pete.young

Ah, I see. The 410TVX is a decent sounding cab, which are cheap because they are heavy. You will need a separate head for it.

You might be better to hold on for a used combo - the Fender Rumble range for example, there are plenty about in sizes from 40W up to 500W, any of which would be an improvement on your Ampeg.

There is no speaker out or extension so no you can't just plug it into another cabinet. You could take the line out and plug it into another combo or head/cab setup, but really what would be the point - A BA 108 is a bedroom practice amp at best.

Irish bouzouki has a longer scale length, not quite as long as an actual Greek bouzouki but a serious stretch for GDAE particularly if you are attempting to use violin fingering, rather than Irish tenor banjo style (use the pinky on the 5th fret and slide up to the 7th).

I'd say if you want to play melodies and use GDAE then an octave mandolin would be a good choice. If you are more focussed on accompaniment and GDAD then a bouzouki scale length allows you lighter strings which ning out more.

Ashbury stuff is pretty good at entry level. Very similar to Ozark.

For several years, until Covid and lockdowns intervened, I was fortunate to play in a band called Waxies Dargle, which played the music of The Pogues.

To mark Shane's passing, we've decided to come out of retirement to play a one-off concert to celebrate Shane's life and all the great music that he and the Pogues made, and raise some money for Encephalitis International.

Saturday 23rd March 2024 at 7.30 pm, St Stephens Church, St Stephens Lane, Ipswich IP1 1DP .

There is a Facebook site for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1599309527553931?active_tab=about

Tickets are available here: https://app.etickets.to/buy/?e=19483

My least favourite was the Royal Horseguards Hotel in Whitehall Place. We played at a private party there once on the second floor. Stunning views of the Millenium Wheel. But load-in was down a flight of steps in the street, through a couple of passage ways, through the kitchen (currently engaged in providing dinner service for about 200 guests), round some more passages, into a crappy goods lift, and then another set of passages on the 2nd floor.

Loading out was much easier, down two flights of stairs in the adjoining Liberal Club (talk about seedy opulence) and out the main entrance.

Parking was less of a challenge than you might expect - the drummer ran a parking business and had the keys to a nearby underground carpark.

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

Bristol is similarly challenging for this. I once had to carry my aluminium double bass half a mile to a gig. 3 hours later I was still knackered!

Two words. Golf. Trolley.

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My BBNE2 isn't getting a lot of use, and hasn't since my last pop band took a one-year sabbatical in 2016. It's all double bass for me too at the moment.

Smoothhound PSU is 9V centre positive so you'd need a polarity adaptor.

I have a Nordell Audio unit which is really great, it's isolated and totally silent, but only has one 500ma output.

Diego pedalboards have carpet so you need hooks on your pedals if you use one of them.

2 hours ago, walshy said:

How it works, lots on internet

 

1.  Buyer pays by PayPal and arranges for courier/friend/whatever to collect.  
2.  Item is collected.
3.  Buyer contacts PayPal to open a dispute, claiming they never received the item.  

4.  PayPal sides with the buyer, as the only proof of receipt they will accept is tracked proof of delivery.
5.  The scammer now has your item and his money refunded.

I haven't bought anything for a while, but I think Paypal have now introduced another step, which requires the seller to enter a code when the item is collected, thereby nullifying point (3) .

Sir Cliff is going to be very upset when he finds out.

Easiest way I found to do this was to get a pair of phono - jack leads and connect the output from the cassette player into my Zoom H4N.

You could do a similer thing with the Focusrite if it has two mic/line inputs, and record / edit it with Audacity.

Me three. I can console mayself that I still have the last fretless bargain that I bought from @Beedster, which seems to be getting a bit more use.

34 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

 

 

For FoH...where are you playing? Pub or small club, even the kick drum sometimes feels unnecessary! Hammersmith Apollo, you might need a little more PA support.

 

 

 

Sometimes you need to do this if you go for in-ear monitors - good ear buds will block out most of the drums.

Another option might be to keep your Midi keyboard and find a used desktop or rack synth. I have a Korg X5DR which makes reasonable piano, organ , strings and clavinet sounds, they seem to go through ebay for 100 - 200 . There are probably other makes, but it's not something I know very much about.

6 hours ago, Boodang said:

Very much not! And only gives you 2 aux for monitor mixes, but then it's not that expensive. 

 2 aux out? Pathetic, my analog Yamaha does 3 aux out pre-fade and one post-fade which can be pressed into service if necessary.

Loving the idea of a witless set-up , seems abolutely ideal.

I use a Smoothound , reciever goes into a KORG DT10 tuner, an EDB-1 , Thumpinator, compressor, then into the amp. Stuck some loop velcro onto the tailpiece to stop the Smoothound transmitter flapping in the breeze.

To anchor the jack socket on the tailpiece, I use one of these: https://www.bassbags.co.uk/product/double-bass-pickup-jack-mount-kit/

If you have budget, you might be able to stretch to the Bigfoot linked in the other thread:

2 hours ago, TimR said:

 

 

You can vary the speed with the tap button, there's probably a midi switch that you could program to do that. Would need looking at the manual.

 

I have looked at the manual. Both the Obey 40 and Obey 70 don't allow you to midi-switch the tap tempo, sound-to-light, or anything else other than the scenes, the chases, and blackout, according to the MIDI map on page 32.

14 hours ago, binky_bass said:

We did have a 7 hour bare knuckle fight followed by a battle with Rhodesian fighting sticks. But in the end, all was settled!

Must have looked like the Star Wars bar fight scene!

The Obey 40 will allow you to select any of the 6 chases, any of the scenes, and the blackout function through it's Midi interface. It doesn't allow you to switch it to sound-to-light or adjust the brightness.

This guy has a lot of great videos about DMX including one featurning another Morningstar controller so this should give you what you need.

5 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Boss do a couple of versions that do have recallable sounds - the SY-200 and SY-1000 if memory serves. 
I've never used them, but *if* they're basically an SY-1 with storable presets, I bet they're ace.
 

The SY-200 is. The SY-1000 is a whole different ball game - to get the best out of it you really need a Roland GK3 pickup and it's a lot more expensive, but you can do a hell of a lot of stuff with it.

This any good?   https://www.designacable.com/7-pin-to-5-pin-din-midi-cable-1.html

Not me, I'm holding on for a bb3000ma .