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[quote name='51m0n' post='861086' date='Jun 8 2010, 03:23 PM']Why do you need more than 10 minutes for a changeover of gear?? I've been in bands on the original circuit and we could change the entire two bands' gear out (inc drums) and line check within ten minutes. You have to know what you are about, you have to be prepared to do it, you need a decent sound guy. It can certainly be done, 10 minutes is a long time, you do also need somewhere to ferry the other gear to off stage, sinice this is stage one though, you can leave band a to pack down that kit whilst band b is doing their line check. I've never been to a gig where the audiemce went home because the next band took 15 minutes to start....[/quote] Hmmm, yeh, my old band could set up in about 5 minutes flat but i've never seen another band get off stage quicker than 10 minutes, and no, i'm not exaggerrating.

[quote name='D-L-B' post='860862' date='Jun 8 2010, 12:08 PM'](Pro players aside) Gigging is ultimately a pleasure pursuit for most of us out there. So here's a question. I want to go kayaking, I can't afford a kayak, if I could afford one I don't have a car to get it to my nearest kayaking hot-spot. Would it be acceptable for me to turn up at said kayaking hot-spot and simply expect to use the kayak of whichever complete stranger I came across first who happens to have their own kayak and transport? [/quote] No but you could find out who's kayaking in the same place at the same time and ask nicely if you could borrow their's and promise to take care of it.

It's kind of horrible the way every pop song on the radio has a vocal that sounds more like a keyboard. It's what people have come to expect now though. They even seem to do it with technically good singers.

I played (drums) a beer festival on Saturday. It was in an outdoor dealy under a little tent, and we were camping over so could enjoy some beer. We were told it's be free beer for us as payment, but that turned out to be 2 free pints, which turned into cash wouldn't have bought the petrol there! Also we're pretty heavy and the crowd was quite "family orientated". Still, it went OK, but i'm thinking that next time I have to do an hour long set on the drums in sweltering heat I might avoid the 4 pints before hand.

Just a couple of comments: I did work very hard to get my first amp and it was giggable, and I took it to every gig, even when I knew there'd be a better amp to borrow. I would ask nicely and usually borrow the better gear, and I really appreciated it. I've "shared" my rig at a few gigs, and normally it goes OK, but i've had a couple of guys who seemed really nice, and looked like they were listening to me, and then went and wacked up the low shelf or similar. With my Peavey POS that can put it out of action for an hour or so as it calms down. Some guys just don't seem to care. I've been playing drums lately. Sharing shells does save a good 5-10 minutes, but, I get nervous sharing my own becuase I know I can't afford to re-skin it (no matter how cheap some of you think skins are).

Sorry I can't listen to the samples here. I've used it before, but only on a couple of notes in a song - i'd rather do another take. It can be used as a cool effect though

the echohead has tap tempo input but you'd need a momentary footswitch to use it.

It IS! I'm always getting help on here. Glad you're sorted

I lolled

heh, he e-mailed it to me too but I have no speakers at work. I converted to WMA. Hopefully he's all sorted - Pete?

That's weird. Does it play back on your phone? Has it recorded at 48Hz or something?

can't you borrow something from work? If you have a mini jack plug you could always strip the wires and tape them onto the inside of your bass's jack (yeh, I have done it, it was a little noisy!!).

[quote name='barneyg42' post='854153' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:24 PM']<<<<<-------AFTER Bit of an early one this.......late 70s/1980ish!! BEFORE------>>>>>>[attachment=51156:IMG1.JPG][/quote] I bet it tasted good though!

yeh we recorded for free at college and uni. Where are you? Maybe a BCer can help.

the jackhammer has a low control so you just turn that up.

can't wait to see it finished!

Primebass - I use a jackhammer and an echohead without pops - and this is with a LOT of compression after. [quote name='burno70' post='851772' date='May 30 2010, 12:37 PM']I'm lookin for a new dirt pedal - does this one do 'hair of dirt' or is it quite saturated? Cheers[/quote] It does both. It has OD and Dist modes - very useful IMO and pretty cheap.

I'm a bit confused as to what the pedal is like now, but, if it's two footswitches turning on two things, and you just want one to do both switches at a time, that should be fairly easy. If you look inside there might be lots of un-used contacts on the bottom of one of the footswitches, you could just take the wires from one of them, and solder to the other. The other option would be to have the pedal always on as you like it, and have it in a bypass loop. Then you'd just switch the loop in and out with one footswitch.

I'm not sure if your effects look cosy or smothered!! Good idea though.

nice work danny!

Hmm could be a dodgy footswitch then? but that's an easy fix.

use your tongue like a real man!

Are you saying that you put new batteries in your bass and it worked? I tried my jackhammer and it doesn't pop at all

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='847570' date='May 25 2010, 03:12 PM']My original point was that the 'bass is bass' attitude is sometimes annoying, like I turn up for the gig with a 5-string because it's a gimmick or something.[/quote] Yeh "you don't need ALL those pedals" "I bet you never use those extra strings", that type of thing? I've had that a few times but only really from arrogant youngsters, never soundmen (apart from the idiot who asked for a clean DI).