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As my vocalist said at the end of Friday's gig, working up covers of choons by lesser known bands that are still really good and require more than a bit of work. Getting them pretty much spot on at the first outing. Seeing the crowd tapping their feet and getting into it, but then getting a blank stare at the end. Felt like saying "come on, we worked bl00dy hard on that and it's a good song!" What's more annoying people were asking what it was after, so it can't have been that bad. Better put it down to fear of the unknown & a first outing Ah well. Shall not be broken & will persevere. You never know it just might get some obscure Australian & Norwegian bands some sales from a territory they weren't expecting

New song in the set last night straight of the camera, but actually the sound isn't a complete mush. A bit dingy on the lights, but they reckoned it was the light boxes that took out the power last time (not quite sure why they waited 'til the very end of the night mind ) Guitarist put them to FB & not sure if I can embed so here [i]should[/i] be links [url="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1490572883951"]Unconditional Love by Street Legal[/url] [url="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1490642165683"]Are You Ready To Rock - Thin Lizzy[/url] Well you knew the second was Lizzy, but you might not have known Street Legal in the first vid. A cracking band from Norway As covered by The Alibi @ Cheers Bar, Bognor Regis 8 April 2011.

New song in the set last night straight of the camera, but actually the sound isn't a complete mush. A bit dingy on the lights, but they reckoned it was the light boxes that took out the power last time (not quite sure why they waited 'til the very end of the night mind ) Guitarist put them to FB & not sure if I can embed so here [i]should[/i] be links [url="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1490572883951"]Unconditional Love by Street Legal[/url] [url="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1490642165683"]Are You Ready To Rock - Thin Lizzy[/url] Well you knew the second was Lizzy, but you might not have known Street Legal in the first vid. A cracking band from Norway As covered by The Alibi @ Cheers Bar, Bognor Regis 8 April 2011.

No takers? Here you go then [url="http://www.the-alibi.org.uk/sounds/Alibi/Fire-as_recorded.mp3"]Fire as recorded[/url] Right at the start, obviously, but I am pretty pleased with the fixed result anyway - well at least so far as the splice/merge to fix the stumble is concerned. The joy of a drummer who at least starts to the metronome times

[quote name='solidsnayke' post='1188015' date='Apr 4 2011, 05:35 PM']Sounds pretty cool, could you elaborate? What music is it playing? Will it be clubs you're playing at and how much will you be earning? Don't you get stung for earning over in the USA? Don't you need special, very expensive visas for that? Pease could you message my inbox, Thanks.[/quote] Presumably something like [url="http://www.stratmaster.co.uk/thecd.htm"]THIS[/url] - off his website. Sounds fun & I too wish I didn't have commitments here. Ah well. Good luck & have a good one

Not too sure of the mastering used on this. Basically a track cut out of last weeks gig and run through TRackS mastering, but I'm having to do it by the spectrum analyser as the two alternate sources of monitoring give false impressions causing me to adjust either bass heavy or bass light - this time I think I have erred a little to far towards the light end of the scale as the bass is lost. Recording was on the Roland R-05 recorder set to manual for level using the onboard mic's so largely it is what it is, BUT on the night the vocalist drew a blank on the words to start with and we ended up stopping & starting again. On the restart the drummer stumbled on a fill, but this evening I took part of the original start that was OK (except for the missing vocals) cut the front end off the second start and pasted the first start on with a crossfade. So the question is, can you hear the join (probably) but I cannot at this end of the evening and am pretty pleased with the way it sliced together Oops seem to have hit my upload limit & need to do some housekeeping so it'll have to be a link [url="http://www.the-alibi.org.uk/sounds/Alibi/Fire-fixed.mp3"]FIRE - fixed version[/url]

Made up a BC laminate for the Olympia show..............and then was too shy to have it on show. DOH!!

Bit of a mess around tonight. Any use to anyone? [attachment=76588:April_Thang.mp3]

A good night at the Swan, Woolston. Started a little quiet, but they were well up for ir by the end. Couple of start/stops to ba laughed off. Started Fire & Steve had not a clue what the first line was, and there's only so long you can go round the verse mouthing the words before we had to stop, joke & go again. DOH! Still need to find the right place for Maniac in the set. Goes well but as a closer ends to end with a slightly stunned crowd. Still dragged out the old favourites and ended on a high.........which was nice

Nantucket Sleighride - well the gist & the changes anyway. Most of it sounds jammed on the spot so the gist is enough IMO

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1180704' date='Mar 29 2011, 01:01 PM']I'll just give this a little bump as I'm interested in recommendations, too... Something with OK video would be nice, too. For as cheap as possible. [/quote] The following were recorded on a [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/products/productdetails.aspx?p=1077"]Roland R-05[/url] so possibly not meeting the cheap criteria. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=126931"]Gig recordings[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=126620&hl=burlesque"]Rehearsal recordings[/url] The gig ones were done with the input volume on Manual setting. The r/h on is set to Automatic. I tend to set the manual low to avoid digital overload (horrible) and then whichever method has been used copy the files onto the PC and run them through Audacity to normalise them and bring the level up, generally followed by a pass through IK T-Racks, but with careful setting the basic results are pretty good. I have a 16 Gb SD card in the machine which give hours of fun even when set to record both WAV & MP3 at the same time - it currently has a coupe of r/h's (one of which I forgot to put the machine in pause for an hour leading to much blackmail info ) and about 8 hours of assorted gigs and still has plenty of space. Battery life is good too.

Not bad Saturday. Big boomy hall on a high stage, which the Gramma Pad handled, but I really couldn't hear the bass most of the evening. Good crowd well up for some prog. Good reaction and possibly a gig or two out of it. Loaded the car & drove home whereupon I realised I had left my clothes bag, mic stand, digital recorder & mobile at the gig. So a journey back up to Horsham Sunday to collect from the guitarist. Just listened to the recordings. Good crowd reaction, but the sound is all a bit boomy to me....and I still can't really hear the bass

Even split and if that leaves a tenner over it goes to the r/h kitty, but occasionally the drummer & I split it as we do the ringing for gigs, posting of posters, website & paying for hosting between the two of us. That said it's a long while since we have. Normally it's just into the kitty for r/h or to make an easy split at a later gig.

Vary between [list] [*]3mm Dunlop Stubbie - all I used for a long while [*]Large black Dunlop Jazz III's - current fave [*]Dunlop Ultex - large & heaviest [/list] Liking the Jazz III's at the mo, though still use the Stubbie on occasion & the tone is similar. The tone from the Ultex is quite different though & I'm not convinced just yet

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1167919' date='Mar 19 2011, 05:32 AM']That's the first time I've heard a band covering Roundabout. Very nice work all of you! I'd have turned the bass up though [/quote] Thanks. The first gig I ever did with this lot last year a disembodied voice came through the fold back saying "Can you turn the bass down please" after the first number I've tried to be a bit more circumspect since, but it is fun to do this one. Roundabout is a song I used to play along to years ago when I moved to bass and it is good to do. I was particularly pleased with the way the rig was sounding at this gig, nice bottom end but with the required bite at the top You missed the CraigMartinis [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=120877&hl=roundabout"]Paul Gilbert does Roundabout[/url] thread then. [quote name='karlfer' post='1167930' date='Mar 19 2011, 07:19 AM']You are fired! I want your gig . Seriously though, just so jealous especially Roundabout, great work. Oh well, back to Bad Co, AC/DC for me. Thanks for sharing (I think). Karl.[/quote] Thanks again. This is my #2 gig that doesn't play that regularly as we are spread out a bit & everyone has other gigs - mind there are 4 on the books for this year, which is 100% more than last year (my first after taking over). Main gig is more straight ahead rock covers - though I got to stretch out a bit last night as we were a guitarist down. But as a prog fan it's a blast to do this stuff

Bit of chorus, and I now have an octaver and compressor to go with the EBS Microbass II...and then last night there was just no room so I went radio->tuner->amp and it sounded just fine. Sort of goes back to my thread about slowly amassing the toys, only to have the vocalist say "I don't know why you bother with all that cr@p, it sounds great straight in". There could be a new For Sale thread coming at this rate!!

Quite good actually. One of the guitarists had to cry off first thing this morning, and it was the one we have been with for years and used to go out as a three piece (plus vox) with so we know we can if it happens. The other guitarist we have also known years, and is good, but we have never done the cut down version with him but he was happy to give it a go so we did. He spent all afternoon working through the sets sorting out solos he doesn't normally do. I sat through the rugby (well the first two games) with a bass on my lap warming up and getting back into the swing of filling more sonic space. The gig is one of those PITA ones where the crowd walks through the middle of you to the bogs & smoking area, and they seemed to have exceptionally weak bladders tonight. Quite where Max will go next time is anyones guess!? Still Mike did a top job and we had a pretty good night all in all - and more cash as we were one light, RESULT! So we have learnt another new thing now. It can be done. Got through Good Times Bad Times on the fretless abd remembered all my bits this time. Vocalist was getting a bit p155ed off with the constant traffic at the end of the night. Drummer & I remained pretty solid throughout and there was a fair bit of laughing & knowing nods going on throughout. So generally pretty good fun...just wish I'd taken the recorder, but that would probably have put the kibosh on it. Also confirmed that "Maniac" is not a song to end the second set with. Laugh to do, particularly for the quizzical looks (particularly from from the other bands) of people trying to work out where they have heard it before followed by realisation dawning. Went down well, but leaves them a bit too stunned with the hanging cadence to end (if I remember my Music O-level correctly).

Had a late call for a dep a couple of months back. Played with them about six months previous and run through tops & tails of the set. Turned up on the night and there were a few I hadn't plated but knew (sort of) and busked, others I had done the previous time, and some my band do as well (but in different keys). All in all we got there and it was quite a laff

And then there was the video. I Know What I Like Kashmir - not much for me then

Watch out for MusicTech magazine in Smiths every three or four months the WHS copies include (or they used to anyway) aDVD of all the loops & samples from the previous few months.

I was being tempted with something for one/both of the L2500 - mind I need a small premium bond win first I think

[quote name='Sibob' post='1161122' date='Mar 13 2011, 10:05 PM']BERNIE WAS PLAYING LOADS OF IT HIMSELF!!! lol Its all jokes, they obviously can't stop people slapping, but next year they really do have to deal with the consistent volumes. Yes sometimes you have to crank an amp/cab to hear its potential, but not for any longer than a minute surely!?. It is just "HEY Look at me!!" My very personal opinion is that you tell who were bedroom players, and those who work a lot Si[/quote] The blessed relief when the klaxon went off on the half hour and peace descended was something else...mind I spent a lot of the day in the live hall or masterclasses. Where [i]did[/i] the day go!?

[quote name='ras52' post='1161034' date='Mar 13 2011, 09:04 PM']G&L JB-2 (Tribute) - soooo tempting. These had been on want-try list for a while, and it didn't disappoint. In fact it was mostly the fact that I it didn't come with a case (and I've have to carry it home in a box) stopped me snapping it up there and then.[/quote]At last made contact with the UK importer to get spares for my L2500's if switch cleaner doesn't do the trick. That and saw the list price for the US models Boy were the two I got here bargains!! [quote name='harlowbassplayer' post='1161039' date='Mar 13 2011, 09:06 PM']i met stu hamm with an signed poster[/quote]Ditto to a CD Thoroughly nice bloke as ever. I should have said hello to you on Olympia station in the evening - one of a number of bass players lurking there with the dancers - ah well next year perhaps

Arrived just in time for Janek & Gary Husband. Then a bit of noise in the hall. TM Stevens followed by Stu Hamm's masterclass & now waiting for Stu's second show. good day but the noise in the hall!