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Hi Dave, just lately I’ve been using my GB spitfire 5 or a fairly recently acquired Yamaha trb5 mk1 . I’m very lucky to have such a choice I guess. All the best mate x

Separating subs at outdoor gigs is far more important than at most indoor gigs. Yes in an ideal world you'll separate at both but in reality, unless your indoor gig is in a really well acoustically treated space, there will be so much reflected sound that you won't really find many noticeable dead spots caused by phase cancellation.

When I was working in the vintage guitar trade I was told in 2008 by a solid UK source that there is a group of vintage dealers in the States that get together each year prior to a trade show and certain vintage prices are set from there, and like you say, the rest follow and other vintage gear rises accordingly.

One gets the feeling that popular music doesn’t mean as much these days as it once did, when we were younger. It’s more of a background thing that accompanies something else you’re doing. However, that’s viewing it from a musician’s point of view and, perhaps, it was ever thus and we’re not seeing it from the right perspective. Lady Ez, for instance, likes music certainly, but can rarely, if ever, recall the lyrics to a song or hum the tune. She is not a muso and is probably subjected to more music than she would if I didn’t play or was an enthusiast.

Great feedback @neepheid, I bet you were very pleased with that

While I think most people will drive (especially if they're bringing gear), if anyone is coming in by rail, check the route here with their planner: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/.

Nothing wrong with either approach but don't think that an all-pa setup won't work in small venues. This place held fewer than 100 people.

If its the same as mine it is 101cm - I know that as that is a pain size to get the bag (which I now have!)

Brought a couple of cables. No issues, look great, looking forward to now sounding and playing like Jaco.... Rob

@Al Krow what is the length of your wall washer bars, the ones you got from AliExpress?

I don't think/can't imagine that would work on modern DMX lighting. The control of the LED's is by programming them not by varying the voltage. The issue with dimming them is the internal chip that controls the built in sequences and fx. You can only access what the manufacturers programmed in and usually for the sequences, sound to light and strobe that means full power. You can fade the RGB and other colours individually in 'colour' mode but if you want sound to light then you'd have to override the internal DMX with the sort of controller I accidentally purchased above. DMX is good fun but time consuming and has a learning curve similar to using a digital sound mixer so I've never bothered using it with a band lighting set up. The pre programmed sequencies tend to do the job though generally I'd prefer some slower fade sequences for a band. Rapid flashing works for a disco but less well for a band. I've seen some of the function bands use software that passes DMX control of the lights over to a laptop or tablet. Ultimately this means you can programme you lightshow for each song and even sync it if you play to a click track. It looks so cool but what a lot of work for a pub gig. I know one band where a single mouse click to select a song will start the click track, insert backing tracks bring up lyrics and chord charts, scroll them, adjust the mixer and even set all the fx on your pedal board, all for each song. At the end of the song all the reverb is removed from the mixer so you don't get it for the announcements. Crazy but good.

For private sellers. Business sellers on eBay have to pay the fee.

I don't really play anything other than short scale these days but doesn't stop me lusting after one of these. It looks amazing, congrats!