PaulWarning

I've had a Rumble 500 for about a year now, bought it second hand with a transferable 5 year warranty, never had any trouble, I would hazard a guess that if you get through he first few months it'll be ok any faults normally show more or less straight away,, funnily enough I take a Trace Elliot head as back up to gigs, if that TE combo was a 300watt model and ran out of steam your guitarist must have been ear bleedingly loud, I've sold one recently it weighed 35KG edit, just read that the 715 combo is rated at a 100watts, but that'll still be Trace Elliot watts I found this interesting for anybody interested in TE gear http://www.britishaudioservice.com/#!trace-manuals/c1mt9

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1459174357' post='3014095'] Sometimes it's eq more than volume. Trace Elliot gear with than horrible, inherent smily face eq may sound nice on its own, but soon gets lost in a band situation. I did 30 or so jazz gigs with a tiny Phil Jones 75 watt combo. Admittedly not huge venues, but still typical of most gigs that guys on here do, art galleries, marquees and pubs. I never had a problem with being heard, possibly because of its ultra clean sound ? [/quote]first thing I did was turn that off, it was just as bad when I switched to my Fender Rumble for the 2nd half, it's not a question of lack of volume (I only had it on 9 o clock), we do have a loud drummer though, the problem being I was loud enough FOH just that I couldn't really hear myself, very strange, I've never experienced it before (not that degree anyway)

played a gig on Saturday, sound check fine, when we started I could hardly hear myself, which should be ridiculous as I have a stack behind me, so I turned up a notch (trace elliot ) came off at half time and was told I was too loud, well you know what? I thought stuff that if I can't here myself what's the point? didn't seem to matter was a good gig

the curse of sound checks, what sound fine in an empty room will sound totally different when you get some bodies in there

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1459160931' post='3013905'] I've never used Yamaha kit, but a friend who did a lot of hire from his shop swore by it - said it was basically solid & idiot proof. [/quote]this is very true, well apart from idiot proof, I wouldn't trust our singer to set it up but our EMX 512 is very light and compact and given us not trouble at all in about 5 years, good enough for pub gigs

good band will rise to the surface, there's 2 or 3 really good bands in my area(all mod/ska type bands), never short of gigs because they get people into the pub to watch them, if your band is playing to emptyish rooms too often it should tell you something. Crap venues will close down pretty quickly, tbh most bad venues are bad pubs anyway who are desperately trying anything to stay open. Gone a bit off topic here, sorry

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1459076192' post='3013281'] The vocalist of the club band I was in used to introduce us. One evening he said "I'd like to introduce you to [b]my[/b] band". We all exchanged glances and looked daggers at him. [/quote]that's singers for you, always makes me smile when we do one of our songs, if he wrote the lyrics (just the lyrics) he says "and here's a song I wrote" if he had nothing to do with it he says "here's a song we wrote" but as I've said before if he wasn't like that he'd wouldn't be the front man he is

I suppose it's a way of filling in if there's a spot of equipment trouble, it worked at a Quo reunion gig, something went wrong with an amp or something and Rossi said "on bass Alan Lancaster and on drums John Coughlin" now that did work

I went into my local last night, they'd been advertising a roaring twenties night for months, some sort of disco half set up, nothing happened because of the football, I assume something similar happened here, it's just plain bad management, the footy match has been known about for a year or more. We've had gigs where we've had to wait for the football to finish then played to nearly no one because everybody has gone home at the final whistle, we've also contacted venues and asked whether they still wanted us to play "do you realise there's an important England match on the telly that night?" "oh yeah, we'd better arrange another date" comes the reply, tossers.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1459010079' post='3012843'] It's a toe curling moment for me, whether I'm a part of the audience or as a band member. I just hate it. [/quote] [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1459011667' post='3012864'] Yep, total cliched cheese fest. [/quote]yep I'm with these 2, hate it, it's even worse when it leads to a drum solo and a bass solo

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1459004088' post='3012769'] But have any bass players of either gender shaped modern music, after Jamerson and Pastorius that is. I suppose it's natural that a bass forum would want to talk up the instrument. But while the bass's importance in jazz and rock is undisputed, is it really a shaper? [/quote]Lemmy? Motorhead would not have been the same band with a 'normal' bass player

all american aren't they? always had a soft spot for Gaye Advert

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1458995916' post='3012677'] Our singer has a great voice but she will not interact with the audience. [/quote]it is possible to learn this, I do open mics as well as play in a band and I've learnt a lot from our singer in regards to interacting with the audience, and as someone else said earlier you can have scripted lines that work well, as long as it doesn't sound like you're reading from a script, take him or her along to see a band with a good frontperson, it can be learnt, confidence is a key ingredient

the best frontmen need to be narcissists, like it or not they are the focal point for the band, it's their job to interact with the crowd as well as sing, other wise you may as well listen to a CD

I had an MB 4210 for a few years, good combo, never let me down the only reason I changed was because of the weight, but tbh I've since discovered if you you don't mind anything that heavy get a Trace Elliot combo

[quote name='ians' timestamp='1458907787' post='3012025'] Blimey! Im a Stones fan,OK..my comment was based on a positive affectionate observation....you guys need to lighten up big time OK! [/quote]not wishing to get into an argument here but I think you need to lighten up, my original post was not aimed at you but to a lot of comments that criticise the Stones for not calling it a day

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1458905628' post='3011994'] People always take the piss out of our institutions. Actually, the Stones often take the piss out of themselves - well not Mick so much, now he's joined the establishment with his knighthood. [/quote]yeah Keef doesn't seem to take himself too seriously an admirable quality I always think

It seems very fashionable to take the piss out of the Stones, but I hope I'm still gigging at their age

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1458897806' post='3011885'] Great, though a budget would be great still. A function band would normally go out with a few thousand ponds worth of kit but a pub band a few hundreds worth so there is quite a range. The biggest decision is whether the sound the audience hears will be from the back line or from the PA. Most pub bands and a few smaller function bands will opt for the former. This leaves just vocals and any acoustic instruments going through the PA with Drums acoustically and bass/guitars through their own stacks. A few bands will put a little bit of kick drum through the PA as well. This is really simple and cheaper (good sound isn't cheap)and can be set up and run without a sound engineer. The other classic set up is with everything going through the PA. This lets you reduce the sound levels on stage with all sorts of advantages but you'll need a bigger PA as effectively it will have to give all the sound output of bass and guitars as well as what it is already doing. Then the on stage monitors will need to be much better as this is most of what you will hear when you are playing. Getting the mix becomes complex enough that a sound engineer becomes part of the equation if you want to exploit your new system fully. That's when you go for a digital mixer. Smallish implies you will go for something without bass bins? That means probably keeping bass and drums out of the PA where possible. The simplest system would be to have active speakers and active monitors, with a passive deck, that means a mains lead to each speaker and monitor. If you genuinely want to reduce mains leads then an active desk with passive speakers will reduce the mains leads by two. Using passives and amps will increase the spaghetti but that will all be concentrated in one corner. One trick is to use the same speakers for mains as for monitors. A couple of 12" mains and a couple of the same speakers for monitors means in an emergency you can swap speakers around and use a monitor as an emergency PA without any loss of the audience's experience. You could even carry a single spare which would act as either monitor or main. A couple of RCF's or K12's etc will handle most PA requirements and make great monitors, but at a price. You are going to need at least 16 channels for mixing but make sure those are mic channels. Stereo channels aren't always useful unless you run a separate drum mixer. I use a Yamaha mixer but Mackie, Soundcraft, Allen and Heath all make good kit. I'd probably look at digital mixers now though, but you'll need some technical expertise to get the most out of them. [/quote]very sensible advice there I'd say

I've got a zoom B1on, only about £40, you can spend hours messing about with it, finished up just using 3 settings, all variations on the overdrive setting with EQ, slight overdrive most of the time, a Stranglers setting, bit more overdrive, and a Motorhead setting, a lot of overdrive lol, but it really does practically everything, but in the end I finished up deciding bass players don't really need a load of effects. I play in a punk covers band btw

My band use a yamaha EMX 512C with 2 wharfdale 15" titans and 2 unbranded foldback monitors, vocals (3 mics), bass drum and guitar through it, easy to set up does the job

I'm not familiar with this software, but assuming you can't increase the volume on your final mixdown, compression and limiting could be the answer

[quote name='gelfin' timestamp='1458682628' post='3009885'] I'm always happy on stage. [url="http://s970.photobucket.com/user/gelfin5959/media/5454_119420366233_706761233_2464116_2394269_n.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote]shades that's the answer[attachment=215303:running horse.jpg]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1458682833' post='3009889'] If you time your auctions carefully you shouldn't have to pay any listing fees. I've been selling stuff on eBay for about 10 years now, And I don't think I've ever had to pay a penny in listing fees, as there are always list for free offers. [/quote]it's not listing fees, nobody pays them these days, but you do pay a selling fee which is payable when you except an offer

thing I don't understand is the last 2 times it's been listed it says 'best offer excepted' so why is it being re listed and has he paid ebay's selling fee? or has he excepted a shill bid of say 1p? if so what's the point?