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most of the bands I've played in seem to all follow the same time/groove. No one person is setting the tempo, we're all just working together off the same tempo, or at least after the count-in or intro we are

Deftones used to play about with tempo quite a bit too, you'd never say they weren't "solid"

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1473835438' post='3133399'] ...There's nothing worse than playing with a technically brilliant, metronomic drummer who you can't lock in with because they don't play the same bass drum pattern twice! [/quote] Indeed, very frustrating!!!!

I was on drums at a gig once, and I knew I would have to be subdued and quiet due to the crowd/lineup/venue. However, the soundman pissed me off early on with a bad attitude. When he asked me to go around the kit, I thrashed the sh*t out of it playing some stupid metal and fast fills etc. just to let off some steam. I think anyone who saw that would have assumed I was either a bad drummer, or wouldn't suit the band I was with. After we played, the soundman approached me to say "When I saw you at soundcheck I thought you were going to be a nightmare, playing too loud and all over the place. I was so wrong, nice set!" So, I think sometimes you see a musician out of context, and you shouldn't make assumptions... [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1473506189' post='3130804'] I know if I'll like a drummer with just one fill during set-up... [/quote] This is ridiculous

I played on bass on Friday, very enjoyable, although I'm not happy with my sound at the moment. I don't think I've changed anything, but maybe I just need a change? I'll take another bass next time On drums on Saturday at Wigan Diggers' festival - great atmosphere and crowd. However, just as I'd set my kit up, before I'd had chance to put any ear plugs in, one of the engineers turned up the drum monitor with a vocal mic right next to it, which was live and fed through the monitor. The resulting blast of feedback left me feeling nauseous and my hearing is still duller today. I'm so pissed off about this - I mix/produce a lot of music, and need my hearing intact! Obviously mistakes happen, everyone's human and all that but FFS!!! I'll now be wearing earplugs whenever I'm within 10ft of a PA

I know a few players (not drummers) who know they're below par but never seem to improve. I find this really weird. If you know you're not very good, or not as good as your band requires, why are you not improving?!

It is crap playing with a bad on-stage sound though. No matter how much the audience enjoyed the gig I always find it difficult to get enthusiastic

Does your sound have a low of low end? It seems to me the only problems I get in bad rooms are in the low end of the sound. Cut this out (or boost the mids) and I get a nice punchy sound which I can hear clearly. However, if you're relying on your rig to provide the bass FOH I guess you're a bit stuffed

I'm associated with Riff Factory rehearsal studios in Stoke. The idea of leaving all that expensive gear in there unattended, and asking a customer to take responsibility for locking up is just scary! I'm sure the insurance would never cover it if anything happened, and I can imagine so may bad situations potentially arising from this. So, Riff Factory is always staffed when bands are in.

[quote name='bassintheface' timestamp='1473155320' post='3127381'] A fair few years ago I did 10 straight nights in Canada in an area - that was sold out at 10k per night. Great times. Lots of fun. Did a half time at Old Trafford at 75k I think - but mimed!! Done a few other stadiums as sports event ents - Wembley, Millennium Stadium, Murrayfield etc - they were all 30 / 40k I guess. The biggest where people actually paid for tickets to see the band though was 6k - outdoor festival thing I headlined last year. Did one a few weeks back at 4k I think. I guess doing Radio 1 Maida Vale sessions and Jonathon Ross show had more viewers and listeners but they don't really count!! I'd rather 100 people in the 'King's Knob' to be honest!! [/quote] Very impressive! Was this all with the same band? What are they called?

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1473165321' post='3127546'] ...But that mod is not for the feint hearted... [/quote] How come? I did it on a couple of zoom units, just de-soldered the connections, soldered some wires in where they used to be, and soldered these wires to the new footswitch. It seemed simple to me. Maybe the Line6 design makes it harder?

Looks good, I'll have to check it out. I'd not heard of your band Daveo but I'm following them on Facebook now as you're local, hope to catch a gig soon

I use it a lot when I'm jamming in my funk band, or making wild sounds or playing chords in my weird metal band, but now I think about it, I do quite a bit of work for other people's pop/rock/folk/country and I doubt I've used it once in any of these situations.

Have you asked Line6? Anyway, it should be easy enough to replace with a standard footswitch, probably momentary like this: [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/250vac-3a-momentary-action-foot-switch-n85ar"]http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/250vac-3a-momentary-action-foot-switch-n85ar[/url]

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473090580' post='3126807'] actually I've just thought of a band that's doing very well without a record deal and some older looking members, Ferocious Dogs, the first unsigned band to sell out Rock City, wonder how they did it? nothing too original, bit like the Levellors [/quote] Indeed! We played the after show party at that gig and do a lot on that scene, it's really thriving! FD have put the work in to build up a fiercely loyal fan base, which takes time and a lot of hard work. I wonder how many would turn up if they played The Shed? Probably a few!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473087219' post='3126754'] ... you've been gigging all over the place for 6 years, putting loads of hard work in, and fair play to you, but do you really think you are going to progress any further?.. [/quote] Maybe not but it's a lot better than playing to an empty room at the shed in Leicester. I think the OP's point was "We played to an empty room, why should we bother playing at all?" and the obvious counter to that is to play to full rooms (as opposed to get a top 10 hit)

Nailed it again BRX. It can be done!

I've done a few 1000+, I think the biggest one was supporting status quo at an outdoor festival, probably about 2000 there when we played

Great gig at The Maze in Nottingham on Friday night. It was an ace crowd, nothing to do with us. I think they were there to see "Days 'n' Daze" who are an american acoustic punk type act, pretty good. Then on Saturday I played with two different bands at the same festival but I was below par. I've managed to trigger off the problem I used to get in my right hand and it's starting to cramp up like it used to. I've learned to cope with this on bass but I'm just not used to it on drums so I dropped a few

I've played the Shed 3 times and it's always been dead. The last time I was there they were charging £3.50 for a can of red stripe. There's an off licence round the corner and they happened to have red stripe 4 for £3.50. How can they justify this? Yeh it's a nice room and stage etc. but you're more likely to get a decent atmosphere in a venue with decent prices and a regular crowd

The SFX "split 'n' mix" would do the first two, but not the last. I guess you'd need a proper fancy digital switching/mixing system

3 band EQ (parametric mids would be great) and a decent gate with threshold control

I really wish I'd not just watched that. Now I need to learn this too

I read that he practised a lot to a drum machine. I download a drum loop app which is great, so I've been playing along to that a lot. It's cool because I never used to play bass at home at all, maybe once a month or so. The rest of the music at home would be guitar or piano, but since getting into vulfpeck I've been keeping the bass out of it's bag and going funk-nuts in the kitchen! It's ace

I had to cut the nails right down on my right hand to get the muted notes to sound right. It's those muted percussive notes in between the actual notes that seem to make the whole bassline make sense