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Just a comment of bass cabs, for onstage use, I still reckon the sweet spot for actually hearing yourself on stage with a cab, is a rolloff starting maybe as high as 100hz. I know that will be a contentious comment to some! All that sub on stage makes life more difficult for both yourself and the sound guy. If you are micing up all this low-end too, chances are theres more work to be done by the sound guy to clear it up from all the other mics. Hence, DI - clean, and all the information from the bass is in there. If you can, let the full range be taken care of by the PA, use your bass amp (if you must), for monitoring and try and keep all those sub frequencies (at least on stage), low.

a SM57 isn't actually that bad a mic to use live. Yes, there's a pronounced roll off, but a lot of the time its really mushy down there isn sub bass and infra sub world. A lot of what you are hearing when listening to the bass are 1st and 2nd harmonics and psychoacoustics... and not the fundamental. But if you are worried about the audience not feeling the thud of your bass, a sub harmonic synthesiser to put that low-end hit in at the desk may actually give you a better sounding bass through the subs. I wasn't there so can't comment on the company... but there is (admittedly maybe a fringe case!) a chance they were well on top of their game... and they also have the option of boosting the bass on the EQ. Admittedly, if they weren't running a separate monitor desk for processing your IEM, the SM57 may have sounded a bit naff in your ears, especially ones like yours where it can cope with the fatter low end frequencies.

Im surprised theres even space on stage for a bass amp. Clearly the solution is no amp, and just a tiny DI box to the PA. The ironic thing is, it would probably sound better than most amp setups.

And in some cases the sound guy will put up a mic just to keep a bass player happy and not even plug it into the console, or if they do, send it foh. The less open mics on stage, the more gain before feedback. And losing headroom for a bass where a DI will do the job, isn't worth it, or the additional subby frequencies that bleed brings. It doesn't matter what a soloed channel sounds like. It's what it sounds like in the mix that counts. I hate the sound of an isolated P bass. In the mix however, it's glorious.

DI mixes to a desk are cleaner - speakers tend to not capture all the top end - including all that lovely harmonic content that comes from the unmiced tweeter (assuming there is one - people! make sure you use tweeters!). It's better to have all the source content to process (and take away if necessary) at the desk. If the cab is a key part of the sound (e.g. capturing the drive from the amp), then its best to DI and mic and blend at the desk.That way, you get the best of both worlds. (You can get DIs that tap off the power amp but they aren't that common place on stage) In smaller venues, the majority of the time, the bass is DIed because it's one less mic stand on stage and one less mic to get nicked... and a lot less hassle. Plug in. Done. And above all, if you put DI first, if the bass amp goes down, the bass can still be heard and nobody looks around at the person on the desk and starts giving them evils. Why not DI amps you say? Because the colouration that the amps give is a significant part of a guitar sound. A DI guitar without processing sounds awful. And don't send your DI post EQ. You ears are on stage, not in the audience. Let somebody else take care of that for you otherwise you could sound like a complete shower out there.

If you need data resilience, you have to go multiple data center. No question. Despite what promises are made to you by the hosting companies, you are always running a risk in a single data center. And if your data and uptime is so critical, the service needs to have a tried and tested disaster recovery plan in place. The people who's services are suffering from this outage, are arguably as much to blame for their own service outage.

Let me introduce to you, a very English Stephen Fry.

Before anybody says anything.... it's a joke... it's a joke....

No, but then again it never did drag that many from up south. I guess the main difference is that there is a slight chance you have the alloys left on your vehicle in the previous location...

And it was worded like it involved multiple effects. And a compressor is probably the least intrusive fx unless you are properly misusing it! @crag42 - no offence intended. Just see it as a load of people trying to help to make your life easier!

Yeah, seems like an err... interesting location choice. Cant see it dragging many up from the south.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-uk-bass-guitar-show-2022-tickets-61888851220

Beaut.

It was one of those underwater data centers... and somebody made the mistake of opening Windows.

Nice - I particularly love the fretboard. Is that ebony? I love solid black fingerboards.

Shh. It's BigBeefChief... but don't let on.

Pictures just in from outside Talkbass HQ.

It depends if they have ponied up to have presence across multiple data centers. Such distributions, especially where a database is involved, can get very costly, very quickly. And these costs are usually preferred to be profit in the site owners pockets... because you know, computer stuff never goes wrong.

You know this is basschat yeah? 😛

I know you’re a competent player so I’m not directing this at you - but as somebody who books players, the one that gets to the gig on time, learns the parts, doesn’t get whizzed etc would get the job over somebody with sounds. I’d book a keys player for sounds though - defo.

Defo. And the interface of TB is just ugh.

Wasn't a criticism.

Corrected for you. I think you think too much of yourself if you think I'm gonna spend more than the 30 seconds it took to find out all I needed to know. Theatre (West End or not) <> Stadiums/Arena. Get a grip and get your flex game in check.