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Nice! We're on our way back after playing the Little Big Top yesterday (I didn't play, just tech) It was a great festival wasn't it?

From our last "sold out" gig at a tea room 🤣

Cool! No, we were only booked for North, bloomin' drummer only works Saturday and Sunday morning, so it was a bit far for us to go for that one.

We were supposed to play there on Sunday, but one of the band caught covid last week. They're starting to get better, but no smell or taste and a head full of wool, despite being double-vaxx'd Looks like a great crowd and you had good weather for it!

We've had to pull our gig at CarFest North tomorrow, as one of the (double jabbed) band members has caught it. I think there will be a lot of last minute substitutes over the coming months.

If you have the serial number, you can contact Ernie Ball and they'll tell you what bass it belongs to (if it's one of theirs)

We've got an outdoor gig on Saturday at a local cafe, which should be interesting... After that, we've got a slot at Carfest North on July 25th.

It did indeed go ahead. The audience were seated in marked areas on the field and were relatively well behaved (given the audience age and the fact that it was a folky festival, the mosh pit was relatively under utilised). Hopefully, there won't be much of a peak due to this one, fingers crossed. On another note, Kendal calling has announced their cancellation today ☹

Our Saturday spot is still going ahead. https://www.beardyfolkfestival.co.uk/

I didn't check for the specific IEM's you mentioned, but this thread is a wealth of information for all things IEM related.

1:28:40 for me/us

However, those figures don't relate to musical instrument sales, despite the best efforts of the Basschat massive. Thomann already ship into the US, so they'll know what is worth their time and effort. With the ongoing struggles for the likes of Guitar Centre, they may be biding their time. Given that they've not set up anything with the UK yet, it looks like it might not be worth it for them. It's also causing problems the other way, as the recent posts from Andertons show. Pure speculation though.

I would think they'd be looking at setting up US trades before the UK, as we're pretty insignificant in comparison.

Solid core is more suited to a fixed installation, where it's not subjected to constant flexing. Your house is probably wired with it.

I'm using these... https://www.russandrews.com/select-ks6068-speaker-cable-with-wbt0610ag-bananas-33739993131/

From a personal experience, yes. If you're running just vocals through them, they should be more than adequate. If using the whole band, you'd need to pair them with subs (or a single sub). To make sure you're not trying to do too much with them. RCF is great, but more expensive and Wharfedale is good as well, although I don't have any experience with their active range. If you're looking at analogue mixers, they're available for pennies (slight exaggeration) but if you're buying with a view to expansion, make sure there are enough groups, or aux sends to handle the entire band if you want to go the way of IEM's or individual monitor mixes.

Helpfully, I managed to share this after another broadcast!! There is a YouTube channel, which repeats the previous week's show, here:

If people do the Sky tv thing, there's a series on Sunday afternoon which goes under the heading of "All about the music". One of the programmes included is "Live from the Edge", which is a series of streamed gigs recorded at the Edge recording studio in Cheshire. It was put together by a group of touring tech's, who've obviously been out of work for a year as a way to showcase new and unsigned bands. I'm declaring an interest in this, as our band has recorded a session there, which hasn't gone out yet, but will be at some point in the future.

I cut my teeth mixing sound for musical theatre with a few amateur companies. 2 1/2 days of get-in, room balancing, pit setup, tech rehearsal, band calls, dress rehearsal and the rest. Almost invariably you'd get the comments from some audience members that it was a lot of equipment to use just for playing back a recording. It was quite a compliment, although they didn't realise it at the time... How we woud laugh when the actors decided to miss a few pages of dialogue and totally mess with the cue list!! As for what I do when I'm playing, I have enough to worry about making sure I'm playing the right song, never mind obsessing about whether or not the audience appreciate the nuances of my slap-dash tonal choices. By the time it's mixed with the other 6 people in the band, all the audience will ever hear is dum, dum duh dum anyway.

I don't understand what you mean.

A quick glance at wikipedia shows: "Nothing compares to you" - Skinhead O'Connor "Killer" - Adam Ski and Seal "World in motion" - New Order "Ice Ice under pressure Baby" - Vanilla Ice Cream Amongst others. It also brought us those modern day classics "Hangin' Tough" by the New Kids on the Block and "Turtle Power" by Jumping on the bandwagon/Partners in Kryme

You might need a fretless 5 string... 😈

It's very good that you're being this considerate. However, when you discover that your new neighbours are nocturnal and bagpipe enthusiasts, you'll probably wonder why you went to so much effort.

I like it for mixing, but I'm less keen for tracking. They usually have a couple of offers a year where you can pick up mixbus for £19 and the 32c version for around £89. It does help if you've got a fairly large monitor to use with it, as others have said.

There have already been criticisms on their Facebook page, despite them fairly clearly pointing out there wasn't anything they could do.