mrtcat

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?

Absolutely no problem driving the FR800. With the master volume on the helix at about 70% it's insanely loud. It's linear volume too so, unlike many bass amps, it'll continue getting louder all the way up to 100%. The cabs will protect themselves so there's no worry about damaging them.

Mind blown. Really cool to have such talent on the forum. Think I need to up my daily practice time to 25hrs.

Not sure how a singer could change the tempo without dragging or pushing in most songs (which would be pretty unprofessional) as it's very rare that he or she starts the song. I definitely don't treat being in a band like a night down the pub with my mates. It's my core income and I am md in a busy function band. We would have no issues replacing a singer that tried to change things based on his or her own judgement of what tempo is right on the night. I have been lead singer in various bands including contract bands on cruises and hotels. At present I only do bvs.

My wife doesn't let me come to shops like yours anymore. Smashing selection tho.

This 100% If you need to speed a song up to make it more punter friendly then you probably haven't nailed the groove properly. If a song is genuinely a bit too slow then rehearse it a bit quicker, make sure it still swings and then use a flashing metronome to play it at the speed you rehearse it at when you're gigging. We regularly use pro dep drummers and the best ones all use the visual metronome without any prompting. We have bpms on our master song list spreadsheet.

Thanks Al Krow, yes I'm definitely looking and have the cash waiting. Will also take a 1025x too.

That's lovely. Looks like a great spec level too. I'm at 15 and a half weeks now and not heard a peep so hoping it won't be too much longer. My last one only took 7 weeks so clearly their business is growing nicely.

Saw them last night in Birmingham. Excellent show and fabulous energy all round. Love the dynamics created by the two guitarists and their telecasters. Overall the sound was good but, as is often the way, the kick drum occupied such a big space that the bass wasn't quite as audible as I (as a bass player) would have liked. That said, what I could pick out was absolutely excellent and really enhanced the song. Probably my favourite band right now alongside Rival Sons.