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Sounds great to me. What a good band, very tight and the female vocalist is terrific.

Had the OP shouted/sworn at an actual person, that might be fair comment, but all he did was type the word "f***ing" in a text to a chatbot. That can hardly be interpreted as being "aggressive or abusive" to a human being, unless you are possessed of a particularly delicate nature or an extraordinarily thin skin. Or perhaps if you know you did something wrong and wish to recover the initiative/justify yourself, of course... So you "think a ban is entirely appropriate" and suggest he should offer the company a "carefully worded and sincere apology"? I sincerely hope he doesn't and finds another rehearsal facility.

Okay, I apologized to the AI chatbot too...

Sometimes you just have to buy direct from the US, and just occasionally it ends up quicker and cheaper than buying from the UK (not always) 👍

We use Pirate a lot and have happily done so over a number of years. Yes it's automated/unmanned locally; the flip side is it's decent value, certainly compared to other London studios we've used. Also they have many studios per site which means you can usually get a booking and a very flexible cancellation policy. The aircon wasn't working on a recent booking and a hot day! They couldn't fix it remotely in time and so offered us 25% off our next booking. All good.

I've just had a delivery too! 24 cans od Ricards Red beer and 24 cans of Keiths IPA. I think I'll enjoy them as much as the OP will his V4B! LOL Besides it's 33C outside at the moment. Our two air conditioners are working hard to keep us a 23C indoors.!

https://rumble.com/v6wpwb0-the-inside-bell.html Free video

You’ve taken two of your favourite basses in but the inferno starts up! Which one do you save?!?

I think the alarms are supposed to catch things before it turns into a blazing inferno. The could be a fire in the plenum, embedded wiring, or wherever. Carbon Monoxide can kill you without you even being aware of it. It'd be a bad thing to have folks cart their gear in, only to find the walls getting hot and they have to leg it out and leave the kit behind. And imagine the insurance or legal implications of "Oh, the bloke on the phone told me to just go in and switch off the alarm and we'd be alright.".

Does anyone know where or when you can get a set in nickel. Want some, can't seem to be able to buy them here !!!

I see you are in Sussex, like me. It’s my birthday soon (ish) and I was born in 1962 if you were thinking of something to get me 🙄.

Isn't the clue in the name. i.e "Pirate"?

The top one is my practice rig at home. The bottom one... I had to park over half a mile from the city centre venue, and I had PA support so it was just a monitor (hence up on a stool).

I don't know exactly why, but I have never 'got' Rics. I suppose to me, the various design elements just don't look like they go together. But that's just me.

So, having sorted out the damage to the back, it was time to figure out what to do about the damage on the front. This wasn't as bad as the great big hole, but it was ugly, and in a very visible spot on the front of the instrument. Here's a picture of it after I'd finished the sanding, the black lacquer dust that got into the grain makes the detail of the damage easier to see in a photo. I decided that, as with the hole in the side, I was going to have to make a bigger but neater hole if I was going to patch this cleanly. First I drilled two 20-mm diameter holes centered on the existing screw holes for the Roland GK pickup. I used a forstner bit, so the holes are completely flat at the bottom. The drill stand meant that I was able to make each hole exatly 3 mm deep. Once that was done, I used the router base for my dremel to join the two holes up and create a uniform 3-mm deep channel where the gouge was. In theory I probably could have done all this with the dremel, but the plunge functions of that router base are really wobbly and unreliable, so I prefer to pre-drill and then have it set at a fixed depth. Here's the finished channel, and the maple inlay piece I shaped to fit inside it. This was scrap rock maple from an old guitar build, painstakingly shaped and measured out, not – as it unfortunately looks – the stick from an ice-lolly that I fished out of a bin. This was glued in with the help of an enormous brick of PTFE (non stick!), trimmed to shape and planed level. The plane I used for this has a blade that I ground into a slightly convex shape, so I can use it on surfaces like this without worrying about a sharp corner digging in. And here's the finished patch. (I fixed that little notch in the right hand side of the bridge cutout).

Legal liability aside, I would not feel comfortable with the moral responsibility if it did indeed turn out to be a genuine alarm and someone was injured after I disabled the alarm. With my fire warden hat on from work, I’m appalled. A key rule is never to re-enter a building in a state of alarm until all clear is given. That is the responsibility of a Fire Marshal or Incident Controller; the person should be familiar with the premises and be fully aware of all the potential hazards therein. A company cannot simply outsource the role of Incident Controller / Fire Marshal that does this to its customers and visitors to its premises. On the evidence available it’s hard to see how Pirate can demonstrate that they have an effective emergency action plan is as required by law; clearly if they have one, it is not working. E2A: where the premises are routinely unstaffed, then that just means the emergency action plan must be more robust and actionable.

The Markbass CMD 101 Micro 60 is a cracking litle amp - more than enough for living room/garden noodling and enough for an open mic night. An easy one hand lift, too!

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