Silvia Bluejay

There you go, Mr Marco De Virgiliis, that's what our pets really think of your high-end gear... 😱

One thing to keep in mind is that effects on BVs, and especially the harmoniser, sound great but have the tendency to sound louder than normal, naked BVs. The setlist I'm given at every Damo And The Dynamites gig has a column detailing what the BVs go through on each song, so I can adjust the BVs channel's volume manually to be loud enough to be appropriate to the song and enjoyable, but not overwhelm the lead vocals.* Edit to add: that's what almost all sound engineers at big open air events get spectacularly wrong unless they've studied the band's live videos extensively in advance. That, of course, is very unlikely to happen, understandably.

It's fun to walk around a friendly crowd of dancers. Here frontman Damo has walked from his normal position stage left to Jack's position's stage right, while @Happy Jack is showing the ladies his big violin on close up. And @PaulKing will forgive me for posting this yet again, but I love it, and so do his audiences.

Of course. I was thinking about reading the PDF - or whatever format the as-printed version ends up in - rather than designing the actual magazine. Tablets are fine, phones too small. There used to be PC screens that could rotate 90°, them were the days... 😄

Yup, the most irritating thing to my eyes and OCD is the portrait format of any publication, which is usually repeated online, clashing horridly with the widescreen format of the computer. I was among those who fought the demise of nearly-square PC screens until the end, but lost.

This is a very pertinent observation. I guess one of the reasons is that articles are usually paid by the word, so a writer's contract will cover a certain number of words or the writer will feel justified in asking for a pay rise. Same with photos; with proper publications they are usually acknowledged and paid for, in print or online format. I imagine a video will be subject to the same rules, even if it's simply re-posted from Youtube. So it's not just the limit given by the number of pages, it's also a budget limit. While an online magazine doesn't have paper and distribution costs, it does have IT/storage/hosting/designer costs. And if any aspect of it is made to be properly interactive, there will have to be one or more social media experts, or similar roles, who are paid to lead and keep alive the conversation with the audience. I assume that, at least at the beginning of the existence of a proper online-only magazine, the total costs will be comparable to a printed version. Once it's successful and has been going for a while it may feel a bit richer, or maybe just less poor. We shall see.

So would I, but we're in a tiny minority and money's going to get tighter for everybody, so I suppose they're bailing out before it's too late.

Cost of paper and transport/delivery becoming prohibitive for almost all publications.

Incidentally, and quite a bit OT I admit, I did not know that Bob Gollihur had died. RIP.

You've hit the age-old problem of Eminence uprights only having OEM spares, haven't you? Given the small size and the unique, slightly asymmetrical shape of the bridge's profile (as seen from the side), I think your best choice would still be to stump up for Gollihur's offer, which they assure us is absolutely going to be the correct shape and height. The 'wrong' distance between a replacement bridge's feet may bend the the top of the bass out of shape, depressing the f-holes, if the new bridge doesn't apply pressure in exactly the same places as the old. The bass bar (obviously) and the soundpost (unusually) are not adjustable on the Eminence, at least not on mine. I think having a UK luthier hand-make a bridge that's identical to your old one would probably end up costing even more than buying from Gollihur in the first place. But perhaps someone here has done this before, or found a viable source?

Yup, I uploaded a video to the band's channel a couple of hours ago, it's just over three minutes long and it took ages, over an hour in total, mostly preparing the HD version. I'm sure it's a problem with YT, nothing to do with our computers, their connection speed or the colour of our underwear. PS - in .MOV format, as I normally do.

Hi Pekka, welcome to Basschat. If you could upload your photos directly to this thread, perhaps someone may help you more easily.

I also love most of Zoom's stuff - the new Q2ns, the H4n we use for recording every gig's audio, and I've got an H1n too, all quite a good combination of good hardware and decent software (with a few glitches you get to know with use). But no, that same battery pack that you believe was failing the old Q2n is powering the new version for an average of 4 uninterrupted hours at every gig, with no problem whatsoever, so it's actually the old Q2n that was at fault, not whatever I was using to power it at any given time. However, that particular device went in the bin long ago - problem solved.

Same external battery pack with USB cable, Q2n lasting less and less time each time I used it, before turning recording off and dying. I wasn't talking about batteries, as in AA etc. as any kind of those, even brand new super-duper lithium ones, did not survive in the Q2n for more than 10 minutes. I think that non-4K Q2n was the worst little device I ever had, from the point of view of build and robustness. Things seem to be better with the new models, and that includes, so far, the micros USB ports which, as you suggest, tend to fail rather soon.

You would appear to be one of the lucky owners of properly made Q2ns non-4K.

That seems to be the structural defect that killed the non-4K version of the Zoom Q2n. Mine started by not lasting long on batteries, then when I connected it to an external battery pack it soon began to die on me as if the battery had died (it hadn't), then its charging port stopped working altogether. Really, really badly made device in general. The new version, Q2n 4K, has so far been more reliable (that goes for all four of our devices).

First time for this band at our undisputed No 1 local. Come say hi if you're at a loose end. Large, air conditioned, flagship Fullers pub with wooden floors (in case you fancy a jive or a bop).

2005. I wish I could have had one of these in 1978, when I was a teenager and getting into basslines. I had to wait until I was over 40 to have the motivation to look for a lefty bass and the hope of actually finding an affordable one. Until then I was always offered righty 6-string guitars and people wondered why I had no interest in them whatsoever.

Mostly it only works if I close the browser, wait and re-start, so it does sound like, as you say, it's just a cookie issue. Incidentally, I'm rather disappointed at the only partial effectiveness of Ctrl+F5 these days. It used to be able to refresh anything, now it only improves things half of the times at most. Oh, well...

I always do when I refresh, Steve. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. This error page is not a nuisance, as it doesn't happen all the time or even often enough to be a problem, but I'm just curious.

Thanks both. I see what you mean, Woody, but that page comes up after I click on my BC bookmark/Favourite on the toolbar, the same one that takes me to normal BC most of the time. I'm just baffled - and curious - as to why it will periodically decide, between lots of normal sessions on the very same day, that it suddenly can't find the page requested. My bookmark is simply to https://www.basschat.co.uk/ .

Why do I get this screen at least once every other day? Sometimes it's enough to refresh once and it goes away, other times I have to close the tab and/or the browser and then reload, in order to see the correct page. I don't log out between sessions; the browser is the latest Firefox, Adblock is completely disabled on Basschat, and the operating system is an otherwise all right Win 10.

Except in those cases where the sound engineer had to become a human shield to the double bass lying on the floor in front of the band (due to lack of space to store it on stage).

A sticker will be cheap and nasty and possibly affect the kickdrum's sound. The drummers in both our bands went pro and used these guys: Custom Skins.