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Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran

Don't overthink it. I left a band because people who knew my situation were too immature to recognise how it was affecting me mentally, even when I told them to cut me some slack. If you are not aware of things going on in his life that are preventing him from picking up the phone you can't temper your response accordingly. If he has always been rubbish with comms, that may be why A wants to get rid of him. If it's a new new thing then it probably needs a chat, or he will walk anyway.

I am a fan of the Boss Katana Go. A huge variety of excellent tones from the built in amp models and effects, and bluetooth connectivity means you can play along to songs from your phone wire-free. It can also act as a digital interface to a computer. It's a more expensive option but the sound quality and convenience make it worthwhile for me.

I would imagine it suffers more from the constant need for affirmation.

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog

Makes sense. Maybe they pointed to MM, as it has colored wires and would be easier to identify. As P has two black, two whites. Not sure, and they didn't elaborate. But I'm happy as long as it is working now Here she is, finally, in all her glory!

They look like a set of geezer gzr

Just bought a number of books from Mickeybro. Was an easy and smooth transaction and they arrived quickly. Thanks Stuart

I have just bought this one, for a great price, used: Should have it by the end of this week.

First of all I think it's probably the room causing a particular problem. I think we've all experienced that and I share that opinion. However I'm seriously worried about your hearing. I use a single modest Celestion 10" cab quite frequently as on-stage monitoring and it's plenty for my needs, it does have a horn too though which helps articulation. Those four Celestions will knock out 130db which is easily enough to damage your hearing and that Crown amp is no weakling either. I would seriously consider in-ears, you might not like them but being so hard of hearing that you have to give up gigs altogether you will hate even more. It comes to all of us in the end and some hearing loss may already be part of your problem. As to your problem you need to boost the mids and cut the bass. The bass is where the room resonances are and the fact your sound egineer was struggling with the kick sound says there was a problem in the room. On stage you'd also be hearing all the lowest frequencies from the PA which are omnidirectional, just as loud behind as they are in front. With the PA probably louder than the stage levels you almost won't need any bass at all from your amp. I suspect you were close to the PA? I've gone as far as cutting all the bass below 120hz by 24db/8ve before now. Look to boost 200-2kHz as Bill suggests. Also look to get something designed to get the mids to your ears like the LFSys Monaco which has the horn rotated to project a vertical rather than horizontal plane. It might also be worth wearing ear plugs, they do muffle the sound a bit but at the sound levels you were operating at tiny muscles in your ear contract to protect your hearing, just lowering the sound levels might help you get enough information to follow your own playing. Counter intuitively you might hear more with plugs in place

I use a Vox Bass Amplug, connected to my laptop and some headphones. Cheap and cheerful. Does the job nicely.

I'm Not Going To Eat A Thing — Roy C