TimR

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I’ve just put a fresh set of Bass Centre Stadium Elites Stainless steel strings on my bass. I’m not playing thrash but if I was I’d be putting fresh set on every few weeks. In the 80s we were using Rotosounds. They lost their ‘zing’ very quickly. Don’t forget the spandex trousers.

I agree. It’s way more faff. I think it illustrates that if your drummer is going to do all those things. The last thing he’s going to do is check a metronome. In 35 years of gigging I’ve never seen anyone use one live and only seen drummers use click tracks when playing to sequencers. A song should breathe. Light and shade, and slight shifts of tempo.

No point in having a metronome in that case then. 🤔

Unless everyone comes in together, a count in by anyone is pretty much surplus to requirements.

The guitarist started a song off far too quickly on Saturday night. By the time we got to the chorus the drummer and I had pulled it back to a sensible speed using a mixture of raised eyebrows and accentuated head nods.

Thanks. StewMac have them new for under £50. Seems both the Warwicks and Ibanez also suffer from random snapping as well. That’s crazy.

One of my machine heads broke many years ago. I bought a set and replaced just the broken one. The E string. Kept the others a spares. Last night I had another failure. Again with the E string. The post just shears off at the bass. Seems to be cast aluminium. Not the best design. The fault seems to be over time the tension in the string pulls on the post and must strain the gearbox or something. All the other posts have about 90 degrees where the tuner is very tight. The rest of the rotation is free. I’ve now replaced the D and the G and obviously the E but that leaves the A as I’ve already used the spare ‘A’ tuner on the E string (if that makes sense) The tuners are handed for top and bottom. The bass is probably 15 years old. Anyone else seen anything similar? Should I just order another set or upgrade somehow with a different manufacturers? Any suggestions welcome.

When my tuner broke I had to order a pack of 4. They weren’t hugely expensive and they come ‘handed’ for the top and bottom. To be honest with you, another Of my tuners broke last night (I’m about to post another thread) but you’d be wise to replace all 4. The other tuners on my bass aren’t right, they have tight spots. I’m guessing they have worn internally over time.

No it couldn’t.

My worst experience regards timing was when the drummer counted and then proceeded to play Moon River in 4/4. We had ‘learned’ it specifically for the couple’s wedding anniversary for their ‘first dance’! I’ve never seen anyone waltz in 4/4 before or since.

Without a doubt. I spent 10 years in a band with a drummer who tried to play everything too fast. It was hard work holding the tempo down. One gig was so bad that I gave up and went with the flow. By the end of the song the singer was glaring at him as she couldn’t sing any of the words. It wasn’t until I did a few dep gigs that I found out how proper musicians play. I left the band pretty soon after. Although I played a dep gig last month where the drummer was speeding up in a lot of songs towards the end of the gig. I put that down to his age and getting tired as he’s normally spot on and it was fine in the first half.

It’s whoever starts the song that sets the tempo and everyone’s job to keep time. If a song has to change tempo then anyone should be able to do it. It’s all about communication. If everyone is following a stubborn drummer then the song won’t breathe.

One band I was in was booked having been seen in a pub. The bride’s family all sat on one side of the room, the groom’s the other side. The only activity on the dance floor were kids running up and skidding along the polished wooden floor on their knees. Afterwards the groom came up and thanked us for an awesome night. No one from either family ever danced and we had been booked because we put on such an entertaining show that they could sit and watch.

The only 2 really bad gigs I’ve done have been venues with tiled floors. The first was a dinner and dance in a golf club. The singers mum was in attendance and had drunk plenty of wine and all I got all night was abuse from her that she couldn’t hear her daughter. The room acoustics were appalling everything was mush and there was nothing we could do. Then a couple of years later we opened a Porsche garage one evening and played in the sales area. Hard tiled floor. Awful. Other than that a gig is a gig.

80’s cheese wasn’t even acceptable in the 80s!

It seems quite common in lots of amateur bands I watch. It’s quite a skill to play in a band and sound like a band rather than a bunch of individuals playing parts of a song in the same room. Supergroups would come under the same umbrella. Taking the most talented (and often egotistical) members of several different bands who have never worked together and putting them into one band is a recipe for disaster.

@mcnach yes. Higher than low. In whuch I would include mids. Notching out a frequency around 120hz on the bass to make room for the bass drum might help the bass drum to be heard without having to turn the bass drum up ridiculously loud in the mix and hence overpowering the bass guitar.

If it sounds fine isolated once it’s recorded then it’s whatever you’re doing to the mix. Most of the bass definition is in the higher frequencies.

I have 3 band EQ at my fingertips on my bass. That’s nothing like having it on the amp or a pedal. It makes a big difference to be able to control on stage/room sound like that.

You will start to hear distortion from the preamp well before (hours) the battery dies. In my experience, they don’t just suddenly stop working.

Yes. 7.6v is what most batteries deliver under load. Could always replace the standard volume control with a push/pull (on/off)/ volume control.

In fact the 3 only has pre amp volume whereas the 6 has gain and volume. So I don’t see how “all controls” can be set the name. The OP doesn’t say whether the DI is taken pre or post eq.

Why not? If the preamps are different why should having the dials set the same have the same result?

They have different preamps. The 3.0 is a MOSFET and the 6.0 is an 12AX7 tube.