PaulWarning

just listening to it now through my HI FI, sounds good, nice and balanced, and I'm the first to moan about the bass being low in the mix, even the Vaccines Ric sounded good lol, but you're not going to hear the bass through tele speakers are you? they're worse than they've ever been with these borderless flat screen TV's

I hope all this love for the Rumble is well founded, I've just pulled the trigger on a nearly new one that was on Ebay, pick it up tomorrow.

smoke and mirrors, people will hear a difference if they're looking for it, bit like £1billion speaker cables on Hi Fi's, but to my eyes nothing looks better than a black body with a maple neck P bass, unfortunately for a leftie like me they're like hens teeth, had a stingray with this set up, looked gorgeous but couldn't get on with the tone :-(

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1429200344' post='2749160'] I've used a pick for years, I prefer the sound - of me using one - as when I play fingerstyle, it just sounds a bit of a dull thud. I can't sound like other people! I like the 'cleaner' sound a pick provides, less thump. I do practice it at home, and I have got better, to the extent that when I dropped a pick at a gig, I just finished the number fingerstyle. But for me, I am a pick player. Coming from a drumming background, I just prefer the more percussive feel I can attack with using a pick....I suppose my style will always be a bit like drumming on a bass! [/quote]I too prefer the definition and attack I get with a pick, I've tried finger style just didn't like it but playing mostly punky stuff it's not surprising, I have seen some very good fingerstyle bass players but mostly they just seem to get an undefined thump when playing this way, I did read somewhere where some pro bass players use fingers in the studio and a pick for live work, don't know whether anyone on here can name them, but it does make sense, to me anyway

on the odd occasion I've had to learn a song I don't like (normally I'd say Can't stand that song I don't want to do it) I've just done the bare minimum to get by, I'll only go the extra mile if I like the song, and therefore enjoy playing it, if you're learning it for an audition maybe you should ask yourself why you're bothering if they're doing stuff you don't like.

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1427892521' post='2735501'] They say that the pro 17's cut evenly across the spectrum so I went for those, but I found that with my band they were too much. They willingly change the filters for free in the first 28 days, so I rang, spoke to a very helpful guy who said 15's were the answer as they cut slightly less bass and less attenuation overall, I sent them off and they were back in 48hrs. I've been perfectly happy with them ever since. I was prepared to pay what they cost because I thought I might need to swap them or get advice: I did and the service was great.Once again. you get what you pay for! I have tried disposable sqidgy foam plugs in the past for other things (like shooting) and hated them. These are moulded to fit (via a Boots hearing person included in the price with a hearing test) and are still comfortable at the end of a gig. Couldn't ask for more, really. [/quote]cheers, think I'll pull the trigger, I use Alpine sage pro's at the moment but everything sounds so muffled when I use them, it doesn't help that my hearing loss is around 6K Hz anyway

had a call from an agent last week saying the pubs he deals with were asking him for something else besides classic rock covers bands, so he thought of us (punk covers and originals plus punked up pop songs) Ska and Mod bands are popular too, I do think it's important to try and stick to roughly one genre though, if you try and please everybody you finish pleasing nobody. Sorry bit of topic but sort of related, if pubs put on a diet of classic rock covers bands doing the same old songs folk are going to get fed up

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1427826510' post='2734799'] Makes you feel good though doesn't it [/quote]certainly does

yeah cheat, nobody will know, there's some bass lines I cheated on for years, then learnt the 'proper' bass line eventually, did anybody notice? did they f***

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1427823475' post='2734731'] I had a bad case of sinusitis which made my left ear felt like it was under water. Eventually I wondered if it might be hearing loss from playing, but as I normally stand with the drummer on my right it was puzzling. Fortunately my hearing tested as normal (for my age) and the wateriness eventually disappeared but I invested in some ACS Pro earplugs because it did worry me at the time and I wish I'd done it years ago. I don't rehearse or play without them now, and if we're off to see a band I think will be loud I wear them then, too. When you think of what you spend on Basses, Amps and cabs why would you not spend proper money (mine were around £135) to protect one of the most important bits of kit you have that can't easily be repaired (if at all, in some cases). And like Discreet, I'm not normally a sensible person either! [/quote]do these ACS Pro plugs cut all frequencies? all the ones I've tried (generic fit ones I admit) have cut the upper frequencies far more than the lower ones despite what has been said on here, which means the fashion for having loud bass drums is made even worse, ok when you're playing bass though

I wear hearing aids, my loss is round about 6K, the audiologist insisted it wasn't playing in a band or going to gigs that did it but working in a noisy environment, funny how I've got tinnitus in my left ear then, being cack handed I always have the drummer on my left,

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1427805687' post='2734428'] We play all over the country and there are plenty of paying gigs available to us. I think that people expect the gig venues to remain the same over time, but that simply not what happens. I can only speak for what has happened here in Nottingham, but only a couple of the venues that were active back in 1980 when I moved here still put gigs on, and even just 10 years ago the venues were completely different ones to those operating today. Venues come and go, it's whether the overall gigging scene gets bigger that matter and here there's certainly far more, and far better opportunities for bands than any time I in the past as far as I recall. [/quote]talking of gigs, I see we're playing the same festival soon, Strummercamp

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1427798537' post='2734298'] There are still pubs putting bands on but some I don't know how they do it. A gig prior to Christmas, that I did a gig where for the first set there were a total of 5 people in the pub, the landlord, a bar person and the half a dozen F&F & WAGS we bring along. The second set livened up but it seems a strange thing for a landlord to risk money on in those circumstances.. [/quote]I've wondered this but some landlords get an entertainment allowance from the Pub Co, so it doesn't come out of his pocket, well, not directly anyway, we played a pub recently where they openly said they could only guarantee us £100, that was their allowance, but would pay us more if it went well, in the end they gave us £200

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1427792602' post='2734190'] I think the scene is contracting at the moment as the pub trade is generally contracting. I wouldn't say dying. If you are good and willing to travel a bit, there are as many gigs available as you could want to play. [/quote]yeah, lots of Pubs closing down,Some deserve too, the best ones are doing well, the ones that specialise in real ale, mostly, but they don't tend to put loud live bands on, but pubs don't stop putting live bands on if it's paying them to do so, I've played/been too to many gigs where you stand there thinking how the hell are they making this pay. Having said that lots of pubs don't do their homework, they don't check out the bands before they book them, if a pub has a few bad bands on people stop going, simple. I'm rambling a bit here, basically if a pub is well run they will survive, unfortunately there's too many out there that aren't, IMO it's due to pub companies giving out crap contracts so anybody with any business acumen wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, it might change now the recent law been passed which means they can't be forced to by their beer, expensively, from the pub companies, fingers crossed

and another thing, how come 90% of the time the support bands sound is crap compared to the headliners? not just quieter but the mix is usually all over the place

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1427451944' post='2730469'] Di on the bass never really helps unless you like the sound of your bass plugged straight in to a clean amp. Thats what's coming out front, your sound you created and spent years getting right stays on stage. Unless you fight your corner, hours sometimes on drums, play the bass mate, ten seconds for a level, right on to the guitar for twenty minutes. You have to sometimes collar them and say go get a ****ing Mic and mic the cab up and get the sound I have here out front. Often your sound is a mix of compression and slight overdrive creating sustain you realy on to play certain things. A dry DI, slight fiddle with the desk EQ and you are just a dull rumble with no sustain and there is nothing to put back in the mix to start with. Any sound engineer not willing to help, well not as if there is a shortage these days is it. A lot have forgotten that it is the artistes who are the important people in the room, the sound man has a job to do and that requires listening to the people he is supposed to be working for sometimes. [/quote]that's why I use an FX pedal, to get 'my sound' when the everything on the amp is flat,

am I missing something, what difference does it make? apart from being on the 'right' side of the string when changing to another string, like I start the riff to Babylons Burning with an upstroke, but all upstrokes, I don't get it

went to see the Stranglers last night at Rock City and the mix was great, no bass drum dominating the mix, don't think JJ would put up with that lol, mind you his bass sound didn't sound like him but you could hear it well enough

went to see the Stranglers at Rock City in Nottingham last night, enjoyable gig, but, his bass tone was nothing like I would have expected, they came back for a 2nd encore and did Peaches, sounded bassy and distorted, Walk on By wasn't any better either.

Why? I just don't get it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Fender-51P-Bass-Left-handed-precision-jazz-51Telecaster-50s-70s-custom-/271798769459?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f48781733

I thought the idea of using rehearsal rooms is so you don't have to hump a load of gear about, basic drum kit, PA for vocals, amps for the guitarist(s) and bassist, means an equal split, if someone chooses to bring their own gear that's there choice, still an equal split

frustrating isn't it?, I send posters to pubs via the post if they're too far away to drop them in then turn up at the gig and they haven't even been arsed to put them up, then they wonder why their business is going down the tubes

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1426448043' post='2718160'] I heard an interesting programme on Radio 4 today talking social media, and Facebook in particular. It was reported that the trend to share every part of your life in intimate detail with a bunch of, what are essentially, strangers has been steadily losing its appeal for some time. It was mentioned that younger users are starting to realise that bullying can be an issue and that what they say 'now' may come back and haunt them in the future in both personal and career spheres. Got to say that its something that I've never been tempted to get involved with, but I can be a bit of a luddite when it suits me. [/quote]Our soon to leave guitarist hasn't got the message yet, he was saying on FB the other day it was a quiet day at work so he was in the toilets doing sudoku's, not the sort of thing I'd put on there even if I did post stuff [quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1426449763' post='2718178'] [color=#141823]From Facebook - "We've recently updated the way we measure how many people like your Page. Pages may see a decrease in likes after 12 March, when we removed likes from inactive Facebook accounts."[/color] [/quote] I hadn't seen that, mystery solved, cheers

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1426422188' post='2717838'] I deactivated my facebook about a year ago, by coincindence to this thread my mate said in the pub last night that he has seen quite a few people leaving recently, is facebook losing its crown? [/quote]Well I wouldn't bother with it if it wasn't for the band, most of time it's used by sado's trying to convince everybody else what a wonderful life they've got, when, if it was, they wouldn't be wasting their time on FB, rant over, well I have just got back from the pub, perhaps I ought to put that on FB lol

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1426417703' post='2717776'] I think there's some small print about drummers [/quote]