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A street corner busker. With loops.

Wow! The Americans have to come over and show us how to do it. So tight.

Great at Glastonbury yesterday. Also Royal Blood amazing. Year of the bass perhaps?

We were playing an outdoor festival at the weekend and while I was tuning up my DB the sound man came up to me and said 'I want to hear how your bass sounds so I can get the mix/eq right'. And the PA sound was excellent, so a member of the audience told me. But I always take an XLR out of the amp pre eq. I want to get my backline right and have opportunity to adjust it during the gig without affecting the PA. What comes out of that is entirely up to the sound man. If it's good, then great. If it doesn't, then I'm not too bothered.

This mic will need phantom power, meaning you'll need a preamp that provides fp. I'd recommend an Art Tube, nice and cheap and it will control the level of the mic. Plug this into the effects return on the GK and you've got two sources going in whose levels can be individually controlled. Unfortunately tho you'll only be able adjust the eq settings of the pickup that goes in at the front end.

The cajon is the modern equivalent of the bongos that the hipsters of the day used to bang. And before that there was the bloody tambourine. Should all have been consigned to the waste bin. The people who abused them couldn't hit them in any semblance of time. They made the drummer sound like a musical genius, and that takes a lot to achieve. I feel better now.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1497818895' post='3320729'] Which band mate? I popped down in the afternoon before my evening gig in Deddington 🙂 [/quote] FiddleBop at 6.30.

We did a freebie yesterday for Party in the Park at Adderbury in the acoustic tent. I was tuning my double bass when the sound guy came over and said 'I just want to hear how it sounds before I mix it'. Well that's a first for me, so a big shout for soundman Andy. PS, the mix was excellent.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1497542592' post='3319003'] Don't knock it. Glen Miller discovered his "big band sound" through an accident with a horn player and a music stand. The horn player was going to sit down, his his horn into his teeth as it hit the music stand. From there on the trumpet player took over the horn part and "Big Band" was discovered... not a a lot of people know that. [/quote] Are you serious?

I was playing bass in the late fifties and sixties and if you asked me what strings I used I wouldn't have a clue. I'd say strings, just strings. They used to break from time to time whereas today a break is almost unknown. I still take spares to the gig, though. Incidentally, when I was buying my first DB - £35 at Footes - I met Ray Brown. The tragedy was that back then I hadn't really heard of him. It wasn't till he left that the salesman said 'that was Ray Brown.'

Not quite Perfect.

We were a seven piece playing a posh gig for some big noise in BT. In the second set there were some guys getting a bit pissed and winding each other up. Suddenly one of them jumped onto the stage and grabbed a mic. The band, all seven of us stopped playing, on the note, and just stared at him. He looked a right prat.

From the posts so far, you can remove two words from the topic title and rename it Billy Bragg.

Yes, bass player excellent. But gone down hill a bit after Little Mix.

Have PM'd

[quote name='TPJ' timestamp='1495826627' post='3306953'] I couldn't get on with the One 10 on DB. Too dark and not enough detail. [/quote] Have to agree, although my One10 works well with my stick and mag pickup. Super Midget is completely different though. Works very well with DB and it's nice and light for a 12".

[quote name='mart3442' timestamp='1495796131' post='3306663'] You'd be pushed to find a seperates setup thats more portable than my Gallien Krueger MB combo....... [/quote] But would you want a GK MB...................? But seriously, that was my sole amp for many years, went all over UK , Europe and flew to Lanzarotte and Gran Canaria. I've still got its flight case. But I think we've moved on a bit since.

These days I prefer separates for DB. My amp of choice is a Puma 500, it gives me the cleanest, clearest sound from the pickup. Clearer, may I say, even than the Clarus. Ok, so it doesn't have a phase reverse and HPF that the Clarus does but that can be sorted with an FDeck HPF on the front. As for cabs, I've gone through a few and alighted upon a Barefaced Super Midget that can handle most of the largest gigs I do. And for the smaller gigs, often with 'difficult' acoustics such as a boomy pub or a sound killing carpet I take advantage of the mids that the 10" Wizzy provides. So a separate set up gives a bit more versatility than a combo it only needs an extra speaker lead and the lift is not so strenuous - have you seen the weight of some of those MarkBass combos? As the question was about combos I'll just add that I've got a Genz 3.0-10 that is quite nice, well made but I don't use it much. Don't get into the idea that a bouble bass will prefer a combo designed for bass guitars. It won't need thunderous lows but rather the clarity in the middle frequencies. It's a different instrument entirely.

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1495697392' post='3305879'] I have the new Markbass CMD Super Combo K1 - 1k watts, 3 way speaker system with flat frequency response. Superb. [/quote] With a double bass?

1959, yes I know, it's a long time ago, we were still at school. But after generally noodling around we got a decent band together and for our second gig we were booked to play support to a major British band at Reading Town Hall, capacity 800. This was a big deal to us and there was a big buzz in the school. With a few days to go the promoter told us that the MU told him they wouldn't allow the headline band to play with a non-Union band. We were still at school ffs! So I pulled my savings out of the post office and hurriedly joined the bloody union. I've never forgot those bully boy tactics. I get Public Liabilty Insurance from AMPBand and instrument insurance from Allianz and consider the MU totally irrelevant to what I do these days.

Ouch.