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Bought a BF Compact from Muzz in another dodgy BC car park meet 🤣 Cab exactly as described. Always good to put a face to a name too. Deal with confidence. Thanks again Muzz. Cheers Dunc

Bought a TC head from Mike. It arrived the next day, well packed and exactly as described. Great communication and a great experience all round. Thanks again 😁 Cheers Dunc

I sold Dave my BF Super Twin. Great transaction. Great communication. Instant payment and a thoroughly good lad to deal with all round. I wouldn’t hesitate to deal with him again. Enjoy the cab Dave 😁 Cheers Dunc

I guess they are just checking everything is working ok and you have some sort of decent level. The presumption being that you will let them know if you need ‘more’ when the band is playing?

The thing is, they do get asked back and get decent money!

The trouble is they know nothing about PA’s but insist in being in charge of the sound. If the level of the guitars remained a constant then the gain could but each gig the guitar levels are up and down, something I don’t think there’s any need for with in ears. They even turn their amps up sometimes if they need some more guitar in their monitor 😂 There should be no feedback but the singer/guitarist has his guitar way too loud onstage and won’t turn down (or does the pretend to turn the dial). It makes no difference to him as he’s playing rhythm and is on IEM’s anyway. Take just that into account and everything becomes too loud onstage, hence the feedback. Too loud on stage and the PA isn’t doing enough work I think.

Far too late 😂 They use an XR18. I’ve been using one for 10 years and when I mentioned we should be using the gains, the reaction was that we should get an engineer in to set it all up. Now I’m very capable of doing that but I think they believe it only needs doing once and then it can be left like that forever. Maybe they’ve misunderstood using ‘scenes’? I’ve even took mine into rehearsals and set it all up, sorted all the in ears etc but they won’t use that desk because they know their desk gets a good sound? It’s a very odd situation. Voodoo almost 😂

I’d certainly opt for choice 2. One band I play in have the oddest way of sound checking I’ve ever come across. Everything goes through the PA regardless the size of the venue. Firstly, the drummer stands out front and gets the levels of the guitars right and then the vocals. Then he gets on his kit and the singer/guitarist goes out front and does the level of guitar/vox with the kit. This is all done using the volume sliders not by adjusting any of the gains at all? Gain does not seem to be important, as it’s messing about? Then, everything starts feeding back and they won’t listen to anything I have to say about everything being all ass about tit. Then they start using the volume controls on the active cabs to control the feedback by turning everything down 😂 Apparently it has to be done that way as we have no time to mess about as it’s unprofessional ? This is virtually every gig we do when we have to use our own PA. As we all use in ears ,I would have thought that feedback wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe that being really loud onstage is though 🤣

Mike bought a desk from me. Instant payment and great comms. Nice fella to deal with all round. He even took the Parcelforce Express AM special delivery service that took 3 days to arrive in good spirits 😁 Would have no problem dealing with Mike again. A positive experience all round. Thanks again. Cheers Dunc