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Dan Dare

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  1. Plenty of sound advice above. I'd also suggest having a look at and perhaps changing the setup of your instrument and even the way you play it. If you are getting on a little and may have a tendency towards developing arthritis, playing an instrument with heavy strings and/or a high action (if you do) will aggravate the situation. Posture and the way you hold the instrument is important, too. If you tend to use a 'claw' type of technique that puts your hands under tension, that will not help matters.
  2. Why must it be either/or? One of the bands I play in mixes up covers and originals, popular and obscure.
  3. Of course it's an equaliser, i.e. a device for adjusting eq. It doesn't matter what label they stick on it. That's what it does.
  4. Exactly. Try running a frequency sweep at high enough volume to be useful in a bar and you're going to p1ss everyone off before you've even played a note. It will be of little, if any, use because the results will be affected by background noise, bodies absorbing certain frequencies and so on. As EBS Freak says, domestic/hi-fi equipment is not appropriate for our purposes.
  5. Ah, Black Friday. The chance for retailers to clear their shelves of old stock whilst convincing us we're getting a bargain. Super.
  6. Try "taking the room out of the equation" in a noisy bar, where you don't have the luxury of setting up, doing a frequency sweep and setting eq when the place is empty, where there is background music playing, people chatting, shouting and so on, glasses clinking, TVs blaring, etc. How many bar bands take a "real sound engineer" with them to gigs? My pleasure, by the way.
  7. Wow. Exceedingly rare. I'm a mandolin player, too. Used to have the mandolin equivalent of it (1920s A model). Horror story from some years back. Andy's in Denmark Street had a Gibson mandocello from the 1920s in the window. It looked gorgeous from the front, but the back had been stove in (heaven knows how) and badly. They were selling it on commission. Don't know what happened to it.
  8. Also, the instrument is stated to be "located in Long Island, NY" in the description. So why is it listed as being in London?
  9. Used Rumble should come in under £300. I really don't think 100w will cut it unless your bandmates play very gently.
  10. Peavey power amps are pretty bomb-proof and can be picked up cheap, too.
  11. From my perspective as a very old git (66 today), this is and has always been cyclical. Live music comes and goes in popularity. Its demise (much like that of the guitar) has been touted for decades, but it always comes back as people tire of processed pap. There are certainly fewer live music venues round my way in Norf Lunnon, than there were a few years back, although there is still a reasonable scene. Plenty of awful open mic nites, of course. People perform for free, their mates come to cheer them along and buy plenty of drink, so it's a no-brainer for the venue. Went to one with a pal recently and it was truly dreadful, with one notable exception - a woman who had written some decent songs, which she actually played on guitar (on which she was quite accomplished) and sang well. She also seemed to appreciate, unlike the other performers, that one should learn the words of the songs one sings and engage with an audience, rather than stare at a smartphone screen and read the lyrics (at the end of the night, I asked a couple of those who had done this why it was, given that they had apparently written the songs they sang, that they needed to read them). Guess I'm just a grumpy old git.
  12. A modern equivalent of the bloke with a guitar, a bass drum strapped to his back, cymbals between his knees and a kazoo. If the rest of the band doesn't turn up to the rehearsal, it probably means you've been fired and they're playing somewhere else with your replacement 😁
  13. Nope. JJ. Unless you're being ironic about the furore a few years back regarding Carole Kaye's claims to have played on virtually everyone's records. Regarding the wider point, I can't understand why so many are unhappy about playing obviously popular numbers. Yes, I get that, as musicians, we probably listen and appreciate more widely than the average person, but it's no hardship to have a floor full of people dancing at a gig (and even less of one to be booked back because you went down well). And if you play a few obvious crowd pleasers and get people on your side, there's more chance they will be inclined to listen to and even appreciate those less well-known numbers you like to play.
  14. This is about PA in bars/pubs, not hi-fi. Lyngdorf is a high end manufacturer of hi-fi equipment and their kit is not designed for or appropriate to the needs of most, if not all, gigging bar/pub bands. The Room Perfect is intended for studio monitoring use (and the KRK Ergo, to which you refer, is an equaliser intended for use with KRK's range of monitor speakers). A studio is an essentially static environment, in which little changes, unlike a bar where bands play. The original poster asked for advice on setting up/combining backline, monitoring and FOH for a band playing in bars.
  15. I may be missing something, but what does this have to do with PA at pub gigs?
  16. Hit me - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/URAL-BASS-GUITAR-USSR-SOVIET-VINTAGE-AND-RARE/192940888000?hash=item2cec2c4fc0%3Ag%3A89kAAOSwGjlc-NEj&LH_ItemCondition=3000
  17. But not of the things it creates sometimes...
  18. The JB police are on their way to re-educate you... 😁
  19. It's also that we're all getting too old, or are too poor to hire someone to cart heavy stuff around.
  20. All you say is true, particularly the final sentence. Short of persuading the drummist to use an electronic kit, one still needs to make enough noise onstage to compete with him/her.
  21. No Thanks to Jazz basses? My dear sir, have you taken leave of your senses?
  22. Exactly. You can also place your monitors on top of the subs, which gets them closer to ear level and makes them easier to hear.
  23. Not such a wild or crazy idea. I use a compact sub (this one - https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/fohhn-xs22) that has onboard DSP and power amps that drive it and a pair of small (1x10 + horn) top boxes. Sits front and centre and takes up little space. Makes for a lightweight, powerful PA that can be carried in two trips from the car.
  24. That sounds the best compromise. Your guitarist can still use his Headrush, but the guitar will be loud enough to sit with the onstage levels of the drums and your backline.
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