stingrayPete1977

Do you think Flea needs 7 large bass cabs when he wears in ears? They are there to create a wall to hide stuff where the dj guy stands and to sell GK cabs to dinosaurs

Can you post some links where and when your band plays so I can avoid them? Thanks

It was JTUK's regular gig but we haven't seen him around here for a while

Carole King for me, her writing credits are ridiculous, great grasp of writing a pop hit but with an under pinning of technical knowledge, great pianist and lesser known guitarist too.

You lost me at "the drummer doesn't drive and lives 90 miles away", if it's going to be a £250 per person function band then maybe, £40 a piece down the tickled trout then it's never gonna happen imo. Onwards and upwards

Same here, Stingray-desk.

I can't get on with P basses or passive basses, I've decided to just accept it and not try again. Active jazz basses are awesome

He's been mentioned already.

I'd say they are targeted at the 50+ year old guy with spare cash regardless of their ability.

If you look at the Fender stuff it's not really a big deal anyway is it? Neck and body with a lick of paint, relicing done with a stencil. Plenty of people paid nearly USA money for a Mex Jazz because it was painted pink and had $12 worth of stacked pots on it, the mind boggles.

Annoyingly the models we do want they don't make, I'd probably buy a 5 string version of the Fender JazzRay that Flea plays.

Loud I'd imagine!

Thinking about it you don't hear them played on the radio much do you?

Even as a bass player I haven't heard of most of the bass players with a signature bass available. Try asking Joe public if they know who Gene Simmons is then try Victor Wootton or Duck Dunn, I know who'd be most 'famous'.

That people have lived in to their 60s and beyond? They'll always be Beatles fans of course but they'll be on decline over the next twenty years.

Has it got a 'boxy' sound?

They are but then they pose in front of the stacks in magazines or online adverts to sell the old school stuff to the dinosaurs

I think I can just about cope with the "my sound" guys but I wouldn't stay in a band with a "got to have this volume to get my sound" guy anymore.

It sounds like one solution and a good one to me.

But you can go the other way, one of those trace Elf boxes into the p.a. giving you the same stage sound and volume at every gig. Volume bass middle and treble for you to play with, myriad of stuff for the person doing the desk.

The thing is because the stage volume is much reduced you'll hear some of the foh anyway so a third RCF isn't needed, I played my upright for a few songs at a wedding gig with the bass fed through the singers small powered wedge, it sounded fine with the bottom end coming from around the room and the detail from the wedge, I'll be doing it that way in future as it was a quick change over, unmute the double bass on the tablet and away!

Baby milk?

The biggest difference not mentioned in the comparisons is the fact that yes both systems will work in a pub but the full range PA and small/no backline option can go bigger without hiring/buying/borrowing/storing/transporting more kit, I've never been in a band that rigidly sticks to one size of venue, large function room, marquee, small pub, big pub and outdoors have all been done on the last few years, sometimes at short notice, two RCF tops and a bag with the mixer and leads in combined with a combo for monitoring and I'm set for anything from the tickled trout to a 500 capacity marquee.

The options are both endless or actually really simple, I'd sell my rig and keep my RCFs if the band folded, xair and the RCFs stacked using the mixer as my head would out perform virtually anything, one speaker and my bdi or Genz head di would be portable and an ampeg slayer anyway, lol.