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[quote name='Chaos Daveo' timestamp='1499240760' post='3330136'] Haha yeah I might have mentioned it a few times... Sorry [/quote] I'd be posting it everywhere, you should be proud!

Nice one Dave, I'd seen it on Facebook, very cool

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1499178264' post='3329730'] This is pretty standard for live sound onstage... [/quote] I wish!!! Which super-enlightened future musicians are you jamming with?!

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1499178809' post='3329736'] The bass guitar, followed by electric guitar, are the easiest instruments to transpose on - you could ask why bass/guitar players struggle and moan when asked to transpose something!!! [/quote] Indeed! I know quite a few guitarists with a rock/metal background who wouldn't know where to start. The folkies I play with just do it. We regularly try songs in several keys to find the right one to match the singer's voice

Yes, most bass sounds I like in a live situation are not very bassy at all. I think most basses and amps are designed to get maximum BASS, and that does work for a lot of music as long as you're not too loud, but for pop, rock, metal etc. it just makes everything muddy I've tried explaining this to several bassists and they just look at me with a blank expression. The knob on the amp says bass and you're playing a bass, so you turn that knob up - logic!

Very well said Dad

an all day punk festival in North Wales on Saturday. It seemed a bit dead and the sound was pretty bad for the band on before us. We weren't looking forward to it at all, and for whatever reason I'd been knackered all day .As soon as we started playing, people came down to the front, started dancing and singing and cheering... instant adrenaline! I woke right up and we all played the best for ages

I really hate it when it says there's a new post on this thread but it's just a load of compliments for Andy and no new photos for me to salivate over

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1498677927' post='3326319'] ...folk that don't normally go to gigs, play instruments, or listen to a lot of music don't mind ponying up a lot of cash to go stand in a sports stadium and yell out "[font=arial, sans-serif]What if I say I'm not like the others?" with ten thousand other folk...[/font] [/quote]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1498700114' post='3326453'] No, invisible bears, I'm pretty sure they're on the endangered species list. You know, they're invisible so mounting one correctly can be tricky. Blue [/quote] The last one I met told me he'd been feeling a little blue

I play in a band with a guitarist who plays acoustic. His acoustic has a peizo with preamp, and a magnetic pickup. If we use the magnetic pickup into the PA we can get it louder than if we use the peizo system. I'm not sure I have a good theory to explain so I'll not speculate but it'd be interesting to know EDIT: I always expected a magnetic pickup on an acoustic to not sound very "acoustic" but it really does, it's ace, so it'd probably work for bass too

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1498664972' post='3326215'] Yes, some kind gentleman had hired his personal stash to the venue for the evening. [/quote] What a sound guy!

It's a shame because it looked like they'd gone to quite some effort with the PA, especially the monitors

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1498662651' post='3326195'] You saw it? I thought nobody had tuned in! My wireless failed pre DI1 too. Thems be the breaks. [/quote] I did tune in but to be honest I was totally distracted by the footy in the background - watching live TV on live TV - I kept looking around for the cameras pointing at me

How cool to be televised! Was that the charity all-dayer at the tickled trout?

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1498376801' post='3324102'] Yesterday 5 Hills Out played at the Exile Festival in Derbyshire (our home turf). This is on a farm high up on the side of the Derwent Valley with great views... [/quote] I played that a year or two ago, what a great little festival!!

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' timestamp='1498580774' post='3325677'] A peizo on its own would need a high impedance which the PA input would not provide. If you had a buffer preamp, then you could feed into the PA, but the problem is the instrument's area of wood which picks up the local vibrations, and I don't see how having separate feeds to the PA and stage monitors would reduce that - am I misunderstanding your comment? David [/quote] In my experience you get less feedback on an acoustic guitar when you go with the magnetic pickup as opposed to the peizo pickup. I'm not 100% sure on the science behind that but it's my experience.

ever mistaken a fan for an invisible bear?

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1498593128' post='3325785'] ...Get busy living mate. [/quote] Great post!

I was bored by their early output. It just sounded like the other britpop to me, until OK Computer came out. I was obsessed with OK Computer, and then loved Kid A and Amnesiac. Hail To The Thief was ace. It's been a bit boring for me since then, but then I've also had a lot less time to really sit down and concentrate on an album People have mentioned Martin Grech and Muse, I doubt either would sound anything like they do if it were for Radiohead

has anyone ever had the peizo go straight to the PA and had a separate magnetic pickup for just the stage monitors? I wonder if that'd be much better?

[quote name='FarFromTheTrees' timestamp='1498567913' post='3325554'] ...Some days it sounds pretty good, some days it sounds bloody awful... [/quote] That doesn't make any sense to me? Unless you're talking about the effect of playing in different rooms, which you will obviously suffer with even the fanciest gear

I love setting up a cheap instrument to make it sound good - guitars, basses, drums - they're all fun! I don't have a problem playing the cheap stuff I did get very poor once and sold an acoustic bass I really loved. I don't think I'll ever sell an instrument again, I still get upset about it. I should have worked harder instead - either to increase my earnings or to cut down my outgoings, but instead I was lazy and sold a guitar and I really regret it.

ace! Congratulations!

My boss has a Peavey MKIII 260C in his garage. It's a combo with BW speaker. I generally like the peavey/black widow sound so I wouldn't mind it for my studio. I've no idea how much to offer him... how do you go about these things?