Jakester

Not true. Harder to evidence, but a verbal contract is very much binding and just as enforceable in court.

I’ve recently had to add some sounds for an orchestral performance, and I’ve found the best way to get the variety needed for me is by using Apple’s Mainstage. Of course, you need a Mac etc, but if you have that then Mainstage is great when paired with a MIDI keyboard.

I was playing drums at a gig on the Gloucester Road in Bristol a couple of years back. A young crowd, a lot of them students doing a pub crawl up the road, and we were playing rock covers, so lots of shouting, dancing and general merriment. All fun and games, until one young blonde girl, seemingly the worse for alcohol, tripped backwards on the edge of the low stage, and fell directly into the drum kit, wiping out the whole right side and scattering it across the stage. We finished the song as she disentangled herself, and that got the biggest cheer of the evening! She’d have been pretty bruised afterwards I’d have thought. Very surprising at the time, and thankfully no serious damage done. To the drums, I mean, no idea how she was!

I was playing a part for weeks before I realised I’d been reading the treble clef part as a bass part. No wonder everyone kept giving me funny looks...😆

Still waiting for it. Apparently I had to transfer them £500 as a deposit to their Nigerian bank, which I’m sure I’ll get back just as soon as they deliver the phone. I’m expecting it any day now - I left the house keys for them so they can drop it in securely. Nice of them to offer, wasn’t it?

Is this a high pass filter, or does it act more like a compressor?

A few years back I ended up playing with a singer-songwriter guitarist. He was American, and had come over here and married his (much older) wife. She was a rock survivor, former groupie who’d slept with some well known rock stars (I forget who, but it was a pretty big list...) Anyway, they had some good gigs lined up but when we actually got to play, the reality never matched up: for example, what was sold to us as a headline gig, was actually an appearance on a multi-band line up. I ended up as the defacto driver as neither of them drove, and one memorable gig involved them bringing their young daughter (who had special needs) on a drive from the Midlands to a central London gig. Cue massive row at the venue when they refused to allow a small child into the gig (unsurprisingly!) and a potential refusal to perform (at what was, again, a good gig but not a headline slot). I ended up just sacking it off as it was clear they had delusions of grandeur which never met the reality of the situation. A quick google shows they’re still plodding along. Nice bloke, but she was VERY odd.

PA testing (‘PAT’ means portable appliance test) is actually only legally required as part of an employer’s duties to ensure equipment used by employees is safe. There is no specific legislation which requires it to be tested, but the onus is on an employer to ensure all equipment is safe, so you do that by PA testing. Therefore there is no legal obligation by which a venue can compel you to have equipment tested, but they can require it as a condition of allowing you to play there (in much the same way they can insist on public lability cover).

It’s a great scheme, but eligibility is only for “someone who has earned their living substantially from music for a significant proportion of their working life”. If you’re a professional musician definitely worth a look, but sadly weekend warriors are excluded.

I don’t think it’s device and/or user specific: https://www.fastcompany.com/40516897/a-new-wave-of-bad-ads-is-hijacking-even-top-tier-websites

Yep, that’s what it eventually was on t’other forum. So so you’re saying I haven’t won a new phone?

Oh, and that was just opening a new window in Safari and navigating straight to BC.

Don’t see how it can be on non jail broken iPhone - far more likely to be a dodgy redirect in one of the ad services. A forum I was a member of suffered from it and it turned out to be dodgy ads. Anyway, what are the odds Beedster and I have the same taste in “exotica”? 😜 Managed to grab a pic just now:

Woot! 😜

So far... 😉

Only page open...

Odd - just had this for first time pop up on BC homepage. Using IOS12 on iPhone 7 in Safari.

*facepalm* Oh well, let’s see how it goes.

Well, for anyone that’s interested I found a Soul Food on the for sale section so waiting for that to come in. Thanks again - will update with thoughts in due course.

I was playing an active G&L (which had a VERY hot output) and a passive Squier fretless for a while in the same band and I ended up using the Bigshot IO - essentially an A/B switcher but you can adjust the level on one of the channels to equalise the input into the amp.

I’ve found using wide black and yellow hazard tape quite effective, and has the secondary benefit of giving you a defence if anyone does trip because you’ve clearly identified the risk and taken reasonable steps to mitigate it.

I bought one of these: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F302518087794 Coupled with a luggage strap it’s been faultless.

I use a Radial IO pedal, which is an A/B switch with an adjustable level on one of the inputs. Perhaps worth a look?