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I'm playing a show for the next two nights, and the bass player's amp won't work, so I'm loaning him my AI Coda and RS 10 for the shows.
Is this going to harm the RS 10 cabinet at all? There's all different types of music in the show (Legally Blonde), so some of it gets a little loud.
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07-22-2021 03:30 PM
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It really sounded great through the Coda and RS-10. He put an acoustic bass, a five string bass and a fretless electric bass through them, and they all sounded fantastic. No sign of breaking up.
After hearing how great things sounded tonight, I might go out and buy an electric bass.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
The next time I heard an AI was when I got my Corus Series III combo. i'm still grateful to my upright friend.
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On the night of the last show, when I got to the hall, I see the bass player plugged directly into my RS-10 with the Coda still in its little bag!
I said to him, "Uh you do know that you have to plug into an amp first, and then plug the amp into a cab to get a sound, don't you?"
He doesn't say anything, so I set the Coda up for him, since he doesn't know how.
The show is going perfectly until the second act, when he starts dropping out.
I ask him if it's the cable, and on the first tacit, I go to get my imperfect backup cable from my gig bag.
He tries it out, and we go into the next number, and it starts dropping out again.
So I turn around and tell him to try the other channel, check the connections between the head and the cab, the power cord, etc..., and he's got his head down, staring at the amp, and is ignoring everything I say.
All of a sudden the amp starts to feedback like mad, and I tell him to turn the effing thing down or off.
He still won't even look up at me, and I get kind of spooked. He's only 24, but maybe he's got a screw loose or something, so I just go back to reading my part for the rest of the night, with him dropping in and out intermittently.
The show ends, and the producer comes up to us and asks what the noise was all about. Silence.
Then he said it was from the amp he borrowed from me. I just shrug my shoulders, and that's it.
Everyone leaves, and I check the connections. The cable from the amp to the cab offers no resistance when I pull it out, so I plug it all the way in and face a great deal of resistance pulling it out.
I look at the amp's power chord, and it's kind of loose on the amp input.
I took it home and checked it out, and it sounded fine.
End of story.
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And that’s why they have Speakon connectors.
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Originally Posted by pcjazz
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Late to the OP, but what speaker is in the RS - a 30w guitar speaker, or a 200w [or similar] bass/PA speaker, common with a lot of "jazz guitar" cabs? If the latter, this would be a fine bass rig.
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I've done that show a couple of times,it's awesome. Did you play guitar? Some fairly difficult parts.
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
The only part I had trouble with was the part of the Overture where it beaks into 'One' and the azzhole orchestrator expects you to fingerpick six notes per beat at close to 100.
I told the MD that I rewrote it so I'd play the moving notes part against the D pedal as triplets, and he said fine. If you listen to the original cast recording, you can NOT hear anyone playing that guitar part, so i think this was only on the London version of it. Either that, or it's completely buried by the orchestra. I couldn't find a recording of the London version, so I couldn't play along with the original cast version, because all the vocal numbers were a half-step different than the London version.
The MD said there were 56 key changes in one part of the show! A lot of the reading was in six sharps, which was difficult until you get used to it.
In the end, it's just another show once you learn it, but it can't be sightread.
A bass player, who's the MD for a nationally touring show, tried to sight read it at one of the rehearsals, and he messed up every number.
At one point, he got so lost on one long number, he just sat there and played a series of hammer-ons on the 15th fret of the G string, out of pure futility!
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Originally Posted by marcwhy
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He's trying to throw you under the bus when he can't even provide his own amp? Kids these days...
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