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Could be, but plugged in? the last time I saw ZZ Top they had two dozen or so Magnatones on the stage. I asked their road manager how many they were actually using. He told me Billy and Dusty were using two apiece, the rest were 'eye candy for the kiddies'. 😄

I tend to have our PA speakers facing inwards until we are ready to do a full sound check. It just saves anyone out in the room listening to ( '1...2..is it on?...I can't hear myself....yeah the switch on my mic is set to on, oh wait....)

Which cardboard is best for metal though?

Bottom right are the guys from the Searchers , I believe they only just retired after 70years touring .. Bass player stayed the distance of course 😁

Also running our own small PA with just vocals/keys and kick drum going through it. We try and arrive at an earlier time if doing Social clubs. Sometimes the room is closed so it's fine, other times there are people in it so we have to look professional about it. This is where most of my band struggle. Setting gear up on stage but not turning it on, making sure it's all connected etc until the moment we all stand up there for a sound check. Ive also been fighting to get my lead guitarist to play for the audience and not himself. He angles his combo towards his head/ceiling. When I ask him to turn it up so it can be heard out front, I get 'then it's too loud'. No bloody idea!!!. So yeah, 2, but done in a professional way, but sometimes the result is as if it were option 1 anyway.

The same happens with the 1950s rock 'n' roll band, but we didn't go through a phase of actually playing an extra song 10 minutes before the start. (Audiences tended to think the gig had begun in earnest. ) What is extremely important, and we can't do without in any band, is a line check. I'm fast enough in fixing any problems to the actual sound once the gig has started, but if I'm missing signal from a channel or a speaker that's another matter, and the performance has to be interrupted, which does look unprofessional.

Let me know what you need. Do you have a model to work from? Printing is the easy bit...

First sight I thought the 'guy next to Ringo - with the bass' looked like Jet Harris, but I don't see any other Shadows there 😄

No problem @Danage, I should have understood that as you mentioned it in your first post.

No, this is just a straight up normal audio taper pot, no indent, not a stacked pot. I'm calling it a "blend" as it blends in the second coil. There's no attenuation of the first coil. Sorry for the confusion

Oh cool, not heard of that one, I’ll make sure the band know about it!

Now that you've pointed it out, this seems to be the case, good eagle eye there. The line is too straight, not really a contour. I reckon our bass player brains take a quick look and fill in the details to fit what we already know.

Christ, that’s a good idea

The fella who made them just stopped doing it, sadly.

I should share this beauty which arrived from @skelf last week:

For us, playing pubs with a vocal-only PA, soundcheck - two verses and choruses of a song using BVs. Checks that the vocals are balanced and the instruments are balanced with each other and the drums. Seeing as most of the time we have to eject people from their seats in order to set up, we're never going to get to soundcheck in an empty room. And we do a song that everyone will know and we do well, so those already there may have their interest piqued enough to remain (unless they're sulking at being ejected from their seats).

Did you use an MN taper type for the blend pot? It will be way more progressive than a non MN, and without the typical loss in the middle (indented) position.