Richard R

I wouldn't know about that, and I'm sure it was just a scandalous rumour!

Originally known as "We've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it", if I remember correctly. Formed at KECH Girls' school, or "Next door" as it was known to those of us at the boys' school. Next question: how many of you lot of Brummies, Black Country Lads, Posh Silhillians, New Romantics, metal freaks, ELO freaks (eh?) and so on are heading up to the Midlands Bass Bash?

Trying to get the broadcast sound as good as the live sound is very hard work. Ideally you have a completely independent mix to the PA mix. A good second option is to have the entire band on IEM using electric instruments DI'd so that there is no stage spill, then you mix for the broadcast and the PA is just a big amp. The hardest version is band on stage with a mix of electric and acoustic instruments and foldback. Then you naturally have to mix for the congregation and balance that with the stage. What goes into the PA isn't anything like what people hear and isn't great for YT. I've done a couple of services with a trio of acoustic guitar, piano, and a real beginner on bass ( one note per bar). Very easy. Next one I am on is a full band plus cahon, flute, and couple more vocalists, half on wedges half on IEM. I will probably try two separate mixes. I will probaby mess up.

One of my school friends had a really thick brummie accent. French lessons were great. He had the language and grammar down perfectly, and spoke pretty well. But every so often his natural accent would break though. Bonn jewa!

Well I was trying to find a venue for the Dudes to play near here, but some bugger went and bit the head off a bat in Wuhan and messed up the world BLOODY OZZY OSBORNE FANS!!!

You know how some forums keep religiously to the topic in hand? Basschat isn't one of them....

@bnt, sorry you can't make it. 🙁Thanks for updating the list.

Looks fantastic, the photo makes it look slightly menacing with the hot valves lurking in their cage and the red light like the Terminator's eye. As for names, JapanAmp?

https://youtu.be/Y_X9AyP0d_w Video may not have embedded, so added link.

Is Mr. G a known Dead Head? I bet he grows magnolias.

Enjoy the gigs, and best wishes for the gigs and the wedding. Will you be playing Smoke on The Water at the reception ?😉

You missed all the fun!

Excellent! Don't need a big rig to be honest. With so many basses about folks generally keep the volume down so we can all hear ourselves/not embarras ourselves 😁

Quick - create two more accounts and vote "definitely not" with both of them to counteract your earlier mistake. This stuff matters.

I just hide behind a pillar and try to play the right notes!

A rare breed - do you wear a hat on stage?

That, and because we're sensible, hard working and dilligent musicians, not attention-seaking lead guitarists 😎

Hi, Get any decent USB audio interface aroind the £100 mark and plug the bass straight in, or via an amp simulation pedal, and use headphones. Your recording will be much better than trying to mic up a cab, you will be able to balance your bass volume to the other tracks in your headphones, and most importantly your wife's headaches will go.

I had heard the same origin story, and you're right about the term changing over time now I think about it. To pick up @hiram.k.hackenbacker's point, I think the reason people want to subcategorise music, films, etc., is because we naturally want to understand what we like and what we don't, and often those distinctions are very fine. Without analysing every song or piece of muisc individually, we want and need a way to group things together. If those who like "metal" can hear generally applicable trends and differences between songs they have categorised as "thrash" and "speed", and it improves their communication about the music they like, good for them. We don't need to join in, and equally we don't need to be dismissive. Every hobby has it's subdivisions.

Which brings us onto the question of what defines Heavy Metal, as distinct from Hard or Heavy Rock. I have no idea, except that I like the latter but not the former... 😉

Belated greetings!

Welcome aboard! You mentioned the cab, but what's your bass? Come on man, don't be shy! Anything from a pristine Tanglewood to a knackered Alembic, everything welcome here. 😁

Welcome aboard Step away from the marketplace. 🤣🤣

Welcome aboard! Hope to see you at the Midlands Bass Bash: