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Wireless kits imo are essential if doing the sound yourself, at least for one member of the band.

Membership revoked!!

Yeah a few rig rundowns I’ve watched have shown speakers being under the stages.

My old band Knock Off have decided to part ways with their bassist so have asked me to help them out until they get a permanent replacement. Am looking forward to it, though coaxing that old aggressive sound out is a challenge as now playing Fender JMJ Mustangs rather than Precisions for my backs sake, plus my hands can’t take that battering playing style anymore, am sure I’ll find a way though. Some good gigs lined up (Cocksparrer on May 31st in Islington being the first one up) and will be nice to catch up with a lot of people I’ve not seen since I left at end of 2019.

They never miss 999’s 🤣

Yeah if there was anyone ever deserving of an ego then she is a candidate, fantastic catalogue of work.

Def, I don’t think my Mustang/Behringer BDI21 that I use in venues with big in house systems would have been any good in my old punk covers band PA - a vocal PA with two 1x12 speakers- especially if said PA had the guitars and drums in it as well. I’d venture it might well have conceded defeat.

There is the other thing as well though, the rehearsal soundcheck, where a band who have a name but clearly don’t get together aside from at gigs go through their whole set - or at least a large part of it - at soundcheck, working out what chords they are, what key it’s in etc. After getting there an hour late. And then the support band get 5mins to get levels right.

Asomvel - just did a search, I’d never heard of them til this post but gonna get their latest CD, must be a great eve both them and Airbourne.

That’s a great idea, don’t think I’ve ever done this but def one for the memory bank.

My preference is for soundcheck mainly to get monitor levels sorted, I hate seeing bands go, after every song “I need more attack in the upper mids in the outer quadrants of the snare drum” stuff, to me either sort it at a soundcheck or live with it. Which leads me to, my current band don’t like soundchecks, so it’s usually go on, live with it and know that the sound engineer will do their best.

Very nice

Good call, always good to have a cheap backup, just in case.

I’ve paired both Ashdown ABM600 and RM500 amps with Ashdown PRO NEO 210 cabs (they do 115s as well). If you like the Ashdown sound they’re def worth checking out, reasonably priced and light at about 13kg, plus as the cones (in the 210) are diagonally placed they’re a smaller footprint cab. Though having said that a new one will be more than a used Barefaced cab on here and the Barefaced would, I’m fairly sure, outperform the Ashdown.

Yeah all my gigs the backline goes via FOH so ampless an easy option. If I were in a covers band doing pubs I’d go with my Fender Rumble 800 combo.

I thought it was auto-correct at work……

I kind of understand where you’re coming from, my back having got significantly worse over the last couple of years all I take to gigs is bass and Behringer BDI21. If there’s an amp there great I’ll use it, if not BDI21 to FOH with a monitor mix, this works fine and the band all seem fine with it too. As well as the not having to carry the gear about another important aspect for me is not having to set it up/break it down. I still prefer the sound of an amp behind me - at the same volume as the kit I should add, no louder - but my overall preference is for my back not hurting, hence said Behringer. I doubt I’ll go IEM due to the bands I’m with being unlikely to, and I think once I stop gigging with these I’ll be stopping gigging completely. I doubt I’ll ever stop looking at amps/cabs though, I just won’t be buying any anymore.

Agree, plus the way we buy is different now. When I bought my first couple of basses it was go to the local shop and buy what you could afford. No thought of specs, just what was within affordability. Now there’s so much info online all the research as to what spec is desired can be done at home including the purchase.

I like both, the poptastic remix really “eighties” the song.

Agree with both points there.

I had one of those, great sounding cab.

I’d love to play bass in an AC/DC band. Just that locking in with drums & rhythm guitar, must be awesome. Good call re girl singer and original keys too, I’ve heard some bands try AC/DC songs where the male singer has sung at Elvis pitch, unable to hit the highs.

For added fatness the Seymour Duncan Hot Stack is a good pickup, hum-cancelling too which is a bonus. I copied Duff McKagan & put one in the bridge of an Aerodyne Jazz and it made a lot of difference, not so much to the actual tone but to the amount of it.

Well our current album is The Seven Legged Groove Machine because at the time we were a 4-piece and the singer had recently had a motorcycle accident resulting in the lower half of his right leg being amputated. We’re now a 5-piece so the latest guy in worries about both legs. But in the areas we work in, well for some reason we’re on the psychobilly scene even though we’re more of a garage punk band, so our USP (and is on our merch) is The Spacewasters, Not Psychobilly Enough.