patched onto the video not a single pass for the video

Friday. OK I suppose. Those I spoke to seemed to think the sound was good & everything defined & in its place. What I was getting in my IEMs seemed OK but others wee mutering about the sound changing & suddenly & quite drastically part way through. Came off at the end and the drummer said "why do we bother?" I fear that will be another of the dwindling gigs vetoed by other band members. I ought to have been ringing round for gigs for next year and looking for new ones, but quite frankly I feel like I can't be @rsed .... which does rather beg the question "why the hell do I keep adding to my gear roster & not just sell the lot?!?"

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1349633702' post='1828528'] hmmmmm.... something like thus is taking the p************** IMO. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7wuiOFNOg&feature=fvwrel[/media] I can see a Solo of Duo in a bar adding a fuller voice... but that is obvious what they are doing but for a band ..?? I think I'd walk out ... [/quote]The only positive for this is that it follows the input so the harmonies are "right". I did see a band kicking in a harmoniser, but as it was a fixed not following it sounded pretty cr@p , well to me anyway.

I think I have every copy tucked away somewhere round the house, but didn't it really morph into BGM, or did I imagine that?

I may have mentioned it elsewhere, but my Wal started lie as a passive Pro1 with the pup in the middle rather than back at the bridge. Pete converted it to active in 96 - I hadn't actually planned for it just took it up for an overhaul and saw another one being converted. IIRC he told me at the time that the idea with the passive Pro's was to have a cheaper passive option the could be retrofitted with the custom electrics later if required. Pics & story [url="http://www4.cs.fau.de/~koesters/Privat/Wal/walpics/PB1680-1.jpg"]HERE[/url] (as an active) & [url="http://www4.cs.fau.de/~koesters/Privat/Wal/walnotes.html#PB1680"]HERE[/url] plus as a passive (and sorry to sully this with other basses) This is two/three tracks recorded with it last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cXmuH8699Q

Depends, but normally it's an approximation. Eg, for Roundabout there are bits that need to be as per, and others where I can be a bit looser & work with the drummer. For the 35 songs (thankfully seem to be fairly straightforward) I need to learn for a couple of deps in the next month it will most probably be based on chord charts. At least they seem to be a lot of two in the bar. And then there are, or were, songs we used to work out roughly at r/h from memory (sometimes flaky) and then do at the next gig as the "known" song for the encore in a set of originals. Variously songs by Slade, The Pistols, Lizzy, Tom Pettey & IIRC Boz Scaggs The best effort there was "I Want You To Want Me" that was worked out sitting in the van between sets, and played as the encore that night. Happy days