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I have a LOT of pedals, and I really like using them, but to record anything other than very weird music I just DI the bass dry and add a bit of compression and/or dirt and EQ using VST plugins I like Blockfish as a compressor and Quadrafuzz is an awesome filter/distortion/fuzz plugin

If the technophobe is the band leader than you're fighting a losing battle It looks great though, I'm sure you'll do well

This looks brilliant, very impressive... unfortunately I'd never get the one or two technophobes I play with to actually use it

I play in a heavy/noisey band doing weird instrumental metal. I have a Behringer BDI21 at the end of my pedal chain and just DI that and tell them to turn it up in the monitors. We're not playing little pubs though

I played a tiny little pub, local to me in rural staffordshire. It's was pretty full, but the area they put us in was tiny. I was on lead guitar backing an amazing singer doing her original songs with a few covers thrown in. I'm mainly jamming this as I can't seem to remember the songs. All in all I thought it was going to be rubbish - a set of originals to a tiny pub that could hardly see us around the corner. It turned out to be a LOT of fun. The singer ventured out from our tiny area quite a few times to entertain the packed pub, and I only played a couple of bum notes. I love making weird noises and on this gig I get to use my Digitech SpaceStation which always makes me grin. If anyone's interested here's a video of us at a slightly bigger venue - Some of you might recognise Paul who's a monster on bass

very impressive!

this is ace!

I did two gigs on Saturday night. First was an all day festival thing. I love the sound of the drums in this room, it's a big semi-hollow stage, quite high up, and a big room with high ceiling. Unfortunately the sound has always been rubbish once the PA is going and Saturday was no exception. The bass guitarist might as well have just let all his open strings ring, that's what it sounded like from the behind the kit anyway. Impossible to lock into! The 2nd gig was a 50th birthday party. It's a bit weird playing originals at a birthday party but it seemed to go down well. The PA was tiny so I really had to hold back, but that was fine. It was a lot more fun than the first gig anyway. I could hear the bass guitar for a start!

Brilliant! Thanks for that, I'd not heard of them

This is awesome! Beautiful looking and sounding work!

two sets of in-ears would look OK wouldn't they? Otherwise studio monitors would be fine and probably a lot better than a small PA

Brilliant!

I'm running windows 10 offline, no notifications, no updates, just playing tracks off the media player. I've made tracks with a click on one side and all sorts of stuff on the other which I can send to the sound guy. It seemed to work OK except for the USB cable coming out

I'm very interested as I tried this for the first time on Saturday ( as a drummer) and the USB cable worked it's way out of the back of the audio interface. I couldn't permanently flight-case my laptop as I use it for work. I was thinking about using a tablet instead

It was my first ever gig playing to a backing track on Saturday night. I was really nervous about the technology going wrong. I'd got myself a bit worked up even though all the rehearsals had gone fine. I'd forgotten the right files so had to race back to the studio in the snow. It turns out I'm rubbish at driving in the snow - or at least I am when I'm panicking about getting back to the gig in time. Anyway, I got the tracks and set it all up and it seemed like everything was OK. Unfortunately the USB lead waggled its way out of the audio interface during the first rack. It took until the 3rd song before I realised and fixed it. To make matters worse I'd left my snare turned off for the first song of the set. All this put me off massively and I played the rest of the set with a bright red face It turns out that no-one even noticed these monumental pink torpedo-ups and we went down really well! So thank flip for ignorant punters

how do you clean up a distorted bass sound? I might sound a bit thick here, especially as I do a lot of recording (as an engineer) but I've never been able to remove distortion from a recording, only add it.

I'm feeling a bit embarrassed reading through this thread. I play drums in a few bands, and while I find playing to a metronome easy, when I'm playing without I often speed up as the track progresses. I also count some songs in too fast or too slow. I really need to work on it

Already got my tickets for Manchester but didn't know Joe Dart would be there - great news!

Hah, happy to help if I can

I work at a company, and have contacts with others, who import stuff from the USA all the time. I've managed to put basses (and other gear) onto pallets of goods. I'd always been prepared to pay duty but they've never been picked up. Maybe you've got a mate in distribution?

I see jazzers and funkers showing off and taking solos and not only do I love what they're doing, I know for sure I don't have those "chops". For whatever reason it's never occurred to me to play like that even though I love listening to it. So I'm definitely not as good as some players that I know, but I don't need/want to be. If it ever occurs I'll have to find some time to practise! On drums I'm definitely an average player, but at least I can play in time and with dynamics. I hate it so much when you see a band with a drummer that's trying to play stuff that's clearly beyond them. Their struggling ruins the groove. I saw a metal band the other day with arguably one of the best drummers in the world, except for whatever reason it was not "solid". It seemed to me that he was struggling to hear the click on their backing track. Maybe it was just an off night. Whatever, it seemed like he was struggling to play this really complicated stuff and it ruined the performance.

I'm 33 but I deal with a lot of teenagers at my studios. They seem pretty resilient to me and it's normally me "out-snowflaking" them as they ignorantly rant on about some listicle they've read about gender or sexuality

What's this?!? An older guy thinks a younger generation are less resiliant?!?

If anyone is making the mistake of just watching the first verse of "I'm Not Racist" by Joyner Lucas you will totally miss the point of the song.