cheddatom

I switched from guitar after 8 years of guitar lessons so it was pretty easy I've recently been bought a cello and I've been trying to teach myself. It's driving me f***ing nuts! I forgot how hard it was all those years ago. It's all about having the determination to stick with it. Easier when there's a teacher to tell you off every week!

who is time stamp?

would you not just swap the hardware yourself and get someone to spray the headstock?

There's so much pseudo science spouted about flooring. Gramma pads?!? Why the hell would you want to loose all that tone?! I only play in venues with mahogany floor boards. If there's carpet, I don't mind, as long as it's red.

Do a video to push it online

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1418205247' post='2627865'] But I really hate it when on the odd occasion I use a cable, the guitarist stands on it and my volume suddenly drops off [/quote] yeh, and then when he takes his foot off, you get a sudden woosh of volume!

I love Primus, but this is my favorite of his [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2jL4NoYP4[/media]

just don't have it deafeningly loud and it'll be fine, I'm sure! But yeh, if you like the cab, your head is overkill. Let me know when you'll be down there next, let's give it a thrash

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1418138532' post='2627241'] That is like a completely different world to mine. Does your sound engineer have anything to say about the effect that has on the FOH eq. settings? [/quote] I've not played on bass in years but no, never had any complaints. I just gave them a DI and asked them to mic the guitar cab I was using as well

Are you the Tom I think you are? The minimum load your amp wants to see is 4 ohms. Running at 16ohms will certainly compromise it's ability to go loud, but shouldn't damage it.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1418119542' post='2626934'] ...changing amp settings between songs is going to drive any sound engineer nuts. Plus you'll sound awful through the FOH until the engineer has compensated for any changes in eq as a result of changing the settings... [/quote] When I play bass I always have at least 4 sounds in every song, let alone between songs. It takes time to set them right, but once they're right, it's done. Why would switching amps or amp profiles be any different?

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1418123140' post='2627000'] And if cheddatom is who I suspect he is, I'd like to think he'd vouch for my integrity as an engineer.. [/quote] Yo Matt, I didn't know you were on here! Yes, you are ace... I still wear ear plugs though

Lol, well played

So many times I've seen a singer on stage, singing in to a mic, but totally inaudible. I turn to look at the soundman, and he's playing with his phone, or grabbing a drink from the bar. In what other profession would you get away with that?

It's not clear, are you playing fretless?

This might sound stupid, but how far is your practice room from your home office? I'm just thinking a USB/Firewire cable might stretch, in which case, you have your interface etc in the practice room, and then remote control the iMAC using your phone or another computer to record

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1418049557' post='2626275'] You would think. However from what I could hear coming out of the amps on-stage (I was right down at the front) by the time all the low-mids had been cut you'd have been left with the sound of a gnat in a jam jar... [/quote] ahhh, yes, I think I've heard that sound :-/

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1418044753' post='2626215'] I think that a fair portion of the blame can be laid at a lot of "modern" bands and their choices for individual instrument sounds and arrangements... [/quote] Yes, I think you have a good point, but when he's faced with this situation, isn't it down to the sound man to EQ each instrument? If the guitars have too much in the low-mids then this should be cut, surely?

In my studio I always get the band to play together at first, and use this for the "guide" track. Sometimes, depending on how much bleed there has been, I will keep the guide drum track. Quite often I'll keep the guide bass track. Sometimes I even keep the guide guitar track too, but depending on the music will double that. Bleed isn't necessarily bad. Check out this track [url="https://soundcloud.com/rifffactoryrecordings-1/the-jukes-superstition"]https://soundcloud.com/rifffactoryrecordings-1/the-jukes-superstition[/url] Everything except vocals was done at once, just a couple of guitar overdubs after. (It's our [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Bassfunk on bass by the way)[/font][/color]

In a pub, it doesn't bother me, except for the front person/lead singer. I'm sure they could have the words discretely hidden away - taped to the back of a PA speaker for example. No problem with that, but standing at the front with words right in front just doesn't look cool If it's a session/function/background thing then it really doesn't matter at all.

There are some great sound guys around, but it seems to me, it's one job where you don't HAVE to be good, especially if you stick to smaller/local gigs. There's a local guy who gets loads of work round here and he just doesn't know what he's doing. He's really bad, but I've come across plenty of sub-par sound men too. The impression I get is that they've been running their gigs way too loud for years, which has f***ed their hearing, which leads to bad mixes. I'm not making any generalisations about sound men, and I wouldn't claim to know that X% are good and Y% are crap, but, bad sound men do seem pretty common, at least around here.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1417650652' post='2622803'] ...As far as how creative is playing covers? My response, fact, I never play any cover song the same way twice... [/quote] That's weird. I only play original music, and I strive to get it the same every time. I love a good jam, and don't mind jamming a song at a gig if it's under rehearsed or a last minute thing, but I'd much prefer to know the part in and out, and to be able to perform it consistently.

I think your reasoning is fair. A lot of small practice amps for bass are sold, therefore there's a market for them. I think the problem is going to be down to price. Clearly they can't build a valve one at the right price point/margin. Although I disagree with icastle (I think there is a market) he is right in that if the opportunity was there, it would have been taken by now. Incidentally, if you plug one of these small all valve guitar heads into a bass cab and play bass through it, how does it sound?

Interesting, I've never played with the internal pots on mine. I've never had your problem either though