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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    The camera is a Canon Vixia HF M30. Link: Amazon.com: Canon VIXIA HF M30 Full HD Camcorder w/8GB Flash Memory: Camera & Photo It's surprising it works as well as it does to be honest. I'm not using an external mic with it; that's just the onboard mic, and the audio levels are set...
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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    I really appreciate the feedback and the time put into it. It's definitely something we'll be working on.
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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    Sorry, I must've missed your post. It's an ESP Deluxe EC-1000. It's pretty rocking.
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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    Yeah. The situation almost escalated, but somehow didn't. The vocals/guitar said he was about ready to go at the guy until the other guitar player started soloing, which snapped him back. The two main things in our minds were a) we don't want to get banned from this place, and b) we brought the...
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    How many basses do you take?

    As much as I may regret it one day, I never technically bring a backup. I generally take 2 because my band plays songs in two separate tunings, so I can retune if a problem were to arise, but if I'm playing a short gig where we only use one tuning, I only take one bass.
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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    Yeah, we've played that place a few times, so we assumed it was good, and no one said anything about it. It could've been the camera placement, too. Nothing we can do now, but noted for next time. Thanks all for the kind words and advice! We've got some recorded songs on our facebook if you...
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    How my band dealt with a heckler (Vid).

    Last week my band was playing a show, and we were in the middle of a guitar change due to tuning/explaining to the drummer which song we were going to play (we had a fill in drummer that was mildly familiar with our music that we had given a demo 3 hours before the show, but he came through big...
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    Advice:How to join an existing "original" band

    The band I'm in now was an original, and they were the first band I ever played with (I was really nervous about it). It was a 4 piece that was currently at 2 members (drums and guitar, both did vocals), and they needed another guitar and bass player. Myself and my friend went to jam with them...
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    Drop tunning?

    I don't think it would make any difference. Some people argue tone differences, while others say there is no difference. So I doubt it would really do anything in regards to tuning. In my experience, I've never noticed a difference. Here's a thread on it...
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    Drop tunning?

    For 4 string, you can do drop D - DADG, which is pretty popular. Drop C, as far as I've always known, is CGCF, but I'm sure there are plenty of variations and other options. Unless you played a lot of your high G in your CGCG tuning, then that won't be much different. Standard B is BEAD, but...
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    Weirdest bass ever

    Just thought it was a funny coincidence that I go from seeing this bass in this thread, everyone unanimously agreeing that it's hideous, and then seeing a guy that could have any bass that he wants playing it haha
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    how do you get a B on a 4 string?

    This is copy and pasted from a post I made about this a few days ago with a few additions because I'm not 100% what you're going for. Hope it helps. On a 4 string you could do like Paul Gray of Slipknot did and get a set of power slinkys (55-110) and drop the tuning to B F# B E. The other...
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    Drop B tuning???

    I looked through most of this thread and some of what I'm about to say has been said, but I don't think it's all been said. On a 4 string you could do like Paul Gray of Slipknot did and get a set of power slinkys (55-110) and drop the tuning to B F# B E. The other option would be to buy a 5...
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    Weirdest bass ever

    I pulled up a video of Ben Kenney (Incubus bass player) performing his song Euology, and this was the bass he was using.