PaulWarning

I think you were probably comparing apples and oranges, if you'd compared Clapton to McCartney then fair enough

I may have answered that in the previous post

you ought to do a cover of (insert name of a song here)

with loads of bands the sum of the parts is far more then the value of the individual members, I agree that Macca has achieved very little since the 70's and Lennon and Harrison's solo work was patchy at best ( Ringo has done ok for someone who couldn't really sing or write songs 😊), in that respect they are like Clapton

the Beatles aren't like Clapton at all, they broke up at the end of the 60's, who knows what they would have achieved if they'd stayed together?

I've had enough of Silly Love Songs, just a shame he doesn't follow his own advice

my Trace has a clipping warning light, with a passive P the gain is on full and it still doesn't come on, they advise having the gain as high as you can, personally I like a bit of dirt so it suits me, if you like a clean sound use the gain as the volume control with master on full, there's no right and wrong way.

and zero feedback

i had similar issues, you can adjust the audacity latency, google it

well it sounds like you are going to have to breathe for the rest of the band, they don't seem that bothered, or they don't like your songs but are too nice to say anything, maybe you need a heart to heart gloves off conversation with them

as others have alluded too, my take is you need to send out completed songs and not so many of them, just complete 2 or 3 of the best ones and then send them out, and give everybody chance to learn them before the next rehearsal (you may then get suggestions for improving them), the singer sounds like he hasn't got the creative ability to create lyrics or a melody line, it does happen, Fergal Sharkey never had anything to do with the Undertones songs

I'm not sure keys have different characteristics, but they can certainly alter the feel of the song, we've dropped some songs because we had to change the key so much for the singer to be able to sing them they just didn't sound right, but that's more to do with the singers vocal range than the change of key, bit like Led Zep songs don't sound right if sung by somebody with a baritone range

it's a tough call, you don't really get to know what they're like for a while, our last guitarist seemed a great bloke, to start with, turned he'd got mental health issues and went into fits of depression when we had a less than perfect gig

at the moment its' Dancing with Myself, simple but effective, the way I like to think of my bass playing 😁

I think it's going to be down to what sort of band you are, if the audience normally sits down quietly at tables the gigs will start sooner, but if you're a raucous rock act like us gigs are a long way off

I listen to spotify at home when I'm doing something else ( the discover Weekly is good, mostly) and some oldies station in the car when talk radio gets on my nerves, can't remember the last time I put a CD or LP on and just sat and listened to it, I get bored after about 5 minutes, occasionally I'll try something like 6 music but I like so little of it it soon gets switched off. So I do listen to quite a lot of music but not much I don't already know

The Undertones, You've Got My Number, one of favourite songs, ever, all you seem to hear is Teenage Kicks

the internet is slowly killing off all print media, it's just a natural progression, we don't stand still otherwise we'd still be reading stone tablets. The Razzle comment made me smile, when I was a newsagent I used to sell shed loads of 'Girly' Mags (how unPC), why would anyone buy them now? it's all free on the web.

Best tuner I've got was when Reverb were flogging them off for a quid each including postage, got about half a dozen, bargain, as far as I'm concerned tuners are like watches, if they're accurate why buy an expensive one?

not strictly speaking home recording but I'm putting together a live set of ours, recorded from the mixing desk, problem is we didn't have a crowd mic so the cheering between songs sounds weedy, any tips on adding appropriate crowd noise

I think most of the rules are just guidelines, at least half of the 6ish pubs I've been in didn't take any contact details

thanks for that, I never realised (I doubt whether the Ramones did either), I just count 11234 four times, always thought it was a bit odd but it all comes right because it equals 20 beats or 5 bars of 4/4, it also caused a fair degree of discussion in our band as well, we had to play the record to the guitarist several times till he reluctantly agreed I was right 😁

I've pondered this question as well, I assume the 'Q' setting depends on how many EQ controls there are, for instance my Trace Elliot GP12 must have a narrow Q range but a simple Bass Mid and Treble amp must have a wider one, of course I could be talking bollocks

just started playing this with the band and I was thinking a similar thing as I was doing the backing vocals the other night

I use audacity to raise the pitch by an octave and slow it down, really makes the bass stand out, agree with @SpondonBassed about what seems right today won't seem right tomorrow, as long as it sounds right nobody will know anyway