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[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1349281265' post='1824261'] In a miraculous burst of fertility, the singer/keyboard player, the drummer, the accordian player, and the guitarist, in my band (or their partners), all had babies within 2 months of one another this spring/summer). The band haven't had a rehearsal or a band practice since the births. I have the feeling that the band you want to audition with will be under the impression that you will have other more important priorities than band practice now that your baby has arrived. [/quote]Were they not aware of the impending bundle of joy? Congrats anyway. Now the fun starts. Still 23 years and a lot of money later you'll still be trying to get her out of the house, or worrying about Lurch who comes round to pick her up every night. Enjoy.

[quote name='jcater' timestamp='1349351393' post='1825077'] Never been to the show. How good is it? What sort of thing goes on? The website does not seem to say much yet jeff [/quote]Loads of stands from manufacturers, but make sure you have a decent set of ear plugs as even if they do enforce the quiet periods it can be deafening in the noisy times. The workshops / shows in the theatre are well worth a look - or have been for the ones I went to on the Sunday sessions for the last two years. Take drinks & food, or be prepared to pay silly concession prices. All in all a pretty good laugh. Without the seminars I might well have been round and back out in under a couple of hours, but add them on top and it's a whole day

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[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1349266304' post='1823955'] Right, compressor 'how to' now up on [url="http://http//blog.basschat.co.uk/setting-up-a-compressor/"]the blog here[/url] Which will probably cause more brain sweating than it solves..... [/quote]Try [url="http://blog.basschat.co.uk/setting-up-a-compressor/"]THIS[/url] The linky in Si's post has http// twice somehow

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1349264772' post='1823930'] Not just yours. As soon as I realised at what level Simon's talk was going to be I decided to pass, because I believe you need to walk before you attempt to run. Maybe I'll be better prepared next year. I have a compressor pedal with four (!!) knobs (Digitech Bass Squeeze Dual Band) which i've been messing around with only for a couple of weeks, in an attempt to make my fretless 5 sound slightly more audible and less farty in my headphone amp and 20W practice amp. Even its manual just advises to sit down, tweak all the knobs in turn, and choose the combination that sounds better to your ears. Very little science there, admittedly [/quote]I have 8 knobs - let me rephrase that my compressor has 8 knobs, well two lots of four - plus a load of buttons and most helpfully (I think) some meters. I can sort of get there, but they always get moved in the pedal bag & then I have to start again. I should have worked it out by now really!!!

Super12T & GB Streamliner 6 here & loving it [/smugmode] I have had mine over a year now though

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1349204017' post='1823303'] I didn't mean for *every* string, just the E It will, of course, change all my patterns because the E string will then be 1/2 tone or 1 tone lower, but for some tracks this will be ace! [/quote]Ah, fair enough. I read "[i]my teach suggested that I de-tune my 4 string by a semitone[/i]" as the bass as a whole not just the one string. Hipshots are great - until you dive straight onto a 5 for the first time when all your muscle memory for songs is on a 4 with a Hipshot set down a tone and flicked down & up during songs, DOH! Tht said I should have thought if you go that path setting it for a tone rather than a semitone would be better. A semitone will give some odd pattern changes particularly for things like octaves that are easier with it set to a tone - IMO anyway. Mind you years ago when we used to do Beat It we just played it in E. I suspect that it was recorded with everyone detuned a semitone across the board if it actually plays as Eb

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1349183698' post='1822901'] Do you make a noise like a metal mattress when you're playing bass? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxywaZUA7Y[/media] [/quote] Something like that. Sadly I don't have Six million dollar man fingers, more like Scrapyard Challenge man I was a bit upset that I did not set off the metal detectors at the airport this year. That was always fun

I just need the rehash of the "[i]Setting Up Compressors for Dummies[/i]" as once again my brain went into melt down

Interesting. What do they actually do, do ou know? Is it a shave of the joint or somesuch? I get problems with both elbows on & off and have had cortisone injections that have worked, but still had a flare up earlier in the week. Talked to the rheumatologist who said to me "let's try the cortisone first" as elbow replacements are not as good as the shoulder, knuckles & wrist I have already had done over the years. Good luck for a speedy recovery.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1349106766' post='1821887'] Old school me. I like drawing, with pens, it gives me time to work out if what I am trying to say is total b*ll*x or partial b*ll*x before I say it [/quote]How would we ever know!!

Lots of love for mine, and looking to get more for the new 4's, but I should have thought getting 4 to drop the entire tuning by a semitone for one number woud be an expensive option. Properly set up they work well Not tried one, and not sure whether it works for bass as well as guitar, but one of these might be better, and cheaper if it does? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcDvSq1pFjA[/media]

[quote name='BigBeatNut' timestamp='1349011340' post='1820611'] Oooh .... I left behind my raffle prize of a Precision pickguard, I guess someone would have picked it up. Thinking about it, I'm not sure I'd actually put it on my '79 P (kinda nice to leave it original) so is there some way it can be held back for next years bash ?[/quote] I rescued it. Let me know if you change your mind, otherwise I'll hold onto it for next year - unless I have a further go at fettling it to fit my Squier for which it was originally purchased in which case I'll bung some cash to Colin to add to the fund - I expect it'll be in the raffle next year though as my fettling skills are v poor [quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1349016589' post='1820687'] I think it did pretty well considering its size, although Russ found its limits with 1000W from a cranked SVT7 (having switched over from his 6x10" to this 1x12") with the lows boosted and a grindy tone - no magic smoke was released but bad smells were... If you're geographically convenient to Brighton or willing to pop down, I'd like some beta testers to gig these prototype cabs, so email me if you want to help out! Si(bob), I had the speaker for you in the car but when I remembered it you'd already left - with turning up so late, my mental timings were rather confused... The four car convoy home was amusing, thanks for getting us out past the jams (W)Al (man)- 5i(mon) I seemed to lose you throwing ye olde Honda around that last roundabout! [/quote]Alex I'd be glad to beta test for you, Like I said I am looking for something like that for smaller gigs/rehearsals - mind that said like Nik I also took a bit of a shine to the Big Baby T. You didn't go for a lap of the banking at Brooklands, which was something My poxy SNav took me a different way to expected, but we got there in the end. I trust we all had this on the stereos [indent=1]Was dark & we wept on the twenny ninth of Sept In an Audi haulin' bass gear Compressor Si with a reefer on And Claber haulin' cabs We is headin' for home on the A-two-four 'Bout a mile outta Addlestone I says, "Silverfox, this here's Walman. "And I'm about to put the hammer down."[/indent] - all to gether now... [indent=1]'Cause we got a little convoy Rockin' through the night. Yeah, we got a little convoy, Ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on and join our convoy Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way. We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'Cross the U-K. Convoy![/indent] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWO_AIh8drk

It depends what you want to do with it. The SE Bash was originally run in Guildford & set up by OBBM IIRC. NIK, Hamster & various others have been kind enoungh to take things on and arrange the last (is it) 5 years now, and they have been larger affairs where, thanks to Hamsters good offices, we have had the run of a number of rooms in the school, so have had[list] [*]a quiet room, for raffles, general chat, refreshments, and in past years shall we say quieter workshops like double bass, recording, etc [*]a loud room (well the hall) where rigs were set up and it was, or could be, loud, and where the Si's did their workshops yesterday [*]a jam room with resident drummer [/list] We have also had a couple of mini bashes a bit closer to home for Nik & me anyway) where there were fewer and it was really a loud room with some time to meet up, chat & a laugh with a bunch of great guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9Bo0UbQQM For both we put money in the pot to cover expenses, and any profit is given to a charity decided by all. Every bash I have been to has been a great day out chatting to low enders from all walks of life and styles of music and there has never been any snootiness just a super day that flies past. Yesterday I arrived a bit late @ 11 (though with the problems on the M25 that was nothing) and all of a sudden it was 6:30, we were over an hour late packing up. Probably best to start a thread with a view to creating a Bash close to you and thenshare ideas for venues, dates and what everyone wants to do and just take it from there. Go for it. They are great fun, despite what the ladies who wandered in looking for the sports centre yesterday and hooted at the "nerds" wen told what was going on in that particular part of the school

Just back having led the convoy through dangerous waters ... well Stoke D'Abernon via Brooklands (poxy Snav). Great fun day despite the best efforts of the M25. Good to see everyone again. Roll on next year.

Getting loaded now - no not that sort of loaded!!

...and as my attempt at fettling a P bass pickguard to fit has annoyed me, and before I do anything more horrendous to it I shall chuck that in only [i]slightly[/i] buggered about with. I should know by now. Me and any sort of DIY is just a complete waste of time

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1348822017' post='1818639'] The compressor 'workshop' really ought to be renamed "51m0n's quick and dirty way to set up a compressor you scoundrels"..... We'll be attempting a world record of maybe a brief description of what it is you need to know and do and then an atttempt to set up two or three compressors, all in 15 minutes tops After which if anyone can remember what was said they will be able to set a compressor up for themselves (one would hope) [/quote]I shall have to bring the TC Nova along again and make sure my poxy phone saves the picture this time

I [i]think[/i] that is sort of where I was/am coming from with this. It was a different face doing much the same set to BT's that were probably a CD, but a CD of average MIDI using average soundsets. Fine for the punter who probably just hears a bunch of choons they know - how many times did I hear Mack the [i]feckin'[/i] Knife in 10 days - but the averageness of it got to me

I think I still have the bag of bits I picked up last year that have gone nowhere near a bass & no projects on the horizon so shall try to remember to bring them to drop back in

[quote name='urb' timestamp='1348743544' post='1817564'] Only kidding - but it is just gonna be me chatting a bit and pushing a few buttons - might be cool if someone wants to sit in too so I can loop them etc - anyway should be fun - really want to jam a bit too this year - and get my GAS on... [/quote]Perhaps you could do a chain loop [quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1348750470' post='1817703'] Does anyone have a Jazz or Precision (or both!) that they're bored of and fancy sending to a new home? Think I need some more normal basses for demoing Barefaced cabs on t'interweb, don't need anything new/shiny and quite happy to have a Squier or suchlike. As long as it sounds good unplugged I'll be happy, electronics can be changed. And I'm ok with stupidly high actions and fat necks. Anyway, if you do, bring it along! I'll be interested to hear what everyone makes of the wee prototype I'm bringing along... [/quote] Well I have my Tanglewater Classic J I'm looking to move on towards funds a Midget, so...... [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1348754597' post='1817771'] Such a shame I can't make it this year [/quote] it won't be the same without you young man

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm doughnuts

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1348678038' post='1816865'] Crikey, who are these punters? I've often wondered if they're mistaking indifference for approval. I suspect some will like it - but I've never seen many people getting into the spirit of this kind of show (well, blood alcohol levels notwithstanding) - simply getting on with the pint at hand. [/quote]Is this again the X-Factor / BGT / [i]possibly even[/i] Karaoke effect, in that punters come to expect to see a lone vocalist performing to a backing track on an empty stage? I don't know, but perhaps I should give my next holiday destination some better thought