tauzero Posted March 26 Posted March 26 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. 1 Quote
Jonesy Posted April 1 Posted April 1 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! 4 Quote
AndyTravis Posted April 1 Posted April 1 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. 2 Quote
Bagman Posted April 2 Posted April 2 It was great fun in the recording studio for 3-4 sessions from 14/04 1 Quote
Leonard Smalls Posted April 3 Posted April 3 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!)... 7 Quote
MichaelDean Posted April 3 Posted April 3 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. 3 Quote
mikebass456 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 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.....🤞 5 Quote
zbd1960 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 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. 1 1 Quote
AndyTravis Posted April 7 Posted April 7 On 01/04/2025 at 17:31, AndyTravis said: 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. so Fiasco Jam went well - shook the ring rust, did 15 songs…only 3 took a second run. I think that shows that all the work we’d done in 2024 was worth it. Hopefully album starts in the next month. did another “just bodies” tonight. New song called “Shadows” which was sent to me and drummer this morning was learned during the day - really awkward downstroke strumming pattern (not my comfort zone…) but we definitely got it near to “right” after 4 plays through, just listening back to it now. Quote
Bluewine Posted April 8 Posted April 8 On 03/04/2025 at 03:28, Leonard Smalls said: 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!)... Cool. I love The Meters,Slave, Mother's Finest and of course S&TFS. Daryl 1 Quote
MacDaddy Posted April 10 Posted April 10 Had the first rehearsal tonight with a new covers band. It's with the guitarist and drummer from my other band, and a female vocalist. We haven't got a name yet but we've got a gig in May 😬 . We need 3 x 45 minutes of material. Not too bad for a first rehearsal, it sounded pretty good at the end when we'd played through stuff. The drummer was nearly an hour late as he'd gone to the wrong rehearsal studio 3 2 Quote
AndyTravis Posted April 12 Posted April 12 Waste of time today. everyone knackered, 9.30 on a Saturday, rushing as drummer had somewhere to be. All grumpy and ready to misinterpret one another: we played shite, absolute waste of time. 5 Quote
AndyTravis Posted April 12 Posted April 12 It’s not improving the more I think about it. I was genuinely accused of being “aggressive” today…because I didn’t understand why I was accosted for unplugging a 3 plug adapter (not in use) so I could plug my extension lead in. still reeling over it. 2 3 Quote
Leonard Smalls Posted April 13 Posted April 13 We had a 0929 Saturday rehearsal too - 2nd one with our new guitarist. We told him not to worry about playing what our old guitarman did, to make it his own, and it's definitely got punkier, though in a good way! His rhythm playing is excellent, he improvises little bits of twiddle here'n'there where before there was nowt, and now there's a bit more sparkle. He's young (well, 30s!) too! Not only that but I've got him to duplicate some of my linking bass runs that were previously lost under a power chord - it'll add to tightness and interest. Though when I asked him how well he knew his modes as we had a tendency to slot in (more than) the occasional Phryge (😁) he said " I thought I was joining a punk band!" to which we all chanted in Gregorian "punk is in the eye of the be-ho-ol-der!". 3 3 Quote
Chienmortbb Posted April 13 Posted April 13 First rehearsal today as a four piece, our rhythm guitarist having retired director ill health. We were tight, we could all hear each other and the singer asked me to turn up. I have not enjoyed myself so much for years. 4 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted April 13 Posted April 13 We had a rehearsal last monday. Still unused to the clock change I was thinking of cooking my tea when I got rung up. It was about two hours later thsn I thought. Got there 40 minutes late... recovered some goodwill by handing out band plectrums. We were all a bit raggedy, the more we try Hysteria the worse we thknk we are at it, but we're doing Uprising too and that's easy. Hopefully better tomorrow. 3 Quote
Chienmortbb Posted April 14 Posted April 14 8 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: We had a rehearsal last monday. Still unused to the clock change I was thinking of cooking my tea when I got rung up. It was about two hours later thsn I thought. Got there 40 minutes late... recovered some goodwill by handing out band plectrums. We were all a bit raggedy, the more we try Hysteria the worse we thknk we are at it, but we're doing Uprising too and that's easy. Hopefully better tomorrow. My lot moan if I am 3 minutes late, they all live eithin 15 mins of rehearsal space, I live 1 hour away.😜 Quote
zbd1960 Posted April 14 Posted April 14 55 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said: My lot moan if I am 3 minutes late, they all live eithin 15 mins of rehearsal space, I live 1 hour away.😜 It's always the same. I used to have a challenging 55 mile drive to rehearsals for one orchestra in the Birmingham area. My drive was at least an hour and ten and was 50% rural A roads and 50% M54, M6, M5. I was never late, unlike those who lived within 3 miles who'd dribble in Quote
Franticsmurf Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Rehearsal last night with the Hulla band. We have an upcoming short acoustic set for the sound guy's wife's birthday so we went through the 6 songs for that. Frankly, it was poor with little understanding of the difference between an acoustic line up and the full band. In order to be heard I have to amplify my semi acoustic bass and so I offered to step out to keep it 'acoustic', but the drummer turned up thinking he'd play a reduced kit (=a couple fewer toms and cymbals) and the brass section drowned everyone out. The outcome was that the drummer finally saw sense and is not playing (apart from anything else we have to sneak all the instruments into the marquee while the birthday girl is distracted and despite his initial claims that he could set up stealthily, the drummer finally got that it couldn't be done). I'll be playing through a small practice amp and the two guitarists will be using acoustic guitars. The sound engineer is happy and ultimately that's all that matters. We went straight into full band rehearsal for another birthday party that we've been booked to play and I think this may have suffered from the previous acoustic session. It was a bit lacklustre and chaotic. Given that the last rehearsal session we had was one of the best I can remember with them, it was a bit disappointing and we called time earlier than usual. I know we can (and will) do better so I'm not unduly worried. 1 1 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Today's rehearsal was much better. We have no trouble with Uprising n hut the better we get at Hysteria the more we discover, the challenge for all of us is keepingtogether and in the pocket. The drummer has been obsessed with a challenge to just play constant 16th notes for three minutes "if you can do that you've got it". In the end I just did it... long enough that he now appreciates stamina is not the issue... but then we had a bit of a lightbulb moment. I started off just playing the root notes. Lo and behold everyone else managed to lock together properly and after the first chorus I went to the proper bassline and we more or less nailed it to the end. My main challenge is setting the tempo right and then staying locked in with the drummer. Other stuff was less exciting. Played a few on a fiver which had me improvising some nice bits. We finished on uprising again, I played it low on the five string instead of using the octaver. I thought a tendon in my palm was going to snap... at the end my left hand was warped into a claw! 2 Quote
WalMan Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Sunday night was the prog covers. Drummer works late so only managed the last half hour but sounded good. Gave us a chance to work through stuff in readiness for his arrival which helped with the following. Keyboard player has had ancient keys that have been disintegrating for years and showed up with two much newer instruments so there was some tweaking of sounds and arrangements that has not happened before. Gave me the chance to say "can you not play the bass bit as well as the main part in Turn It On that opened things up and stopped trampling over me 😀 Last night was my main band. Ran through some songs that haven't been in the set for a while and tidy up the new ones. Considering some of the old ones haven't been played for a while - a couple could date back to lockdown recordings and videos - they were all still pretty tight and can be brought out for soundchecks in future. 4 Quote
Si600 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 It was last Thursday, not last night. I was complimented on my tone, my timing and for being the first of their bassists to notice the do do do dee dee da do bit in the middle of the organ solo in Golden Brown. Apparently all of my predecessors have either missed it entirely or come in late. Because of which they don't play it anymore, so I was wrong as well 😂 3 Quote
rwillett Posted April 15 Posted April 15 18 minutes ago, Si600 said: It was last Thursday, not last night. I was complimented on my tone, my timing and for being the first of their bassists to notice the do do do dee dee da do bit in the middle of the organ solo in Golden Brown. Apparently all of my predecessors have either missed it entirely or come in late. Because of which they don't play it anymore, so I was wrong as well 😂 It's all.down to your new pedalboard 😊 2 Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted April 15 Posted April 15 5 hours ago, rwillett said: It's all.down to your new pedalboard 😊 It's that new Behringer 'quantisation and tempo' pedal... Quote
Bagman Posted April 15 Posted April 15 last practice before before "live recording" next week it's only 3 tracks - should be fun 2 Quote
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