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If you're into it, you'll pay for it. That's dodgier than I anticipated, sorry. But personally, I get a kick out of playing stuff used in significant musical events and if i had the cash would stump for the right things. It's not as if they're old F1 cars and you have to ring Ferrari just to get it started.

Can't remember who said it but they were referring to Cindy Blackman A good drummer keeps time, a great drummer creates time.

We've just got an x18r so the feed shouldn't be a problem. The video looks and sounds fantastic and I really like the light bulb arrangement too. Bit of creative stage dressing makes a big difference. I've tried to rustle up friends with cameras and we're a bit short on ones with dslrs, plus I'd be a bit worried about leaving them in the audience unattended if I was to buy them.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1473661739' post='3131961'] While a fixed, unmanned camera such as the Zoom is absolutely fine for showing the band and its audience from one single point of view, if available we tend to prefer a zoomable camera with a built-in stereo microphone (and me behind it), to make things a little more interesting. All totally amateurish, but fun. The Junkyard Dogs have both kinds of videos - plus a few professionally edited showreels. The following is one example of the zoomable camera from another band's repertoire: [media]http://youtu.be/pqL__Tqhrns[/media] [/quote] Couldn't watch it..... Music stands onstage...... My apologies😉 Fine band, fine band and useful to see. Looks like a non zooming zoom then me learning a bit more about iMovie. Thank you for your help.

Did some of the RAF bases in Germany back in the day. Happy memories of turning up for breakfast in the officers mess as they were at there for lunch in full dress uniform. Great gigs too, poor folk bored out of their minds and looking to blow off steam big time. In negotiations to do the local base next year. In reference to the thread I started earlier, we won't be filming that one- it's the sas.

Thanks folks. Basic GoPro can't do that change from wide to standard I think. Not going to junk it so will still be useful. WoT vids always look/ sound good so I'll investigate the Zoom. I have used a third party to film gigs but I'm quite demanding and it's difficult to get people who 'get it'!

What cameras and mics do you wonderful lot recommend for recording gigs please? At the moment I have a decomissioned iPhone 5 and basic GoPro hero, but both are proving a bit fiddly and unreliable in the heat of battle. I wouldn't mind something without wide angle lens as well. Footage will end doing the Facebook thing, not looking to make a full on professional promo. Many thanks in advance. Harry

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1473197552' post='3127993'] We picked up a couple of T bar stands like these from ebay- they came with a gantry middle bit which we never use - for £40 [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Heavy-Duty-80kg-Studio-Tripod-T-bar-DJ-Lighting-Stand-Event-Disco-/172203963159?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368"]http://www.ebay.co.u...725.m3641.l6368[/url] and use these clamps (expensive but worth it) to mount and angle the lights [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chauvet-CLP10-Lighting-Mounting-Clamp/dp/B00I2O4B74/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473197284&sr=8-1&keywords=chauvet+clp+10"]https://www.amazon.c...=chauvet+clp+10[/url] The ADJ Sweeper quads also work pretty well in small gigs if you plonk one on the floor in front of the kick drum and point it skywards [/quote] Much appreciated, thank you.

Mudpup, how do you mount the sweeping LEDs please? Another tripod?

[quote name='ern500evo' timestamp='1473097550' post='3126919'] I imagine if Guy Pratt is still an active member here then he's going to trump most of us!! 😄 [/quote] Me and 124999 others saw him at Knebworth!

In the flesh, a couple of thousand doing our town's Christmas lights switch on! Televised, my old band got a tune onto ITV's (that's how long ago) formula 1 coverage a couple of times, figures were in the millions apparently.

Oft said but- you're only as good as your drummer.

I've seen them sold on here for £100. Mine has had a life and a half, bought, used as a rental cab, left in a garage for years, then I gigged it constantly up against Marshalls for years, and for the last 10 years of that it has been thrashed by teenagers in my classroom. Works perfectly, sounds great. (Just weighs as much as Endor)

It's just another form of gentrification. Like dodgy areas of cities becoming a lot more expensive. What worries me is that as we can all share information so easily the next genre that is the new jazz or rock n roll won't get chance to simmer down and really stew to maximum potency. It should have been drum and bass in the 90s, that ate itself, dubstep hasn't quite crossed over, grime might have the potential but .... The industry is on such as look out for it, whatever it is, that the new Louis Armstrong, or muddy waters or Elvis, people who are steeped in their culture, art form and craft, supported by a pyramid of people who really get it, won't develop.

Geddy Lee. I've heard Rush, once.

Markbass LMT500 and two aggie db112s. For everything from polite am dram pit work to full on noisy 8 piece band. DI on the head is well recieved by most engineers and it's great having a level control. If I do encounter the odd rogue sound engineer who insists on no stage volume, won't provide adequate monitoring and the violin is louder than I'm playing, I just turn down on the DI and up on the volume and they never, ever, notice!

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1472469473' post='3121290'] Most of my basses have been covered in beer and kebab grease at some point.....i see it as a form of bass initiation [/quote] The funk is in the gunk!

If you want to get into functions, like many have said above, this stuff happens, but you're there to be a problem solver for the clients not a problem. The less hassle you can give them and the venue the better your reputation will be. We got asked to take off our shoes loading into a venue the other day, (the venue is part of a working arable farm and a bit dusty) the owner was delighted she didn't have to mop the floor after our sound check. More specifically to your circumstances, make sure someone babysits the mix and make sure you agree exactly how long she'll sing for. We had a venue ask us exactly the same thing, and the girl sang turgid teenage misery ballads for over the allotted time with absolutely no stagecraft/ audience whatsoever. It almost killed the entire gig!

A warm up helps for me, or at the very least 5 minutes of calm before stage time. Much easier said than done at most gigs but if you plan for it it does become more frequent.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1472123433' post='3118682'] also, if the drum isn't well tuned, it won't be very responsive, and you might be tempted to hit them harder to get a sound out of it [/quote] So true. We eq for the room, drummers need to tune for the band. For me personally, cymbals are often the biggest volume problem too, washy ride cymbals and over hit crashes drilling through everyone's hearing.

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One of the things that made me think I had a chance with my now wife is she had a Gibson plectrum case on her keyring when I met her! She still has Marshall acoustic amp and ovation guitar from before we met too. We moved to a new house in May and she bought me a rack for all my instruments, and understands I want to keep them in the cases as well. We now play in a function band together, she sings, and she can set up lights and plug monitors in etc no problem. So she likes my guitars a lot, especially my L'arrive parlour acoustic, which suits her really well as she's 5 foot 1.

[quote name='Thunderpaws' timestamp='1471009551' post='3109979'] I found this. Dunno if you judge it as a poor video or not! https://youtu.be/pnlUKhEH0EU [/quote] Watched. Can't do that myself, and therefore learned nothing about how the amp would work for me. Most baffling bit is when he steps on a pedal and it just gets a bit louder, with a just discernible amount of drive. Doesn't demonstrate much. Engl should be able to do better!

Very emotive tune for me, not least being slightly prepubescent when the video came out! But always loved the tune, especially the big tremolo chords and the outro riff, first time I'd really heard stuff slightly outside of bog standard 80s pop harmonies.

Great moment, get busy living!