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Bassbob
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Pigtail.
Meet the new year. Same as the old year.
Meet the new year. Same as the old year.
What are you doing right now??
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belladonna
Ronin
Here too, from flight line work.
OldGrunt
Hellcat
Too many years in the Infantry and the oilfield.
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Bassbob
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From 4 decades of standing in front of massive bass amplifiers. Really I blame guitar players for not understanding basic EQ. They get in my lane and when they can’t hear themselves they turn the volume knob up. Dude, what sounds good in your mom’s basement by yourself is not going to work on the stage with a band. My last guitard, er, I mean guitarist, I EQ’ed his amp for him and then took all the F’in knobs off it. Problem solved.
Well, that and when I started we knew nothing about ear pro and IEMs hadn’t been invented. And by the time they were I already had 6 grand worth of wedges.
Mr.W.
Professional
No. It's dirty pool, a cardinal no-no to monkey about with a fellow musician's gear like that.
wolfpack076
Professional
Watching an all time favorite Kelly's Hero's. Trying to get rid of the "Negative Waves".
powerboatr
Hellcat
THANK you everyone for the power of positive thoughts
DAD was released and came home today,
brain swelling went down enough he is actually MELLO again and smiling
now to keep him from boppping his noggin again
mom wants to put rubber buggy bumpers on everything
the MMA procedure really did a number the other day on his mental status and acuity
great to have the calm one back home
DAD was released and came home today,
brain swelling went down enough he is actually MELLO again and smiling
now to keep him from boppping his noggin again
mom wants to put rubber buggy bumpers on everything
the MMA procedure really did a number the other day on his mental status and acuity
great to have the calm one back home
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NMEDGE
Guest
Just got a call to drive up north to pickup some vehicles and bring them back tomorrow. Pay is good so why not. Husky is pissed because I told her she would have to stay home.
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NMEDGE
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She's not on the insurance.have her drive the second car while you pilot the first - double the pay....
rcurtner
Hellcat
Good news!
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Bassbob
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Guitarist eh ? Well, that's why most live sound engineers ( which I made more money whoring myself out as) are bass players.
And for the record, every band I have ever been in except one was MY band. And the band in question, my last band, was absolutely my band. And my two bandmates deferred to me. Know why ? Because we were good, we sounded great and we got paid. And all the gear except the drum kit and my guitarist's ( who is also my best friend) amp and guitars was mine. See my guitarist was very good. He was also the singer. Dude could play and sing RATM ( any of it) at the same time and do it well. Problem is he is also a stoner. And like most guitarists he thought the way his rig sounds when he's by himself translates to good sound with a band, in a bar. And the knob incident became irrelevant when I started putting everything into the FOH. I often mixed from the stage and I would go out front every so often or put another guy I know and trust out front to tell me what needed to happen. It really only took for my guitar player to go out front and hear what he sounded like a few times before he figured out I know WTF I'm doing. We sounded better with me mixing from the stage than most bands did with a guy on the board out front. And most of the time that includes when I paid someone to run my PA rig from out front. And yes, it was a major inconvenience for me.
Generally I had a 57 on Jason's Marshall and a Senn 865 for his vocal mic, a Senn 421 on my Ampeg SVT/810cl and a Reddi ( DI) straight to the board from my amp and a 58 for a vocal mic and 13 mics on Dave's extremely large drum kit. 2 Snares, 2 Floor toms, two kicks, rack toms, rotos, 2 hats, etc. Ever close mic a drum kit on stage in a bar with 13 mics ? I did it all the time. And every band in town wanted me running their sound.
3 piece hard rock/alt band. Think Deftones, STP, Rage, AIC, Nirvana, Offspring.
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Bassbob
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KillerFord1977
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It’s all negated by theThis was my B rig. For really, small rooms and tight spaces. The board ( in this case an A&H Mixwiz 16) is just out of the picture on the left side. Count the mics.
beer bottle brand on the right on the equipment.And you give me
for a Girsan 
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Bassbob
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That belonged to the guitard, dude. A Japanese redneck. Bass rig ( mine) is on the left.It’s all negated by the
And you give me
Also this is STL man. Bars serve AB shite. And when bands get comped beers, it's AB shite.
KillerFord1977
Emissary
That belonged to the guitard, dude. A Japanese redneck. Bass rig ( mine) is on the left.
Also this is STL man. Bars serve AB shite. And when bands get comped beers, it's AB shite.
Annihilator
Hellion
Great news!
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Bassbob
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Personally I didn’t do much drinking while playing. Guitard did. Another reason I had to remove his bass knob from his amp.
Clarification, which may be needed for musicians who lack experience with live sound. A guy playing a guitar through his amp by himself will sound better if the EQ has some bass going on. Otherwise it sounds kinda thin. Not the case when you have a bass guitar covering those same frequencies. And when you have the same sonic space inhabited by two different instruments it’s called phase cancellation. In other words you can’t hear yourself clearly. So what happens is now Guitard cranks up his volume. He no doubt has a 4x12 cab on the floor ripping the heads off everyone in the front row while no one in the back can hear him. Now a dipshit bass player will respond to the increased volume of Guitard ( whom is inhabiting his sonic space you’ll remember) by cranking up his volume. Next thing you know everything sounds like *** and the stage volume is so loud no one can hear themselves. Now I would respond ( assuming I couldn’t get the guitar player’s EQ corrected) by boosting my low mids, thereby increasing gain in a different frequency than the one currently being stomped on by the Guitard.
Live sound 101 for bands who mix themselves.
Stay tuned next week for sub-coupling to avoid phase cancellation and power alleys while increasing overall output by 3 dB.