PaulWarning

What's with the Watts? (below the avatar) Have I missed something, how do they get increased?

must admit I find it annoying when people don't reply, even if it's a "thanks for getting in touch" etc

also the more muso's you've dealt with and the older you get you learn more diplomatic skills as well, me and our singer can have shouting match about something and a couple of hours later it's forgotten, do that with the guitarist and he'll threaten to quit the band, on the whole though we try and stay calm during 'debates' about something and usually manage to reach a concensus that doesn't upset someone too much, I've also learnt face to face is a lot lot better than emails or texts

no, I think the Mods can still see it, but hopefully no one else, but that was always the case I believe, somebody correct me if I'm wrong

this makes perfect sense, try not to fall out you never know what the future holds, and what good does it do really? the two members who left the band I'm in really pissed me off by joining another band behind my back, I bit my tongue and they've both depped for us on two occasions since

sounds like the classic situation where some of the band want to gig more than others for whatever reason, I've been there, it's never going to end well, shame you couldn't depart on better terms, in our situation the guys who were leaving agreed to do the gigs they'd committed too and we agreed not to do any more until a new line up was in place

cheers, I've now been able to delete my duplicate post

Joey Ramone, Don't Worry About Me

I have a MIA P bass and a Squire VM Jazz, I play punk with a pick so gentle I'm not , I've got 2 TE's one an SMX the other one a series 6 and use another at the rehearsal rooms, the gain is on full for them all, I can make the red clipping light come on by boosting the output volume from my Zoom pedal but keep it so the output level is the same if it's bypassed, I thought I was in a minority that's why I asked the question, just wondered if other people set the gain at half way because that seems the sensible thing to do, I used too.

yep, can't see the problem, if you're not in the band for whatever reason why should you have admin rights? when two members quit the band I am in (on good terms)) they reminded us to make sure we remove their admin rights

I suppose this is whether the gain control is to adjust for different levels of bass out put or to overdrive the amp, when he was explaining the overdrive light he showed EQ would effect it, the gain control as I understand it (on Trace Elliot amps anyway) is the first thing in the amp chain so EQ wouldn't affect it, as I said before, I have gain on full and the red overdrive light doesn't come on, any other amp adjustment has no affect on the overdrive warning light

really? I didn't know that, edit, (about the Rumble)

must say I've never experienced this, with several Trace Elliot's and a Fender Rumble or any of the supplied back line amps at multiband gigs, or of course my hearing is so knackered that I can't hear clipping, but on amps I've used with a clipping warning on them (Trace and Ashdowns) it's never shown up

I'm probably doing something stupid but I find it incredibly easy to duplicate posts

have we lost the ability to delete a post? I found this quite useful when I d' said something particularly silly

Don't you have your paradriver set to the same volume as the clean signal? I do that with my Zoom B1on so it doesn't make a difference, volume wise, whether it's on or off

there's a duplicate post, can we stick with this one?

I always have mine full on using a passive P bass (never used an amp where it caused distortion, no red lights on my Trace Elliot SMX head), figuring that I send the fullest signal from my bass to the amp, but I've never seen or heard of anyone else doing this, just wondering what the thinking is behind not doing it, the only thing I can think of is comes from guitar amp gain controls which is designed to cause distortion, not so with bass amps as far as I know

reckon so, quick run round with the vacuum cleaner on a solid state amp and that's about it :-)

I saw them at Bearded theory festival a few years back, felt sorry for the Water Boys, they had to follow them on , I've got the 2 CD's with the new line up, nothing wrong with them, but the first album is a cracker, I look out for them playing near Nottingham but no luck so far, they don't do that many gigs which is probably a good thing, keeps them fresh

dunno, might get the ad more attention and when an amp's being sold the number of times it says "recently serviced", service engineers must be run off their feet

one of the best basses I've ever played, lovely tone,but I've got too many basses so it's got to go........well shouldn't you be selling one of your other basses then?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1510308674' post='3405435'] How much overdrive are you using? If it's more than just a subtle bit of dirt it will be doing the same as most simple compressors anyway. [/quote]I think you're probably right, I use the the sim of the Sansamp bass driver on a zoom B1on set just below where it gets 'spikey' I have tried the compressors with out any overdrive and tbh the difference was minimal, to my ears anyway, which is what promoted the original question, the compressor on my Trace Elliot SMX head doesn't seem to do anything at all, could be broken though. I have seen some BCer's saying they use a compressor to shape there sound, most recently the Greek when reviewing the TE elf, saying "it made the world of difference", just don't see it, and wondered whether I was missing something.

I like all the songs we play, but I did start the band and made sure we were all singing form the same hymn sheet, some I've got a bit fed up with (Teenage Kicks for one) but I liked them all originally, can't really imagine playing stuff I really didn't like

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1510251917' post='3405081'] walbassist is right here. Do the harmonic at the 12th then fretted at the 12th. Open and fretted 12th is not going to give you a good indication of intonation. Re-intonate on that basis and then let us know if it's still got a problem. I think that will sort it...but if it is still a problem, then we can then all pile in and REALLY confuse the issue [/quote]cheers just done that it's loads better