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Please post it, I really want to hear it!

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1500305436' post='3336798'] That's a shame. I know the organiser, David Chappelhow works really hard to make Wellow work. I'm wondering if there are just too many festivals now chasing a limited audience. I know there were at least 3 other festivals within a 25 mile radius of Wellow this weekend. We were at Ripley, which is just the other side of the M1. [/quote] It was definitely well organised! I'm sure I've seen photos from last year which looked like it was packed... you could be right, just too many festivals!

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1500290667' post='3336665'] Surely the 'Perfect' tone will depend on the song you are playing? Ie there is no such sing as a single 'perfect' tone. [/quote] Indeed! That's why I like to have several different variations of dirt, wah, octaver, compressor on the floor, two pickups and a pre-amp on my bass

Wellowfest last night. All the press etc. made it look like it was a big deal, and they certainly had the stage, PA, and overzealous security to live up to that. It's a shame they didn't have the audience to match! Never mind, it was still fun

good luck!!

Anything's fair as long as you agree it up front!

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1499342204' post='3330843'] Exactly!! Twenty million songs to choose from, and they choose ones they can't sing! [/quote] Obviously the answer is that they like the song and think their band should be able to easily transpose it, which is reasonable IMO. The problem comes when you have a particularly fast guitar riff that depends on a load of open strings, and in that case it's probably better to not bother as you'll all be taking a load of instruments in different tunings

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1499332668' post='3330764'] This. In spades. The OP reads a lot like someone who has never sung. It's akin to demanding that a bassist play a low D on a 4 string tuned EADG. What do you mean you can't do it? What do you mean your instrument doesn't do it? Why are you crap at your instrument? [/quote] I think the OP was more asking why singers want to do songs if the original is so far out of their range. A better analogy would be a bassist who only played 4 string basses and would not drop tune, and yet demanded the band covered drop-tuned metal songs, but several tones higher

ace!

Yeh, and sticks, and I think cymbals - doesn't benny greb have a signature set of meinls?

[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?