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my kick drum's fairly dead but I learned to whack it harder. For most music modern the bass drum should be the loudest instrument in the kit, and IMO that should be achieved acoustically before you start micing anything up EDIT: A heavier beater can help!

I don't see much practical use for them other than volume swells. A tuner should give you a mute for changing basses. If you want different volume levels for different passages of songs, I would prefer to know that I've got it right every time, rather than hoping that I've got the volume pedal in the right position. I've used pedals like the LS-2 for this in the past

done

Is it just the kick drum that's not cutting through enough? Or the whole kit? I see a lot of drummers who rely on the PA/monitors to get volume out of their kick drum. IMHO this is bad technique

It depends on the music/song doesn't it. Sometimes you can get away with a bad drummer, if the drums aren't that important. I was at a wedding recently. The band were upstairs, and apart from the vocals, un-mic'd. Sax, guitar, bass, drums, singer. The drummer was going easy on the bass drum, and without a mic it was almost inaudible, but that didn't matter at all. He was simply providing a bit of percussion over the top of the incredible bassist who was essentially providing the beat. I just wanted to watch the band all night it was so good

I've got one busy originals bands (about 8 gigs a month) and 3 less busy originals bands, a full time job, and a fledgling recording studio. I like to be busy though! Using the calendar on my phone and keeping good communications with everyone makes it all pretty easy.

The album version is great but I came accross this recently and it definitely took my breath away [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKequsKpix0[/media]

The OP mentions the context of recording. Although in a live situation, the "best" sounding gear probably isn't required, in a recording situation, it definitely is. Whether that's a £100 guitar off ebay, or a £2000 acoustic Are we just abandoning this aspect of the OP? It's just recorded sound interests me much more than live

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1442330284' post='2866091'] No, but you've used the term "unjustifiable". As in, “[i]I [/i][color=#000000][i]think it's entirely unjustifiable today to spend £2,000 on an acoustic guitar[/i]”.[/color] [color=#000000]I'm intrigued to know: if I wanted to spend £2k on an acoustic guitar (I don't, but bear with me), in what way should I be able to justify it, and to whom would I need to do so?[/color] [/quote] Like I said earlier, loads of acoustics are great. However, the Gibson I was talking about has a load more low end. If you need a load more low end for the studio (could get away with EQ at a gig if you wanted) then the justification for spending £2K is obvious. Furthermore, the fact that I managed to point this out to Milty who hadn't realised that you could get more low end out of this guitar (versus a Faith) justifies all of our discussions about which gear is "better" and more importantly, why.

same here, sorry

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1442312281' post='2865904'] That`s it for me. Manners cost nowt. [/quote] Unless there's no wifi so you have to pay for your data

which of your pedals doesn't like being on a daisy chain? I daisy chain all mine. If you're worried about a different input on your EHX pedals you can buy adaptors for this. I would guess you need 1000Ma minimum, other than that, you should be OK

It's probably a different master for each format, which is why the two sound different. If they put the vinyl master on CD you shouldn't be able to tell (except it'd be missing the needle scratching etc)

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1442263986' post='2865673'] I'd like to point out that a bass cab isn't a PA. So while you can use DSP in a PA system for quite a few different things - lots of them really useful - on a bass cab all you can do is alter the frequency response a bit and perhaps add some judicious limiting. If a cab needs this kind of tweaking, it should probably have had more money spent on the drivers in the first place. So the comparison with PAs is misleading IMO. [/quote] My pedal board DI'd into a PA sounds miles better than it does through a bass rig, therefore I'd quite like a PA-style bass rig. Obviously it depends on what you're trying to achieve, but it'll suit some of us...Not that I'll ever afford one

I'm not bothered about success, therefore I enjoy it! I'm in a band with two very old mates, and whilst it was great fun at first to play loads of gigs, we hardly ever get together now. We probably play together once or twice a month at the most, and haven't gigged in ages. It doesn't bother me at all, I just love the music, and the guys If I wanted to try and make a living from playing I think it'd be very difficult to find a group of musicians that I know who could commit

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1442241039' post='2865402'] Yes. It's basic good manners and to not reply is nothing other than rude. I only get emails if someone starts a new conversation with me but I regularly check for messages if using my phone. [/quote] You can set it to email you each time you get a message, which is what I've done.

I turned on the email alerts for each PM as I'd missed a couple due to using the site on my mobile. It'll all be solved at some point I'm sure. There's probably someone developing a mobile app

Wigan Diggers festival on Saturday. We played really well, best for ages and the crowd loved it! Same band on Sunday at a small pub. Great beer and food, good money, but I played awfully. Apparently no-one else noticed, and we did go down well, but I hated every minute.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1441870306' post='2862399'] First of all, there will be just as many people in the audience that find singer 1 as attractive as singer 2, regardless of what a bunch of sad old musicians think... [/quote] Yep!

I'd rather had a Hi-Fi rig which I can use to make any sound possible, including a "vintage" sound. Controversial I know, but in the studio I like to record as full a range signal as possible so that I have as many options open to me as possible. This applies to everything, not just bass. Obviously some people are convinced that to get X sound you need Y rig... fair enough

yeh if you plug your fuzz pedal into your stereo/computer speakers/studio monitors, you'll hear loads of high end fizz. You're not hearing it from your rig because the cab is filtering that out If you have a decent EQ on your amp, you might be able to EQ out this fizz and just continue as you are. Mine has a graphic which goes up to 12KHz. I have all sliders above 4KHz all the way down.

what email client are you using? I would google "find email header in X" X being the email client (gmail, outlook, whatever) The "sender" can easily be spoofed, but by viewing the header you can find the actual server the email originated from

Really? Mine's going into a Peavey combo and the DDT limiter light starts coming on if I have the level knob above half way. I played a gig a few weeks back and the soundman was begging me to turn down the output (for DI). Maybe I have a particularly loud pedalboard