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Speak to the medical professionals. In my experience, doctors are usually pretty helpful if you ask them a direct question. Never crowd source health advice on a forum and never take a chance with your long term mobility. Good luck with the surgery.

Skindred at the Cheese & Grain in Frome last night. They're a bit cheesy and their set includes a lot of padding but they really know how to entertain a crowd. The mosh pit was lively from start to finish and I think everyone there had a great time. The band certainly seemed to enjoy themselves. I took both my daughters and they loved it, I took the youngest (14) to the edge of the mosh pit which she loved. There was a noticeable lack of a bassist though, apparently founding member and bassist Dan left the band before the tour so bass was on a backing track so that was a shame.

I ordered pickups on 17 Sept (just before all this started) and heard nothing, despite several emails to chase. I got a refund yesterday. (I’d rather have got the pickups obvs, but happy at least that I got my money back).

Did you mean maximum? I don't think that there is any magic about speaker protection. Excluding manufacturing faults, which thankfully seem to be very rare, there are only two ways in whicvh a drive unit will fail. Over excursion leading to mechanical failure and over heating. There is just one complication, if the coil spends time outside the magnetic gap then it can't dissipate heat into the magnet so that there can be a special situation where over excursion and heating combine, but all of this is very predictable. For years folklore or perhaps more politely 'rule of thumb' has allowed musicians to match speakers and amps. In the 60's most of us would allow for speakers to have twice the power rating of an amp if we wanted reliability. As high temperature materials were introduced most of us now would now expect to be able to use double that power and match the amp and speaker power. In PA however well trained engineers have pretty much always gone for amps that were twice the power of the speakers. That way they could manage the peak excursion and overheating issues because they had a basic understanding of the duty cycles and frequencies they were pushing into the speakers to get extra peak sound output without distortion from the amps. It all depended upon skill levels and experience but the advent of active speakers and now DSP has brought that to all of us. As @Stub Mandrel has said we can predict the heating/cooling of any part of the speaker from the testing done during the design phase and knowledge of the power going from the amp and the ambient temperature. You can also predict the position/excursion of the coil from knowledge of the frequency and power level , that's what the speaker modelling software does to predict frequency response. Temperature rise and excursion are entierly predictable for any given speaker. With the amp and speaker built into the box and DSP 'knowing' power and frequency levels you can afford to use higher power amps to get higher sound levels with the DSP taking sure to dynamically limit the power if things go outside of the parameters of the drive units. DSP is doing what the sound engineers were doing in big professional PA's for decades past, and class D amps are so cheap that putting big amps in small speakers is cheaper than building 5 different PA amps for every different speaker model. At the moment I'll guess that there are no sensors for ambient temperature in most base level systems used by semi pro bands. From the advertising I don't think RCF for exampe do this. What they do have however is a proxy for ambient temperature: the amplifier monitors it's own temperature as there is overheating protection built into the amp. If the ambient temperature rises the cooling on the amp is challenged and the temperature there will rise in proportion to the rise in the voice coil again this is all predictable. Obviously a sensor on the speaker itself would give an extra layer of protection. I found it really interesting to know which amp modules were being used inside these boxes and it's fairly easy to track the design decisions being made generally from these videos. I think it is fabulous that we can buy speakers that manage themselves in ways that allow bands to use more of the available output of the drive units. This sort of thing is already starting to spread to budget cabs and I suspect it will be moving to bass guitar combo's fairly soon.

Thanks. Hadnt considered that. The stock ones have 4 screws, the gotohs have 2. So are you saying just line up one of the holes and leave it at that? Not sure how secure that would be. Guess theres potential it could work (if it does line up) as the gotohs clamp the headstock with a threaded bushing from the front so it's not just the screws holding them on....

Original case was to be heard in the Magistrates Court. That's like the difference between going for lunch at The Ritz, or McDonalds.

I read this as originally being in the Crown Court list for 27th October but subsequently adjourned to 26th November, which suggests that the earlier Magistrates decision was to refer it to the senior court.

If it’s just one per tuner I’d just leave them out

What Have I Done To Deserve This - Dusty and the Pet Shop Boys

How does that translate to it being kicked up to the Crown Court? Genuine question.

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Hi all. I've just recently bought a sire z3, which I'm really impressed with. I previously had a sire p5 on which I had replaced the stock tuning heads with gotoh gb528s. These replacements seemed to me to be exceptional quality and also much lighter than the originals. I kept the gotohs and had intended to swap them onto the new z3, but I see that the stock tuning heads on the z3 are not the same as the p5 (apparently the z3 and v3 models use slightly different ones to the rest of the sire range). The screw pattern is slightly different and the gotohs are not a simple drop in. If the holes were in completely different places (e.g. hipshot ultralight) then I'd be comfortable drilling these into virgin wood and cracking on. However the hole positions for thr gotohs are really close, and probably slightly overlapping, to the stock holes so I'd def need to fill and re-drill the new holes. I've never done this and I'm worried about whether this would be strong enough or whether I might screw things up as I'd be drilling either very close to or partially into the filled holes. Any thoughts? I could sell the gotohs and buy some hipshots, but given I already have them and really like them I wondered if the above would work. Thanks.

Ditto - conversely, when Mrs Zero the first and I went to see Paul Simon on the Graceland tour, Mrs Zero[0] was told to sit down despite her being 4'11.5" and us being at the back of our seating block so she couldn't see a bloody thing.

As others have said, work on the other arm in the meantime. It's not going to be load bearing for a few weeks but if you can get yourself into a position which a) isn't painful and b) involves a bass being in a playable position, you can at least do something. If you can realistically only use one arm then it depends which arm - if it's your fretting arm then practice fretting (I've seen a bassist whose right arm was useless due to a stroke, but he played very well with just his left hand) and if it's your picking hand then practice all picking forms - two fingers, plectrum, three fingers, classical guitar style.

There you go, you're working up to it. Now watch a couple of episodes of "Mrs Brown's Boys", and if you're not comatose with laughter after that, watch Spinal Tap II again and you'll appreciate it all the more.

Hadn't realised it had been so long... Tuesday night there was a triffic bunch (I'm not very good at classification of this genre, bluegrass or C&W) at the Cavern. Three part vocal harmonies, guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo (in decreasing order of importance). Thursday night was the Crown at Shard End, which is a club not a pub so finishes at midnight. I appear to have become the house bassist there - the resident Orange amp is a heap of shite so I'll be taking my own along next time. It's always a relief, when Mrs Zero can't make it, if somebody else is worse at vocals than me, and there were two vying for that crown at the start of the night. Things looked up from then though.

And here I thought a self profile pic was required with all new threads. Lol Daryl

We had an acoustic gig at a Holloween party tonight. Way out in the country. It was freezing. Very low key gig. Excellent food. Daryl

Another dep job tonight (seem to be doing alot lately) with a fairly local funk/soul outfit down in a Worthing pub. Went well I think, the band members seemed very happy with my performance. Used my yammy TRB 5 through my trusty puma 900 and a single LFsys Monza. Very happy with that rig. Pissing down for the load out but hey ho! A fun evening! X

Newbie here, I don't even own a bass yet! Looking forward to learning as much as possible, and maybe finding a suitable first bass guitar. Any suggestions will be appreciated. 👍