mrtcat

Yeah, we definitely look like we're part of the same group/gang. Especially when we play O'Neills in a city centre on a Saturday night.

The soundtrack to The Lost Boys was pretty much the soundtrack to my early teens. Still love it now. Also love Busy Malone and was lucky enough to do be in the house band for a production of it in theatre a couple of years ago.

It's ok to hate a guitar style / colour or a car or a type of music. It's what makes us all different. Doesn't make it wrong. As long as we all appreciate that it's not wrong for people to like stuff we don't and that we are respectful of others likes and dislikes then all is good.

Just email Adrian like we used to before the configurator existed. He's really easy to work with and I'm sure he'll be able to make it for you. Really like your idea. That would look great and be really unique.

About 18 weeks. It's a reasonable wait but in the world of custom builds that's still very quick.

I don't use mackie but we did a wedding fayre in Jan where there were three bands on. All in different parts of the venue. One band (4 piece - drum, bass gtr and keys with all four members singing) had the dlm 12 inch subs and tops (about £3200 worth) of kit. They were a very talented outfit but I found their sound very harsh. That has been something I've always found with mackie stuff. We were just using two RCF745s with no subs (bass, drums, gtr and vox) and general consensus was we sounded bigger and fuller. That said there's a lot of other variables that could have been at play. Personally I've never really been a mackie fan tho so there may be some bias.

Beautiful. Absolutely classic yet lighter and specced perfectly.

Yeah of course some people are only impressed by the visual and so bands like vt make them go nuts but that's because people are all different. The thing is, for me, the music was very good too. If the music was poor then I'd feel like their performance might be plastering over cracks. Like I mentioned in a previous post - bands that can balance a great musical performance with a good engaging show will always win for me. I absolutely cannot bear seeing a band where members (regardless of what instrument they play) seem disengaged or motionless. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean they all need to be bouncing about. They just all need to have a bit of charisma. It's hard to explain, I mean look at Pino Palladino - he doesn't move much but he looks so comfortable in his own skin and relaxed but he's pretty much always looking up and watching the rest of the band or the audience. He's engaged in the show. You can tell he's enjoying it. He's got stage presence without having to move too much. If you're using "bonkers" then you're probably spending too much time on British forums lol.

£1400 ish. Swamp ash body, carbon neck rods, luminlays and Aguilar 60s J pups.

Boom! Sofa shot just in.

Now you see I like that a lot. So much energy and real talent too. Trying too hard?? Maybe / maybe not but if you're on Letterman then you could do a lot worse than milk it for all its worth and be memorable.

Personally I think Este Haim has a great balance of playing and subtle communication with the crowd

It's a balancing act surely. The tipping point is different for different genres. For instance punk or glam rock might be more dependent on stage presence, attitude and style and less dependent on incredible technical ability and theoretical musical understanding than say jazz or classical. I think that 100% of one and 0% of the other would in pretty much all cases end up with a poor viewer / listener experience. To keep to blue's original brief I would suggest that for a rock band on the bar / pub scene a 50/50 balance would be pretty much where you want to be but this may vary depending on the style of music a band plays.

That's a shame. I had my UE900s reshelled by them last year. They're superb now and could never go back to non custom moulds. I'm after a decent wireless setup now as I currently have mine running from my helix via a cable from obmm but the cable is really chunky and has started to crackle so I'm looking to go completely wireless. Reckon I have about £600 to spend. Probably looking at senheiser.

2 x Barefaced FR800s (15kg each),1 x Barefaced LF1400 (24kg), 1 x Behringer XR18. Job done for pubs and clubs. Total weight 57kg (126 lbs). Probably prefer the RCF art 745s to the BF FR800s but it's extremely close. The FR800s will do kick drum very well. That's all well and good but unless you sort your guitarist out then you're wasting your time. No matter what pa you have, it'll be unbearably loud for your customers if he doesn't grow up and stop being a plum.

17 weeks today. Every time my phone pings to tell me I have a new email (approx 20 times a day) I instantly think "this is it" 😁

Yep concur with most of the above. A solid state drive and plenty of ram coupled with i5 or i7 and you'll be set. I use a fairly cheap Dell laptop with a Samsung ssd and 16gb ram plus i5 processor. I use it for exactly what you have described and it also works flawlessly for video production on the move.

That's the best result I think. Yes they've messed you about but you haven't lowered yourself to their level and haven't burnt any bridges. What you have done is learn a bit more about them as a group and you can use that to make informed choices if they ever come back asking you to dep again. Moral high ground and all that.

If you hung one of those on the wall in a music shop with all the other basses it would be like Sally Gunnel mingling with the cast of made in Chelsea.

If you email Adrian he usually replies pretty quickly. I'm certain he'd help any way he could.

That would be really good. Especially if they could build the updater into the hx edit software.

Once you have Line 6 Updater installed on your mac then updating is a doddle. Just remember to back up your presets in HX Edit first so you don't lose your presets after an update.

You need to have the line 6 updater installed on your mac as well as HX edit. Use HX edit to backup your current patches and then use updater to search for and install updates. You can get them here https://line6.com/software/

Agreed. That's why our drummers tend to use the old metronome app. It keeps this in check to a large extent. They're not tied to the metronome as it's just a flashing red light on the screen but it means everything sets off at a comfortable pace. Of course a song may have gained a couple bpm by the end but literally only a couple. We do use tracks occasionally at smaller gigs where budget doesn't allow the full band, at which point we're tied to a click anyway.

Believe me, I've worked with brilliant singers and musicians. None of them would attempt to change tempos significantly on the fly. How does a singer go about changing the song's tempo anyway? He or she would look like a total prat if they started singing slower or faster than the rest of the band were playing. Can you show us some footage of how you do this?