stingrayPete1977

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1469619309' post='3099735'] I'm glad that you put a smilie at the end of that statement I might have thought that you were being serious. The "digital music revolution" has simply exchanged one set of "fat cats" for another. And i'm not entirely sure that it's a good thing. At least record companies had a vested interest in going out and finding new artists and depending on the budget doing some development and promotion - certainly far more than the average musician could do themselves. Apple and their like are simply distributers. They don't care what they are distributing so long as you are paying them (via an aggregator) your $50 or so for the privilege, and they certainly aren't going to be doing any developing or promoting of new artists. It might be easier than ever to record your album and for it to be available for the public to buy, but that alone doesn't mean that they are going to buy it or even know about it, when its up against 25 billion plus other tracks on ITMS... [/quote] Worse than all of that they force fed everyone with an Apple product the new U2 album, that surely was worse than the VW diesel scandal for pollution, noise pollution!

I think that's what you need, make a good starting mix into one 745 and save it on the mixer, adding more speakers on the gig should just make it sounds better! If there's something you don't like in the initial mix you will just be fighting it during the gig.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1469777480' post='3100942'] RCF 745s and RCF905s. The gear is more capable than me for sure when it comes to good tone. [/quote] I'd be running nothing more than a 1x12, 2x10 or in ears with that PA, honestly you would need a very serious bass amp to compete with that out front, I'm talking like Flea's 7 cabs serious!

Has it really took you lot six pages to realise this is a troll? Lol It's not one of my own alter egos this time by the way

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1469723154' post='3100673'] on my fenders with the J retro preamp I've installed a micro toggle switch to isolate the battery. You have to remember to turn the volume down before using it to avoid the 'thump'. I prefer that to having a lead hanging loose & having to turn down the amp which is a double pain after a sound check. You soon get used to turning down the volume first. Another great thing is, if you use the bass in passive mode, I switch the battery off because it's still powering the amp even though it's not in use. If you decide to do it: use the switch to break the hot wire, It's the negative wire that breaks at the jack socket with most preamps so breaking the hot wire totally isolates the battery when the bass isn't in use. [/quote] It makes no difference where you break an electrical circuit, positive or negative, once the jack plug is out the negative is isolated and there is no potential difference for current to flow, switching the positive off will make exactly 0.0 mA of differnce compared to pulling the lead out

Yep, big modern estate pub full blast until 12, farm miles from anyone sound limiter installed, been there a few times.

[quote name='Sammers' timestamp='1469653411' post='3100148'] Yeah man, TC + Stingray = Awesome! What's up the neck on that red 1 though? Looks like a full Rosewood or Bubinga neck... or possibly a very dark roasted maple. Cool stuff either way! [/quote] I don't know looked like a status neck at first,are MM building him custom ones?

What does it do?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1469698254' post='3100355'] You know, I was thinking about this statement - I can't actually recall a single instance where I have been at a gig, playing or otherwise, where a PA has failed. I've witnessed plenty of guitar and bass amp deaths though... and countless pedal board failures! Just how common is a PA failure nowadays? [/quote] We've lost a few passive tops over the years (speaker, cross over, bad connector)but carried on with just one,amps and pedal boards etc far more often.

You can always log into the xair mixers with any smart phone up to four users at once, being the bass player and organised I take my phone charger as well as my tablet and charger! I've actually got a Mackie pro fx mixer that I throw in for proper paying gigs as it doesn't take up much room and would work fine with our powered PA, I also take a spare micro head and all my amps have a di to go through the PA in an emergency if it wasn't already. I can't understand why people think a modern PA with powered speakers is more of a liability than a conventional PA, worst case scenario we could use amps as back line, lead vocals straight into a powered wedge pointing at the audience and finish the gig with the damaged speakers.

We take a spare marquee and electricity generator to every gig including a fully stocked bar, tables and chairs etc, we set up two stages and take duplicate instruments for each tent plus a spare PA for each tent, come on you are being paid guys!

Just because YOU didn't pay that price doesn't mean the seller didn't get the asking price, I wish I'd bought every 60s P bass on the market 15 years ago including the 'overpriced' wishful thinking ones!

Maybe his bass tech just paints them between songs? Route for the single coil behind the pickguard!

Lol

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1469644098' post='3100028'] Me too... I'll use it every day and expect to get 6 months plus life out of it... possibly a year but I'll retire the battery before it fails on me. I also have passive options on all basses..just in case. [/quote] I've only got one passive bass! Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder might be a stretch :-o [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/20150105_201850_zps9am97dvx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/20150105_201850_zps9am97dvx.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1469640875' post='3099996'] I'd do away with my rig if I was guaranteed a decent PA system and a sound engineer with good ears on every gig. The singer in the cover band has been using in-ears for his vocal which was an improvement for him, but as he is also the guitarist and the guitar wasn't in his in-ears he was "disconnected" from the guitar and the balance was "problematic" between the instruments. The other problem was, they ate batteries. [/quote] So he puts his vocals in the in ear mix but not his guitar? How do you do one of those head bang wall emoji things?! Lol

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1469644255' post='3100029'] That's what most people do , but if you played obscure or unliked music , you'd still be a covers band [/quote] Ah you have seen my band then! damn

I am liking all these Stingrays he keeps pulling out , how many has he got?!

I unplug any bass on stage between sets, saves big hoofed drummers hooking the cable and dragging basses off their stands!

Once a year I do strings, battery and general check over on each bass.

I did one of these a few years ago,they want you there as they set the tent up before they use it for the main meal at lunchtime, then for background music until around 6,mics for speeches as and when etc etc etc with the band appearing by magic at 9pm all for £100 a person.

It sounds like a great plan to me, I might do the same at some point.

I just don't see the 'released' part as relevant?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1469571610' post='3099542'] He let Mott do it before he'd released any recorded versions of it himself. [/quote] Where are you drawing the line between making a demo in the studio and a global number one hit? He must have made some form of recording of it that Mott used as a reference?

You know what when posting about my Classic I'd forgotten about the two pre EB versions I'd gigged regularly before, I didn't notice the slabs on them either,my '79 weighed about 13 lbs but man it sounded awesome!