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The problem is one of phase. When two speakers are separated then the sound from one will reach you later than the sound from the other. If they are a substantial fraction of a wavelength apart then the sound may be in phase and reinforce each other or out of phase and cancel each other. This leads to power alleys where the bass is louder and other places where it is quieter. It's frequency/wavelength dependant so the distortion caused will vary as you move around. You can hear this quite clearly in outdoor events where there are subs either side of the stage. Indoors the walls reflect the sound and the multiple pathways the sound uses to reach your ears smears this effect. In the end practicality kicks in. Ideally you want your subs on the ground in front of a raised stage but this is rarely possible, and placing the subs together can be tricky. I've played a lot of venues where punters killing themselves by knocking the tops off stands are more of an issue than sound quality. It is a bit of an issue though as you point out when designers of systems seem not to know about sub placement . To be fair to them most of their customers would probably prefer the look of subs either side of the stage as that's what they would do in practice so their ads show what the customer wants. When I looked up BA systems the website has been taken down and sombody called Kevin has retired due to ill health with just a FB page remaining so I'd contact them before going this direction to check if they are still trading.

Nevertheless, there are only so many venues, days (evenings...) of the week, and folk wanting to go out and listen to/watch a live band, and a fair number of original and covers bands, or multiple genres, courting those ever reducing number of slots. It would appear that the butter is being spread ever thinner on fewer slices; this trend is not likely to reverse, in the UK, soon. Just sayin'.

My current band who are hardly a well-known Goth band manage an average of 2500 streams a month on Spotify alone. While that's split between 14 tracks about 75% of those streams come from our most popular 5 songs. I would suggest that we're not quite popular enough to headline without one or more other bands of at least an equivalent standing as support.

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As I said before, if your band isn't based somewhere where there is an audience for your music then you need to go and play places where there is. And if you're a band going to play an unknown venue out of town do some research to make sure that it has an audience and one that is likely to be appreciative of what you do. If you are not based in at least a decent sized town then it would be naive to expect much of a local audience for any originals band. In the early days of The Terrortones after we'd called in a couple of favours due from Mr Venom's previous band, local gigs weren't that easy to come by. However there were plenty of venues and promotors in other parts of the country who wanted to put us on and were prepared to pay us enough to make the travelling worthwhile. It wasn't until we started putting on the monthly "Dick Venom Presents…" gigs where we would book someone better known in a compatible genre and play support that we started to build up a local following.

Sounds good! Is that what the new VIP model looks like with a light shone on it?

Living in rural France for the past half century, never an issue with La Poste (nor, to be fair, any other delivery service, from any country in the world...), either sending or receiving. Just lucky, I suppose.

The problems I'm currently having are with La Poste in Paris. The litany of cretinous actions is really hard to believe. So, I guess this could be a large city problem, as you say.

Purchased a couple of pedals over the last few months from Mike. Awesome comms, well looked after gear, quick postage etc etc. Super happy. Thanks!

Purchased a pedal from Jeremi, no problems, great comms, quick postage. Can't ask for me. Thanks!

In some places it's almost impossible to find an audience for an originals band... Frinstance, round here there's no proper venues and folks don't seem want to come out - I remember seeing an awesome prog band rather weirdly playing in my local boozer (I'm not really a prog fan, but these guys were just serious quality musicians). There were 4 of us in there and maybe 50 outside completely ignoring the band - it wasn't loud so that wasn't it. One of the outside folks actually came up to me and asked what they were like rather than staying and listening for himself. As a result, any originals bands will never get a local audience because locals won't see anything they don't know already so it's a proper Catch 22. However, when "Lady DJ" comes to the same pub to play all the hits it's absolutely rammed with drunken folks singing along to all those songs I can't stand.

That's the only Warwick I'd be tempted by in addition to my Thumb.

As you're already rocking the XS-100, can you confirm if it can do two detuning AND still have the dry signal (so, sweep from unity to +2 Octaves and -4th, and still hear the unity dry), or does the dry (no sweep) need to be one of the two 'voices'?

I’ve just got the older Ampeg SCR-DI and on Monday the Laney Digbeth Pre Amp arrives I will keep one or the other ! The Ampeg does that low / Low mid sound and into my flat set LM iv it sounds good. Not so keen on the scrambler tone for what I want but the pedal tone fills out the low end nicely something the LM iv cannot achieve using its onboard EQ

Afraid it swam off as a trade against an Overwater, many moons ago.

Do you still have the Dolphin?

"The judge also cited factors including... and the fact he had previously "embraced and financially benefitted from being featured on the album cover"."

What does streaming well entail? I'm curious now. Would say, getting under 100 monthly listeners suggest you should pack it in? I agree some bands are trying to run before they can walk, others, I would say the needle won't move for them and I don't believe that's because they're useless or have crap material, as they don't. I would say that's because not as many people go to live shows unless it's someone or something they know. A few do better out of London, others not. If one can't find fans in London which has twice the population of Scotland, I think honestly anyone will have a hard time of it.