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Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Simplified sight reading for electric bass by Jos des Pres. I used this to learn bass notation. It’s brilliant!

Just seen a review that stated the Xvive lasted over 7 hours. I’ll order those today. £118 on Amazon spread over 5 months interest free.

Agreed! I think the mastery of rhythm is where you can tell the difference between a pro and an amateur. (I’m in the latter category - and I know it.)

Now that is bloody helpful (I won’t tell you how I got a bushing out yesterday) 👍

I had a rehearsal on saturday with my new band. Guitarist played a good rock and so did the drummer. We played 5 hours with some coffy and cigaret stops. Rehearsal was good, i mainly played chords, said by guitarist and listened to the drummer. Long time ago i had to play 5 hours, so rehearsal ended with 2 big blisters on my 2 and 3 right hand fingers.

I guess one huge advantage of IEMs is removing a major source of potential feedback from the stage sound?

Yes, it's gone.

This is really a noob woodworking question. I got a MIM Fender maple neck that I want to put on a standard P body. Neck fits the pocket very nicely but when I went to screw it in I realised the screw holes on the neck had no bite on two of the holes. I'm using standard screws from Allparts and they are perfect for the body. It seems the neck has either previously been used with bigger screws or has just been badly treated when adjusting the truss rod (it's a heel adjuster). What would be the best thing to fill the holes and get them gripping the screws? As it's a heel adjust I will need to be able to unscrew and re screw a few times to get the right setup, barring incredible first time luck! Thanks.

Ive read good reviews of both, that's why I can't decide. I like the idea of the Fender not having a light show on them, just one button and longer battery life (although its more than I'll ever need from one charge). Xvive is a tried and tested company I guess, and they are a bit cheaper.

@Eldon Tyrell can I assume that this has gone?

There's a ton of sheilding paint. The shaft is 25mm long, 8mm dia? and the knob is 6mm dia. 150kohm linear. I've looked everywhere and even thought about putting a short shaft one in and putting flying leads in, but there's not enough space. The one I ordered ended up being 6.5mm dia. It's 25 years old, and it's done its work. These things don't last forever. Cutting my losses for the sake of £30 and a half hour swapping over.

Out of curiosity, how is the body size on these? Is it closer to the Ibanez SR or to a Jazz bass?

I used the Nux 5.8 one for a while, but for the amount of gigs I do I moved it on and just went back to my trusty old BOSS WL20, any issues I`ll swap to a lead.

Xvive A58 Guitar Wireless System review | Guitar World Nice little review on Guitar world - pretty positive

That would do it Even with horns the output off axis would be reduced a little, below the crossover point of course you are getting sound from the woofer and with an 8" speaker the crossover point could be as high as 3kHz, most of the midrange which is essential for speech (and presumably singing) is below that. I noticed the other day that your feedback is very high frequency and seemed to be over a narrow band. Given your singers very random approach to PA in general and eq in particular I dismissed this at the time as operator error but some horns have quite sharp resonances due to phase problems in the horn. You could try and locate that frequency and filter it out alternatively turn down the top end a little and boost the mids. Either way you need to get the monitors pointing at your ears. Get some wedges sorted to put under them for next week. Which mic does your singer use? If it's a cardioid like the SM58 then make sure the speaker is pointing down the gun barrel, at the back of the mic, if it's a super Cardioid like the Beta 58 then the monitors need to be slighly to one side, roughly 135deg. Some mics are better at rejecting feedback than others so that is worth a look too. Then there are the human issues. He needs to trust that you will do everything you can to sort his problems but he needs to talk to you. It should be simple enough to explain that if the microphone is at the point of feedback then he simply can't turn it up. You have to turn something else down, so ask him what he can hear most loudly in the mix at that point and turn that down. That might in turn mean adding something to the FOH but that shouldn't be a problem. There could also be problems with his mic technique, moving closer to the mic will give him extra volume without extra gain and feedback problems. The other problem may well be hearing loss, everybody our age has it and people in bands usually worse than average. I struggle to pick out conversations in noisy rooms and he may be struggling to pick out his voice in the mix, especially as the band get louder and he gets tired. Again it's mid range losses that are the problem so boosting mids in the monitors will help. If he's ever had a hearing test and knows what frequencies he needs more of then that would help Another idea to help might be to consider side fills as monitors, hide your monitors behind the PA mount them on stands at head height and point them across the stage. This works well if you have super cardioid mics whch are less sensitive to sound coming from the sides.