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you could try a Zoom B1on it has almost limitless adjustment to get a fuller sound, I have it set so it's just before it gets spikey, only about £45, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoom-B1on-Bass-Effects-Pedal/dp/B00JLEHMG6 incidental I tend to just play an octave higher during a guitar solo

trouble is, being the only live music programme on mainstream TV it has to eclectic, so best thing is record it and whizz through the bits you don't like

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1492243196' post='3278864'] PS; Am I going to get a slap next time she sees me for what I said earlier? Heeheehee. [/quote]you should be so lucky

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1492205737' post='3278735'] I was curious as to how Wendy felt about using the kit at the Horse and Groom a while back on your side project... I noticed she'd brought a snare and cymbal. Is that because she prefers a minimal kit or just for convenience? [/quote]pure convenience, carting around a bass and side drum for a few songs at open mic, and the time to set it up would be too much

anybody know anything? we're looking to sign up with one to get our new album out there, our guitarist is a bit of a whizz at reading at reading terms and conditions the one that's approached us, Confidential records, charges, £60 for a 2 year deal, plus 10% of all sales income, and you have to be signed up with Maori for the publishing, they are obviously the same business. That means letting Maori take 20% of all publishing, PRS income. They also take 50% of PPL (Phonographic Performance Licensing) income, which I find a bit worrying and is it necessary given I'm a member of PPL (to get the IRSC codes fr our new album), is this a good deal or is there a lot better out there?

[quote name='hen barn' timestamp='1492085749' post='3277814'] I have been playing for 40 years now and the wife complaints how deaf I am! so went for ear test and now have to wear hearing aids!! So to protect them I got ACS 17 then 15 then 10 and hated it as felt like I was somewhere else. So got IEM found that really hard and couldnt talk to band members and new guitarist hated them. So I'm back looking for protectors? I have some xmas tree ones that I will try again but I might try some isolate one????? Any other suggestions? [/quote]I use ACS 10's in the ear next to the drummer and a christmas tree one in the other which I can pull in and out to suit, but yeah I can't get on with ACS 10's in both ears, could be something to do with being a bit deaf, I have hearing aids too

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1492077991' post='3277699'] They were never in a band together... [/quote]

you'll always get this, our drummer not very good at brushing up on songs, I take my MP3 player to rehearsals and we play the song, to be fair he's very quick at getting it right, another one is the guitarist says we don't have to be just like the original song than last night pulled me up because I missed a fill out of Suspect Device! hey band politics, everybody has short comings some peoples you can put up with some you can't, you have to decide, but if Martin McGuiness and Ian Pasley could learn to get on there's hope for us all

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1492005258' post='3277103'] Frank Sinatra, Sepultura, Paul McCartney, Brian Eno, Biffy Clyro, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Metallica, Lou Reed, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Green Day, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, C J Ramone, Green Day, Lemmy, Sting, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Jagger, Bowie, Shakira, Joe Strummer, Carole King James Taylor, Doc Watson, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Bono, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, Glen Matlock, Henry Rollins, John Lennon, The Beatles, Beethoven, Mozart, Jim Morrison, Freddy Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Ozzy Osbourne, Chopin, Bob Marley all have organisms named after them. Top organism muso is Frank Zappa with nine of the little buggers named after him. Which says more about scientists than it does about Zappa, imo. [/quote]at first I misread this, thought they'd all had orgasms named after them, I was quite worried that I'd missed out on a lot of life's pleasures

[quote name='King Tut' timestamp='1491988902' post='3276926'] Yeah i obviously do but it's still no one else's business. I usually stay away from threads like this cos it's they screw with my mental well-being but sadly took the bait today. But hey! I'm on my hols in Portugal in full sun, about 23 degrees and about to head off to the sea so shan't be thinking about headstock decals much more today ;-) [/quote]enjoy, now am jealous

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1491984980' post='3276886'] When someone comes up to you in the street and says 'are you that guy from..?' [/quote]that has happened to me, locally I have to add, of course if you're the singer and not just the bass player everybody knows who you are

[quote name='King Tut' timestamp='1491986369' post='3276903'] Don't really give a toss about what anyone else thinks [/quote]ah, but you do

just showing off, like a personalised number plate, a flash car or having designer clothes, we all have a seeking approval gene, in some folk it's a lot stronger than others.

when you can pack up your day job

whenever I have had to use a supplied amp it's with a full PA so it's not really an issue it's only a stage monitor really, the last time this happened the stage sound was awful but everybody said the FOH sound was great and having heard to recordings of the gig I agree with them, so it's not such an issue with me, but I would imagine a drummer having to use a kit laid out differently it would be, as someone else said it's all about communication our drummer for instance always makes a point of telling everybody he's a lefty

drum sharing is a necessary evil on multiband bills, our drummer is left handed but unlike Ringo plays left handed, but just gets on with it, in my experience "just bring your breakables" means cymbals, bass drum pedal and snare drum, but pack you stands just in case, the best story I've got is where we played a small, very small, festival and the supplied kit didn't have a floor tom, one poor drummer couldn't get his head round it so played an upturned plastic dust bin instead, oh how we laughed

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1491853872' post='3275930'] We send out posters to the clubs we play a few weeks in advance of the gig. Blue [/quote]yep we do too, but all to often the venue hasn't even bothered to put them up

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1491840864' post='3275792'] You'll spend most of the recording session sitting around bored out of your crust while they are "mixing down"... I think that's the expression. Then the vocalist will want to re-do his bits, and add his own harmonies... then maybe add some of his expert tambourine playing. You'll probably get the bass parts down in twenty minutes, then you'll have to decide if it's undiplomatic to say, "do you mind if I nip off home now... I urgently need to watch some paint drying". This is why I always regarded myself as a 100% live player... and I absolutely hate recording studios... they are the most boring places in the world. In short... you don't have anything to worry about... it's a bit like a trip to the dentist, when it's over you've got all those lovely gigs to concentrate on. [/quote]yep I can relate to this having just recorded an album, 5 days in the studio. first 2 getting the basic tracks down, next 3 mixing down sorting out timing issues and getting the best take of a certain part of the song, oh and then guitar overdubs, tedious doesn't even begin to describe it, everybody getting tired and fed up, tensions within the band certainly came to the surface

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1491825926' post='3275610'] you'll be fine in the studio if there's a half-decent engineer. He can drop you in if you make mistakes and move the odd out of time note. [/quote]this, you only need to do each section right once, the engineer will do the rest and sort our tiiming issues

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1491812345' post='3275446'] Yes. They're also sometimes trying to create a brand. People like to know what they're getting and a classic rock pub, originals club or a jazz club will get a different audience. I'm not sure how successful pubs that put on different styles of music each week are. People often tend to be pretty fixed in their ideas. I can't see many checking to see what band is on before heading out to their local. [/quote]yep, pubs do get a reputation for putting on certain types of band but if a pub can't advertise what band is on in these days of social media they don't deserve to be successful, plus if they have a band on every week they should have posters of up and coming gigs, but I know some don't, I think we've all played at pubs where you've gone to the trouble of giving them posters and they can't even be arsed to put them up ,or out of date posters all over the place, those sort of places don't deserve and usually aren't successful, then, back on topic, don't book you again because of a poor attendance.

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1491597324' post='3274269'] One thing to check on any p that hums slightly is that one pickup half is not rotated. Fixed a couple like that... [/quote]checked on that Telebass thanks, everything seems ok, it's impossible to get them the wrong way round the wires aren't long enough! it seems to be wired up in the classic P bass way, I'm still intrigued as to why there's no noise when I use a wireless system, I've tried several cables so it's not that.

change of ownership is usually the reason we don't get asked, pub companies get through an alarming number of managers, one pub we played at got through 4 different mangers and we had to prove ourselves to every one of them, the latest one has decide to stop live music altogether, another one the Tap and Tumbler in Nottingham used to book us on a regular basis, always a good night, new manger came in said we were sh*t and refused to book us, he went, new manager thinks we're great. What you have to remember is pub management is a crap overworked under paid job, mostly, so only a bloody idiot would take it on, too many of them book the bands they like and not what the customers like.

another place we've just found for our Album launch party on May 25th (plug plug) is the Lord Roberts, they've got a room they will let you have for free if you bring in some drinkers, middle of Nottingham. Yes the Tap and Tumbler is having an originals night from what I here, our last gig there was a cracker, mostly covers, the Wildhearts were on at Rock City and there was a 9.30 curfew :-)

I've got my Firefox browser set so it deletes all cookies when I close it down, might be coincidence but it doesn't happen as often after I've shut it down, ( I leave it open most of the time as I don't turn off my laptop when not in use, just shut the lid)