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It's funny how there are two camps which never usually acknowledge the existence of the other. Not enough information. If punters can order drinks without leaning over the bar screaming, might be quite ok, night not.

We were nailed by a Nor’Easter , nasty business , and had to shovel out the plow , it was mid afternoon before everything was cleaned out. During a break I found an auction in Antwerp , and saw a Linhof 6x9 Technika IV camera. Now I’m a retired photographer , and am not shooting film these days , but I was seriously tempted to put in a bid just to play around with the camera. In a previous life I was a large format studio guy , and I’m very familiar with these cameras. Thankfully I did come to my senses. Close call. Would that be a tier 3 failure?

But to get to live performance you have to had wanted to learn in the first place. I think the oportunities are reducing for that - and the locations. And however elvis was with a crowd, his last performance was 49 years ago, so for most people alive, he was just some historical figure.

Yup. Not full-sized. I don't know its keybed though, and my earlier comment re Akai should've been worded more carefully. Some people report size is a huge issue; others that it isn't. Animosity then ensues. (Why the flying do they need to fight over this?) What I personally find to be a problem is that keys of lesser size tend to sit in keybeds of questionable quality (not always!), which potentially gives timing issues or finger tiredness or whatever. For myself I've decided to stay well away from slim, mini or nano keys. I can adapt, but I also note that the error rate goes up after 60 years of playing full-size keys. I don't know your Novation, but your Kawai probably is very good. Then again, for the Solina, you'd likely go for an electronic organ action AKA synth action anyway, and would then land roughly in the Novation landscape anyway. As said, even the three brands I mentioned vary wildly within that landscape. Also Icon's ranges vary considerably. As to the eBay one, Icon do name their MIDI keyboards to incorporate key size for the mini and nano ones, so you should normally know what you buy, but I cannot tell right now whether the mini and nano ones do have 5-pin MIDI. Somehow I doubt it.

Not mine; just thought it should be put out there. https://www.hotpress.com/music/london-band-legss-appeal-for-help-recovering-multiple-instruments-stolen-in-dublin-23131270

It's not like it's even a new thing! The stack knob jazz basses of the early 60's had detents on the tone controls back then (which someone on Talkbass pointed out would have been fiddly and costly to make). I like them and I think they're a good idea from a practicality point of view. You lose a small amount of very fine tuning within the 'sweep' of a normal control but most players would probably prefer being able to quickly get back to their reference point. When Jeff Berlin recorded the audio parts for his Bass Mastery books back in 2017 or 2018, he had the tone control on his bass held in place with tape, so that the sound of the bass would be consistent across all the different cuts and videos they recorded on that session. A notched control would have sorted that.

So nice people are enjoying their Monzas, I had a funk /soul gig in a very large wine bar in Redhill a couple of weeks ago, full band , 3 piece brass section, all full on! Decided to use just one of mine rather than two because it wasn’t the easiest load in/out. Used with my puma 900 it absolutely ate it. It’s lovely when you have total confidence in your set up. .‘Appy days!! 😊

My Zoom V3 hasn't arrived yet (due tomorrow) but I thought I should spend some advance time trawling YouTube for reviews, demonstrations, and 'how to' videos. What an absolute hoot. For most of the gear I've bought in the last few years I've done the same, and I've become used to slick, informative videos prepared by professionals ... I simply wasn't ready for the torrent of amateurish dreck that was waiting for me. Ignoring the occasional video clearly created & narrated entirely by AI (very easy to spot still, though that will change), the dozen or so videos I've checked fall into three main camps: I can't sing and I have very little idea of what I'm doing but hey, listen to the funny noises it makes; I don't have any musical gear to use alongside it so my demos are all pointless but hey, listen to the funny noises it makes; I am running my "channel" on such a tight budget that I'm having to route a vocal effects processor through a bass amp (srsly - I'm not making this up) but hey, listen to the funny noises it makes. None of these presenters seem to have any live performance experience or knowledge of what use a live performer might have for this sort of pedal. One guy representing a big music store in NYC genuinely suggested that people should buy this pedal because "it's kinda fun to have around". Not so much an Influencer as a Flatulencer.

Regarding ticket prices in general , when I did go to gigs I always went for the most expensive ticket whenever I could . When I saw Rush at the London o2 clockwork angels tour , I had to let my friend get the tickets . I told him to buy the dearest ..but he purchased the slightly cheaper ones. This meant that although at ground level , we could only see half of the backing orchestra 🤦‍♂️Idiot ! My last time seeing Rush 😮‍💨🙂

Yes, me too, but Rush are one of the few I make an exception for. Plus, I made the effort to get early access reducing the damage slightly.

I have one fitted to my Streamer Stage 1. There is a spacer in between the rear of the headstock and the back plate of the lever mechanism. The spacer shifts the lever a few mm away from the headstock so it can be deployed without any interference from the neck or headstock. The tuners are fitted in the normal position for a Warwick bass.

Thanks for the replies. Am I right I thinking that the Akai doesn't have full sized keys? I'm guessing from the replies above that this isn't much of an issue though. I think I've got one of the Icon models on my Ebay watch list but wasn't sure what they were like so I might pull the trigger on that one. The Midiplus one sounds good too. Lots of options then - thank you once again.