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To answer another Q you had, hollow stages. I've had problems in the past with hollow stages & the best options are to try & keep the speakers disconnected from the stage. A Gramma Pad would be the obvious solution here (& I'm wanting one but skintos just now), but using things like a flight case or similar could help. If nothing's to hand then lose some lower frequencies & go for what would be a more mid sound without the stage.

Had a chat with my colleague regarding his band. It's actually a new project that he's starting & not the Bordello Dogs. So not yet an established band, but he does have some good contacts for gigs. He has a full line up less a bassist (he's currently got that job & lead vocals) & it's mainly original material that's rock influenced (tho he does like DnB & we was discussing the joys of playing with fx). They do the occasional cover, but never do it like the original.

Try doing your editing in Garageband. Save your iMovie file & then open GB, open finder & drag the movie file straight out of finder & drop onto a track in GB. You can then add your other track as another audio track & adjust the levels to suit, including using the AU fx to improve the sound quality a bit (compressor, etc). I use GB to strip the audio from any video files, whether that be to use the audio or the video separately.

What about one on your phone (if you have a smartphone)? There's some good ones for the iPhone.

If you open finder & go to applications, then scroll down to iMovie, single click on it & next to it should be an icon for it & details below it. It should have a list saying Name, Kind, etc & at the bottom just before the more info button, it should say version. 6.0.4 is HD. I'll have a wee play about with them both this week & post what I do (if you don't get it sussed before hand).

Depending on what version of iMovie you're using, you should be able to just drag the audio file from finder (or iTunes) straight into an audio track. You might need to use GB for the audio side of things tho.

What version of iMovie are you using? I normally use iMovie HD & prefer it to the newer versions (they're completely different) & you can slide the audio & video to sync. Another option is to sync them in Garageband & then pop the synced mix into iMovie.

I'd go with the above advice. Our Guitards used to eq the hell out their gear & use octavers & I'd sometimes wonder if there was a point to playing down the worn end! Re-EQ'd the gits & the drummer already has a well tuned kick (punchy & no boom) allowing me to get those deep dubby sounds when I want without loads of mud.

Break the song into 8, 16 &/or 32 bar chunks & learn each part as chord sequences & then name them in your head (could be as simple as verse 1, chorus etc). sometimes works for me. Other thing is to write some lyrics & sing along. I don't know all the lyrics to all our songs, but there's key phrases that I take a mental note of for certain parts. Oh, a couple of A4s with some notes on the floor can be useful & no one off stage will see them.

Dan & Pantherairsoft have better recordings than I do, but if you go to the effects reviews forum on Basschat you'll find the review I did for the the Moog LPF & Bass MuRF with a couple of recordings. I think I stuck a link in this post to it a few pages back.

If it's just a monitor to hear yourself on stage then I think any reasonably powered tiltback combo would suit you or even just a powered PA wedge monitor. Is it only you who needs to hear it or the full band? The MB 2x10 combo I have would suit your needs there, but there's many other makes that do similar designs (such as GK).

[quote name='Alien' post='1107281' date='Jan 29 2011, 03:32 PM']I wouldn't recommend using multiple generators unless their outputs are fully synchronised (and if they're small enough to be moved without a truck they probably won't be.) The reason for this is that the AC signals may well be out of phase, and if your amp is plugged into one phase and your mic into another then you could end getting zapped in a big way. A[/quote] A better option here if several generators are needed is to just use each individually & not overload it (like running the lighting rig & some other stuff off one generator & the PA & backline off another etc). They don't need to be linked to supply more power & earthing them is a spike in the ground.

Like is said above, make sure it has a decent KVA (or even MVA). Depending on what all is being powered, you might wanna make sure it's at least 60-100 KVA . I'd suggest using a surge protector also.

Hey all, A work colleague has a band & their bassist recently left (moved away I believe) & he's looking for another bassist to replace him. They're a rock band along the lines of AC/DC & so forth, they're called The Bordello Dogs (they're on MySpace but I can't get a link on my work PC). I believe they do a mix of originals & covers, but don't quote me on that. He asked me if I wanted to join but had to decline as I've too many commitments & harly any time for my own bands, let alone a 3rd! So I said I'd put the word out on here incase there's anyone looking for a band to join. Only stipulation he mentioned is that you must be dedicated & able to do plenty gigs (AKA no part timers such as I ). If you're interested, PM me & I'll get more info off of him on Monday. G

A lot of good drummers there & I'd be happy jamming with any of them. I'm gonna shout 2 that haven't been mentioned.... JoJo Mayer & Cobus. Two outstanding drummers & I think they'd be a complete joy to jam with, both can play very precicely too.

It's getting the finger speed up & remaining constant that impresses, especially when the worship leader improvises on the structure I've slowly been trying to learn "Salvation is here" by Hillsong United, the bass solo takes some stamina!

Depending on how good the XT Live is at "synth", you might be as well keeping it for synth sounds & maybe 1 or 2 other things that it does well. I've never used one tho.

When I bought my MB combo I wanted a cover for it, websearch & found Roqsilid & ordered online. The chap there called me & said that they hadn't made one before, took all the dimensions & asked what colour of piping I would like. He called me with updates & when I got the cover it fitted perfectly (& still does). Very happy Never knew about Hot Covers until now, so might give them a try next time.

I record mine either with the Webcam on the mac & record the audio with GarageBand or Reaper, or I record it all on a digital camera with the video setting (I do this for rehearsals).

....Or just have an obsession with gaffa tape?

[quote name='paul_5' post='1099014' date='Jan 22 2011, 07:52 PM']A good amp will have balanced (TRS) sockets, and you should use balanced connectors.[/quote] Are you sure they're TRS? I thought being mono signals it would just be TS sockets (as the 1/4 jacks are TS). I know on the MB LMII has a jumper to switch the fx send to either pre or post (one of them has both clean & fx signal blended) & there was a debate a while back about fx sends & most folk seem to avoid the loop (me included).

I think he's making music for us bassists so we can play our own ones on his tracks

I've never tried the 151, but I can vouch for the 102 being a superb combo & it would need to be a really loud gig to ever need an extention cab. Don't let the 10s put you off on how much low frequencies they can shift, I was very pleasantly surprised. Get a play on both combos & compare if you can

Well I managed to get a little time to get this set up. I was one jack to jack short so left the chorus out. I took the left channel from the Murf straight to the mixer & the right channel went into my cheapo distortion pedal & then into the LPF. The right channel was set just to put out 350hz & 775hz & a small amount around 240hz & a small amount of distortion applied. Th results are very good, pedal closed & I get just the right channel coming through giving me a nice clear bass sound (as if just having the murf on it's own & killing the 240hz, 350hz, 775hz & 1.8khz with the 110hz full & the remaining set about 1/2 way& then using the pedal allowed me to fetch in the other frequencies slightly distorted (or chorused) & with a bit extra resonance from the LPF allowed me to create some good rock sounds where I could add in distortion for when an instrument drops out but need to keep the energy, or for creating tremendous techno/DnB sounds & using the exp pedal fairly rapidly to control the filter up/down on each note. The good thing about this is adding the distortion doesn't cut any bass frequencies as they're going straight to the mixer When I get another chance to do this I'll plug it into my mac & record the results. By the time I set it all up today I had only 15 mins to play