PaulWarning

I agree, I use different settings for home practice with headphones, it's a different ball game entirely when using a bass rig at volume in a band situation

or, if your knobs are ones with a flat side to them, just take a photo of them with your phone (just thought of that) if your PA speaker cables are identical and you daisy chain them put some tape round the ends of one of them to stop you mixing up the PA speakers and the monitors, otherwise you spend a lot of time wondering why the mixer adjustments are doing odd things

I was using the Zoom 160 comp, threshhold on -32, ratio 5 (5:1?) gain 6, soft knee and level on 100, which means is the neutral setting, mostly.

tried a compressor at a gig last night, in front of the sansamp bass drive sim on my Zoom, then switched it off after a few songs, my sound was clearer and more dynamic with the compressor off, doubt if the crowd noticed, but I did, so I guess the bass drive does enough compressing for me

stuck record here, Audacity is free, I tried transcribe on a 30 free trial and found it didn't do anything I couldn't do with Audacity, the only thing it did better was it was clearer when you got slower that about 35%

you can just select the bit you want press shift then play and it'll keep playing in that loop

doesn't Audacity do the same thing?

got to agree having a front man with personality is most important, and I always say if the band don't look like you're enjoying it how do you expect the crowd too? even if you can't jump around a lot there's nothing to stop you dressing up a bit, black T shirt with some bands name on it, scruffy blue jeans and dirty trainers just don't cut it IMO, if the level of musicianship is excellent but there's no show a disco would do the job

ah, you've sussed me, I haven't actually used one live yet, all this talk of you can't really hear what a compressor is doing prompted me to check if you could see what it was doing , I really must give it a go

it is a bit extreme just realised hard knee was switched on, the other settings were threshold -32 ratio 5:1

I've just recorded this with my zoom B3 (it's the intro to Tube Station) both with the bass drive sim on but one without the 160 comp compressor and on e with it on before the bass drive, the bottom one is compressed

they're probably doing you a favour then

apparently so

you don't say how long it's been 'sitting' at the retailers, as with all these consumer laws 'reasonable' is used a lot, a huge grey area, why don't you ask the retailer for the loan of an amp till yours is repaired?

record sales have been in decline since the hey day of the 70's way before streaming, it has become harder to assess popularity of music because of streaming, but venues are closing because they can't make money out of music, because not enough punters want to attend, simple as that

+1, live music is in decline (well Rock is), the next generation, with a few exceptions, don't have the passion for it anymore, too many other things in competition for youngster's attention these days, the fact that record sales have been in decline for a long time now must say something

I would have thought it was simple, if you think compression does something and you like it, use it, if you think it does nothing, or you don't like it what it does, don't use it, I really don't see the point in one camp trying to convince the other by starting to insult them, me? I can't tell what they do but I use a sansamp bass drive sim so it's not surprising

it's happened on occasions when someone has asked to join in on a song, they're always terrible, then you can't get rid of them, our singer's a bit of a soft touch when asked and normally will give them a go, (fortunately his partner is very good at dealing with drunks) , I always say, if I get asked, we're not karaoke that's next door

so on it's own it's only 50 watts louder (which is next to nothing) than the Rumble 500, bit strange

anybody compared the zoom bass driver sim to the sansamp? because that has a mid control late edit, on mine I have bass on -10 treble on -10, presence on -10 and mid on 0 as I want a bit of drive without affecting the EQ

all this it true, I used the word 'just' to emphasise the point that there's no digital black magic going on here just someone deciding what multi fx settings you need to achieve a certain sound, nothing wrong with that, Trace Elliot were doing it years ago with their pre shape buttons

forgive my cynicism, but aren't amp modellers just preset EQ with a bit of distortion in there if needed, and, if say you're modelling an Ampeg SVT doesn't it matter what you are actually playing through as well? I know that doesn't apply in this case because the modellor is built in

Good man, if you can't come on here and have a good moan what's the world coming too? Incidentally, we kept things on good terms when the our Drummer and Guitarist left, we've used them both as deps since, so you're right, never fall out with someone unless it's unavoidable you never know what the future holds

announcing stuff on Facebook without clearing it with everybody first is bad form and leads to difficulties all round, but some people don't seem to have any idea about good manners, if you want to do the gig they want you to do, do it if it fits in well with you, if not or you feel badly let down tell them to flip off

yeah I do that for our guitarist, admits he can't sing but doesn't stop him trying, at a gig recently I kept turning him down all to no avail, still too loud, at half time I found out we'd mixed up the the usual inputs on the mixer, I'd been turning myself down