Woodinblack

Local pub that is a tiny venue where you get no room at all, but on the plus side, you get 20 people in and it feels like its crowded. Easy setup, unusual as normally you have to persuade a load of people to move out of the way, so we have loads of space (of a small space!). Our keyboard player didn't realise we had the gig and went away, so we had to remove the keyboard songs from the list and bring back some of the old ones - however, it did give us more space. Kick off a bit late, I thought it was a 9 start and it is 8:30l, but it is hard getting things setup in such a small area without people getting out of the way. From pretty well the start, people were joining in, and very up for it, and when I said you get 20 people in it feels crowded, if you get 50 people in it feels like a stadium, except much more up close and personal. But they were singing and dancing along, I never heard a crowd singing the words of baker street before, and even some people doing harmonies of things. So notible interesting things, because the keyboard player was away, baker street has some keyboard trills that I always used to do with a loopman pedal. I brought that back, tested it before the gig, all good. Because I was going into the PA from the XLR on the Boss ME90B, and using a small amp for backline from the jack, I plugged into the send/return that Ihad never used before, it worked. But before the song, I tried it and it was making no volume, maybe dodgy jack or something. I turned the volumes up (I never remember which volume it is), still wasn't loud but oh well, whatever, no time, going into the song. Got to the first trill, kick the pedal and BLING!!!!! - massively loud. But the band thought it was fine! I had reset the effects on my boss before I went, and near the end I thought that it seemed there was too much distortion, then went back to my normal clean patch for one song, and sure enough, distortion, then play that funky music, switched the autowah patch, nope, distortion, I realised this is my new bass I bought a few weeks back, hadn't even checked the battery, active only, it was running out! During the single note parts of the song I unzipped the bass bag that was next to me for my spare, then at the end quickly swapped bass, ready for surfin USA with no distortion at all! Schoolboy error. But don't know what it was about it, but it was the most enjoyable gig I have done in months, maybe just that noone was complaining about the sound.

I have the same 4 presets that I play with all the time, they are modified versions of the basic presents in P1, so plain bass, bass with distortion, bass with chorus and auto wah. Problem is I had noticed on gigs, the 2nd one, the distortion one caused the bass to drop out a bit, so before tonights gigI thought I would modify them. I noticed (good for not reading the manual) the ctrl pedal mode, ideal, I can have my pedal 2 just for whole lotta love, so a lot of overdrive and echo on the ctrl pedal. So I read the manual on setting the control panel. I am generally very good at these things, even following instructions if I need to, but if I was going to try and hide some functionality someway I would use bosses example as a guide - it is next to impenetrable how to do this from the unit itself. Yes, I got it done in the end, but more by guessing and luck than following the instructions!

Poor Diana, that isn't the best freeze frame from the video is it?!

Nightporter remix was released in 1982 and got in the charts.

For info, the thomman premium gig bag only barely fits the bongo, if you take the strap lock off!

There are a number of things that provide that sort of thing, I think the use case for the reface is when you need something you can put anywhere, or just carry in a small bag with you. I have even used it on a tray on my microphone stand

A lot of amps just change the input impedance with an active preamp - you put a lower impedance on a passive bass all your tone goes down the pan (or more accurately down the lead), on an active you don't

As they shouldnt. Was always of the opinion that any preamp that boosts the level of a conventional pickup system (ie, not an actual active pickup) is broken or just set up really badly. Luckily all of my switchable active / passive basses you can't tell which way is passive without changing the EQ.

I use the WS70 now on everything, haven't had any issues with it (except the charging flashing on the transmitter never admits to being full)

Jeans and a dark tshirt or you aren't coming in!

Had you never heard oasis before then?

Well I have been stung by that so I bring mine for certain gigs where apparently there is supposed to be one. Being in a cover band obviously we 95% of the time use our own PA, but there are multiband mini festivals in the summer that have a PA. One specific one, I took the PA to and there was a massive professional PA to plug into and do the sound, turns out they were the last band and the guy just liked doing PA, it was great. So the following year they said 'we have a PA', so I assumed it was the same thing. Turned it it was again the last band, but a different last band with two small behringer speakers and an 8 channel analogue mixer, and the sound was terrible. SO I bring mine in case.

Yeh, thats the video I meant, the screws don't quite go in - good old fender! Having said that, that is a different bass to the one she has in the rig rundown, so maybe she prefers that.

Honestly I have met some people that talk just like that, it isn't that unusual for her age and origin, and probably also from not being used to being interviewed standing up in a one to one, there is a level of stress in that. Actually one of the videos of that very bass the guy said that on one of the ones he had, the screws on the bottom of the pickguard didn't actually connect to the side of the wood by the chambering, so he opened the other two he had up, and they didn't have that problem.

Can see she is going to sell many signature steinways there.

As far as I know, none whatsoever.

Well, obviously the name is just a display name, so the profile would have the same information on it, the same signature, same icon, the same everything else, the reputation points are tied to the account not the name. But a feedback thread doesn't have any 'special' status, it is just a normal thread in a specific forum, the only thing that ties it to someone is that someone started a thead that said "Feedback for <display name>" in text, it is not tied to that user.

I generally bring two, but it depends. if I have just got a new bass I take two, so I can play the new one live, and revert to another one if it doesnt' work, or if I want to play my acrylic light up bass, I play it in the second half as I would be knackered if I had to hold that up for 3 hours. But generally I bring one just in case, it takes very little additional hassle, I already have the PA and stuff, so one small bag.

It makes you terrible - Not for the music stand thing, but if you are one of those keyboard players that have to spend half an hour pissing around trying to get a sound between each song, yes, orders of magnitude worse than a singer who has to have several books in front of them! How many hours have I wasted waiting for keyboard players, using the most presettable instrument known to man, trying to recal some sound. How many songs are you playing, all the keyboard parts for every known symphony or just 30-40 songs that you have played before. Song 10 - right, press present 10. Better still, if you have an iPad, change to the right song, the iPad sets allt he keyboards to the right thing. Also you dont' need half a dozen pianos, in the same way the audience can't tell if you are using a fender P or an ibanez, they can't tell one piano from another!

It doesnt - There is no history of a username and if someone has made a feedback thread, that word on the feedback thread is just a load of letters, it has no connection to the username, unless someone changes it manually.

Are we specifically on music stands (which I hate) or an iPad on a microphone stand (which I have). I mean mainly as I only sing a few songs, the iPad is for the 'where are we on the setlist', so I know what changes are needed on the PA, and to make sure the singer is going to start the right song, and also control the mixer (although I have a surface to do that now that I tend to use more for quick setups). Having said that, when I am singing I tend to have it there as a crutch in case of panic - if I am singing and I have problems remember the words, the bass goes away, and if I am having problem with the bass, the words go away - if any of them require though the other suffers.

I would also say that if I was in a market for a 4 string jazz, I would be interested in that bass, regardless of who she is, light weight, humbucker back pickup, mirror guard, whats not to like!

Regardless to that, as an estate agent her income potential would be orders of magnitude higher than that of a session bass player.

She plays a more budget level ibanez these days, so wouldn't be worth doing a fender custom shop, and its not really ibanezes target market to do signatures