Silvia Bluejay

FYI, the same problem appears on Firefox on mobile (Android).

Doing well, but the wrong colours issue is still not fixed, see example below. (Top banner; on Firefox, Win 10)

My Firefox is having trouble with the top of the screen on Basschat - the colours on the right:

LOL! 😱🙄😂

I think it is. Ped said from "around" 9am, not 9am on the dot...

Adblock Plus for Android. As a matter of fact, I think that only happens on the tablet, because I have Adblock turned completely off on the PC, and still get no ads at all.

Tomorrow! 😱 😉

@ped, is Guitarchat going to be offline too? 😱

And I'm even happy to talk valves and tone caps! Isn't that going above and beyond, huh? 😎 Seriously though, it's good to have the same hobbies and interests and be able to pursue them as a couple.

Unfortunately, the only way to record live sound properly is to have different sources and mix them. We use the feed from the PA; however, we don't mic the drums - except the kick - so we also need to record the sound from within the band, and the sound in the room with normal microphones.

Soundchecking is an art, and if you let anybody from the band do it - with the possible exception of the bass player! - they will mostly pay attention to their own sound, and turn down anything that appears to interfere with that. While I'm in no way a pro, I have a certain amount of experience in making a band sound decent at The Dog And Duck. First of all, the acoustics of the room can fool you, especially for the low frequencies: they are prone to sound really loud in certain places and really weedy in others, and I mean 'places' in the same room. So walking around while listening is a must. What you were hearing, @stewblack, may have sounded a lot better a couple of metres to the left or the right, for instance. And of course when the audience was in. Another important thing I've learnt is that having a majestic sound in the rehearsal room, or in your own practice room, away from the band, means very little. I have lost count of the times @Happy Jack and I have had to make changes to his pedal settings, or EQ, or both, just because he would otherwise disappear in the mix, or indeed overwhelm it, as the case might be. Precision basses are infamous for sounding great (if you like that kind of sound) while playing on your own or with the band at low volume, but ending up as a horrible muddy mess as soon as you start playing in the corner of The Dog And Duck by the door to the gents'. So, er, you'd probably have to persuade one of the band's significant others to become your sound engineer. Short of that, boost the mids and cut the lows on your bass sound, counterintuitive as it may seem. At least you'll cut through and people might even hear you...

I think the choice is to do things that don't hassle you like that. If enough of us show that we've had enough of having our rights curtailed and our privacy invaded, we may send a message.

I wouldn't attend.

I would have no interest whatsoever in attending such a small-scale event if I was required to take a covid test! It's not exactly the Euro final at Wembley, is it?

The above, 100%. However, @silverfoxnik, we know that even in pre-Covid times, even with attendance lists and promises, not everybody who said they'd attend would attend. We always got enough people, but sometimes the event did end up looking a bit depleted. Numbers matter, both for the general atmosphere of it and to avoid you guys ending up having to shell out instead of being able to contribute to the school and a charity of choice. In this instance we already have a number of previously regular attendees who say they're not up for it. And that's those who are being open about it. Plus there will be people who are gigging that day/night, or will have gigged the night before, etc. who will 'try to be there' but, as often happens, not make it in the end. What hope do we have, in such situation, of getting a full house? Perhaps better to simply wait for 2022, when people will have [been forced] to recognise that we must live with this by now not very pernicious virus the way we live with flu and other infectious diseases, and get on with our life.

Although, as Jack says, we've never needed something like that so far, it looks like a great little device for emergency use in those unfortunate cases when the tablet loses its connection to the XR18 at exactly the wrong moment. 👍

The sound engineer was very good that night.

And how the bass looks now.

Original wiring:

Well if we have no pictures it didn't happen, right? Here are the pictures. Original bridge:

I find the band's choice of font in that message far more offensive than any fake encore.

All the best, and keep us posted. 🤞🙏

It's absolutely true, and we hate it.

We use a bit of compression on all channels on our live set for both bands, but especially Damo And The Dynamites. I started from the default settings recommended for each instrument, then trusted my ears while adjusting the knee, attack, release etc. I'm not an expert, so it helps that the tablet allows me to move graphic representations as opposed to having to enter numbers. Yes, I've sort of learned the recommended numerical values, but I'd rather not have to be thinking of those while I'm mixing the band live, on the fly, in a windy car park or in a crappy room with poor acoustics that always sound different from the previous time we were there.

Over 30 years ago, when I lived in Italy, an engineer was someone who had a degree in Engineering (mechanical, chemical, electronic, whatever). Anyone else was a technician. That person behind the sound desk was therefore called, in show credits etc. 'Tecnico del suono'. In this country I've always noticde that everybody's an engineer. For instance, I book an 'engineer' to come and fix my washing machine here in the UK. If I had tried to do that in Italy 30 years ago I'd have been laughed off the phone. Perhaps it's a bit like the idiotic fashion of calling all women 'ladies', as if being called a woman is an insult? Perhaps being 'only' a technician is seen as an insult? I don't know. So what am I? The sound girl? The sound woman? Or God forbid, the sound lady? 🤦‍♀️ I have a couple of uni degrees but neither is in engineering, and really, I'm not fussed whether I'm described as the sound engineer or the sound technician.