Jakester

Every Planet Waves cable I've ever had has failed. I steer well clear of all of their stuff now. I have two MXR cables and they're going strong, and just bought an MXR 'PRO' cable (dunno what the difference is - was on sale) and haven't had any problems thus far (touches wood!)

Yep, love it. Someone who knows what they want and isn't afraid to say it. Weeds out a large % of the time wasters too.

I have my first gig doubling on DB (well, EUB to be fair) this evening! I'm very much an unintended bassist - I picked up a bass for fun after being a drummer for 20+ years and whilst I've played a few gigs solely on electric, this'll be the first time I've actually done a gig using my EUB as well. In fact, it's only the second time I've really played it in public - the last being the last rehearsal! I play in a community orchestra and the conductor/arranger asked me to bring my EUB to the last one as there were a couple of pieces that had bowed DB parts. I'd usually played them using a sustain pedal on the electric but I thought 'what the hell' and brought it along. To my surprise it went fairly well and I got lots of compliments about the sound (what is it about a DB/EUB that captures the imagination more?) so I thought "sod it, let's give it a go" tonight! It's a mix of bowed parts and pizz bass, as well as the stuff on the electric. Only wrinkle is that it's forecast to be 2deg when we're playing so hopefully I'll be able to keep my hands warm!

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

I have in the past used my CMD121P on top of the matching NY121 but with the de-rigueur ikea laptop stand between tthem to angle the combo up. Worked an absolute treat. Perhaps try angling just the top speaker? Not too far from Wells so you're welcome to give it a go if you like.

Nice! I think those FRP snares are fairly rare/sought after. My Yamahas are: Akira Jimbo Sig 13x7 Peter Erskine Soprano 12x4 Maple Custom 14x6 Brass Custom Absolute (or whatever it was called - it has Absolute lugs anyway!) 14x4 I really want one of the old Yamaha Bamboos but they're hen's teeth.

I realised the other day I have literally run out of space for my snares! Yamaha probably predominate in terms of brand, but I've got Ludwig, Slingerland, Gretsch, Dunnett, Ahead and so on!

Maybe this should be called 'Yamaholics' instead! The big thing ATM seems to be to have a deeper tuned side snare - that fat 70's sound. I've been playing around with it and have an old Maple Custom snare tuned right down - interval between the 12" and 14" toms - and it's great, adds some real interest if you play backbeats between the two.

Wow, that BCA looks lovely! Good to see a fellow 'massive kit' enthusiast too.. 😂

Here's a couple of pics

*waves* I'm a drummer who fell into playing bass by accident, but love playing both now. I'm quite lucky in that I've had the opportunity to pick up my dream gear over the years I've been playing. My 'home/studio' kit is a 1980's USA Gretsch in 8/10/12/14/15/20 - it's in natural maple finish so pretty classic. It sounds amazing, and until recently was my gigging kit too, but it's seen a hard life and I don't want to take it out any more! I've recently fallen for Yamaha drums - or, rather, I've loved them for years (have a couple of Yamaha snares etc) so during lockdown I shelled out for one of the new Recording Custom kits - it's an absolute beauty. It's 8/10/12/13/14/16/22 in their Classic Walnut finish - slightly darker than the original cherry finish, but absolutely stunning. I realised I'm a proper Yamaha fanboy when my main bass is a TRB1005 and I also have Yamaha PA too!

I'm absoutely seething on your behalf! I hope you'll be asking the first bloke to pay for Jon's repairs?

I cannot believe the original "repairer" had the temerity to return that back to you in that state!! Absolutely outrageous! I mean, mistakes happen, stuff gets damaged, but own up to it and ask the owner how they'd like to proceed - don't just bodge it and hope they don't notice!! I don't think I've ever seen a worse job (that bloke on eBay excepted). Well done for not murdering the "repairer". Lovely work by Jon and great to see it back to fine fettle again!

Not quite on stage, but I used to be part of a group of deps for this vocalist who did gigs up and down the country. One of his band used to do the sound and the singer was endlessly beaching at him, gig after gig, about everything - too loud, too quiet, frequencies wrong, setup wrong - whatever it was, he complained about it. The guy used to just take it - he was really quiet and reserved, never snapped back. He was an chocolate starfish, but he paid well and the rest of us weren’t generally weren’t in the firing line. However, it all came to a head at a big wedding do at a huge country house in the middle of nowhere. The singer was off on one of his rants and the sound guy just snapped. Told him where to go in no uncertain terms and started packing all his gear away - both the PA and his instrument. I have never before seen someone plead like that singer did at that gig. Almost literally down on his knees begging, pleading with the guy to stay - it was almost like an adulterous husband pleading with his wife to take him back. The gig went ahead in the end, but it was touch and go for a while - and thereafter the singer treated the sound guy much better! (He was still a pink torpedo though and a few gigs later I refused to do any more with him!)

And it's arrived, and it's much bigger than I anticipated, rather undermining the whole 'compact mixer' point. Still, it should do the job, and useful to have as a backup to the XR18 if ever that goes kablooey.

Oh, that's a whole other conversation....🙄

Well, I think the small pub gigs I'm talking about are just that - v small pubs, so there's no need for anything other than a vocal monitor (and that's mainly only for the singist). The main issue with the controllability is the ruddy singer pointing his mic at the ruddy monitor and/or FOH speakers - he's been told repeatedly not to do it, but he gets over excited....🙄

Because I think it's a faff. It's more faff than using a 'normal' mixer. Less tongue-in-cheek, in this band I play drums. I also have the PA and so if there's a need for a level change using the XR18 it can be difficult to keep playing and change the levels. For bigger gigs, I can use a control surface next to me and the XR18 elsewhere on the stage etc, but for small pub gigs its overkill. What do you mean by "a genuine reason"?

Thanks - unfortunately none of those have two auxes.

Thanks - the Behringer looks like it fits the bill, and I found an open box one on Amazon for a good price, so going to give that a try.

Can anyone offer any recommendations for a compact mixer for live use? We have a XR18 for bigger gigs where everything is mic'd and monitored, but it's a faff for small pub gigs. I was looking at a Yamaha MG10XU as we need reverb for the vocals, but we also run the guitars through the PA to limit stage volume. and my reading of the specs is that it only has 1 monitor output via the FX send, and if you use the internal FX that doesn't work, so the monitor out has everything coming out (there's no way to adjust what comes out in the monitors). We don't need guitars in the monitors (for obvious reasons!) What we really need is a compact mixer with an adjustable aux outs and FX that's separate. The MG12XU seems to have it, but it also has way more channels that we need and is £££. The Behringer jobbies seem okay but have the same limitation - no way to control what comes out the monitors if you use the internal FX. Any ideas/recommendations appreciated!