How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[tauzero]

Just now, Mottlefeeder said:

Reading the synth/mixer/shock sub thread, I wonder if the mixer connection was by jack or XLR, and whether the shock could have been caused by phantom power being connected to the signal lead in some way?

David

 

Jack-jack from an instrument jack socket on the mixer. Pretty sure it was a lot more than 48V.

 

Subsequent testing of both the mains sockets involved showed no issues. The mixer in the room is a different one now, it got swapped after the shocks.

 

[Jonesy]

Had our first jam with the blues band since our drummer passed away in May. It was amazing to be back in a room making noise with the band again, but it did feel a bit weird playing with someone else behind the skins. Still, roll on the next jam! 

[AndyTravis]

Another rehearsal with “Just Bodies”

 

seems like we’ve settled the tempo debates…

 

apparently booked in to record 5 tracks on 26th April 😆

 

Meant to be rehearsing with “Fiasco Jam” on Saturday for the first time since January. That’ll be weird.

[Bagman]

It was great fun 

 

in the recording studio for  3-4 sessions from 14/04 

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Rehearsal in the local church (amazing they let us, none of us attend!) with funky blues band last night...

After our chat with guitarman two weeks ago about not playing ceaselessly and without end, and perhaps putting some space in, and perhaps listening to the rest of us (it's only bass and drums ffs!), and maybe playing stuff that actually fitted with what we were doing it appears that the penny may have dropped a bit! 

He's actually listened to the Meters and Slave and Mother's Finest and Sly Stone stuff I sent him and throttled it right back with the aimless pentatonic noodling. Now we're sounding far more coherent as a band, and may have recruited a sax player (we can't find a vocalist!)... 

[MichaelDean]

Reallly good practice last night. Got most of a new song arranged and found a use for shimmer reverb in a doom band. Less good was the guitarist (Adam), who usually picks up the guitarist/singer messaging at 5:20 wondering if someone else can pick him up when we're practicing at 6 and I've only got 20 minutes at home after doing the nursery run to burn my tongue on some dinner and then head out. Drummer didn't respond. So I had to go pick him up. Turns out Adam finished work at 3 yesterday. Had plenty of time. Bastard.

[mikebass456]

Last night was a run through the song list to sort a setlist for the upcoming Beer & Cider festival gig in May.

Rehearsing in the comfort of a holiday cottage for £20 and evening, with kitchen, working toilet and heating! 

Got the setlist sorted, ran through the 'dustier' songs and had an availability update for everyone with the diary.

The Martin shortscale acoustic bass was playing up with feedback for the first time last night - been onto G4M website and got a feedback buster coming for the weekend.....🤞

[zbd1960]

In a different musical universe... one of the choirs I sing with rehearses Wednesday evenings. I joined them last September. I'm a competent bass/baritone singer - I can sight read to a reasonable extent, but I'm not perfect and not at cathedral lay clerk standard.... I'm finding it tough going though. I have sung all the stuff for the next concert previously, so it's not new to me. The reasons it's tough going are various. I'm not keen on the MD's approach - partly I think he's an arrogant arse. As someone who has been chair of several choirs we'd be having words if I chair here. He doesn't seem to understand that a lot of the choir are not sight-readers.

 

The main issue with the basses is none of them is very strong and they're struggling, not helped by the MD's way of working.

 

I'll do the concert next month and move on, it's not worth the hassle.