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I had a similar one once, gigging with a backing track running through my mixer, the soundman is asking me why there's no output, I can hear it in my headphones and just assume he's got something patched wrong. He checked all the connections then looked at my mixer, pressed a button to patch my track through to the right bus, and all worked. "Don't worry about it mate, I've got lots of experience as an engineer" he said. I told him I run a recording studio to which he replied "oh dear, that's embarassing!". I was amused and embarrassed i equal measure

Just bought a pedal from Doug, couldn't have gone better! Top bloke

That would be rubbish! The snare rattling with the other drums gives the drum kit part of it's sound! I do turn mine off during the intros to songs etc as it just rattling along with a bass or guitar is a bit annoying

Yeh, it's this thing Wroot Rocks (if you're on FB) https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Live-Music-Venue/WROOT-ROCKS-1933096200242142/ I think it's all part of this Folk-Punk-Festival scene that seems to roam around Nottingham but sometimes further afield. I'll try and remember, cheers!

Friday night in Derby. We were on first out off 3 bands. The 2nd band on let me use his drum kit and it was very nice. It's a great venue with great gear! Unfortunately we didn't get much of a sound-check as about 10 minutes was spent swapping our guitarists jack leads before the soundman finally replaced his dodgy XLR into the DI, and then about 20 minutes sweeping the parametric EQ on every channel. I'd asked for no vocals, just a bit of guitar in my monitor. I got the opposite, but once you're playing there's not a lot you can do about it, especially for a short 30 minute set. Anyway, we went down OK Saturday night we played in Wroot. This is a bit of an unusual setup, a village hall type venue, lots of people have travelled for an all day "festival" and we were on last. I think we played an hour and 40 minutes. We went down a storm, but then a lot of the crowd already knew us so it's kind of easy. Sunday night in Accrington. We've done this gig a few times now. It's a room at the back of a pub, loads of tables and chairs, and not many people. Those that were there were wasted. It's always the same, and usually the combination of stinky poo gig and moaning band members grinds me right down, but for some reason everyone was in a good mood! So we enjoyed it and played well and had a great night despite the slightly underwhelming audience.

Well, I'm kind of glad to read that, because I didn't get to go in the end. My idiot cat tried to eat a wasp and so needed some urgent medical attention. I managed to pass my tickets to a mate in London but he only caught the last 5 songs... I saw them in Brixton Academy last year and I just think it's the wrong shape venue for them, the reverb is totally wrong. It was still ace though

I've pre-ordered, can't wait!

Yeh he was great actually, got a lot of compliments on the sound afterwards, I told them all to thank Liam!

That's the one, ace venue, and more often than not @VTypeV4 is the expert on the sound-desk. It's probably a bit cleaner than when you last visited

Fair enough, I didn't know the story behind the decision making, just don't see the problem

No I've got the smallest equipment! 😛

It was to be used as a showreel and you'd rather him keep your f-ups on it? For me it really depends on the band/song. Some bands I record them all live in the same room and keep all the imperfections. Other bands I record them all separately and edit it until it might as well have been sequenced. For my own songs, I'll generally record one of each repetition and double or quadruple that, on guitar and bass, then do drums and any solos as proper takes.

I haven't seen it - to be honest I muted the group when the last album came out, I couldn't deal with it, but I pop back occasionally for the footage from gigs etc

If you're trying to get rid of tickets I can recommend the Vulfpack group on Facebook. I got rid of a spare last year through that group

Yeh I'm going on Thursday, really looking forward to it!

I played bass with Dante's Dog and drums with CreepJoint on Saturday at my favourite local venue The Rigger. There were a lot of people there, way more than I was expecting, loads that I didn't know, and both bands went down really well. I got a lot of compliments afterwards. Just gutted I forgot to turn on the GoPro!

Well it sounds nasty, in the best way, hopefully I'll catch you live at some point

I've just listened to everything on the Bandcamp and it's all great

This is awesome!! I'd love to know the setup for your bass sounds

That sounds cool! I'd have gone stereo into both Fridge's!

Thanks everyone! I'll pass on your compliments to Tiny the cat, he will be pleased I had another funky jam with myself a couple of weeks ago so:

Half way through mixing a 16 track album I took a break...

I agree, it's just a Bad Musician thing. You should tailor your sound to suit your band, and listen to everyone else as well as yourself. Those that don't are just bad musicians, and they come in all forms

Drummers are getting some stick in here! I play drums in a few bands. One of them I play very loud but that is metal. The rest I think I'm quite controlled. I play bass in a band with a very controlled drummer - first band I've ever been in without wearing hearing protection! On the other hand I play with a couple of bassists who have way too much low end in their sound and turn up way too loud! And still claim they can't hear themselves!

So glad you finally got it! I'd love to hear what the CEO actually said