TimR

Usually there is "swing" written at the top by the arranger. Then it's up to the MD to get the band to swing by instructing during rehearsals. If the MD/conducter doesn't know how to groove then the band won't.

The other instruments will all be sight reading. Unfortunately if you're not confident in being able to trip along making the odd mistake and getting the feel for a piece, it's going to be very hard. It's a new environment for you. It's not like playing in a 3-5 piece band.

Did a gig once where during soundcheck the keboard was randomly turning itself on and off. I watched him playing for a while and spotted it was when he was tapping his foot. He was knocking the mains cable, which, on closer inspection, was about to fall out of the plug. So I said I'd open it up and rewire it quickly. To which he said he'd just keep his foot on it for the gig. 🤯 I rewired it.

Looks like he's sidelined that and made it a 200W guitar amp/amp for the 10" PA. I'm a bit confused. Is this bass combo available yet, or is it what's coming, or is it the 200W PA being used as a bass amp?

@devinebass does pop in every now and again. Hopefully he's seen or will see this thread at some point.

"The making of..." documentary.

I seem to remember they were given the scores and some recordings so that they could 'compose' their own solos pre recording.

There was (or is) a bass head in production being funded by pre-orders.

Hopefully it's just the internal fuse. I played an outside gig once where all the gear went completely beserk. Traced the issue to the band being supplied from several daisy-chained extension leads. About 400m in total. A lot of voltage sag when we turned on the lights.

Brilliant IA. 🤣

I think rather than delving into heavy formulas and technical explanations a more simple approach might work. Maybe the mods would make it a sticky, as this thread will eventually just disappear. I thought this was already somewhere else, but have searched. Maybe a Myth/Fact list of all the things that are commonly stated. 8"/10"/15" speakers. Valve/Solid State amps. Speakers in parallel/series. Lowest impedance for an amp. Open circuit issues for valve/solid state. Types of distortion speaker/premap/poweramp and the problems and what to avoid. Power amp manufacturer's figures including THD% at Hz. I don't think any of them really require an in depth understanding of why in electronics terms, they're important. I think that's the part that throws the bass player in the street when they say "I don't understand watts and ohms", it's the application and pitfalls rather than what a watt or an ohm is. More pictures/photos.

People will always ask. There's YouTube, Google and thousands of resources. It's a difficult thing to understand if you can't do maths and physics. And if you can do maths and physics, then you don't need to ask. 🤣 There's many different ways of combining amps and cabs, and the electrical side of that is only of interest to people who are interested in it.

The SI unit for voltage is the volt (V), which is defined as one kilogram meter squared per second cubed per ampere kgm^{2}s^{-3}A^{-1}

Weird. I thought that moving magnets exerted a force on the electrons, causing them to move. That's the EMF. There's no voltage moving the electrons. The voltage is caused by the electrons moving from one place to another. That's why voltage is defined in terms of current, not the other way round. A higher voltage is just where you have a higher density electro magnetic, electro chemical, theromionic field, or capacitive storage.