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My bands latest album is on CD and vinyl, sound wise can't really tell any difference, but I much prefer listening to it on vinyl, nostalgia has a part to play, when I first got it I spent 5 minutes just watching it go round on the turntable, but the better artwork and the fact it's a lot more effort to skip tracks meaning you actually listen to the whole album (or at least one side) is the reason I prefer vinyl. Lets face it artwork is so crappy on CD's you may as well just download it.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1499175925' post='3329698'] I never boost bass on my EQ and i don't cut mids. First EQ change i do in the mixer is to turn on the HPF on the 70~80Hz region. Who said that bass was there to be felt, not heard?!! [/quote]yep you need very little below 100Hz

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1499176799' post='3329714'] Some very odd replies here. The main reason is simply that people's vocal ranges vary hugely. Think Paul Robeson and Robert Plant. I'm a natural baritone. I have a rather unexciting mid-ranged voice. Loads of rock songs are pitched far higher than my voice will go, because they're designed to be sung by tenors like Robert Plant and Bruce Dickinson. Plenty of songs are pitched way lower than my voice will go, because they're designed to be sung by Barry White. I suppose I could sing (a version of) Stairway To Heaven if I really felt like it, but never in the original key. That's not because I'm lazy (I'm not) or have an untrained voice (10 years' choral work in a bunch of choirs, thank you very much). It's more a matter of physiology and, y'know, yer actual physics and that. [/quote]this ^, most people can only manage 2 octaves, just moving a song a tone to suit a singer's voice won't make a big difference, nobody will know, but bands that try say a Led Zep song transposed to a baritones range just ruin it and shouldn't try,(can sound good with a female vocalist though) we did move Merry Christmas Everybody down half an octave and got away with it, and it was easier for the crowd to sing along as well, most men are baritones apparently, but yeah you need to pick songs that your singer can sing in more or less the original key if you want to get it anywhere the original version

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1499162091' post='3329564'] You could give the flare audio aluminum/titanium plugs a try. They block the ear canal completely and leave you with only conductive sound perception, resulting in a more even signal to the cochlea. My leadguitar player loves his, though I haven't tried them myself. Edit: this is a heavy dB reduction, maybe too much for quiet bands. [/quote]cheers I'll check them out, our singer may have tried them, he's always saying he can't hear himself in the monitors, I wonder why? we had a support band the other week and had to turn down the vocal monitor by half, singers eh?

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1499116922' post='3329386'] It will get better over time, but ears are most sensitive in the 1500-3500Hz range, where most speech is heard. That is where music sounds most lively, but also where good earplugs offer the most protection. I use 15dB pluggerz at the moment, they're fine. Putting anything in your ears will affect the sound but these are as good as it gets. [/quote]I use ER 10's, but, my hearing is damaged in the the speech range so using ear plugs makes the problem even worse (have to take out my hearing aids as well), never have got used to the detached feeling when using them tbh

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1499105227' post='3329219'] Yes but it went quiet for a while after I made a change then this pops up again today when I made a similar change yesterday, hence my question. [/quote]never really gone away for me, doesn't happen for a week or so then starts up again perhaps 3 or 4 times a week, doesn't seem to be any sort of regularity to it

been happening for months http://basschat.co.uk/topic/295323-scareware/page__fromsearch__1 I just hold down the enter key and click on the close window x till it shuts down

I only saw the encore, Everlong, was it just me or were the vocals way down in the mix? on the subject of only a few good acts, that's because that's all there are, Glastonbury just way too big so they have to pad it out with not so good stuff, to put it politely. Quite honestly I would only go if they gave me a free ticket and let me take my caravan.

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1498307657' post='3323770'] Pete Townsend used a shield because of his tinnitus [/quote]and Debbie Harry

[quote name='binky_bass' timestamp='1498298946' post='3323689'] Was gunna take these! If you decide against them then I'm close to the seller today... Impulse buys are terrible things, are you sure you want them? [/quote]out of interest why didn't you bid on them? glad you didn't though

[quote name='binky_bass' timestamp='1498298946' post='3323689'] Was gunna take these! If you decide against them then I'm close to the seller today... Impulse buys are terrible things, are you sure you want them? [/quote]I'll let you know, I'm picking them up tonight btw, he's not in till 5.30 tonight if it helps with your loss

you'll like this Blue, the guy from Decca who turned the Beatles down in 1962 did so because "Guitar bands are finished"

that was me, would you lot stop putting bargains on here? I just can't resist them, bought a lefty Columbus bass last time that I don't use

just watching it on catch up, I hate overly prominent kick drums, but that sounds ok, snares a bit deep though but nothing I find annoying, Chrissie Hynde must work really hard to look that good at her age

I've got one and they are incredible value for money but I prefer my Zoom B1on, a bit dearer but still only about £45 and it has loads more sims if you want them, I mostly just use it with Sansamp bass driver sim the point where distortion kicks in is a lot more controllable, I can have it set just below where it gets 'spikey' whereas the BDI21 seems to be all or nothing

must admit in my limited experience I've never come across a soundman who has insisted on a feed before the effects pedal

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1497970432' post='3321714'] lifted wholesale from my old punk covers lot and based on how few chords on the guitar were required (apologies if I repeat some that have already been suggested) Pistols: Pretty Vacant, God Save The Queen, Anarchy In The UK Clash: White Riot - also doubles up as being musically almost identical as Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps Please by Splodgenesabounds Ramones: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker, Blitzkreig Bop, I Wanna Be Sedated Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men Ruts - Babylon's Burning (also In A Rut, easy but a bit of a dirge) Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (disclaimer - it's a lot of work to get the guitar solos right, but the bass and rhythm guitar are a piece of p#ss) Damned - Neat, Neat, Neat Stranglers - No More Heroes (again, lead guitar and the arrangement take a bit or work, but the actual bass lines are really simple) Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Green Day - Basket Case Still Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (but again, the arrangement takes a bit of work) And another vote for Fight For Your Right To Party - we always did that as an encore and it brought the house down. [/quote]I have to say if you think Babylon's Burning is easy you're either a hell of a bass player or you're not playing it properly, and White Riot doesn't just follow the chords either, though I do agree about some of the others Another Girl, one of the few songs I can play without looking at my fretboard

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1497956909' post='3321573'] Exactly, it makes no sense to me either, but I've been in two different bands with drummers who insist that the bass drum needs to be mic'd at all times (and to be clear, it's been in the studio and at pub gigs where we'd do our own sound, situations where he could have a say, not where an engineer is sorting it out). Not all drummers, but it was definitely a "thing" with the pair of them. And like you, I can't understand it...just thought I'd ask [/quote]it's probably something to do with present fashion of having the bass drum very prominent in the mix, drives me daft, it used to be the snare drum at one time, a good drum kit is an acoustic instrument designed so all the bits are at the right volume, it's a bit like us bass players insisting that one of our strings should be louder than the other three

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1497954321' post='3321533'] Anything by Status Quo is good. Caroline is a well known number. We also do Blockbuster by Sweet, very simple and great crowd pleaser. Highway To Hell Ac/DC also simple and effective. [/quote]Blockbuster, till you get to the triplet bit

any Led Zep track is to be avoided unless the singer sounds like Robert Plant

Don't play many multiband bills but when I do they sometimes want everybody to use the same amp for this reason I use an Zoom B1on pedal to get 'my sound' saves an awful lot of hassle, it can always go before any DI box that's being used

I use a Trace Elliot head, SMX GP12, with a light weight cab, best of both worlds

[quote name='yanto' timestamp='1497371548' post='3317639'] Babylon's Burning and other songs by The Ruts. The Rezillos also had a hard working bass player [/quote]Babylons Burning? that's tough, how he plays it with all down strokes is beyond me, I have to do up and down, doesn't sound the same though

if you're after songs where you can hear the bass line so you can figure it out, try raising the song a whole octave with audacity or something similar makes the bass stand out, Blink 182 stuff is not very challenging, the Ramones even less so, but great fun, Hey Ho Let's Go

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1497355159' post='3317474'] I used to do exactly the same as you, small room with a loud drummer, Marshall guitar stack and a trace Elliott bass amp all at full gig volume, but we were 12 years old at the time [/quote]bloody hell you must have had a hell of a paper round to afford that sort of gear as a 12 year old