skidder652003

Wow never had anything remotely like that, rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal keeps it all tight, we rehearse every Wednesday even if we’ve been gigging all weekend , we know our PA inside out and any work about in the event of equipment failure, 10 years gigging in this band 400 odd gigs and nothing like that thank goodness!

Thanks for that, when I used to record just the audio on an older zoom, I could load the track into my DAW of choice and master it with certain VST's to greatly improve the overall sound (vintage warmer, Isotope, etc). Is it possible to master the audio in iMovie, I have a mac and a PC so I could use other editing software such as Logic Pro which I have access to but I've never done video editing before so I'm not sure!

About to pull the trigger on this one, for shooting vids at gigs to upload on our FB and youtube pages, anyone got one? I'm not splashing out on the 4K version when it all gets rendered down for social media and apparently the older version works better in low light stages as it stops down to F2 rather than 2.8 on the 4K version. Just wondered how people found them, and can you edit in say Garageband? Cheers! https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Zoom-Q2n-Handy-Video-Recorder/1R3L?origin=product-ads&campaign=PLA+Shop+-+GENERIC&adgroup=GENERIC&medium=vertical_search&network=google&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=81777d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=270628808326&gclid=CjwKCAjw7O_pBRA3EiwA_lmtfiv-y03qNEqPJQjinjCGotZ7NkidJAGkBum6Hsqb4IK_GAQec218ZxoC7ugQAvD_BwE

Slap..the tumbleweed of basschat!

Their rusty bucket sounds dreadful!

pretty much the only reason I keep playing bass is for gigging, can't see the point of it otherwise. Guitar I could happily play at home or with mates around the campfire but the bass is an ensemble instrument IMO and only sounds decent in the context of a band. That said, I could listen to Bobby Vega play solo all day so Im talking tosh really, but the general rule applies!

If I lost my basses and had to start again on that sort of budget I think I'd seriously look at the Sire Marcus Miller range, never tried one but folk rave about them on here for bang per buck. There's one here for under £200 which is silly money https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-marcus-miller-v3-4-string-in-black-v34bk?lgw_code=16284-V34BK&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjrvpBRC0ARIsAFrFuV9W7vlETuIIqOrGBAE96pKpCvVQ7FBqxPKy1U_uAsuNpp3fP2j1igQaAv7vEALw_wcB

at least they didn't call it a D-Rik.

Dropped a few venues over the years, usually if they're really poorly attended (and I mean really quiet), horrible landlord, a bit rough, rubbish money, and especially if they have a bad load in/out. We now have about a dozen established venues we play regular gigs with, the excitement comes with finding a new venue to play in a new town or village.

Done as well

easy, can i say what it is?

great stuff

I've got JJ's in my SVT, very happy with the result.

Tom Misch last night in Bristol, I was by some distance the oldest person there, decent enough band, far too heavy on the bass sub (what a surprise) and Misch had the personality of a lobster, but the kids seemed to love it, some chap called Loyle Carner (?) showed up as well, not a clue who he was but everyone went nuts, felt very out of place!

If it's just for fun and recording at home (as it says in the OP) then reaper will be fine, with regard to bundled effects and instrument plugins, there are 1000's of decent quality free ones available as VST's should you need them.

you're welcome, btw I'm loving the jazz

seeing Tom Misch in Bristol tomorrow (lads birthday present) but I'm quite looking forward to it!

Reaper...someone will be along to agree or not. It's cheap and you can demo it for completely free until you decide you want to pay for it. It can be as simple or complicated as you want but I've used loads of DAW's and this one was the most stable, If you had a mac I'd have said GarageBand, that's even better but Reaper for a PC is ace.

new strings? Made a huge difference to my tone, got some DR highbeams, happy again.

Red Clay by Freddie Hubbard, insane playing

you could get a nice gypsy style caravan for 4K, pretty similar.