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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?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1498132641' post='3322686'] What if he asked for one before and one after? [/quote] yeh if he wanted both and was going to cross them over to get clean lows that'd be fine, as long as the effects are prominent I don't mind

well obviously there are idiot musicians and there are idiot soundmen The other night this guy came over to the bass amp with a kick drum mic. Bearing in mind he'd used a snare drum mic to mic the kick drum, I was quite surprised to find he actually had a kick drum mic. Anyway, the bassist and I shouted at him "look, there's a DI out on the amp" but he just got really confused saying that plugging his XLR into the amp wouldn't work and he needed to put a mic in front of the amp. In the end I grabbed the cable off him, plugged it into the bass amp and told him to turn it up. He seemed pretty surprised that it worked.

If I was playing with one of my bands in particular, and the soundman refused to take the DI from my pedalboard, and demanded a clean DI from the bass, I'd just walk. The sound of the band would no longer make sense,

sorry mate, just trying to have a laugh... I'm only 32!

On the one hand I can't wait to see it finished, but on the other I really don't want the thread to end!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1498055922' post='3322248'] ...It's not particularly difficult to do. [/quote] I don't know I'd say that I find it fairly easy these days, but it took a LOT of experience to get there. So many times I got an awesome sound in the studio, turned up to the gig and the sound sucked. In that situation I would just tweak the sound but that's easier to do with my using separate pedals

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1498046495' post='3322187'] I used to use a zoom fx back in the day with auto wah,fazer,fuzz etc the results varied from venue to venue, often there just wasn't time to alter the gain and settings for each patch to suit each gig. [/quote] Maybe if you spent hours getting everything set just right, with some creative EQ and compression, and an amp or an amp with speaker simulated DI output, on flat studio monitors, you'd have had better results? It works for me anyway (on multi band originals gigs). If my sound is too boomy for the room, they can EQ that out. They won't have to re EQ every time I change sound as I have them all levelled out

Is it my tip you didn't like or just the way I gave it to you?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1497972582' post='3321733'] The way I see it is that a good old fashioned vanilla sound that everyone out front can enjoy is better than a salted caramel with hand twirled toffee sauce that can only be enjoyed by the player and maybe the front row, there's nothing worse than seeing a band with a generic but great bass sound then on the third song he applies "his sound" with the pedal board or whatever never to be heard again Flea is the worst person for it and I presume he and his crew know a thing or two, how a sound guy at a festival is going to keep up with all your patches that he's never heard before with a fifteen minute band change over I'll never know but hey it's "your sound" [/quote] I'm using pitch shifting, delays, fuzz, wah etc. it's just not an option to give the soundman a totally clean DI. Obviously if you've never used anything but a straight clean bass sound this might sound weird but try to imagine Muse or Royal Blood with a straight clean DI to the desk

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1498040860' post='3322116'] and so it begins... [/quote] Don't know what you mean? Anyway, when you get the right knob, if you have difficulty getting the shaft in try a little bit of lube - I once received the same excellent tip