Buddster

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Yeah we're local, Nailsea based (sw Bristol). Interesting they use a promotion company. I guess it guarantees a quality band

Quite so. A good tape op would write out the song structure with timings and if they were clever work the rough tempo (or find the time for 5 bars, to allow for take up) and add that to the preroll so when doing over dubs the tape would always start from the same place so the musicians always knew where it would start from. Taking pride in doing that right was a pleasure

Just make a note on who takes the longest to get thier sound/lay down thier parts. Just saying...

So we're having a band outting into Bristol center next Saturday as a scouting mission looking good pub gigs to play in Bristol. We're a covers band playing a mixture but mainly danceable pop/pop rock from 90s to current. We've done quite a few gigs outside town, but it's time to break the big time! Anyone got any recommendations where to have a pint and see a band?

Classic band mixing, everything louder than everything else. More than once I've had the situation (as engineer and assistant) where the mix sounded great and about to be mastered, the vocals got turned up, so the the guitar goes up, then the keyboards and then 6 hours later you're walking out into the morning sunshine thinking what the hell just happened!

That's an old one. When using SMPTE to sync 2 24 track machines you soon leant to run from 1:00:00:00 because if you went past 00 the slave machine would spin off backwards trying to make up - 24hrs! I used to work in a studio that ran 3 Alesis ADats in sync. Great in theory but I recon Alesiscused studios as thier R&D dept. Quite difficult to explain to a band at 2am that one of the machines has chewed up the tape and lost the days work! I think for a new band to studios it's quite difficult to understand that playing live and recording in a studio are very different animals. What's recorded is there forever, mistakes and all and it take time to get it right. Otherwise you'll be listening to those mistakes ever after.

Ah, apologies, that wasn't quite clear. Yes, the guy was wrong. Studios are a very odd environment if you're not used to it. I've worked with many new to studio bands as well as seasoned pros. Both will try your patience! It's a very intimidating place to walk into first time and for the engineer /producer social skills are sometimes more important than technical skills.

Or mains leads. I've had "well you're a studio, you should have mains leads", or "i couldn't be bothered to unplug it all"

I'm afraid in this case (and I hate to say it) the drummers right. His need to play how he plays overrides your need to place your mics. Always ask if the mics are in the way. Having said that, he should have asked you if you coud move them rather than do it himself.

I don't need/I swear by a compressor Delete where appropriate

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And the Forum is an amazing building inside

Saw them at the Bristol Hippodrome 5 years ago. Fantastic show. Sat in 4th row. You're in for a treat. They just look like they're enjoying themselves. Tried to get tickets myself but they sold out very quickly. Enjoy

I'm new to the thread but love my funk bass, so will be going back over the pages. Don't think this has been posted.

Just don't turn up with the attitude that the engineer fits one of the above. The same list can be applied to musicians

Yes, kind of. I use 1st finger on E and little finger on D (or A and G). A slight rockung motion between the two to mute/play each string. As Huw says, index low, middle hi. Car Wash is a very obvious example but there's load of disco stuff. It takes practice, thats all.

#5. Buddster (Matt)

@neepheid glad you made it back. Very nice to meet you and your collection of basses. Thanks to Mike and the family Scrumpy, and everyone else involved in the organisation of the day. Nice to put faces to names. Never ceases to amaze me how different we all like our basses. Sound, string hights, shape etc. How one person's setup can be unplayable for someone else. But it was a great opportunity to try different instruments you'd never have a chance to try. Thanks again, was a grand day out.