TimR

It's "The disease of the amateur" Don't worry about working on internal dynamics, note placement, note length. Just play it faster.

Everyone should have some element of practice at home individually with a metronome. I'm not sure there's any benefit to rehearsing as a band to one if everyone is working on their timing during practice.

Ha. I'm not the OP. Assuming you're replying to me. Currently I'm using a Warwick Profet 5.1 for bigger gigs into a pair of 210pros. But something lighter would be good. Think the 5.1 weighs about 15kg with flight case.

I'm wondering about the Gnome 600.

That, and TISWAS were Saturday mornings. I remember doing a paper round with a massive hangover. Getting back. Eating a bowl of coco pops and sleeping with it in the background until the world came back into focus. Unless it was rugby season, in which case 16 year old drunk kids would be beating each other senseless in the cold instead... Ah the 80s...

Right. I'm going to have a good listen to Initial Success. I loved that album and my mum really disapproved of it. So think the 55 year old version of the 14 year old me would really like to see what was so bad about it. In any case it'll be research as to whether he employed the same musicians. 😆

That's good. Really good. AI needs to check my Strava.

Written by BA Robertson and none of them played the instruments.

My money is on the bass player being Alan Jones. Wonder who the musicians actually were.

I don't think music venues are particularly viable in cities like London and NYC. Especially for new original artists. The old Pay To Play system has pretty much been run out of town. If I had a venue in the city I would be charging admission and put on high quality professional bands. People have less money and are choosing where to spend it carefully. I went to see a friend's band in Portland Square last month. I suspect they hired the venue at a loss. Better than pay to play, as you take risk but also no one is skimming off the bottom and hiding the door from you.

Overrated: Heft. Underrated: Thump. YMMV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66993297 Are the BBC reading Basschat?

It's easy to forget that turning on a tap to have clean water isn't normal to a huge number of people.

Needs more dogs and shotguns.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was a great album. The only U2 album I bought.

I've not used this particular mixer but the manual refers to 2 modes. FOH mode in which case the 6 outputs are G1 - G4, L and R. And Mix mode in which case the 6 outputs are Aux 1 - 6. That implies to me you can have L&R for front of house and 1-4 for monitors. Or 1-6 for monitors. In which case you're using it as a monitor mixer and need another mixer to deal with FOH. Anyway, it's Allen and Heath, that's a high end mixer as already pointed out nearly £1600 new and with 14+ channels a tad overkill for a pub band. Most pub bands are going to be using a Soundcraft Spirit at most expensive or behringer/Yammah equivalent.

We are taking about a pub band. So 2 aux and 2 mains is pretty much all you'll ever need. Anything else is people being premadonnas.

Looks to me that aux 5/6 can either be linked to the mains or the groups. But not both and there is no 5/6 output.

That's still a 4:2. If you're using the 2 as mains, it's 4 aux.

You'll be hard pushed to find a practical live analogue mixer with more than 4 AUX outs. I had a mixer many years ago that had 2 pre fade and 2 post fade aux, but in those days only used the 2 pre fade for monitors.

It shows that it's just an advanced Google user. Copying what's been done before and changing bits it. You've got Summer of 69, Summer Nights, Summertime and probably some other stuff I don't recognise. Anything conscious or with real world experience would realise that it looks obviously copied. However, some bands have got away with reproducing entire songs from history and passing them off as their own. 😆

There's a whole dedicated thread to pedal boards.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/rolls_pm_50s.htm?glp=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw9-6oBhBaEiwAHv1QvDDWDiEebifCWyBcFU6YK_3mYp-g-zurYd0t0X9lIqp6EvYB6Yy_2BoCVmQQAvD_BwE

Looks like it will do what you want.

I suspect its very good as a tool to get creative juices flowing. In the same way as a drum loop can prompt a bass line. David Bowie used to write random words on bits of paper and pick them out of a 'hat'.