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Barnsley on Friday, Nottingham on Saturday. Our guitarist uses a POD and plugs both his electric and acoustic through it, giving the soundman one DI. It seems they can't help themselves from adjusting the EQ, so when he switches we get feedback issues. It's not happened a lot this year, but both gigs this weekend it did. I guess the solution is to just give them two DIs. Anyway, that along with the flu sucks some of the fun out of it but we still went down well and sold merch etc

profit is the most important thing. If profit can't be made it's not worth doing. Just look at what's happening to the NHS

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1479568023' post='3177535'] ...the idea we pay taxes to pay for the education of children has been established in the UK since the 19th century - it's a shame that our country has become so individualistic and selfish that you hear voices (even on here) suggesting we shouldn't do pay taxes for education. Bonkers. [/quote] Very well said

When I was a 6 I was sent down the mines. I got my education in the school of hard knocks. All these kids these days, getting education from teachers, healthcare from the NHS, all paid for by the tax payer... no wonder they're all so entitled!

like many such issues, it's definitely "a good thing", but whether or not it should be prioritised over local health care or whatever... We had a good music department at school, and I could have learned an instrument while I was there, but I'd already been going to a private guitar tutor since I was 8, so just stuck with him. God knows how much it cost my parents!

so cool!!

Just bought some strings from Ambient and it couldn't have gone better!

ace lyrics! I'm a bit off put by the effects on the voice 'cos I'm listening on headphones and some of the weird effects are panned very hard. Anyway, I really like it I'm hoping to enter something myself this month but we'll see if I get any time to myself in the studio

I don't see anyone denigrating the beatles on BC. Some will say "yeh, not my cup of tea" or words to that effect. I guess there have been a couple of more strongly worded posts intended to wind up a particularly stubborn member, but I can't think of anything recently. Got any specific examples?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1478108665' post='3166825'] Unless the string was not strung properly, poor quality string or just plain abuse how can you break a bass guitar string? I've been actively playing for 50 years and never broken a string. Blue [/quote] I've broken quite a few well strung, high quality bass strings when playing hard with my fingers. Sometimes you just get really into the music, start to "feel it" and play harder. If you've never "felt it" you wouldn't know

I have a couple of basses that are 3 a-side 6 strings and I'd love it if the headstocks were slightly fatter. It makes a big difference to the whole look

what about USB/chipset drivers?

Not that I'd ever have the money for this sort of bass, but yeh, this thread has put me off Zon, and I do like the look of them very much so that's a shame

he did the work without consulting you first. You have no obligations

yes, sounds like a crap patch lead

Well I'm very tempted to start ranting about the bassists I have to put up with, but I won't in terms of mistakes live though, I don't think I've ever actually dropped/missed a beat. Sure I've missed hitting an actual drum or something, but that doesn't effect the timing of the song at all. Sometimes if I'm distracted, I might hit something out of time, but it's easily ignored, it doesn't upset the groove we're all playing to. I play with 3 different bassists, they all occasionally make mistakes, but they always get back on track with me.

One of the bands I'm in has 6 members. We're supposed to rehearse/write once a week. I think on average it's once every 2 weeks due to cancellations. We have all 6 members there for maybe 1/4 of those. Absolute nightmare!!!! Great music though

I've never had the problem when playing drums at a gig, but at rehearsals when I'm trying out fills I might mess up. For example we're playing in 7/4 (my theory's not great, but it must be 7/4 or 7/8) and I'm trying to come up with new fills, I play one that's 8 beats instead of 7 by accident. If the band just carried n regardless I might be able to get back on track, but it just seems natural for them to fall in line with me. If this happened at a gig it'd be way better than me stopping for a second while I figure out how to get back in line with the band I play with a singer who struggles with timing, and I often drop a beat or two just to follow the singer. The other guys in the band know we're always going to follow the singer, and it generally works really well

I listened and voted this morning. Very enjoyable once again, so thanks all!

Thanks! I don't plug my studio PC into the internet. I've managed to download and install on my office PC. I've grabbed the installation files and will try to transfer it to my studio PC later. I'm not hopeful though!

Well I found it up-lifting, on many levels

I've never been to jam nights, so I wouldn't know if it's a dying art in general, but I do spend time with a lot of young bands, and I've jammed with lots of them who can improvise.

pretty good, I agree with Dad on everything he's said!

put it on the recording forum here? I'll give it a listen Or did you want labels or radio stations to listen to it? In which case your local BBC Introducing show might be a good start?

I broke a stick at a gig recently. I kept going with it the wrong way round until a section with just kick drum thumping, at which point I kept my foot going, and grabbed my spare stick. I knew I'd gone slightly quieter for a couple of beats while I got the stick, but it was definitely in time. I've even watched video footage, it was no big deal When it happened the bassist started twatting his muted strings slightly ahead of the beat, and glaring at me, as though he thought I'd slowed down. At the end of the song he said "what the f*** happened there?" and at the end of the set he said "That was alright apart from that massive f***-up. You need to get some stick holders" If you could handle it in a slightly more sensitive way, you might be evening out some collective bassist karma.