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Hi everyone, Firstly, apologies if this duplicates an existing topic, and if so please link me to it. I'd like to know how to safely run a bass guitar and a Moog Minitaur through the same rig at pub gig volumes. I currently DI the bass to one (mini) mixer channel and the Moog to another and then through my Ashdown MAG 300w/Ashdown 2x10 cab (I have an Ashdown 2x15 cab for gigs). I run this at home at practice volumes only as I was advised by my local music shop that cranking it up might do some damage. I've previously run bass pedals through a band PA with subs but most can't handle it. Many thanks.

I saw a thread somewhere else about Geddy's Wal sound - no-one had a good word for it.

Topographic Oceans and Relayer were the worst mixes/eq's ever. Oceans sounds like your speakers are at the back of your sock drawer. Ditto Fish Out of Water - all middy and compressed.

Thanks for mentioning Dennis Dunaway - beautiful inventive bass lines regardless of his tone.

Nathan East on Michael Jackson's I Just Can't Stop Loving You from Bad. Awesome 5-string tone.

Fragile has the weirdest (compressed)? eq I've ever heard but it works, and Chris's bass sounds great.

The drummers tale: Loves music and fancies being in a band. Buys himself thousands of pounds worth of Les Paul, effects and a massive Marshall stack (you'll see it gathering dust when you visit him at home one day). Bad idea, has absolutely no aptitude for the guitar. The bass won't work either. Keyboards? Forget it - doesn't have a degree in a science or maths subject. Can't sing for toffee. PING! (light bulb burns brightly), 'I know, I'll get a drum kit'. Quickly realises he's got the sh*te-est gig in the band so relieves the boredom by putting that favourite fill in at every opportunity and occasionally comes back on the beat.

There's been a great comment made earlier; you get to the rehearsal and the drummer's setting up this ENORMOUS kit! Be afraid, I've always found that ability is obversely proportional to the size of the kit. (unless of course it's Neil Peart setting up).

For me it's simple - life's too short to waste your time with bad drummers, and there are plenty of them around. The trouble with the drums is it's the easiest instrument on which a player can express themselves and be creative. Sadly the end product is often bad timing, flashy fills that don't work and the classic missed beat or extra beat which throws the whole band. They drive me crazy!