How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Stub Mandrel]

I haven't rehearsed for months Getting bored with the setlists now.

 

Have got one lined up for early feb. Going to add a few new songs, inclufing INXS New Sensation which is a bit poppy and outside my usual styles.

[nilorius]

Just got home from my last rehearsal. Guitar(lead, rythm and vocal), me(bass), drums(percussions). It was 2nd rehearsal for this new alternative rock project and it seems it was ok.

[Franticsmurf]

Meanwhile, in a little rehearsal hall in deepest Gower last night...

Soundman: "Thou hast no top end upon thy bass tone, and your sound distorteth."

Franticsmurf: "But I'm going through my Ampeg pre-amp pedal with the treble boost engaged, using the bridge pick-up on my Sterling HH and I have a clean tone dialed in."

Soundman: "Nevertheless, thy sound is atrocious and offends my ears."

Franticsmurf: "Let me apply my 35 years of experience and wiggle this lead."

There follows the sound of a thousand Welsh dragons roaring and gnashing their teeth, amplified tenfold for all to hear.

Soundman: "Ha! Thy socket hath demons, and they have been purged from thy instrument. Now thy sound is like nectar and ye may be accepted once more into the mix."

 

A minor niggle of a crackly jack socket and pick-up selector has finally manifested itself as an intermittent problem that will need fixing by someone with better electronics skills than me. My Sterling is off to the doctors. The rest of the rehearsal was great - 1st week back after the New Year and we blew the cobwebs away with a random selection from the back catalogue. As usual with the Hulla band, rehearsals are a mix of frustration (there is a tendency to play a song through and move on without addressing any minor issues), tea (tea is served early on) and a lot of fun (as we don't take ourselves too seriously).

 

The offending bass and minimalist pedal board.

 

[cetera]

First rehearsal with a brand new 'Doobie Brothers' tribute show yesterday. Big band with brass section, percussion etc..... sounded immense!

Great musicians and wonderful songs made for a most rewarding day

 

Probably won't be gigging until very late in the year as 2 hours of complicated material to work on and lots of busy musicians to herd together.... but it's very exciting!

[mikebass456]

14 minutes ago, cetera said:

First rehearsal with a brand new 'Doobie Brothers' tribute show yesterday. Big band with brass section, percussion etc..... sounded immense!

Great musicians and wonderful songs made for a most rewarding day

 

Probably won't be gigging until very late in the year as 2 hours of complicated material to work on and lots of busy musicians to herd together.... but it's very exciting!

Now that sounds like a great project! 😎

[zbd1960]

Just back from orchestra rehearsal. Some tough stuff this term. Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet overture is very demanding as is the ballet music for Sleeping Beauty. The Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet ballet music takes no prisoners. The cello part goes from bass clef straight to treble, no messing with tenor clef and up to the E a 10th above middle C 

[MichaelDean]

Really good rehersal last night. First of the year and good to blow off the cobwebs! I love my current gear. My Dingwall just has so much fundamental, it's almost like the concentrated tone you get from a short scale. My Digbeth just does exactly what I wanted it to do, be bassy and a bit darker sounding plus a bit overdriven with gobs of power.

 

I've also started programming banks of patches for specific songs on my GX-100, and it's going to be revolutionary for me! No more tap dancing, just selecting the right patch for the bit of the song. I'd assumed that I'd not have enough options per song until I'd started on it, but the GX-100 lets you have a different set of toggles if you press again on the selected bank (CUR NUM option if anyone is interested), so I can arrange things within the banks of 4 patches and then have some optional weirdness should I want it with the CTRL buttons. It also means that I can get rid of bits not being used in specific patches and maybe look at other options to get weird with my sound... I want to try splitting my signal and sending some to a guitar amp for heavy sections or when someone is soloing.
 

We recorded some quick reference tracks for an upcoming studio session and did a bit of writing too.