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scooped sound is lovely when playing on your own but live with the rest of the band it's a no no, I've got a Trace GP12 and I turn all the sliders down below 100Hz, and don't use the TE shape button, what you hear and what the crowd hears are 2 different things, generally you need to think you're not 'bassy' enough but you probably are especially if there's a bit of a crowd in, I've found that bass is particularly affected by bodies in the room

if there was a formula everybody would be writing hits, but, some sort of hook, singalong lyrics, and a bit of familiarity and quite a lot of repetition all help.

never quit a band, mind you I've only ever been in one (with various members), but the best reason and only reason is, if it's not fun anymore (unless you do it for a living), but I will say this, if you feel like quitting give it a couple of days to calm down before announcing it

songs where the bass line is the song and not just filling in gaps around the chords, Peaches and Sunshine of your Love spring to mind and Warhead as previously mentioned

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1495530907' post='3304431'] I still reckon that was just co-incidence, since its ocurrence is fairly random. Malware Bytes finds nothing on my machine and I haven't seen this popup for weeks/months yet it just popped up randomly whilst I was halfway through reading a thread. [/quote]same here, don't see it for weeks then about 4 times in 3 days

The Hollies??????? wtf

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1495094078' post='3301128'] Is it me, or is the biggest problem with the cheap aids that they amplify sound from behind you MORE than sound from in front of you? [/quote]it does appear that way until your brain gets used to them, it took me a year and it's no good just wearing them just some of the time either, if it's the NHS ones they can set them so you can switch off the rear mic, didn't make much difference for me but might be worth a try

[quote name='naxos10' timestamp='1494939815' post='3299762'] I have hearing aids in both ears and luckily as part of the package I had a free set of musicians earplugs which give a 19db cut. At band practice or a gig I take the hearing aids out and put the plugs in as there is no point in making the situation any worse. If it's any help to anyone there are a wide variety of hearing aids available and some may benefit your situation more than others i.e. over ear or in ear utilising or blocking the ear canal while others sit in the ear canal with an open transducer. It is suprising what is on offer and it is worth discussing you requirements and needs with your consultant. In my case I have high frequency loss and also suffer from tinnitus so the over the ear with in ear canal transducer met my needs best. [/quote]I have the NHS ones which sound like the ones you describe, I have a big drop off in hearing around the 6K Hz area, it took me a year to get used to them but now I wouldn't be without them, have to turn them off when listening to music though, makes HF sound really harsh

I've posted this before but this is an online hearing test that mimics the one the audiologist does https://hearingtest.online/

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1494916421' post='3299465'] Hooky. Mind you he said in interview that he might have reconsidered his strap length now that he suffers with his shoulder and neck. He was THE lowest of the low slung bassists of my era. It is an impressive look for the stage but I often wondered if he ever sat and practised at "normal" height when no one was looking. [/quote]I practice sitting down but sort of sit on the edge of the chair so the strap is at full length with bass on my thighs, if I practice the normal way sitting down my wrist starts to ache very quickly, I guess I've adjusted my style to allow for a low slung bass (I play pick only)

yep, take then out ear plugs in, horse stable door and all that

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1494863917' post='3299137'] My basses used to get buckle rash right in the middle of the back, so that was my height, ofc the belly stops that nowadays!! [/quote]mines below the belt to stop that, but I'm pick only, I have seen a couple of finger players with it that low though, must say I was impressed

I'm a bit of belts and braces guy, spare bass, and I use a Fender Rumble as an extension cab so I've got a spare amp as well and I use a 1 x 15 in my stack so I've got a spare speaker, as Japhet mentioned what happens if the PA packs up?, I've got that covered as well with a spare amp and cab, I think you owe it to the venue to be able to complete the gig

how much does it cost?

as you know we used Guy Elderfield from Random Studios to record our lastest album (it's on Spotify) get in touch and ask him about it

Don't now whether anybody on here has heard of or knows him, he was Bass player in the Steamboat Band from the early 90's they had a record deal (when they meant something) and bought out one album 'Runners and Riders' but one of the many bands that didn't quite make it, one of his stories was quoting an article from the Manchester Evening News with the headline "Whose going to be the next big thing, the Steamboat Band or Oasis?" I worked with him at Nottingham University, a lovely bloke, only 43 and leaves a long term partner and a 5 year old son, a tragedy, puts things into perspective somehow

I've been of the opinion that amp modeller pedals are just fancy preset EQ and distortion pedals for a while now, if they really worked you could just use a cheap Behringer set up and sound like anything you wanted

I'm not a fan of multi band bills tbh, don't even bother with the support band if I go to a major gig (it's the venues fault, the beer is always better and cheaper in the pub round the corner), in my experience being the 'headline act' is to be avoided being last on means all the other bands and their supporters have all f***ed off, leaving just you and anybody you've managed to convince to come along

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1493809452' post='3290790'] Depends how you wish to work with someone, but as you mention sound primarily, is it just an engineer you want? [/quote]beat me too it, if you know your songs well in advance (recommended unless you want to waste a lot of expensive studio time) it's just an engineer you want, a good one will ask you what/who you want to sound like and get you there, we used the same one and got a different sound out of our two albums because I insisted on a more ballsy sound for the second one, they're both on spotify, Verbal Warning

[quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1493139136' post='3285990'] A timely thread. After the post on digital aggregators I too have been going over download sales figures in some depth. The gigs I've done recently where I have lugged CDs or Vinyl with me I have sold well and it annoys me I didn't pursue this more last year. What I'm seeing now is that my bandcamp sales are falling off considerably. I'll assume that's not because people don't like my stuff as I'm still clocking up a lot of complete listens, but this no longer translate into downloads even free ones! So folks are using my bandcamp presents simply to stream from. They don't consider "owning" a download as important. This has made me reconsider my strategy behind the album I want to record this year: If I release it on bandcamp I doubt I'll sell many/any. I'll only sell physical copies at gigs, so I need to carefully consider how many physical items to press. I wasn't going to put it on spotify, but now see it may be worth it as a loss leading exercise to reach an audience I otherwise wouldn't. Hopefully they will come to my gigs...... A great deal of my friends ONLY use spotify for their listening. I don't use it at all as a lot of music I listen to is not on there and I also begrudge being forced to use the internet as my main means of accessing "my" music. However this is not how most people operate these days. [/quote]Yes, I wasn't going to put our latest album on Spotify, but loads of people seem to be using it as their man source of music these days, me included

probably avoid in jokes, might seem funny to the band but would mean bugger all to anybody else, a lot of names would seem crap if suggested but over time they become wonderful, Beatles? Once chatting to a Bass player, don't know if he's on here, anyway, I asked him the name of his band "ZZ Birmingham" came the reply "Oh" says I "ZZ Top tribute?" "No" he says "we don't do any ZZ Top songs", tickled me no end that did

[quote name='Hamster' timestamp='1493190267' post='3286262'] Yeah, there's only the two bands playing. It's a home crowd for us but several comments here have confirmed my views about death by support band !!�� The main band is Rhino's Revenge and we are a Quo tribute, so hoping it will be a great night! [/quote]not your normal support gig then, presumable the place will be full of Quo fans, you might go down better than the main act, I assume Rhino don't do any Quo numbers? could get tricky if they do edit, personal preference remark, you'll defiantly go down better if you play with a pick

EQ, find out which trequency is booming, I have similar trouble with the A string booming around the 7th fret, I cut around 60Hz to tame it

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1493042908' post='3285110'] I've not bought any downloads only from Bandcamp. Is there some way that you can keep track of what you have purchased just in case you have a problem with your computer at some point in the future and you need to download them again? This one of the things that worries me most about downloaded music. It's keeping track of what I have bought and where I have bought it from. My current CD and Vinyl collection is over 2000 albums and singles. Should anything happen to the hard disk that they have been ripped to (and it's back-ups) I know that I can always go back to the originals as a last resort. What I don't know about are the few tracks that I have downloaded from various suppliers. I believe that anything I got from iTunes can be downloaded again, but not everything has come from such a mainstream source, and some of the downloads that I bought directly from bands in the early days of on-line distribution might not even be available any more. [/quote]I use google play to backup the songs on my computer, it's free for up to 50000 songs and syncs with the music folder on your computer only does MP3 though, I think

we play mostly punk covers with about 6 of our own songs thrown in, having said that we do Rosie and Ace of Spades, just to prove we can, which always goes down well (some people actually still believe if you do punk songs you can't really play) as ivansc said it is important to put on a show, just turning up in ill fitting jeans and a black T shirt staring at your feet while playing just doesn't cut it, Around our area Ska and Mod bands do particularly well, I actually think pubs are realising you need to put something different on