Any tips or discoveries on the internal trim pots on the Pork and Pickle? The "manual" description is pretty slim.
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Worship Bass Pedalboards
- Thread starter Cshanks5
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Yeah, our worship pastor bought an hx stomp that I never use because I never have enough time to play with it an learn it. He can't get enough of my tone which is basically a little compression through a para driver. Amazing what it can do.
I don't care what anyone says, the sansamp is one of the most well rounded (figuratively and literally) bass tones ever. I always dialed mine in with the blend around 8/9 o clock. It's just such a good bass tone.
They definitely are lacking. I popped the back off and carefully adjusted them live. They are additional blend, level, and tone controls. If I remember right 3 are for the fuzz and only 1 for the drive.
Lion and the Lamb, Firm Foundation, Savior King, Open the eyes of my Heart for this Sunday.
BMS probably won't get a go, but stacked overdrives in Lion and the Lamb, and OD with octaver most likely in Savior King
BMS probably won't get a go, but stacked overdrives in Lion and the Lamb, and OD with octaver most likely in Savior King
I agree. Seems like people dismiss it in the “worship genre” cuz it’s not a tone hammer. I like sansamps, even though most around me seem to not care for them. I don’t currently own one, but I miss the days where all I had was a tuner, a little compression and a bddi v2! I mean… It’s not like anyone can hear the bass anyways
Last time we did Firm Foundation I remember the ending having a pretty gnarly overdrive or fuzz on it. It's been a while since we've done it though.
I agree. Seems like people dismiss it in the “worship genre” cuz it’s not a tone hammer. I like sansamps, even though most around me seem to not care for them. I don’t currently own one, but I miss the days where all I had was a tuner, a little compression and a bddi v2! I mean… It’s not like anyone can hear the bass anyways
In the past, I gigged with a Sansamp for a long time. It sounded great, and was bomb proof. We have one at my church that everyone else uses. I bring my own DI though. It's been probably 10 years since I've used one, but it has a lot of good stuff going for it.
There are 2 churches I play at... I'm actually playing at both this month... this weekend and the other next week... and both have a tuner and a sansamp connected when I setup. I started with the same setup after going ampless/silent stage. I just took my sansamp off my pedalboard recently, but not planning to get rid of it. Funny that the early days of silent stage... how I and the band loved the bass with just a sansamp preamp. Then Elevation Worship and Bethel came and complicated things...I agree. Seems like people dismiss it in the “worship genre” cuz it’s not a tone hammer. I like sansamps, even though most around me seem to not care for them. I don’t currently own one, but I miss the days where all I had was a tuner, a little compression and a bddi v2! I mean… It’s not like anyone can hear the bass anyways
We need to be pioneers and bring it back!!!
Hope you guys don’t mind me venting for a minute.
I’ve been leading worship for 6 months now, pro bono, as our church goes through some financial issues and can’t afford to hire a replacement right away. I put about 8-10 hours in every week on top of having a full time job and 4 kids to make it happen.
In that time 80% of feedback is complaints of what people didn’t like and “suggestions” of what to change. The hardest part is most of it is coming from the other leaders in our church.
I’m burnt out.
I love the people and music so much. I think I’m going to tell our pastor this week I’m taking a long break to clear my head because I’m becoming bitter and don’t want that either.
Just to go back to pedals
I hope to post some sound samples here of the bass jive tomorrow.
I’ve been leading worship for 6 months now, pro bono, as our church goes through some financial issues and can’t afford to hire a replacement right away. I put about 8-10 hours in every week on top of having a full time job and 4 kids to make it happen.
In that time 80% of feedback is complaints of what people didn’t like and “suggestions” of what to change. The hardest part is most of it is coming from the other leaders in our church.
I’m burnt out.
I love the people and music so much. I think I’m going to tell our pastor this week I’m taking a long break to clear my head because I’m becoming bitter and don’t want that either.
Just to go back to pedals
I hope to post some sound samples here of the bass jive tomorrow.
It can be a time consuming and thankless job - especially volunteer. Ours is paid and she's still leaving after May. It's too much effort and not enough help/communication from others involved. No one has a clue what she does to make the service meaningful and connected. Connecting songs to readings. Knowing whos available on a given Sunday, Male vocals or female? There is so much that goes into it.
Take time. Family/self should always come first.
I'm pretty certain all MD's in the churches I play for are paid. My home church was in situation where my wife was asked to temporarily do the music selection and scheduling of the WT weekly. It's hard work, and she let the pastor know. They ended up paying her... but not as staff under payroll. She let the pastor know how much time she put into it weekly, and she was paid as such. However, I can't say that it relieved her stress. As for "other leaders"... I would think the lead pastor's wisdom and vision would take precedence. Yes... it would be in your best interest to talk to your pastor.
I hate when that happens, such a good thing becomes a heavy labor. Praying for you and your break.
I am sorry to hear you’re going through this. I completely understand. I was never the MD or WL, but I played every service for many many years. I got burned out too. I took a 14 year break, way too long!
I’m playing now once or twice a month and setting solid boundaries. I hope you don’t give up on playing. It is an awesome blessing to be part of a worship team.
My only challenge now in this era of IEM/silence stage/tracks, is that it doesn’t feel like we’re a band anymore. Everybody has their own mix. I know there are many pros for having silent stage, but it doesn’t have the same feel and vibe of playing in a band together.
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It depends how big you want to go but it can certainly fit if the rest follow.
That would be tough man. If it is any consolation at all I recently stepped down due to some drama and I believe a mishandling of said drama. In fact 90% of the rest of the team did as well. It's just a straight hot mess.
My suggestion ( I try to never give unsolicited advice) is to never feel pressured to volunteer for the wrong reasons, if that makes sense. If you are feeling burnt out that's a great reason to take a break I think.
I was revamping my board right before everything broke down, so now this is my current state of the board and I'm kinda pondering a few other options to plug in. The break has been nice honestly. Now to track down a Grand Tarkin
Thanks for listening and feedback. Gonna sit down with the pastor tomorrow and have the tough conversation.
That’s a tough transition for sure. A few years ago I had a more experienced player walk me through how to set the stereo pan in my iem mix (panning instruments to match where they stand in relation to my position on stage) and instantly felt a connection with the group again. I was previously putting everything 50/50.My only challenge now in this era of IEM/silence stage/tracks, is that it doesn’t feel like we’re a band anymore. Everybody has their own mix. I know there are many pros for having silent stage, but it doesn’t have the same feel and vibe of playing in a band together.
Same way I do it.
At a previous church building we had a Klang set up with 360 degree panning. Was fantastic
The gains of silent stage outweigh the negatives to me. Panning is helpful. I still feel like we’re a band.
