warwickhunt

Agreed, I have the KZs but moved on to the Senn IE100 because they were an all round better fit / seal (regardless of tips used).

I'm involved in a recent resurrection of one of my old bands and the singer (in his 30's) suggested we do a Velvet Revolver song... Surrender! As anticipated, the guitarist tried to busk through the song and couldn't get the opening chord sorted despite me telling him it was a A# bar chord... but JUST the bar; he also couldn't grasp why you'd key change after the opening chord sequence and then do another key change in verse 3. 'Because it is Cheap Trick and that's what they do!' LOL

Ultimately it's a hard sell! If you want to be a Bon Jovi, Fleetwood Mac or one of the BIG sellers you can find gigs despite there being dozens of similar bands; obviously the better ones command the best and most prestigious gigs. You aren't going to get venues offering to give you more money than a regular covers band UNLESS you are going to pull in a crowd and will Cheap Trick, The Cars, Split Enz or whoever, pull in a crowd? We drove 120 miles to a gig which was 80% of ticket sales to us with an advised ticket price of £10 - £15 (we went for £10). The venue was a well respected rock music venue in Edinburgh and we had good feedback that CT would be well received... we made enough money to cover our parking fees! Gutted doesn't cover it but if folk don't want to come out and pay for a ticket, you are stuffed. We genuinely thought there'd be enough fans in and around Edinburgh to at least fill a 150/200 capacity venue but it wasn't to be! On the flip side we did a local rock music venue for a flat fee (same as any covers band) and we had a cracking night with lots of 'fans' coming out to see us. We love the music we play (especially since replacing the guitar player with a genuine CT fan) and making money isn't important BUT playing to a big appreciative crowd is. We did a big bike rally/festival as our first gig and as the opening band on first night we had a blast (approx 1800 people in the tent) but those moments are hard work, needing good connections and luck! I'd say to do the music of a band you love is NOT hard work but you'll need like minded individuals around you. Oh and we haven't even touched upon just how authentic you want to be.

I'm literally trying to get all of this done now and 'hopefully' it should all work. Let's see if YT works!

One of the easiest songs in the world... for a guitarist to NOT get right!

Ah ha... incompetent promoter is to blame. https://www.dropbox.com/t/sm1cgvbSAO8kSdWT https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m0l90q22yz9f5xamh88g9/2024-08-20-Cheat-Trick-Promo-1.mp4?rlkey=oip4oa4cs57nt14xk2naw6s5z&st=091z1oh3&dl=0 I... sorry 'HE' still probably hasn't got it right.

My first musical love so it was obvious at some point I was going to form a tribute to them! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kaRuKaezzBftF4vxyiztwNAlbEzphIM/view?usp=drive_link

Bassbros & Bass Direct - obviously commission off the price but I sold 9 basses through Will at BB and got more after commission than I would have selling privately.

Been there and T-shirt owned. Best one I've done is supply the guitarist with a guitar rig... guitarists combo went pop toward the end of the first set (we ended the set there) and he announces 'That's it, gig off!' I produced a Hughes & Kettner guitar preamp from my gig bag which I carried as a spare for my bass amp breaking down. He's looking at me like 'WTF do I do with that', so I hook him up to the PA and put him through the monitor. Gig NOT off due to bassists forward planning for eventualities.

I'm pretty much doing as you've outlined and I could easily set input levels etc. but the feedback suppression seemed a good idea... so long as you lock it after initial setting. I've done mixes for my 2 bands in 3 locations (S/M/L venues) and using these as reference. If I know I'm playing somewhere that I anticipate returning to I'll save that as another 'scene'.

I specifically wanted the 'all in one' functionality of the A&H CQ over the usual rack > interface type; considered buying the CQ18 over the CQ12 but the extra outlay for channels I might not need was the decider... possibly wrongly.

Phew not just me then! I have to confess that I also thought that 12 channels would easily cover a 4 person band but we are using every channel now as the drummer has requested a mic to do backing vox on 2 songs and the vocalist is adding acoustic guitar on 4 numbers... hmmmm should have maybe gone for the 16!

The auto feedback feature caught me out the other day! New venue so I set the feedback destroyer to do it's thing, fine and dandy. Started to play and 2 songs in the sound is awful (lacking any depth). Did an on the fly tweak of EQ to boost Low mids but not great. Got the singer to do a number with just guitar and vocal while I dived into the desk for a reset; went into a series of screens and noticed the auto feature was left engaged and it effectively was pulling all the EQ down/out. Reset and left off for the remainder of the set. TBH it was operator error as I should have disengaged the feature after it did the initial setting (it does have a 'live' function which can be used). Just leaving this here in case anyone has a similar issue and doesn't realise.

I dabble on guitar but I do NOT widdle; the duo I play in was going to be called Sans Solo! As such the guitar I've plumped for is a Taylor T5. Looks less like a widdle machine and makes nice noises... perfect for a bassist!

Lovely idea but the person owning that FB page wouldn't like you doing that, so they would delete such posts... from experience.

I've been doing 2 x 45 mins for the last 40 years (I do stuff other than covers) and it is the expectation of every venue I've played; we generally keep 2-3 songs back to do at the end if it's going well.

It does and I suppose they could have put 2 - 16/32/64/Infinity... but I assume that they have to put on the operating range that 'most' bass players will use and that would be 2 - 8 ohms, I've certainly not used a 16 ohm cab in maybe 35-40 years!

I own one of these and it does indeed mean the amp will operate 'between' 2 and 8 ohms.

Surely you can claim against them via ebay?

You would 'assume' so but personally I'd not rule out some other cause; be it cables, the cab, power supplied etc.

As @pete.young has said, your amp is capable of operating down to 2 ohms, often folk will advise against it as it 'might' be near its limits BUT that said it should still be safe! I've a feeling other factors are involved in this sad situation!

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The correct answer is of course... both!

I wish it could be attributed to that but as I'm the bloke lecturing everyone else, I made sure I lead by example and gave it beans when I set the level! LOL It was also the fact it was literally; intro + a few bars... vocals and bass GONE. I'd used the desk with my duo and had assumed the dip in the vocalist level was due to inexperience of her hearing herself through the PA and backing off from the mic. Apparently not and I need to apologise to her.

Yep, pretty much my conclusion. It's then down to me to impress upon folk to be sure to play/sing at gig volumes... and not then increase, which kind of negates the USP of the desks auto feature.