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We disagree. To me the 'driving' is coming from the ebb and flow of the thematic keyboard part. Everything else is along for the ride.
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I really dislike that expression, ''serving the song''. It should always be the bloody bass that works. If it's too flashy and distracting fire the showoff prick and get someone else. In this case all the simple parts are most of 'the song' and the bass is but one of them. The singer sings his little ditty over it. Magic. Bass driven it ain't.
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Nearly anything in the old 410 610 810 style beams horribly. Barefaced are a notable exception as they low pass one side of their cabs so directional frequencies only come from the other side in a vertical column. That gets you away from the comb filtering. There are 3 way cabs that split the frequencies and much improve dispersion over full range drivers. The distance to each 'side' of a driver varies with the angle it presents to us enough to get a cancellation. The larger the diameter the lower the frequency / less angle required for the effect to occur. A 215 stack isn't too flash for dispersion. The old aluminum dust caps help to even the score zinging away independently so everyone gets the zing. Upper mids not so much.
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Some VERY good news at last - live music back by the Spring?
Downunderwonder replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Cough. -
Some VERY good news at last - live music back by the Spring?
Downunderwonder replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Cough. -
Some VERY good news at last - live music back by the Spring?
Downunderwonder replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
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Some VERY good news at last - live music back by the Spring?
Downunderwonder replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Some things to consider. To go zero you need a very well supervised border. The UK and Ireland could yet go that way. If the UK petrie dish experiment goes pear shaped you could get a new even gnarlier variant than Delta with a sufficiently modded spike that evades all the vaccines. That would effectively be a groundhog day for Covid but on a different continent. New South Wales is in the kaka no doubt. They won't be out of some kind of lockdown any time soon for sure. Too much non compliance, and leaving it all very late at each stage of concern. The rest of Aus stands a chance of getting back to zero and only gets one chance to try. I'll take prospect of lockdowns now over the misery the rest of the world has already suffered! Here has been pretty much all go since July last year. NZ only has to keep it out for a few more months to get everyone vaccinated. -
I see. Scratch that then. The output of the pedals doesn't upset the input of the bass amp so it's not going to upset the mixer either. Except the mixer is getting upset! Something has gone awry in the levels somewhere in the shift from rig to PA.
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Only because he's a master of looping his own beats and 'bass'.
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Without looking up that particular Eurodesk... Whatever pad is on the input, engage it. Lower the input gain to 9 o'clock. If that doesn't work you are sending too much out of your pedal chain somewhere. Easiest way to find a culprit is take away stuff from the chain. That's not really the proper way to do it but a quick and dirty one. It may be that unit A is overdriving unit B or could be C is spazzing even before your signal hits the desk. It would be helpful if you could find a bass rig. Plug into the fx return and see what that sounds like. If it's a mess you know it's nothing to do with the desk. I fully expect that's the case. Another possibility is a flattening battery in an active bass.
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I'd say find a drum tutor who is versed in Alexander Technique. Or an Alexander teacher who is experienced with musicians. Alexander was a struggling opera singer back in the day when they sang over orchestras with no amplification. He developed an acute awareness of 'use' and 'the means whereby' of the body to accomplish tasks without extraneous effort making it harder than it has to be. His cure was so popular he had to train 'teachers' of his methods.
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Another option is the NXT omni which can be had in 5 strings and is cello scale length having originally been conceived as an electric cello. Slap some skinny strings on and crank them up.
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Ed Sheeran only turned 30 this year.
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Memo missed.
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Yeah, something's not right, you shouldn't need any more gear.
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You either need a backpack for the amp or a gig bag for the bass and you're the next one trip wonder.
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To get the best from it you should first return your amp's bass control to the neutral position ie no boost or cut. Then play loudly and bring up the HPF from the 'no effect' position to where it starts to sound like there is something missing. Then turn it back to where it sounds good again. Leave it there. Experiment with the new change in reaction from your EQ on your amp. Maybe another round of bringing up and back the HPF. Put a blob of blutac on it so it stays put.
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Going from 5ths on violin to 4ths on bass did my head in for a long time. Picking up a violin now feels very strange, like I feel I should be able to play it, but the residual muscle memory isn't near enough. I learned to read bass clef some years on from switching to bass. That took a lot of effort to forget treble clef too.
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Depends on your local market and your marketing skills, available patience to deal with time wasters vs BD's marketing on the shop floor. If say BD can get 10% more than you can privately a lot of people would consider that money well spent in savings on aggravation.
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A 100w Rumble was provided backline on a gig I did last year. I was not expecting anything like the volume that came our of it. It kept up fine with 18 piece jazz orchestra. Tone wise it was nothing like the muddy mess I experienced a couple of years previous from older versions. If playing with a PA supported rock band it would do fine for a monitor for me. On a pub gig not trying to blow the doors out it might even do fine. Very good value for money.
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What was so difficult about checking from your end? And without checking from your end would you have trusted any payment notice anyway?
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The cab and amp I use on less secure locations might fetch 150gbp each. One time I had to leave old faithful at the stage door all afternoon. I was betting nobody would go get a truck to take her away. Nobody did.
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Thomann prices... a different story
Downunderwonder replied to SICbass's topic in General Discussion
Nothing ironic about it. The law says prices can't be fixed, that is all. The manufacturers sell to distributors who sell to merchants who sell to consumers. Each layer under law is free to take whatever margin they need. The end.