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We played the Apple and Parrott in Torquay last night. They have their own PA, lights and sound guy which is great. I also park at work which is a 1 minute walk away. It started off a bit quieter than usual but really kicked off in the second set with the audience getting right into it. It was mostly the guys going for it, and a couple of them had some nice words to say afterwards. The sound out front is great, but the stage sound is aways odd. They were a monitor down and it was difficult hear the guitar. Even he was struggling to hear himself. I could hear myself ok but not so much through my rig, but the PA itself, which was pretty epic. At the end of the night I took some of the audience. Another fun night.

Our band Slytherin were back at the coach house in Paignton last night, our favorite venue. It was busy from the outset and as the night went on the crowd were getting right into it and there was plenty dancing and singing along. At the sound check our guitarist thought he was feeding back in the monitors, so we lowered his level, and I had trouble hearing him. It was our singers mic, so some adjustments and the guitar level was raised during the 1st set which helped with the stage sound. Our drummer had some new skins which really helped the sound too. He also has some new Alpine Musicsafe pro ear plugs which were very good. We played well, barring a few mistakes later in the second set where I really messed up Hush for the first time, which we laughed about. All in all a great night as we played well and sounded great, and tried a couple of new songs. I had my usual StingRay, RM500 & BF 210 & also went through the PA. The pub is only having bands on Saturday nights next year, so less gigs to go around and we have 4 booked.

Needle Gun - Hawkwind

If you install the Moises app on your PC, or phone, you can isolate the bass track and i believe slow the track down. For the free version you can import 5 tracks a month to play around with.

Quadruple post Daryl Are you playing there 4 times!

You will find that a lot of YouTube musicians do this so they can use multiple camera views.

Crikey, what a joke. No stage, no cover! No band then.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/500912-staying-safe-on-stage/#comment-5323089

Yes, his voiced has changed. Not for the better, and around the time of the surgery as Lozz has mentioned. I was expecting worse but thought he sounded ok, considering. The band were great and the songs came across really well. I see Liam is the only one in the band who has not embraced in-ears (don't think Noel has too?). Surely his ears must be f..ked by now with those monitors blasting back at him!

Looks More like a Stag do to me. (I'll get my coat!)

I play a handful of songs with a pic, and use the same sound as when playing finger style. Can't say it bothers me, and I've not thought of trying to change my sound for each technique.

All drummers should be listening to the bass, but this isn't always the case. Ours does and I listen to him too as we like to keep a tight rhythm section. Our singer is very aware of the bass too, because if I play a bum note it can throw him off sometimes. I know our guitarist is listening too, well sometimes. I would hope the rest of any band know how important bass is, but as you say it can look like they are focusing on their own performance. Once I was was having some gear problems and had to stop playing whilst the rest carried on. They all found out how important the bass is as the song sounded empty without bass.

Last night we played at the Coach House in Paignton. We were offered this a couple of weeks ago, as the booked band couldn't make it. Sound check was easy as our last gig was here a month ago and the mixer settings hadn't changed. A good turnout for the bank holiday weekend, with a good group up dancing in the 2nd set. A couple of people who had not seen us before came up to chat and tell me how much they enjoyed the gig. Last time here I used my new Squire Precision, which was fun. This time I took my old StingRay. I asked our drummer how it compared to the Squire and he said the StingRay has just such a better sound in his opinion. Next gig isn't until October, so time for some practicing.

I think Charles is fab. I love his humor, particularly his 'If xxx was the hardest song in the world' theme. He had done some amusing skits on classical composers and I've sent links of them to my dad who used to play violin and enjoys classical music. None of us are young. There are a lot of bass YouTubers out there and he is the one I watch most of.

More delicate than the pink oboe!