pete.young

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.

Two words. Golf. Trolley.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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 .

I've used wheresthegig which was great until they started charging lots of money for it, and bandmule which isn't quite as good at gigs but is easy to mark availability/non-availabilty. Sadly none of these comes with the 400V-to-the-goolies attachment required to make drummers fill their availability in 😞

If you want something that will produce some useable '80s sounds and won't have any issues with tracking you could look at the Boss SY-1. It's a synth emulator not a synth, but I found it much easier to get useable sounds out of than almost anything else I've tried. As a synth pedal, the BSW is a great octaver.

I have a Morley Little Alligator volume pedal which works the same way - there's a pot you can twiddle to set the minimum volume. I've used this for a similar application and it works well.

@richardd has a very nice BB800 in the classifieds, just in case you hadn't seen it. I've had mine since 1979 and love it to bits.