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[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1487686989' post='3241823'] Turn your phone off. The roaming signal through a bass amp isn't a good sound and neither is your mate ringing up to see if you fancy a pint. [/quote] Unless you are using it to do you monitor mix on your digital desk... Speaking of which, here is a good tip if you want to solve the roaming signal sound and the phone ringing... If you have an iPhone, you can turn the carrier comms off by putting it in airplane mode... Then, turn wifi back on so you can connect it to your desk. There's probably an equivalent on Android too... but its been years since I've had an Android phone.

^ This. It's one of the version I have switched my rig completely. I can take different rigs, all digitally controllable... and nobody would bat an eyelid if it sounds 95% like the analogue equivalent anyway.

[quote name='devil rides out' timestamp='1487618254' post='3241268'] Hello all! Not a particularly scintillating topic I am afraid, but I'm in the market for a lightweight but fairly protected bag to protect my Ibanez SR755. I currently use this one- [url="https://m.thomann.de/gb/thomann_e_bass_gigbag_premium.htm?o=2&search=1487617622"]https://m.thomann.de...arch=1487617622[/url] ...and though it's great and sturdy, and I'll take it to gigs etc, it is very heavy and bulky for weekly use. Just need something a bit smaller for my long walk to practice. Any recommendations appreciated! [/quote] That bag is small and not very bulky! Anything less is going to offer minimal protection!

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1487596067' post='3240996'] One thing re the Studiospares stands is the base clamp, the tightener that holds the base to the feet has a plastic insert that eventually breaks.... and they do not offer replacement part for this bit. So ok if they are going to be used lightly or left upright in the studio but not much cop for serious gigging I bought 12 last year and they are all now screwed (or not) [/quote]

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1487547131' post='3240734'] If you're going to insist on giving a sensible answer..... [/quote] Mutter, mutter. Tickled Trout.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1487511275' post='3240309'] Shallow front to back stage, which means my microphone has to be on the floor, but because I had a pedalboard for keys I had to be back, which means at full stretch the microphone was too low. Loads of digital noise on my new battery powered effects, so couldn't use the B3, then the wireless kept cutting out, then the voicelive I got for chorus effects on a song died just before the song I needed the effect on - all these effects due to the battery. Sound squealing because of the Voicelive means I couldn't be in the monitor. Using a new android app for the XR-16 meant I got some of the mixing levels wrong, and took a while to use that, couldn't use the iPad because it was doing the chords for the footpedal, which briefly didn't work before we started as it was assigned to the wrong thing. The guitarist changed his amp, which sounds much nicer but couldn't really hear it as it wasn't miked up. The sound as I was in a corner was really bassy, I wanted to turn it down but the drummer wouldn't let me! However, the gig itself was excellent, the crowd loved it, the additions of the footpedals as a pad for songs when the solo makes the song seem empty really works, the guitar sound was great, my first time singing solo went fine, it was really heaving and everyone was dancing and singing along, and actually got upset that we only did three encores and we are invited back. Sometimes the hassle seems like it might take over but the gig pulls it back. [/quote] Which wireless were you using?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1487539741' post='3240670'] "So the band in here last night, guy comes out, long fur coat and frilly panties, that's different I thought but then I noticed the bloody drummer, wearing a watch I tell ya, in here, The Coach And Horses, a bleedin' wrist watch!". [/quote] Hahaha!! And they probably turned up without d&b monitors too.

[quote name='Yank' timestamp='1487324030' post='3238893'] I've been to shows where I wished SOMEONE in the band had a watch so they might have started ON TIME! [/quote] That's because they are all fur coat and no knickers.

[quote name='GreeneKing' timestamp='1487236705' post='3238197'] There's some interesting stuff coming out in here. [/quote] Never heard of them.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1487234213' post='3238165'] I played for years with no front head on the bass drum, so the floor tom would go inside, and the rack tom would balance on top. One trip for the drums, then one trip for cymbals, snare and stands. I thought it was super efficient and I never had a problem. Apparently it looks unprofessional so now I have to make 3 trips and f*** about with bags [/quote] You must have looked like a right clown - especially if you were also wearing a watch!

Flavour Flav - because wearing a timepiece on stage is where it's at

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1486860998' post='3235162'] Don't read too much into wattage I don't pretend to understand the physics with this kind of stuff, but my Aguilar 500w head was not as loud or powerful sounding as a GK MB 500w head. In a similar sense, my tecamp 900w head was not as loud or powerful as this Darkglass head. Again, lots more goes into how a head sounds and how much it puts out of the speaker than just the power module itself, Class a/b and Class d alike. Look at Trace Elliot, I don't think anyone would suggest that any modern class a/b or d amp could match it watt for watt. [/quote] Agreed - mum EBS HD350 is louder than most other much higher wattage amps that I have played. And the same ICE module that is in this DG head is in my Kemper - and that can get pretty serious too.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1487171140' post='3237743'] I almost lost a gig because I didn't want to put my drums in cases, which seems about as petty as a watch? [/quote] Well, it's not very rock and roll is it. Depends what kind of cases though... I used to play in a band where the drummer turned up with his kit in bin bags.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1487163180' post='3237651'] Should I wear a watch for an audition but explain that I won't wear it live or play it safe and just not wear it at all? What if I'm then late for the audition? [/quote] Now that is an interesting one. Maybe you should phone in advance. I'm sure that they will take you entirely serious and thank you for being so thorough when coming to the audition process.

I thought phones on stages were a big no no too?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1487158617' post='3237581'] pratt, look at the state of his bass, he must have been wearing his watch on the wrong wrist for ages to cause that much damage [/quote]

Look at this idiot. I do like the way the photographer had a little joke by "framing" it with the girls arm.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1487157249' post='3237559'] think? I don't think I play bass [/quote] Ah - going by your avatar, you play your bass the wrong way around anyway Easy to make a watch mistake doing that!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1487156724' post='3237548'] I do agree it needs to be worn on the fretting wrist after I scratched a near perfect Stingray with my metal strapped watch [/quote] I bet you looked like a right weapon wearing that watch on stage. What were you thinking?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487154407' post='3237508'] And the only photo of a Kiss member wearing a watch ON STAGE, it appears to be hidden under a wrist band. And it's the drummer, who IME always seem to be uncooperative and unconcerned when it comes to getting the band image right. [/quote] I proved you wrong and now you are bending the rules to suit! Was Pete Best kicked out for wearing a watch but an entirely different story was fabricated?

And before anybody says... "what about on stage?"... This guy is so crazy, he wears it regardless of it having no longer having a function! Talk about screwing one's career!

Thousands stay away as Kiss member wears the wrong watch shocker!

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1487150167' post='3237448'] I get it. It's just that for [i]most[/i] bands a wrist watch wouldn't impact the style in any significant way [/quote] Surely it depends if you wear it on your right or left wrist?