Beedster

Mine hasn’t paid for itslf in gigs but in reduced cost of therapy 🙏

Music is an aesthetic and increasingly the visual and audio components of that aesthetic diverge; modelling instruments, convenience instruments (e.g., EUBs), real time audio correction etc all take away so much authenticity. A nice big Ali bass puts a whole load of it back in the mix, metaphorically and literally 👍

Likewise mate 👍

They have a similar effect on an audience as does driving down the street in a 50’s Chevvy on a bunch of pedestrians. takes people back to a different time and place, which given that’s often why the audience is watching the genres in question in the first place, it just adds to the feeling ❤️

Subscribed 👍

I do quite like the Bace though 👍

64/90 are strings in a symphony orchestra apparently

100 was probably an overestimate 🤔

Of course but the question was about acoustic - not amplified - volume, and this will be low. It’s why string sections are the largest in the orchestra, takes close to a hundred of them to keep up with the much smaller brass and woodwind sections, plus when strings are pizz the rest of the orchestra tends to have to play rather quietly. A section of cellos can be pretty loud, but a single trumpet probably wins on volume 👍

Sums it up 👍

But yes, we need a PA and live sound section for the reasons already mentioned 👍

Sorry Jack was a slow Friday night 😕

I was thinking through the rights and wrongs of this last night, largely because it’s so common and about so much more than just an annoying few - in fact a lot of us probably either do it or have done it (there’s a thread on here somewhere about what well-recognised basslines we like to play at gigs). So I thought I’d shift genres and pictured an orchestra performing Wagner, and between the 2nd and 3rd movements a French Hornist kicks in with a solo rendition of the famous last movement of Mozart’s last Horn Concerto. Would be fired on the spot 😆

Orch stringed instruments tend to be a whole lot louder bowed than pizz so I doubt this pumps out a whole lot

As a DBist I thought this section was about live sound or have I misunderstood?

Yep, similar issue with a singist a few years backc, used to do impressions of a Memphis-based rhinestone-clad cheeseburger-munching Jailhouse-Rockin’ performer between songs in our otherwise bluegrass set. Used to make me so so SO angry. Funny how the ‘But people seem to like it’ argument was also used …………

I suspect it's a definitive watch for any bass player, whether you like the music or not. To me it's not unlike Some Kind of Monster, less about the music than the people