stingrayPete1977

An xlr lead from the Di on the back of the amp (strangely labelled line out on there) into your pa mixer will have that sorted so it's just a matter of hearing yourself, the obvious options are; 1-Bass cabinet under that head as normal. 2-Put your bass through the monitors on stage that face back at you if they are decent. 3-Get some in ear monitors that are fed from the pa mixer. It mostly depends what PA you have?

You've killed rock and roll, you bastard!

I had a D string break where it goes over the bridge saddle years ago, I found a meccano nut and let out enough to tie it on and tune it up, it stayed on the bass for about 6 years like that no problem!

Which string is which?

I'd certainly try a 5 string version too, I'm a bit fond of active basses though I think.

There must be a whole raft of instruments aimed at those who are less financially buoyant, maybe try and hook something on line or the net?

I've got spare double bass strings in my bag, I've never tried changing one myself so it would probably be more entertaining that my playing watching me try on stage!

There is a flip side from a listeners point of view, whenever I've seen RHCP Flea uses some crazy sounds and I'm sure it sounds ace in his in ears or fake GK bass cabs on stage, lol, but more often than not the heavily fx laden sounds don't cut through, at Knebworth I'd rather someone had given him a humbucker equipped bass and just mixed a good core tone audible around the whole park and left it at that! He's now gone back to basses with MM pickups full time, the jazzes have gone and the new ones have musicman pickups in the musicman position, other than that he still uses the Modulus basses.

Certainly, as long as the crowd are happy it's job done

Yeah that would work but I don't think they're losing many sales from it, Fender ones don't line up, my USA Jazz 5 certainly can't because the string spacing is adjustable!

They aren't always in the same position in each bass though, the single coil on a Ray HS isn't going to fit in the bridge position of a Caprice for example.

I used to play live bass for a singer song writer who wrote and recorded his whole albums himself, all played to a high standard, the live shows sometimes had 3 guitarists or just him on guitar, sometimes acoustic sometimes electric, sometimes we had a drummer sometimes we didn't and it would be a cajon player instead, sometimes we had the female singer that did the studio session if she was around, if not Dave sang his version. It's all good, he has a whole new lineup these days and the songs still work because they are great songs. If anything I go and see bands live to hear the songs played differently to the cd, I'm going to see a band on friday where the core member is an epic banjo player but you never know what you'll get until the night, I've seen him with a harpist,cellist,violinist, guitarist,bassist,drummer,percussionist and upright bass so far in various formations of no more than 5 players normally 4. Always good but never the same twice, that's live music for me

They are symmetrical if you look closely, no one makes pickups with different poles to suit different nut width, fingerboard width, bridge spacings and then the infinite positions you place the pickup under tapering together strings. Plain covers is the only solution.

I heard once that the sign of a good song is when it can be stripped right back to just an acoustic guitar or a piano and vocals yet still be both recognisable and memorable, if purely removing some of the driven tone on the bass live makes the gig not worth doing I'd be worried about the songs.

The rcf and qsc have been talked about throughout the thread, if someone tries putting 1400 watts through a sound lab from Maplins expecting it to replace an Ampeg stack they'll have a nasty surprise. I don't really see the difference, a rubbish bass speaker could be replaced with a rubbish PA speaker with similar outcomes, most people interested in frfr are already using a nice bass rig so they need to expect to require a nice P.A. speaker.

That's Al Gare, he's always good.

Anything with a horn section loud gets right into the centre of your brain too doesn't it, the sound crew were probably deaf from years of doing the sound for rock and roll bands with dinosaur amps

The loudest band I've seen (after metallica in '93) was velvet revolver, jeez my internal organs haven't been right since, they were all wearing in ears.

Body count were great too. Tracy Lauren lol.

Rage against the machine are right on the edge of the genre imo.

Most of the Rock bands and Metal bands wear in ears, I don't think we can blame ebs for that.

Nah he doesn't know stinky poo! Lol

And there's the reality, three nice mics would improve our band but as the only member of a four piece band that doesn't sing I've drawn the line at that!

I think it's related though, full range amp and full range PA equals full range goodness for everyone.