TimR

It's all about how receptive the audience is. Sometimes you have to work hard to get them on your side, sometimes they're up for it from the off, sometime they don't get going to the second set, sometimes whatever you do won't get them to budge. I find you get to feel how gigs are going to go, but I'm continually surprised. It's a funny game.

I agree. Too many bands trying to recreate the original exactly and failing, or not trying tunes because they can't exactly recreate the original.

I have a DI out of the back of my amp for big gigs. Never had a problem. The other factor is my guitarist has a certain tone and I need to dial my on stage sound to fit with his tone or neither he nor me can hear ourselves or each other. It's not just a case of having 'my sound'. We both understand frequency mixing and know that volume wars just result in louder mush so both work together. I have no idea what the audience hear, just have to trust the sound guy.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1486732320' post='3234181'] I know all of that, but bassists spend lots of time and money to get just the sound they want. Just the right bass, strings, amp, cabs, speakers and pedals to produce there unique sound............and then leave what the audience hear up to the sound guy????? Why not save a fortune and buy a P Bass, a pre amp and in ears, cos thats what the FOH will make your top range kit sound like anyway? [/quote] Because you'd need that gear in the studio and don't want to have two setups for studio/live and you want to at least approximate the sound. I think you do have a point though. Lots of people with completely unrealistic expectations from live sound.

I'd say if there is a sound guy you wouldn't be having this problem in the first place. Isn't this issue only present when you are trying to use your backline to provide FOH sound?

Ok. I looked at the website and went straight for the photos. Being brutally honest with you and I think you have to be ready to take some heavy criticism here if you want to move on. The photos are completely underwhelming. The band are all fretboard gazing. The drummer is looking at the floor. He doesn't need to stare into the lens but he at least needs to get some eye contact with the audience, even if there was no one in the pub, he should have been pretending. Get some lighting. Every pub band has lights. They're cheap, even really cheap look better than nothing. End of. It doesn't matter what the band sounds like, the overwhelming majority of the audience and landlords will be consuming with their eyes. I wouldn't book your band on the strength of the photos and didn't look any further into your website. Sorry but if that is an indication of what you look like when you're playing, you're just not selling the music. Stand up straight, pose, smile, greet the audience. I would hire a rehearsal room, borrow some lights and play to an invisible audience while miming to a backing track and get someone who knows how to take photos to takes some good ones. Sorry if that's a bit harsh and negative. We don't have a website, there's only a few photos on our Facebook. There are some other links in the visitors posts to two photographers. https://m.facebook.com/archerts/ .

You only need to isolate the cab if you are playing on a hollow platform. The cab couples with the airspace underneath which causes the boom. If you can't hear 'your tone' from your back line it may be because you are using a 1x15" or a 4x10" which will be pushing the sound out from below your waistline and the mids and highs will not be going to your ears. I use 2x 2x10" stacked vertically, not because it is louder (most gigs the amp is below 4 on the dial), but because the top speaker is level with your ears. There's a reason 8x10s sound so good. Angling the cab up towards you may make it slightly clearer but could mess with what the audience hear. Lifting the whole cab onto a stand could decouple the bass from the floor and you then lose the bass in the audience.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1486468750' post='3232016'] I agree with this - in my band I compose the music, apart from the vocals - I absolutely don't want a guitarist & drummer deciding to discard my work & rewrite the parts just because it's "their" instrument. They get a degree of free rein to interpret parts - and I'm always open to input & trying different ideas & approaches - but the bottom line is the song's the song and once it becomes a performance or full band recording, [i]everyone[/i] serves the song. [/quote] It's YOUR band though which is quite a bit different to a lot of bands.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1486397297' post='3231432'] Have I got this right, the current bass player can't play the bass parts on the new album? Which begs the question who wrote them - it's normally the bass player in my experience? In which case the problem doesn't arise.... [/quote] Sounds like they've told him he's not going to be playing them and the guitarist will be playing them. I would have left by now.

Just seems really weird to me. They've told him he won't be on the new album but he thinks he is still in the band, and they're keeping him on the current tour. Just doesn't make sense. Why is he even hanging around?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1486392169' post='3231354'] You sitting down with the bass player and "discussing the situation" is the worst advice ever! It's not your place to discuss band personnel or politics. Keep well away from that. It's down to the band what they want to do and they won't thank you for poking your nose in!! And as I say, the guy is gone anyway, so why should you want to give the gig away to someone else when you could be doing it? [/quote] Ah right. I thought they were all mates and knew each other well.

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1486392121' post='3231353'] the OP says the current guitarists will do it.. [/quote] That alone speaks volumes. Walk away while you have your sanity intact.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1486391697' post='3231347'] too many bands put up with average players, and I think bassist is the usual place for it. I was at a gig last night, one band who are doing pretty well at the moment (headline tours etc) are sh*t hot, the singer, guitarist and drummer are all tight as hell and really playing. The bassist couldn't nod his head in time with the weird time signatures. Luckily he had a massively scooped sound and generally played in time, so he wasn't exactly taking away from the performance, but he didn't seem to be adding anything. I guess they'll put up with him forever, but if I was in their locality I'd have told them how sh*t he was and offered my services with no shame. [/quote] Maybe he owns the pa, the van, does the website, organises the setlist, and books the practices and gigs.

I'd go for a beer with the bass player and talk to him. If the band won't do it, at least you're being honest. Other than that tell them you'll do it but only after they have been honest with him. We've all been sacked from bands. There's a right way and a wrong way.

The other thing we often get wrong when learning a complete tune is practising bits we already know. Nail the verse then move on to the chorus, then the mid section. Then put them all together. Repeatedly running through a tune from top to bottom is counterproductive.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1486363978' post='3231048'] You'd be better doing fifteen minutes every day rather than 4 hours once a week. Humans don't learn like that. [/quote] Yes. Practice is basically repeating things you find hard over and over again until they're easy. What are you practising?

This kind of thing? Remove the adding and you're good to go. http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and-Pianos/Adjustable-Keyboard---Piano-Bench-by-Gear4music/8XQ

[quote name='Basszilla' timestamp='1485874615' post='3227400'] I know! According to google I'm about to die! 😂 Seriously though, some people never recover from this condition and they have my utmost sympathy having experienced it first hand! Here's hoping for a recovery in the not too distant future! [/quote] Tinnitus and Pulsative Tinnitus are completely different things. It doesn't sound like Pulsative Tinnitus is permanent, it's not caused by nerve damage.

I've just googled it. Never ever google medical problems. Ever!

"Can you play some Russian gypsy folk music?"

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1485710054' post='3226007'] (1) Playing with an indie/rock/punk covers trio, got a request for the Spongebob Squarepants theme: 'He lives in a pineapple under the sea' etc. ... [/quote] I'd give it a go. In the mid 80s, when Nellie the Elephant had been given the punk treatment, we did a version of Postman Pat. It went down an absolute storm.

Maybe a diagnosis and knowing other people have had it and it goes away will relax you a bit. Get yourself and your partner booked into one of those new age nonsense meditation groups. Pretend it's for child birth techniques and your partner suggested it if anyone laughs.

I get something like this occasionally. Might last a few minutes each time. Seems to coincide with stress and the more I worry about it the worse it gets. Lasts a day or two at most. Sorry not much help. Didn't even know it had a name, thought it was just me.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1485783496' post='3226622'] The Alto bluetooth range is already out there. [/quote] There's nothing in their blurb about ultra low latency. In fact it mentions Bluetooth audio can be streamed from devices such as iPods etc and then says with the mic/line inputs they're ideal for live PA. I think it's very cleverly worded. They may get a few complaints...

Bass players don't do the reviews. They just get some guitarist to do it.