Merton

I really need to stop looking at this thread, almost every Lionel I see makes me go “ooooh 😍” @Old Horse Murphy’s Lionel being the latest. Damn you all. 😃

3 amps 2 cabs Amps are Trace Elliot TE1200 for big gigs, TE Elf for backup/rehearsals and Ashdown Little Bastard exclusively for my home music room. Cabs are Barefaced Two10s so I can take one or two as the mood/situation dictates. Used to have more, this feels bang on the money now.

Cold wet and windy at Rock’n’Ribs in Wincanton today, thankfully being on the Country stage meant we had cover for our enthusiastic audience. Set delayed and slightly curtailed thanks to the wind and rain buggering up the stage but we had a blast. Tartan Heart Belladrum next weekend, hope the rain holds off for that 😄

Great band - we cover Who Did It. @Jenna_bass_bitch I can do similar for this as I did for Sun and Moon if you want? Probably need about a week as I’m a little busy for the next few days!

Lovely guy. Met him once many years ago at an Overwater Bass day in London; he spent time to ask me how I approached fretless bass playing - lines/unlined, technique etc. I was 22, this was Mo Foster! But he was genuinely interested in my take on playing fretless, listened attentively and didn’t quash my naive responses at all. Always enjoyed his old Bassist columns and will go back through some of his amazing stories - weirdly I was remembering his story about discovering roundwounds just a couple of days ago. (If you don’t know it, it involves Jack Bruce and a question from Mo about how he managed to bend his strings. “Strength!” was Jack’s answer, Mo later discovered he used these new-fangled rounds which were easier than the flats of the 60s) RIP Mo x

Depends on the vibe - it’s fatter in landscape mode so for me works great in a rock band with the Elf. Portrait mode also awesome and perhaps marginally more polite

The Elf and a Two10 in landscape mode is quite the thing to behold. Punches well above its weight!

In my day job I work for a company which manufactures in Poland and Germany and then ships direct to customers in the UK. We have this happen an awful lot - since the unmentionable of course, before that it was fine… Basically it’s sitting waiting customs clearance and there’s sweet FA you or Thomann can do about it. It will reappear soon I’m sure. But don’t worry, your next passport will be blue 😃

Like @Franticsmurf last night was my first gig using IEMs only. A wedding gig near Holborn, the “wedding planner” company did a fairly poor job of considering both band and DJ (stage set up for DJ booth, “oh we forgot we’d need to put a band somewhere too…”) 75dB limit, we were not allowed amps, monitors, acoustic kit, even our own DIs and mics… We ended up in the corner, with the electric kit wedged between the stage and the PA speakers. Guitarist other side of the speakers, keyboard player out in no man’s land. The singer and I were both wireless so ended up being either side of the DJ booth, or on the dance floor with the lovely crowd. Going back to the organisation, we were proudly given a “green room” 5 minutes walk from the marquee which had no food, drink or toilet facilities, when we got fed our singer’s chicken wasn’t cooked and we ended up starting about 1 hour later than scheduled (which to be fair is standard for a wedding… just that by this point no one from the planners was around so no one was taking charge!!) We decided to shorten our two sets into one long one, and as we neared the end we played our “last song” then immediately got switched off for the DJ. Thanks to the minimalist set up we had finished, packed and loaded the van within 15 minutes 😂 All in all, the playing part was ace, my first IEM-only gig and it generally worked fine (got to check a niggle with my earbuds but I think operator error highly likely the cause) plus it was an excuse to buy a Backbeat. The crowd were great and danced all night. Just a shame about the “wedding planners” and their lack of organisational skill 😃

I bought a Backbeat v1 on eBay last week specifically for my gig last night - IEMs, no monitoring or amps, a stupid 75dB volume limit. I can see it being an expensive toy I use once or twice a year tbh… It was great fun but reading through this about the feedback, that was definitely something I need to learn to tame. And the wire management was a bit nuts… Bass into Backbeat, into wireless Wireless IEM receiver into Backbeat then earphones out. Do most people just use it with their bass and keep the IEM mix as a separate thing?

An overly complicated IEM set up for tonight’s incredibly quiet wedding gig. Bought the Backbeat for this, need a better solution for the leads I think 🤔

I’m out, surprisingly a lot later than I thought I’d be at the beginning of the year. I bought myself a Backbeat purely because my gig tonight has a stupid 75dB limit (honestly what are these guys smoking…?) so we are strictly on IEMs without anything onstage. So a sort-of necessary purchase but still it stops me from making the cut this year sadly. Maybe next!

Everything at noon pretty much! Sounds so good. Sometimes nudge the mids depending on the situation.

Did a weird sort of 2-in-1 gig yesterday in Cambridge at a corporate “family fun day” event. First hour was the “rock band for kids”, with about 3 kids in attendance and the rest of the audience slightly amused adults. Second set was the same musicians but cranking it up a notch for the “grown up party band”. Was hot, humid and sticky and our drummer nearly fainted near the end of the second set but we made it through. Left home 9.30am, had a shite journey up (took 4 hours, haven’t driven a manual vehicle for that length of time in over a decade!), but given it was a day event I was home almost exactly 12 hours later so can’t complain Basses were my ACG Finns (a 4 and a 5), amp was the Trace TE-1200 and cab was a single BF Two10S, and all sounded fecking marvellous even with me at the controls. Today I am recovering from the crappy drive by fixing a shower and dishwasher, coz I know how to live 🤓

Absolutely, in terms of one manufacturer saying “cab A with amp B”. And that is almost always tosh, especially the way a lot of mainstream cabs are “designed” 😄 We’re just celebrating other combinations we have decided we personally think work

Bit more South than South West but Feline in Croydon