mrtcat

Age is irrelevant. What you need to decide is whether you want to be in a band, if so what you want out of a band and what level of commitment you can give it. I'm 43, run my own company, have a wife and daughter and my wife is currently 8 months pregnant. This year I joined a really busy function band and have played over 100 weddings all over the uk including gigs in Cornwall and one in Aberdeen. I can make it work and I'm enjoying it. I had to accept that in joining such a band I had to commit 110% . I don't get to choose which gigs I want to do. Everything that comes in has to be honoured. I had to balance loss of family time, loss of sleep and juggling gigs plus a busy work life with the enjoyment of playing live and the significant additional income that will allow my wife to have a long maternity leave. Just think about what you want out of a band then decide if you can make it balance. Forget age.

High beams on my precision. Love it to bits.

Can you pan stuff in your in ear mix without it being panned in the foh mix? Current band has an Allen and Heath qu16. If I could pan stuff in my in ear mix on that it would be killer.

Mark made a very long and wet drive down to mine to buy my Barefaced PA system today. He made the whole sale extremely easy and was a real pleasure to deal with. Top BCer.

Looks like a single driver per ear. I'd definitely be far more inclined to go down the kz zs10 route.

I'm not overly tall at 6ft1 but the two guitarists in my band are somewhat smaller at somewhere around 5ft 5 a piece.

You absolutely wont regret it. I love my UE6's

Actually the way in which he asked wasn't just a polite question. He was using terms like "thrown down stairs" and "mutilated " so it was clearly just poorly veiled criticism of other people personal choices.

It is a one trick pony. That trick is to work bloody well in a massive array of scenarios.

Fine when it's a post asking for advice. Not fine when it's a post that is essentially just criticising other people's choices..........again.

This. Although the weakest link by far in a phone's audio recording capability is the internal mic, the sound card will also likely be pretty poor also. Pick a phone with a decent low light camera and find an alternative method for recording audio if you want anything more than 'poor' in the sound quality department.

It's simple economics surely and a pointless debate. Like relic basses or not, if there wasn't demand then manufacturers wouldn't be making them. Clearly some people like them and some people don't. Life would be pretty dull if we all conformed to liking just one thing.

In that case just eq some nice low mids in, use some gentle compression, a bit of light overdrive to get some nice harmonics from the breakup and make sure that there is a good hpf on guitars so that they are not treading all over your fundamentals. I like to mix the bass with the kick drum first so they sit well together and then layer other instruments on top making sure to give bass plenty of sonic space of it's own.

I would keep it simple and just use a clean non eq'd di into the desk. A good engineer will then have a good clean take and will be able to run it through an amp plugin and whatever processing that he or she knows will do the business and make it sit well in the mix. Bass sound is very subjective and I find that a lot of guitarists tend to bury it under everything else when mixing. A decent engineer will make a world of difference.

Should be fine as long as you are all on different frequencies. We have 5 transmitters and a router in our rack and none of them interfere with each other. The g75 is great as you have the scan function that can be a lifesaver.

I think it's this one https://www.swanflight.com/guitarist-flightcases/pedal-board-flightcases/multi-pedal-boards/single-level-guitar-pedal-board-case-size-3.html

Thanks so much Steve. basscki I'll drop you a pm now. Cheers

Put your IEM transmitter in the rack with the mixer and your bass wireless receiver next to your HX stomp. Many bass wireless receivers are designed to go on the floor or on a pedal board. I use a full fat Helix, which is mounted on a board in a flight case and my wireless receiver lives on the same board so I don't have to faff about wiring it up at every gig.

I went through 3 stages of interview for a civilian role within the RAF as a fitness instructor when I was in my 20s. I had all the relevant qualifications and experience. The third stage was a 2 day assessment at one of their bases specifically for fitness instructors. A week or so later I got a letter confirming that I had passed everything and that they were now pleased to offer me a job as a winch operator on a rescue helicopter. I contacted to highlight their mistake and was told they no longer have civilian fitness trainers but that they thought I'd be great as a winch operator. That was the end of that.

Yep completely agree. I once dropped by John's house, completely unannounced without an appointment, on the off chance he would sell me a mm pre. Not only was he more than happy to oblige he also invited me in for a look around the workshop and he offered to install the preamp for me. True gent.

I rate pretty much anything that rcf and yamaha make. Some cheaper 18s aren't as good with a band as 15s in my experience because they are almost too deep. Around 60hz is where the kick hits you in the chest. I've heard lots of brands and don't think you can go too far wrong with RCF, QSC or Yamaha in the mid priced market. The barefaced lf1400 I am selling is really clean with a fast transient response so, unlike many bandpass type subs, it seems much more detailed and has less of a woolly sound to it.

It's just one or two extra boxes. Everyone knows what plugs in where and with a digital desk you just recall a saved scene and tweak. Our sound check lasts approximately 3 minutes, unless the venue is really bad (at which point it would take longer regardless of which rig), and that includes checking a song with backing track, a song where both guitars are electric and a song where singer switches to acoustic. The only time we would save by not using subs is one trip to the van. On another plus side, the subs have a smaller footprint than a tripod speaker stand so it leaves more floor space at small gigs.

Yeah, one of the bands I was in last year was using a pair of 745s and a pair of rcf 8003 subs. Don't get me wrong, you could put a kick through the 745s but as soon as you added a sub it was a completely different thing. If you added both it was a step up again. The sound just had way more weight to it with subs added. It didn't have to be louder (obviously it could be if needed) it just felt much more solid. This year I'm with just one band and they have a big old ld systems rig (2x subs, 2x mids and 2x mid high) which is actually ok. Its loud and punchy but isn't going to win any awards from any audiophiles. The plan is to upgrade in 2020 but having just bought a photo booth (makes moving subs look like a dream) and a new van this year we need to consolidate a bit first. I would let them use my barefaced rig if it wasn't for the fact that the guitarist (who engineers foh) likes to push everything to the max and I prefer to look after my gear.