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The USB device I got from AliExpress was generating lots of extraneous noise so I returned it (instant refund). I'm trying a Behringer UM2 instead which seems more promising.

I don't play banjo but a former bandmate who mainly played melodeon also played banjo, and she called strumming by striking the backs of her fingers on the strings "frailing".

Something of a contrast between the two open mics I did this week - Wednesday was all male, minimum age 65, one really good performer but the rest (including me, I'm not a great singer and only an average guitarist) mediocre. OTOH, last night there were (I think) five male singers and six female ones, and I think only me and the host were over 65. Three featured bands - a quartet (female singer, DB, drums, keys) did jazz covers of various rock songs (eg Eye of the tiger, Sunshine of your love, Seven nation army), a sextet (2 gits, bass drums, female singer, female keys) playing straight rock, and a conventional quartet, female-fronted, also playing straight rock. I was recruited to play bass for someone who is an even more recent arrival than me, so I learnt All the small things on the hoof. Also accompanied the youngsters again. The guy who played drums for various artists has just returned from playing Download with his band Jayler, who are playing Glasto shortly - very capable multi-instrumentalist called James Bartholomew who generally plays guitar and sings but can also turn his hand to bass and the aforementioned drums.

As long as you don't think that your rule should be imposed on anyone from bands other than your own, fine. I'm in two bands - the originals band isn't going a lot as yet, the covers band just has 8 gigs for the rest of the year at the moment, plus I'm the house bassist for a couple of open mic nights and occasionally am asked to learn a song for it. I'm the only one in more than one band, though our singer also does musicals (he's the monster in "Young Frankenstein" in July) which takes some time up, and also does dogsitting which takes occasional weekends. @Mickeyboro, how easy have you made it for the other band members to practice? With my covers band, I've created a Dropbox folder containing MP3s of all the songs in the set, with a sub-folder for new ones that we're rehearsing. For the originals band, the singer/keys/writer shares his fully produced tracks with the drummer and me (the released tracks are solo but for live gigs there's also drums and bass). That means that it's very easy to practice - better than hunting on Youtube to find a song and then practicing to the wrong version of it.

I do no exercise because I'm lazy. I do do a bit of practice. The day after a gig, I used to feel as if somebody had been giving me a going over with a baseball bat. I changed to lightweight gear, including the PA - no single item weighs more than 10kg except for my monstrously heavy 11.5kg 2x12 cab. Plus the other band members give me more of a hand lugging gear than in previous bands. As a result, I feel fine the next day.

OTOH, I've just bought a bass from a bricks and mortar auction house. Seller's premium about 25%, buyer's premium about 25%. So if I bid £800 for a bass, there's £200 buyer's premium added so I pay £1k, and £200 seller's premium taken off the £800, leaving £600 for the seller. That's a rather bigger gap than the gap between £600 and £618.75 or £800 and £822.75.

Then you're happy, and many many other people are also happy. Everybody's happy. I don't know what you've complaining about.

No, shoving a plectrum into the scratchplate like that is bound to stress it around the neck end screw and may break it.

The controlling device needs to be a host device. DIY one: The M-Vave Chocolate Plus can be used - connect the MS-60B+ to "Host" and a USB power supply to "USB" (if you don't, it won't work - the USB power supply will power the pedal though). Set to Program Change A, the four buttons select patch 1, 2, 3, and 4, if buttons 1 & 2 are pressed simultaneously it will advance the base patch by 4 so button 1 will then select patch 5, pressing 1 & 2 again will advance it by another 4. Pressing 3 & 4 decreases the patch base by 4. There's a setting "Max Group Count" that you can alter to be the point at which increasing the base patch sends it back to 1. The number shown in the display is the patch number minus 1 because that's how MIDI works.

For further detail of the MIDI message content for the MS series (applies to + as well AFAIK): https://github.com/g200kg/zoom-ms-utility/blob/master/midimessage.md

While not being in possession of any statistics on the subject, I would say that the commonest impedance for a cab is 8Ω, hence catering for 4Ω is important. I don't know what the additional cost of designing and building class D modules to cater for 2Ω would be but presumably it's not going to be zero, and may require uprated components or even be completely impractical.

OP hasn't been back since day 1, so everyone is just screaming into the void.

My recently acquired Greg Barcus Custom 6-string.

Much, much nicer.

As ferro is iron, is it good for metal?

Load it into Irfanview, shrink it using Resize to a reasonable size for viewing, then save as a new file.

For both the MS-60B and the later MS-60B+ (actually in my case the MS-70CDR+) I built a little pedal that allows me to scroll up and down through patches. It's not the cleanest bit of construction but it works. Needs a 9V supply the way I've done it, but with a bigger box it could have a 9V battery inside (or four rechargeable AAs, 5V will do) and an on/off switch.

It may be because the OS is Linux-based - "/" is the separator between directory levels, like "\" in Windows, so Comp/Lim/HPF would be a file called HPF in a directory Lim in a directory Comp.

Try https://guitarkitfabric.co.uk/ instead, it'll work.

The post I replied to isn't.

What Behringer haters? The X-Air series are much loved on BC.

I was quite recently recruited to be house bassist for a couple of local open mics, and then the organiser asked me to dep for their bassist for a gig. This then turned into two gigs on successive days as their bassist had had a gig in Wales (hence the first dep) but had also written his car off (hence the second one as he couldn't get back in time). After a couple of rehearsals, we went ahead - I haven't depped for a few years and then it was for bands that I'd played with before. First gig was a bikers' pub in Old Arley, near Coventry. The stage area was shared with a T140V Bonneville and a Triton (can't say more than that except it was a pre-unit Bonnie engine). Used the Sei Flamboyant 5 through my trusty Zoom MS-60B to the Tecamp Puma 900 and GR Bass AT212 cab. Footwear was the usual Caravelle memory foam trainers (a bit past their best now, but I have a couple of new pairs waiting). I noticed partway through the first set that the Sei was choking out on notes below the fifth fret, so took the opportunity between two songs to grab an allen key and quickly adjust the truss rod. Quarter turn looser and everything was fine - saved me swapping to the Cort Space 5 I had as a backup. Didn't make too many mistakes, just buggered up Gangsters in the guitar solo. The second gig was a Fathers' Day barbecue at the pub where one of the open mics is held (and that was thoroughly slagged off by one BC member a little while back). Same equipment and footwear, same buggering up of Gangsters. Evidence of dancing being perpetrated:

Another one who hasn't died?