PaulWarning

snapped strings, flat batteries, are to be expected as are cable malfunctions, I always try and have a back up plan in my head to cover all eventualities (like the vocal through my bass amp if the PA packs up) best way I know to make sure it doesn't happen

there's usually one decent tab of a song somewhere it's just a matter of finding it, the annoying thing is that the ones that are utter bollocks get re posted onto other sites, but it's quicker than trying to figure it out myself, once I've found what looks like a decent one I go through it with the song slowed down, basically they're a good starting point

think you have to go to edit profile

never quite got I Saw Her Standing There, can just about do it if I cheat a little, but then, I'm not trying to sing it as well , or play it on a short scale bass

I was convinced the compressor wasn't working on my SMX, so I recorded it and looked at the wav file and it's definitely doing something, subtle in the extreme

no me neither, I'd have said something like "Sorry, when you didn't reply we assumed you weren't interested and got somebody else"

have a Watt on me

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