paul_5

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. How long have you been playing your instrument?[/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]22 years[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Do you use an electronic tuner? If yes which model?[/font][/color] [b][font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]​Yes, Aroma pedal tuner (korg pitch-black copy)[/color][/font][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3. Do you tune by ear or electronic tuner?[/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Tuner at gigs, by ear at home.[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. If by ear how do you go about?[/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I tune to a track that I know the key of, tune whichever string is closest to the home key, then use harmonics for the other strings[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. Are you always 100% happy with your tuning? / if not[/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Yup. I've spent a lot of time setting the intonation on my bass, so it's always in tune wherever I am on the fingerboard[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]6. Why are you not happy with your tuning?[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]7. What disturbs you about the electronic tuner[/font][/color]? [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It only displays '#', not 'b', so I have to tune to D#, not Eb - nitpicking, I know.[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8. Do you know how to tune by ear?[/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Yes. I do it often.[/font][/color][/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]9. What is your preferred tuning method? [/font][/color] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]A[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]t home I prefer to tune by ear, as it's one less device to worry about, but live I use my pedal tuner because it mutes the output when it's switched on; nobody wants to hear that, it's like a hoover warming up. [/font][/color][/b] [b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The other advantage of a pedal tuner is that the rest of my band are REALLY noisy, and tuning by ear is impossible.[/font][/color][/b]

[url="http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/paul_510/media/10329191_10152962486734623_9036428244737157639_n_zpsde72cc1d.jpg.html"][/url] Done! Taken by the singer mid set.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1417018550' post='2616201'] But AFAICS there's a big difference between going against the grain in terms of looks (which is an image in itself) and turning up to play in whatever you threw on this morning. [/quote] I've seen some bands that look like they rolled up in whatever clothes they wore yesterday and subsequently slept in. Pitiable.

I don't spend too much effort/thought/money on my image. There are far more interesting things I'd rather be doing - playing with my sons, nailing 'Bemsha Swing' etc... Some folks may disagree, but hey, that's OK.

I use the East West Symphonic stuff, and that's a legacy product too now. To get around it incompatibility with PT I'm running the free version of Kontakt (I think it's Kompact - see what they did there?)Player to load up the libraries. Couldn't say how it compares to the Miroslav libraries though.

DHA all the way!

I ordered mine late on Wednesday night and it arrived today. Unfortunately Mrs_5 is a bit poorly, so I've not had time to give it a thorough 'going over' until I finish work tonight. It LOOKS good though...

I also found that when it was holding a note the SYB-5 had the filter sweep on the synth note whereas the BSY600 didn't, and would just make the bass noise it was supposed to. Don't know if that's a deal breaker.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1416782757' post='2613614'] Does the Behringer do the sustain pedal thing? [/quote] Yup.

I loved the BSY600 and much preferred it to the SYB5. Tons cheaper too.

Return booking in Darwen, Lancashire last night with 'Slander' (NWOBHM). Probably our tightest performance, but we were all a bit lacking in energy due to bugs/sleep deprivation etc… LOTS of positive comments after the show. Loud though (as always!).

Tori Amos is neither of those things.

Lemmy. That bass tone will floor [i]anything[/i]; People, houses, rhinos, the list is endless.

All the members of Green Day are colour blind, except for Mike Dirnt, who has synaesthesia.

Just sprung for one of these. Looks like a no-brainer at that price.

synthchat? Can't they just use this one with their left hand?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416331747' post='2609137'] Notes are notes but you can't kid a groove. [/quote] True dat.

Pubs pay so little because they can get away with it. Unfortunately supply outstrips demand with regards to 'live' acts. Landlords aren't interested in whether you're a singer with backing tracks, or an 8 piece disco band with a brass section, they want to maximise their profit margins. Why should they ante up and pay a professional band at several hundred notes when they can get one of the regulars to strap up with a MiniDisc player and a mic? For the most part these are not live venues, simply pubs who have decided that it's a nice little earner.

My local pays £150 per act. Be that a single singer/songwriter or a 6 piece band. I spokes to the landlord about the possibility of my band playing and he said "I've always paid £150 to bands, and I always will. It's not negotiable". So I left it. My bandmates are spread around a 250 mile radius - that wouldn't even cover their fuel these days.

I tried a fedora once, that's probably as close as I'll ever get

Teen Town.