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Sea green and refurbished (originally fluorescent orange apparently). Looks a really nice guitar. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003-bass-/160472523795?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003-ba...ents_Guitars_CV[/url] and another 4003S for sale from the same seller (in cream) [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003S-bass-/160472525925?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003S-b...ents_Guitars_CV[/url] Apparently her husband has died and used to own a bass shop.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='933710' date='Aug 23 2010, 02:31 PM']It looks like you're on the Oxman stage at 12:30pm on Saturday. Backline bass amp will be a Hughes & Kettner 300w head and an Ashdown 2x10 cab. I was thinking about bringing my own backline but tbh for a half hour slot I don't know if I'll bother, but I need to find out what they've got on the other stage we're playing on first... Edit: To answer your questions in the other thread: They request that you arrive 2 hours before you're due on, at Gate 4, and that your whole act arrives at the same time. The main contact in your band should've received all this info by now but I can email it all to you if you PM your address (can't find a way to attach files to a PM).[/quote] Cheers for all that info, TNIT: I guess I just need my bass and bits then. I'm sure Steve's got it but has yet to pass it all on. Which is your band and when / where are you playing?

Okay, my band (Mambo con Rumbo) are opening the Arts Barge stage at the Galtres Festival in Easingwold, nr York. The following weekend we're closing teh One World stage at York's Peace Festival in Rowntree Park. We're not getting much info back from the organisers about what to expect equipment-wise. So I'm wondering - should I take my own monitor to each gig, just in case, or should backline be supplied? I don't fancy lugging a 15" combi across a field unnecessarily and I can't imagine that a two-day festival is really going to be wanting every act to be taking it's own gear on and off stage between sets? Anyway - I'm a festival virgin, so I'm hoping some of you more experienced guys and gals can fill me in on what I should do. Just bring my bass and music or the whole shebang?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='931761' date='Aug 21 2010, 11:24 AM']We're on at Galtres too, really looking forward to it. We were supposed to be doing some collaborative stuff with the Arts Barge guys but not sure if it's going to happen now, it's been left a bit late. Hopefully be there in time for your set on Saturday. [/quote] Yeah, we were asked if we could supply between-act music for their cabaret set. As we're on at 12.30 though and the cabaret only starts after 7pm we couldn't guarantee everyone would be there and they were very fuzzy as to what they wanted (and me and the pianist weren't confident enough to just busk) we said no. However, our saxophonist and our timable player / percussionist are going to be helping out later on, so you'll get to meet them (Dom on Sax, Steve on banging stuff). Now I'm waiting to find out if we get wristbands / and or a separate entrance so I know how early to set off. Also as this is my first festival, should I bring my own backline monitor? If acts are only playing for 30 minutes, it would seem mental to be constantly putting stuff on and off, but I want to be able to hear myself. Maybe I'll take it and leave it in the car if needed (same with the Peace festival on Rowntree Fields on Sept 5th).

Just finished the Baby Charles version of The Arctic Monkey's track "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (which I've arranged for a salsa band, rather than the Afro Beat funk of the original recording). Have to ask - what tools and techniques do you use to bring up the bass tone?

First festival, don't know what to expect. First act on the Arts Barge stage: Mambo con Rumbo. If you're there, take a look. We're also closing the One World stage at York's Peace Festival on Sept 5th. linky thing: [url="http://www.galtresfestival.org.uk/"]http://www.galtresfestival.org.uk/[/url]

How's it done? Do you write to them? Do they find you? Do you need an agent? I'm thinking especialy the bigger ones that are full of small bands filling in time between the big acts. Also what's the pay like? A decent fee? Just free entry? Not even that? Wondering, cos I'll be visiting WOMAD this year and was curious as to how places like that and Glasto fill up their roster of acts beyond the big names.

Specifically, anyone got views on these two? [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0825613426/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0825613...=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE[/url] Beginning Bass Scales and [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0634079018/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0634079...=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE[/url] Bass Guitar Fretboard Roadmap I'm considering buying one or both and wondering which is better (or maybe another I've missed out). I already have The Bass Handbook (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bass-Handbook-Complete-Mastering-Guitar/dp/0879308729/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277740438&sr=1-1) but I was looking for something smaller.

Mmmm - a couple of bad reviews. Everywhere else seems to give the Amplugs glowing praise. Anyone else got anything to add before I buy / don't buy* one? *delete as appropriate

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='823556' date='Apr 29 2010, 11:27 PM']That advert says it's a *passive* DI - are you sure it needs a battery/phantom power? G.[/quote] Sorry - the advert was put up as an alternative and I was wondering why the Di100 was so much better that THAT one.

I'm about to buy one of these because everyone seemed to recommend it for the price. But I have a couple of niggles, with it being active. a) how long does the battery last if it's not getting phantom power? Will I be changing it every gig or once a year? what happens if it's running on battery power during a gig and the battery conks out? No sound? - bad sound? - Reduced sound? And what's so much better with the Di100 rather than something a lot cheaper like this (and I'm well aware that the Di100 is great value as it is - as the title says, I'm asking dumbass questions here): [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soundlab-Black-Passive-DI-Box/dp/B000KFVCAW"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soundlab-Black-Pas...x/dp/B000KFVCAW[/url] (I'm not using this in a studio, it's to split my guitar signal so the mix desk at gigs can get the output clean before the monitor amp. We've had a couple of amateur sound engineers with no Di Boxes at all so I want one to chuck in my gig back and have ready)

[quote name='Bottle' post='796534' date='Apr 5 2010, 01:42 PM']And sack the PA guy - who on Earth turns up to do PA for a gig [i]twice[/i] without a DI box? [/quote] The trombonist's dad (I don't 'think he actually has any)

I just need something to have in the gig bag for when the PA guy doesn't come with any (has happened twice recently) - don't need it to be wonderful, just split the signal so I can send separate inputs to the mixer and to my stage monitor.

Just wondering what equipment would be needed to do and if it's a feasible method of getting a decent recording of the band (obviously this would be for personal use, we wouldn't be expecting to get anything usable as either a demo or for release at this point without getting specialist gear in).

I can read music for the piano - I been playing that instrument (badly) since I was about 10 years old - but I have terrible trouble converting that note I know is written down to a position on the fretboard. I know that it only takes practice, but I have to say that it's been put to the back of "things to do" behind learning the entire 100 minute set of tunes, and tabs were easier. I still fully intend to become comfortable reading dots for bass though.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='783587' date='Mar 23 2010, 03:49 PM']haha yeah i know what you mean, i saw skindred last week and this is what they do. It has a pretty good effect although i think it can get a bit weird if you have 2 guitar players and a bass and one of them is a lefty. Sorry.[/quote] Yeah - who could EVER imagine a band like that.

Ach - put this under Gigs, but it probably ought to be here. Someone snagged film from the balcony at our first ever gig. Not the greatest sound recording, but a great night was had by all. We play a mixture of originals and covers, but this is an original composition by the timbale player, called "Africandito".

Someone snagged film from the balcony at our first ever gig. Not the greatest sound recording, but a great night was had by all. We play a mixture of originals and covers, but this is an original composition by the timbale player, called "Africandito".

[quote name='whynot' post='782822' date='Mar 22 2010, 10:05 PM']Just waiting for the usual anti lefties from previous threads to jump onboard now.[/quote] Is there such a thing as an "anti-leftie"? As I said in my OP, I'm left-handed myself - but found that I could play guitar right-handed pretty easily. I was just curious as to the reasons behind people being unable to play a right-handed guitar when both hands were being expected to do something they'd never done before. I would have thought that fretting was more complex than picking or strumming, requiring more strength and dexterity so you'd want your dominant hand there - perhaps if people started off fretting properly rather than playing open-strings they'd think differently.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='782442' date='Mar 22 2010, 11:19 AM'](btw cellos and violins and such believe it or not are actually asymetrical if you didn't know)[/quote] True - although if you're playing in an orchestra and bowing with the "wrong" hand, you're going to cause an enormous pile-up unless you're always going to be sat on an aisle seat.

But .... left handers learn to play the violin and the flute right-handed why can't left-handed guitarists just persevere? I'm just playing devil's advocate here, by the way, I'm left-handed myself and I'm genuinely just interested in why this instrument in particular gets so many left-handed variations made (I know that if you DO play left-handed it feels like there's hardly any, but compared to every other instrument there's an enormous amount of choice).

[quote name='Faithless' post='782371' date='Mar 22 2010, 08:49 AM']And, why does she look to the fingerboard so much? Does she play fretless?[/quote] Every time I've seen her before, she's been playing a double bass so that might explain it.

Just a question from the curious. I'm left-handed, but I play bass right-handed and I've often wondered why the guitar appears to be the only instrument available commercially in substantial numbers in a left-handed version. You don't get left-handed violins, or flutes or pianos or saxophones or accordians, so why are so many left-handed guitars available? After all, when you first take up the instrument, both hands are doing something entirely new so why use a left-handed version, instead of training your hands to play a right-handed instrument? As I say, I'm left-handed, but I've often wondered if this is people genuinely being unable to play right-handed at all, or if it's people thinking "I'm left-handed, therefore I have to have a left-handed guitar".

Okay - when learning a cover version, how do you go about isolating the bassline. Is it merely a case of turning up the low freqs on the stereogram and listening carefully or are there free / cheap programs I can use to isolate the bass to hear exactly what's being played? Then, do I try to pick out the main basslines first and try to ignore the fancy fills that go on? Basically, any tips would be much appreciated. I'd like to hear what your processes are when you haven't got dots or tabs to work with.

I use Cubase LE4 and what you need to do is load the midi and then assign midi sounds (they won't be done automatically). Cubase comes with Halion, which has a range of very basic vsti sounds, but you can add a piano sound to the piano track, percussion to the drums etc and it should replay. Remember, though, that Cubase does come with a manual - the Getting Started one is definitely worth reading. It took me a while to set up my dummy keyboard so it would make sounds.