Silvia Bluejay

@Reggaebass I've tried clicking on the badge above my avatar on my replies, and on the one on my profile. Nothing happens! 😱 Perhaps I can only see other people's! 😮🤔 I know, first world problem... 😉😂

I was checking the same thing on @Happy Jack's profile. While I am able to see the list of achievements and ranks, and his 'great content' badge, on his profile, I can't see the list of ranks on my own profile. If I click on my current rank on my profile, it takes me nowhere.

Ok, I had discovered some of that, but I would also like to access the Rank list in the screenshot in previous posts, if still accessible. And thank you.

I'd like to know too!

FYI, the same problem appears on Firefox on mobile (Android).

Doing well, but the wrong colours issue is still not fixed, see example below. (Top banner; on Firefox, Win 10)

My Firefox is having trouble with the top of the screen on Basschat - the colours on the right:

LOL! 😱🙄😂

I think it is. Ped said from "around" 9am, not 9am on the dot...

Adblock Plus for Android. As a matter of fact, I think that only happens on the tablet, because I have Adblock turned completely off on the PC, and still get no ads at all.

Tomorrow! 😱 😉

@ped, is Guitarchat going to be offline too? 😱

And I'm even happy to talk valves and tone caps! Isn't that going above and beyond, huh? 😎 Seriously though, it's good to have the same hobbies and interests and be able to pursue them as a couple.

Unfortunately, the only way to record live sound properly is to have different sources and mix them. We use the feed from the PA; however, we don't mic the drums - except the kick - so we also need to record the sound from within the band, and the sound in the room with normal microphones.

Soundchecking is an art, and if you let anybody from the band do it - with the possible exception of the bass player! - they will mostly pay attention to their own sound, and turn down anything that appears to interfere with that. While I'm in no way a pro, I have a certain amount of experience in making a band sound decent at The Dog And Duck. First of all, the acoustics of the room can fool you, especially for the low frequencies: they are prone to sound really loud in certain places and really weedy in others, and I mean 'places' in the same room. So walking around while listening is a must. What you were hearing, @stewblack, may have sounded a lot better a couple of metres to the left or the right, for instance. And of course when the audience was in. Another important thing I've learnt is that having a majestic sound in the rehearsal room, or in your own practice room, away from the band, means very little. I have lost count of the times @Happy Jack and I have had to make changes to his pedal settings, or EQ, or both, just because he would otherwise disappear in the mix, or indeed overwhelm it, as the case might be. Precision basses are infamous for sounding great (if you like that kind of sound) while playing on your own or with the band at low volume, but ending up as a horrible muddy mess as soon as you start playing in the corner of The Dog And Duck by the door to the gents'. So, er, you'd probably have to persuade one of the band's significant others to become your sound engineer. Short of that, boost the mids and cut the lows on your bass sound, counterintuitive as it may seem. At least you'll cut through and people might even hear you...

I think the choice is to do things that don't hassle you like that. If enough of us show that we've had enough of having our rights curtailed and our privacy invaded, we may send a message.

I wouldn't attend.

I would have no interest whatsoever in attending such a small-scale event if I was required to take a covid test! It's not exactly the Euro final at Wembley, is it?

The above, 100%. However, @silverfoxnik, we know that even in pre-Covid times, even with attendance lists and promises, not everybody who said they'd attend would attend. We always got enough people, but sometimes the event did end up looking a bit depleted. Numbers matter, both for the general atmosphere of it and to avoid you guys ending up having to shell out instead of being able to contribute to the school and a charity of choice. In this instance we already have a number of previously regular attendees who say they're not up for it. And that's those who are being open about it. Plus there will be people who are gigging that day/night, or will have gigged the night before, etc. who will 'try to be there' but, as often happens, not make it in the end. What hope do we have, in such situation, of getting a full house? Perhaps better to simply wait for 2022, when people will have [been forced] to recognise that we must live with this by now not very pernicious virus the way we live with flu and other infectious diseases, and get on with our life.

Although, as Jack says, we've never needed something like that so far, it looks like a great little device for emergency use in those unfortunate cases when the tablet loses its connection to the XR18 at exactly the wrong moment. 👍

The sound engineer was very good that night.

And how the bass looks now.

Original wiring:

Well if we have no pictures it didn't happen, right? Here are the pictures. Original bridge:

I find the band's choice of font in that message far more offensive than any fake encore.