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Small pub in Uttoxeter on Friday night. I think we played to about 10 people. I had to keep my volume (drums) right down which is always a challenge, so I did make a couple of mistakes. Never mind!

yes, good suggestion, didn't even consider it. It'd be a bit of a faff but would have given him what he wanted. I should have thought of that, I used to do it loads when I was a kid because my computer couldn't handle processing the effects "live" ...but I imagine the fancy studios don't do this

the specific situation I recently came across was like this... I started with a guy and his guitar. I added drums and bass to the track, and he added backing vocals and the load vocal. At this point the session is fairly simple. I have one reverb for the whole session (IE sending from all vox, drums, and a bit of guitar). We then built up the song more and more, adding loads of different instruments, percussion etc, and effects on individual instruments, including two new reverbs, one for lead vox, one for backing. After all this, he wasn't happy with the lead vox and came back to re-do it. However, he wasn't happy to hear the dry mic, or just any old reverb. He wanted the exact sound I had in the mix, in his headphones. I couldn't do it without enough latency to put him off. It's an unusual situation, and perhaps there's a better way to handle it rather than say "sorry mate, I can't figure out how to do it", but I figured there must be studios out there where this is possible? I guess long term it'd be better to get some decent dedicated outboard reverb which I can leave permanently patched in

no problem, happy to help! ...now can anyone help me?!! I figured it was standard practise for most people to monitor inputs on their DAW these days (as opposed to an analogue desk), so you must have near 0 latency? If so maybe you keep your plug-ins down to the very basics during the tracking stages? Or maybe your computers are far better than mine?

10" and he does regular Pilates. It's going to make for a hell of a stage show, but you'll need a projection and a close up camera on him

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1476179131' post='3151953'] My current band play the downstairs bar (The Crew) sometimes, we are there on New years Eve. They let us use the changing room for the main hall upstairs so I've at least walked across the stage though unlikely to ever actually play on it! [/quote] Yeh I had a few beers downstairs, it's a pretty cool pub. TBF you don't want to play upstairs unless you can guarantee 100 or more [quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1476180650' post='3151962'] I've played the main stage at Rock City three times. When we were booked for the first time I vowed to play the set, leave my gear onstage and retire. I was so excited I didn't of course The reason I am commenting on this thread is that I wanted to mention the sound on stage, It was awesome every time. I don't know the guys' names but the on stage monitoring was incredible....a massive side of the stage desk with a separate sound crew obviously helps but they just nailed every request for individual monitor mixes at the first attempt. [/quote] I was surprised not just by how good they were, and therefore how good the sound was, but also how NICE and FRIENDLY they were, as though they were somehow trying to go out of their way to disprove the soundman stereotype. Similar experience at the 100 Club in London, they just couldn't have been more helpful

just on the control panel for the interface you can set the buffer size. The lower the buffer size, the lower the latency

Queens Hall in Nuneaton on Friday. Dead cool venue, great soundman, not a huge crowd but it was all right Rock City on Saturday supporting Buzzcocks. I was just a bit blown away to be playing on the main stage at Rock City where I've seen so many gigs. Anyway, it sounded ace and we went down really well which was a bit surprising! Then we rushed off to a gig at The Rigger in our home town. I've never seen it so packed! Awesome sound as always (Hi Matt ) and I think we played well, but to be honest I'd had quite a few beers by this point Sunday was a weird one in Clayton Le Moors. It feels more like a folk club or something but everyone was having a good time and danced and sang along. Ace weekend!

This is something I should know about but would like to hear how everyone else copes. I use an analogue desk for direct monitoring in the studio, and this works really well. I have some outboard if people want reverb etc. Anyway, the other day someone asked me to give them a monitor mix from the computer, so that they could hear the exact same reverb as it would be in the mix. This is something I've always shied away from because of latency. I can get near 0 latency with a tiny buffer, but then this compromises CPU performance, especially if I've got a fancy reverb on the go. So,what do you all do? Keep a tiny buffer size and use low-powered plugins? In case it's relevant I'm using a MOTU 24 IO. My PC is running windows 7, has an Athlon chip 3.5GHz 8 cores, and 16Gb RAM

We went with Al Scott for mastering our last album. Not sure how much it was but great results

great bass playing!

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1475585174' post='3147088'] Do you use an amp modeller/fx/pedals etc to get your sound when going straight into the PA? [/quote] Yeh I have a few pedals for effects, and a BDI21 at the end of the chain as an amp sim. It works quite well without the amp sim straight into a DI, but then I need an extra EQ pedal, and anyway, I like the sound of the amp sim

I've got one bass drum I use for gigs. I have it tuned tighter than I would for the studio, and have a "kick port" thing on the front. I also use a heavy wooden beater and a heavy right foot. Obviously if I was competing with two half stacks and a bassist with too much low end in their sound, I will struggle to cut through, but at the volumes most of you are (hopefully) playing at in pubs, I will not struggle to cut through. Still, it is nice to have some reinforcement on the kick

I gig without an amp at all. I just get the soundman to put loads of bass in my monitor, so a decent wedge will do. There's one local venue with smaller monitors and he prefers me to bring an amp (which I have no problem with) so I guess you want something nice and substantial

let us know how you get on

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1475490930' post='3146268'] Chameleonic. Modest. [/quote] oh can I nick that? I think if you saw me playing with my old band you'd have thought I was a bit of a show off. If you saw me playing with a folk/country act you'd think I was under-stated and wonder why I'd brought a 6 string (don't have any 4s or 5s). If you saw me with my new metal band you'd think I was mental and perhaps even obnoxious etc. etc. You can't have the same style for every genre/group you play in

I would loosen the truss rod and see what happens, but then I do have a somewhat cavalier approach

I used to put my kick drum through some pedals and a HH 2 x 12" guitar combo. It was ace!

"failed guitarist"

100 club on Friday and a soaking wet festival on Saturday (both on drums). The 100 club really blew me away, what a great drum sound! Best sound on stage I've ever had. RockStock festival on Saturday was cool. Loads of people there, everyone looked soaked, ad perhaps sozzled. At one point the PA cut out and we played acoustically for a bit. It was a challenge, but also a bit of a relief as when the PA was working it was horribly distorted. Anyway, two good nights!

I've had people asking for a lift, but to just jump in... how rude!

nobody in my family played, but my parents did give me a LOT of support, so I went for the middle option

I have a couple of envelope followers (Q-Tron, BassBalls, Digitech BSW, Boss AW-2) but I don't think any of them would do that sound very well, sorry. Hopefully someone with more squelching experience can recommend one I think you'll need more dirt than the ABM will give you so maybe a multi-effect is the way to go

I just listened to it on youtube and "full" is not a word I'd use to describe it! Almost no bass to it! So I would make sure you're playing in the right octave, get a really fast envelope follower type sound and add a bit of dirt. Either that or a cheap old casio keyboard should be able to do it