So.  The show overall was a successful failure.  As with all new ventures, 80% of the bugs can be worked out in the cubicle and the other 20% will rear it's ugly head in the performance.  Here's the list of errors:

 1.  While loading the car for the trip to the venue, I realized I was packing 4 basses.  Two of them were only going be played for one song.  Hmm.  I should have simplified and used just one or two basses and that would have sufficed just fine. 

2. Putting the keyboard on a TV tray.  I thought it would look kitschy cool.  Upon viewing my setup it looked just plain gay.  I needed a proper stand. 

3. I didn't use a bass amp at all and relied on the monitors for everything.  Front of house sound was slammin' but I missed the amp terribly onstage.  The room was large and my tone didn't translate well into the wedges. 

4. Managing the windows for the sequences and midimapping and all that falderal was touchy.  I needed to organize them better. 

5. Need to get some kind of lighting show going.  It didn't LOOK good.  These days you sort of need that with society going self-absorbed bling. 

6.  Upon looking at the video (there's more to come) my choice of the fretted bass was in error.  I think it would sound better on a fretless.  So, I'm going to redo some things to accommodate that.  With glee.

7.  Melodic development was at a nadir.  It was great to wank away, but on inspecting the video, to me it became tiresome.  I'll leave that for a NAMM show.



Make no bones about it, I like learning curves.  I'm not the most tech-savvy of people but I realize that computer stuff ain't going to go away.  It just isn't.  I think and believe that the computer and the many music programs have made it into a valid musical Instrument.  There's that and I'm going with it.  It's nice to be an older dog learning new tricks.  I don't really care if anyone thinks it's karaoke.  It's WAY more high-tech than that.  Every note that spits out of the thing is MINE.  I like that. 

Here's the successful parts:

1.  In reality I was sending the FOH soundperson the LITERAL equivalent of a CD mix.  My bass was coming out as 44.1 16bit.  There was no analog info involved.  As a result, the music balance was clean and massive.  Nothing was too harsh and the low end was wonderful.  When I heard the room shake with the bass pedals, that just lit me up!  It was awesome.

2.  Crowd osmosis.  The people my age and older, took a few steps back as I was playing, the younger folks kept moving forward.  It spoke to them.  I was thrilled by that. 

3.  There will probably have to be a dividing line 'twixt the 2.0 show and a solo bass show.  Hopefully people won't get confused. 

4. It was thrilling not to have the bass as the voice some of the time. 

5.  I think I am going to work something up where I play...guitar.  Hey, why not?

There's a new tune on the player at the moment.  It's a little soundscape I did.  I used some mellotron flute samples and other things.  I did something to where the sound quality became hazy.  I liked it.  There's no bass guitars on it.  But, it's got something.  It sounds like someone made a discovery.  Goethe said that all artists should be allowed multiple puberties.  Excuse, my while I enjoy another one.  Love to all and later!