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My old drummer was a real Luddite, and in a way still is, but the tribute band he is in have just invested in an XR18 and a few bits just for IEM/stage monitors. They always use a house PA but have struggled with monitors. It took me a while to explain what can be achieved these days, and they (he) built a small IEM rack, based on the XR18 and a couple of splitters. For less than £500 they will never really have to worry about monitors again. Even the drummer in my band, who admits he is a dinosaur and refuses anything to do with IEM, has just brought a P-16 for his floor monitor. The downside to this is he had it really loud at the last gig and i had no control over it. I’ve banned anyone else getting one. We use 3 powered floor monitors and i shudder to think how loud they will be pushed.

Congrats, hopefully this will work well for you, I like the fret markers.

Here's another one, with Jimmy Smith playing one of my favourite basslines. It's a bit long ("if it's 3 minutes long, it ain't really jazz" etc.) but around 5 minutes in is particularly good.

Hi @Bill Fitzmaurice Thank you for the link. This will help me a lot.

Using more speakers outdoors is appropriate, as you're losing some 6dB or more of boundary reinforcement. That requires doubling the cab count to come out even, especially in the lows. The main issue with using dissimilar cabs is whether they'll integrate to help each other or whether they'll fight each other. You'll want to try it in a practice situation first.

Going to wait for the Nano price to settle. It'll eventually be in a little sale.

Skywatcher 66ED cell. ZWO guider on one of my home-made bitsa guidescopes. The cooler is an online design that uses a copper plate slipped between the sensor and the next circuit board. I 3D printed a cover to help insulate it and support the peltier, heatsink and fan. Quite tricky to get right as you have to make a heater from resistance wire to go around the sensor to stop condensation and get the right balance of cooling and warming! Camerea also has the IR/UV filters stripped out. Made a huge difference, but then I got a big cooled mono ZWO and a filter wheel. Sadly, not got up to much since 2021. I think this one is with the ED66. After this, I'd better shut up and let the thread get back to speaker cabs!

It's a bit like how I LOVE the treble/bite/zing of a bridge Telecaster pickup, but in my old band, the other guitarist wasn't keen at all. The frequencies did not gel with him, whereas I knew it was overly aggressive in the treble but liked it for that reason. I did what every person should do, if it works in the mix, carry on.

I was hoping to do the triumvirate of bashes next year, Midlands, SW and SE. Down to a duo now though.

Heavenly Homes - BeBop Deluxe

I like the relatively modest output of vintage pickups, I'd say they are pretty spot on for a vintage sound.

Thank God for digital desks eh?! i wouldn't have a hope of doing this with my old analogue desk! Just as an aside: This level of flexibility combined with the better pre-amps on our A&H CQ18T (vs my old Soundcraft MTK12) and the ability to give everyone a tailored feed that we're already benefitting from, seems to me to make a quality digital desk the single most important factor in getting a band to successfully adopt and accept IEMs in place of backline? With quality ear-buds running in a very close second - one of our singers tried got a set of KZ ZARs from Ali Express for £30 recently. She's over the moon with how good they are!

This was my problem there:

Not everything I have released over the past 45 years has made it onto Spotify, but here are the bands that have: SugarBox: Dick Venom & The Terrortones: In Isolation: Hurtsfall:

Wot? No Tommy Schneider in your list. 😱😉

…and narrow frets 👍

Highly recommended album from Tab Benoit with Steve Bailey playing his sixer fretless in tune and Paul English on B3...

Wood is wood, they will all vary, but Jazz width, shallow, and small headstock will be lighter all other things being equal. Material of truss rod will be a factor also

Neck weights can vary quite a bit. I used to be obsessed by weight and went through a phase of weighing everything in sight! Looking at my data, I've had clean neck weights (without any hardware) ranging from 725gm ( 25oz) to 850gm (30oz). The heaviest neck I've had was a Warmoth which clocked in at 1.1kg (38oz) - but that one had stainless steel reinforcing rods.

I just keep watching it, excellent!

Thanks. Just noticed that one side looks like it's covered in white filler, it's not. I've filled and sanded, filled and sanded. Whilst the Armacab should hide imperfections, I'd rather not have to hide anything.