IamScrooge

On their 'Best Town Pub' award last night

Last night was actually the first time I've had a good drink in the Moorings. I was well impressed with the range of beers and the fact that I can actually get brew dog on tap! Why is it I have to travel 40 miles from the brewry to get a brew dog on tap?

And if that wasn't good enough, that Funktion1 system sounds fantastic! Its such a pleasure to be able to sit and talk without shitty music being blasted through shitty speakers between the bands. Hell, even though the bands were nice and loud I didn't wake up with my ears ringing.

I know you guys get this all the time but credit where credits due The award was well deserved.

He looks sad

I think he's maybe sad because he's straight edge

Cheer up and have a BEER for ony sake!

Thank you kind sir, your help is much appreciated

I did actually make a point of asking a joiner too and the answer he gave was very different from yours!

It doesn't sound like a lot of fun

I'm too old to be keeping up with all the new slang todays kids make up. But I noticed it being used in the feedback forum and the thread was immediately locked.

Is it something offensive? ?(

Is it something to do with joinery? ?(

LMFAO!!!

we are sitting here pissing ourselves laughing at some of you, thinking your mad because you can say "GET A HAIRCUT WOMAN" or "YOUR DRUMMER IS FAT"

GOOD TIMES.

thats maybe because hes straightedge?

You dont sound like your having fun anymore???

Cheer up!

...grab a beer and put on a show for the band.

Wait...something not right here...

Fraser actually goes down to every deenfest gig to chill out with his mates and 2 step/hardcore dance/ whatever else they do to every single band.

I knew there was something wrong here...you guys are TOO YOUNG to drink!!! 8o

And what makes it worse, he was 2 stepping and hardcore dancing...SOBER! 8o 8o 8o

you should have some respect for Fraser as hes down at everysingle MMW gig busting his arse down the front to help put on a good show for you guys.

Nothing quite like a traditional saturday night out, go down to drummonds, pay the man at the door, grab a beer and put on a show for the band.

Wait...something not right here...

i totally just pooped myself at that comment you just posted, oh no scary old man!

Old man? hahahahah I'm like only 11 and I totally just zinged you!

i dont think we can handle this for much longer,

AH-HA!!!!

You said that we couldn't not handle you, but it was YOU who cannot handle US!

Go home to cry to your mummys, little boys! Its past your bedtime.

HAHAHAHA!!

well we found this too hilarious to just sit back and watch, the fact people are still commenting after 12 pages is pretty fucking funny. but unlike most of the people that spend their days slagging off kids over the internet, we have a life.

Oh man.

You guys, like...just totally p'wned everyone!!!!

...wow!!!!!

More than half the cost of a lot of musical instruments' production can be attributed to procedures/materials chosen to make it look nice.

People pay good money for instruments that are designed to look nice.

How pathetic am I for wanting to look at pictures of things that are designed to look nice?

Thing is though, the aero was always soo much better than a whispa

They still sell aeros...right? ?( And the orange ones, and the mint ones with the different coloured bubbles on the inside...havn't had one of them in years!

All music recorded with a Lees Pool is shit!

Here's a question for you then. How much power would an average gigging rock band need? Would they need 5K, 1K or just a 300w type thing? Would they need bass bins etc

Depends on how efficient the speakers are, size/shape of the room and how willing the guitarist is ready to be to turn down his stack. Do you reckon an average rock band has their own transit-style van? If not then the maximum loudness of the rig will be limited by how many speakers the band can carry in the back of their car(s).

If someone says to you "I have a 5kW system"....what wattage are they talking about?

Is there a particular convention that "people in the know" use when discussing PA?

People 'in the know' wont say things like "I have a 5kW system" to each other. Quotes like that are used, in my experience, in one of two contexts.

Either a) To try and convey in terms someone uneducated in sound systems will understand, roughly how loud to expect the system to be. The actual number has no direct corelation as to how loud the system will be but "Yeah i'm running a 16 box Nexo line array" means nothing to most people. Most people only understand watts.

or b) By uneducated providers who have a (usually cheap) pa system with that number located on the power amps somewhere, in order to brag about their 'awesome' sound system. The number is often the maximum output of the amplifier under 2 ohm loads, or the peak power handling of the speakers added up, and usually bears no correlation to how much power they actually have usable in the system.

If you're recording to computer get a nice soundcard with microphone preamp, such as the M-Audio audiophile (I think thats what its called). It seems to be a popular and well liked piece for home recording. I wouldn't get hung up on spending shitloads or looking for anything with tubes, as long as your preamp is of a decent design you shouldn't notice much difference between the basic models and even the >1k models. Unfortunetly the subject of preamps is bad for myth within the audiophile community so theres a lot of mis-information going around.

Is it a valve bucket or solid state?

The Bucket o shite?

Pleeeeeaaaasseeee dont let it be solid state :(

Although the history of electronic music is often associated with unconventional sonic results, such innovators as Robert Moog, Lev Sergeivitch Theremin, etc. were electrical engineers and concerned with the consistency and sound design of their instruments.

Lol!

Might be a better idea to actually study the circuit diagram and figure where the best points would be to modify the circuit. Less blown components/exploding batteries/unpredictable results that way. You dont want 9V going into the input of your shiney new ENGL powerball or irriplacable original blues deluxe

What exactly do you mean by "circuit bending"?

PCBs are not generally that flexable. Surely the only outcome of such an exercise would be to potentially cause hairline cracks and bad connections?

Well I dont really think its fair to compare apples to oranges. Obviously next to a national act they've got some distance to go. But such a comparison isn't really implicit on a local band forum.

Against other local talent, then regardless of your lack of enthusiasm, I'm glad that we can agree they are a quality act.

I think, in a sense, i see this kind of thing as coming under the 'shoddy cover band' bracket, because there really is nothing you haven't heard before in some form or another. I'm sure I've got those same riffs recorded on tape upstairs from when I was about thirteen, though possibly a slightly better guitar tone.

Someone once said; "What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."

Its not like we dont have more than enough shoddy cover bands playing tired riffs and common as muck chord changes already but do you really think these guys deserve to be lobbed in with that lot? Personally I think we've actually got some fair composition here, alright the song structures are about as vanilla as you're going to get but the sound is fresh enough and for this genre the quality is fairly high.

Yeah yeah, "I wrote that riff when I was 13" anyone who has played guitar for a while is going to end up producing similar riffs. Why dont I see you ragging on about all the blues bands who keep playing that same damned 12 bar riff? I mean really, if you're going to talk about unoriginal...

But seriously, do you think that these recordings are honestly worthy of "Pretty bloody bad"?

but that site doesn't really show off your design skills.

On the contrary. That site is very tasteful. Less is more

TBH they're a lot better if you turn the speaker emulation off and use a real speaker.

That said, I would still say that the valve amps in Musical Vision are better than the solid state Laneys at Tom's, no question.

Agreed!

The laneys are so limited and get mushy or harsh really easily, even when using top quality guitars. If I were to choose amps for toms, taking maintenence and cost into consideration, I'd probably choose AVT50 heads for something that most people will be able to get a decent sound out of, and maybe a fender twin or blues deluxe available on request. I reckon they'd be safe from the lil' punks that abuse gear cos they wouldn't have enough gain and wont be requested Plus they dont say 'marshall' on them so they're not rock n roll

What, you mean the old sound city PA head they use as a bass amp?

I'd say its 'old', but not 'vintage', if you know what I mean. Its down to opinion of course, but just because its old and has valves I wouldn't say it has any particular musical merit. I've seen battered old soundcity heads in a few places, but only in situations where nobodys wanted to spend money on decent gear. Given the speakers hooked up to that soundcity head in musical vision, imho, this is one of those situations. My bassist definately didn't classify this as a 'cool vintage amp'.

Peronally I'd rather spend the cash on a modern pa head just for the peace of mind that its electrically safe, reliable, and has XLR sockets for real microphones. But to each their own.