Who's gigging tonight?

carlos

Last Saturday at the Dublin Castle in Camden, tonight was a live set for resonance FM

viz

Well that was fun! http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zpsb5ca075e.jpg

Cirrus

That looks incredible! My gig was in the much more humble and sparsely populated Dudley town centre. It went well, I've been trying out a closed back greenback loaded 2x12 cab with my ac30 and it's making me pretty damn happy.

Monkeybone

Tonight (Saturday 7th), Crimson on Silver make our second trip to Leigh on Sea in Essex, The Ship.

viz

It was indeed an incredible feeling cheers, and thanks, Mike, it went really well - it's such a weird and surreal experience that just doesn't come up every day. I recommend it! Would love to have my proper valve amp stack sound but never mind..

mike_l

Viz you should have asked to borrow my DSL, all valve goodness, and a line-out so it can be plugged straight into the PA... 

I not at all jealous of the crowd either. No. Not Me. Not at all. (My biggest crowd - the Emperor.........)

viz

That could have been an idea thank you old chap, and as a matter of fact I am investigating that sort of thing. There's a good Brian May valve thingamywhotsit. Sometimes you just need some heads and 4x12s to stand in front of though dontcha?

mike_l

viz said:

That could have been an idea thank you old chap, and as a matter of fact I am investigating that sort of thing. There's a good Brian May valve thingamywhotsit. Sometimes you just need some heads and 4x12s to stand in front of though dontcha?

Perfect for some "bedroom guitaring" (Bedroom noodling sounds so wrong.......)

A colleagues son, for his playing at home, has a 100w Marshall stack and a Gibson LP...........

viz

Yep I play at home with two Carvin 100w heads and two 4x12 cabs mwahahaha! (turned to 0.025 on the master vol.)

mike_l

At least on the DSL, at home, I can turn it higher than that (2, but at 4 it'll compete with a drummerist, and Manic's stack....)

viz

Fez

As a matter of interest Mike_l where do you set your channel volume and gain on the DSL?

JayGee

The Bull, East Dereham (Suffolk). 

Third time this year so we must be doing something right... :-)

mike_l

Fez said:

As a matter of interest Mike_l where do you set your channel volume and gain on the DSL?

Depends on how I feel.

Drive channel, gain anywhere from 25% to max, channel vol usually around 50%.

Clean channel gain usually around 50%, enough to cruch with high power pups, but cleaner than a clean thing with a strat

 

I have enough drive pedals that I can easily add more gain if I want

not_the_dj

Rock covers tonight with Blinkwatch at The Copper Pot in Leamington Spa.

Fez

Mike_l Thanks

mike_l

Fez said:

Mike_l Thanks

You're welcome.

A Bad Monkey works well for extra gain on the drive channel. Actually, so does an MXR Zakk Wylde. And for a pure volume boost an MXR Microamp (single knob version) in the loop.

EricTheWeary

Cirrus;99742" said:

That looks incredible!



My gig was in the much more humble and sparsely populated Dudley town centre. It went well, I've been trying out a closed back greenback loaded 2x12 cab with my ac30 and it's making me pretty damn happy.

@Cirrus where in Dudley? I can't think of a regular venue anywhere in central Dudley anymore?

Cirrus

A place called "the courthouse". Pub downstairs, 1920s ball room upstairs with stage lights and PA. They've been putting on gigs for a year or so, ran by 'the Baseline Studios" who are a local rehearsal/recording complex. Last night was the Shed in Leicester, alongside Chrome Molly who I think had some success in the 1980s, and two amazingly good bands, one was a bunch of 17/18 year olds and the other playing awesomely tight metal were all 13!

Fez

Mike_l

Which DSL is yours mine is the 401 combo and has a parallel effects loop and doesn't seem to like a boost in the loop (the serial loop on the jcm 900 is much better) or is there some trick to the set up?

Cheers