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I thought the girl sang very well - Somewhere Over The Rainbow is an iconic song, she sang it in a style which I personally don't like, but is nevertheless a modern and popular style, and in those terms performed it very very well. She's certainly got a voice. To compare a girl singing live under those circumstances, at the climax of a very emotion day for her, with canonical versions is churlish in the extreme. There are many great versions of the song recorded but none, I'd suggest, in those circumstances.

Bought a Smooth Hound wireless from Jack - not only a simple, straightforward transaction, he also went the extra mile (and beyond!) to resolve a small issue, when he could easily have not done. Definitely one of the good guys on here! Cheers fella

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1496644732' post='3312830'] This, pointing out your plugs/in-ears. Usually works. [/quote] This has been an unexpected bonus of moving to in-ears - it saved me from pissed punters three times last weekend... Although the best one was the hammered girl at a Rugby Club do, who did the clicky-finger thing in front of me during a Foo Fighters song, got annoyed when I didn't instantly devote all my attention to her, then demanded Abba. I politely declined with a "Sorry, we don't do any Abba" to have her point at the Mac on the mixer (we run Mainstage) and insist "No, play Abba." This we repeated this exchange three times until it was clear she wasn't going to understand we weren't some sort of iPod, so I said "Fine, yeah", and she went away. I told our singer, and he introduced the next song with "Not a lot of people know this, but the next one was originally recorded by Abba. This is Rosanna, as covered by Toto..."

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1496424205' post='3311368'] Be interested in which of the MB 121 combos you were using? The only one I'd be a little hesitant in using in a gig situation (without an extension cab) would be the CMD 121p, but the 121 H or 121 AC (especially the latter with its 500W stand alone capacity) should easily deliver the goods in a pub / club venue. [/quote] Woefully late on this one, but yeah, it was the 121p - it sounded uncomfortably farty pretty soon. But then, as I mentioned, I had 3 x Berg 112s, and never gigged with just one...

If you're after a 2ohm small head, give the Genzler Magellan a look, too - they have the same switch (and I'm guessing much of the power amp section will be the same, too), and they're a versatile amp. I used mine with 2 x and 3 x 8 ohm Berg 112s (tho I don't have the cabs any more - in fact I don't use it much now we've gone in-ears/PA/modelling) and a couple of times I forgot to flip the switch. I emailed Genzler the first time in a bit of a panic, and Jeff replied to the effect that it wasn't a great idea, but would probably not do a lot of harm. I'd done whole loud gigs with it in the wrong position, so it can't the end of the world...

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1496420752' post='3311328'] I hope a 112 is up to the job, i've recently ordered a Super Compact to use as an alternative to my Super Twin at smaller gigs. [/quote] Given that in my other band I run a Super Twin up against two JCM100/4x12 guitards, and it easily holds its own (without PA), if there was one 12 (other than the BB2) I'd have confidence in to deliver in a lot of circumstances, it'd be a Super Compact...

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1496420704' post='3311327'] I was fine with my MB 121 combo. I even sold a 15" extension cab as I never used it. But I was usually DI'd through a chuffing big PA. [/quote] Yup, that's the key - I didn't have much PA support - it's a question of how much of what...the function band I'm in have dispensed with backline altogether, so I'm 100% through the PA/in-ears...

I tried a MB 121 combo on its own for a gig, and found it wasn't up to the job. On the other hand, I've played an RAF hangar with a BF BB2 and a Streamliner and it was fine power-wise...YMMV, IMHO, etc, etc. I think you'll find it's a very relative question...

Just remembered (which is more than I did at the time) the joys of flicking a D-tuner down for a song...and then forgetting to flick it back up again for the next one...

We don't rehearse much in the function band (at all over the last few years), but that's just what works for us - we all know each other and every song inside out before we play it for the first time. Since we dropped down to a trio, though, there's been some reworking of the set and new songs, so we've actually had a couple of rehearsals recently. The bottom line, though, is does the band sound good? [quote name='project_c' timestamp='1496232035' post='3309720'] So do I stay with this band? It can be fun, and we all get on, but if the band sounds crap in front of an audience (which it often does) I want nothing to do with it. [/quote] It clearly doesn't, so something needs to change, whether it's the rehearsal schedule or the band, I dunno...

How did you guess?

Played a song not long ago that the singer/guitard uses a capo for. We started, and it was terribly apparent from the word go that one of us was half a step out. He kept shouting "In D!", which is correct, and what i was playing. Unfortunately, his acoustic doesn't have front dots, and with the lights I couldn't see properly, so it took me a verse to work out it definitely wasn't my tuning, and he'd put his capo in the wrong position...D flat it is then...

Dunno about the Eich, but my 300w Walkabout through a Super Twin will happily keep up with two JCM100/412 half-stacked guitards and a monster drummer in a full-on Rawk band without the Master going past ten o'clock... One thing I do notice, tho you'll probably never crank it that hard, is the Eichs are 600w RMS handling, and you're looking at an 800w Subway...as I say, you'll probably never drive them hard enough for that to be an issue...

Played a wedding in the New Forest Friday night, the Best Man wanted to get up with us (he was a harmonica player who 'just happened'to have his harp with him) for a couple of numbers...we agreed, and one of the numbers he called was MS. He turned out to be a very very good singer and player...a great version resulted. All good Oh, and I did four gigs over the weekend, and played SHA...four times...and enjoyed every single one...

A couple, for different reasons: one's an Irish pub in Manchester City centre - it's a long narrow building, the space at the back is just where they've moved the tables and benches to either side to give a very small amount of space. The kicker is the bogs are at the back, just behind you, so you have to leave a walkspace right up the middle through the band (drummer to one side). We did it one Paddy's Day as a trio, and it was...colourful: we went on about five, and most of the punters had been in since eleven, there was a bloke selling packets of meat out of a Tesco bag, and despite having a fairly long Irish set, we were constantly moaned at for not knowing 'My Grandmother's Pig From Tralee' or some other obscure request. One bloke went for a slash seven times in the first set...I started counting after his third visit. As he stumbled through us for the seventh time, our singer told everyone we'd be donating some of the fee to the Prostate Awareness charities...not a titter... The other is a wedding 'venue' up on the tops North of Manchester - it's basically a converted barn: straw in the floor, you can see outside through the gaps in the walls - and their db meter is on the stage, set to Gnat's Fart. Our drummer, a girl on this occasion, not a big hitter, hit her snare once, just as she'd set up, and off it went. OK, brushes, then...woop, the kick set it off, too. This is without any of us plugged in. It was freezing bloody cold (they had two of those jet heaters on the floor) and overall a miserable experience. Oh, and the Social club we played in Scunthorpe, the gig venue is upstairs, a tortuous route up (and bizarrely down) too many flights of stairs, a crowd like Burton's window. Worst bit is the pub below turns into a club later on, so getting out was a nightmare, picking past the bodies littering the stairs, and through a crowd of complete arseholes outside... I've never actually minded playing dives as such, never really had too much mither. I probably spent too much time in them as a kid... Weddings can be a bit lairy, mostly with drunk bridesmaids under the impression that they're Beyonce, but again, yer actual fisticuffs is rare IME...

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1495701272' post='3305910'] DBeriff, I tried the amp again yesterday but using my Alembic F1-x pre-amp with it. What a difference it sounds great everything I want in the sound is there easily. But it's made me think a better solution for me would be resume my search for a good quality affordable Class D 1U Power amp and use that with the f1-x in a small rack. Thanks again for prodding me in the right way. :-_ [/quote] When I dabbled with the rackmount pre/power thing, I found an effective Class D 1U power amp was a Markbass F1 with the rack ears...just a thought...

I dunno about weight being an arbiter of tone...or 70s, per se. I had a 78, all original down to case and ahtrays, and it not only weighed as much as a boat anchor that's let itself go and put on weight, it was also one of the worst, most lifeless basses I've ever played. It sounded...brown. And not a good brown, like you get from a rich walnut; more a runny, beige brown, like you get from a poorly spaniel...

You could start by saying "We all go straight into the PA, use digital modelling and in-ears, I thought you knew? But I could probably hire you some backline if you want me to...let me know your budget..."

I work shifts and on an On Call rota, and I can make it work with two bands...although you quickly get used to promising co-workers the moon on a stick to get them to swap shifts...I got tied down to a 'twofer' deal the week before last: to get Saturday night free, I had to cover two weeknights...

Last time I went to see Whitesnake, they were dropped about a yard so Dave C could keep up. The bassist's E was flopping about like a washing line... If the singer can cope a full step down, you can put a D-tuner on your bass and you're good, but yeah, the guitarist will struggle.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1495102801' post='3301256'] [url="http://youtu.be/N0Wf4RTMU5M?t=3m20s"]http://youtu.be/N0Wf4RTMU5M?t=3m20s[/url] And in the beginning you see a reference to the "Pi" that must be hi's nickname (try calling him mr.Pilichowski out loud). Also the video sub-title is "Bass Shot 2" and in the description of the video the model of the bass is refered to. The guy is just noodling on the bass, he's just like any guy trying a bass in a music store and gets carried away in a slap fest. He has it set with his own EQ and settings as (fom me) it is a signature model made for him, so it's expected that he demonstrates how it sounds with him. IMO, of course. [/quote] While I'm delighted he's got his own signature bass, he's not got his own signature bass sound there - you're right, he does sound like any one of lots of guys I've heard in shops and at Bass Shows (admittedly with more technique than most, but hey) noodling and slapping with a super-scooped bedroom tone. Still a rubbish demo of a bass: it's all about him. Maybe that's the hope, that lots of people will be impressed enough to buy the bass to sound like him. I wish him the best of luck with that.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1495095446' post='3301157'] Feeling sad and rather old all of a sudden. [/quote] This.

And overall, whilst it's clearly virtuosity of some sort, I defer to the best comment I overheard at a bass show: "Is that as hard to play as it is to listen to?"