tony_m

When I joined my current band, I ended up standing stage right by default because all the space stage left in our rehearsal room was already taken by Mr Rhythm Guitar, and the table with the mixer stood on it. We've always stuck to this arrangement whenever we've played live rather than mess about with what has become familiar from rehearsal, and to be honest it worls well for me - I can see the kick drum pedal, and can also hear the drummer's monitor nice and clearly as he has that set up to his left (electronic kit).

It's certainly a big beast! 😲

Not mine obviously (see above!), but for anybody who's not seen it, here's Guy Pratt's board he posted on FB yesterday...

Latest addition to my Ashpeg / Ampdown board is an Ampeg Liquifier chorus, courtesy of @Berserker. Rather a restrained board compared to a lot on here, but does what I want / need.

Just bought an Ampeg chorus pedal off Nigel, super straightforward transaction, great comms, very rapid tracked dispatch and superbly secure packaging. Deal with confidence. 👍

How odd, especially when it's summat they basically offer from stock with a minor tweak. This is how the Lekato + cable looks anyway...

Have to confess I've always just bought stock items from them rather than going down the custom route, so have avoided any such irritation. Good luck, hope you manage to get the message through eventually!

I'm liking the NUX Flow I picked up on the BC Marketplace a while back. Has three different tuning modes (Chromatic, Guitar, Bass), three different display modes (Strobo, Arrow 1 and Arrow 2), and three different bypass modes (True Bypass, Buffered Bypass, Buffered Bypass Monitor), a large bright display which is great for my ageing eyesight, and is pink. Can't vouch as for its accuracy or whether it's the "best", but it works for me - I've had a Boss TU-2 and Ashdown Bassometer previously, and the NUX is definitely my favourite to use. https://www.nuxaudio.com/flowtune.html

I've been using a Lekato WS-50 (5.8GHz) set for a while now. As I wasn't happy with the way the transmitter would twizzle in the output socket, I've now got a Levy's wireless holder on my strap - the Lekato transmitter sits folded in this, plugged in to the female end of a 75cm male jack to female socket extension cable from Designacable. Works well enough, though I do sometimes wish I'd asked if I could have a right-angle jack on the instrument end of the cable as this would have been even neater. https://www.designacable.com/un-balanced-guitar-extension-lead-van-damme-xke-cable.html

Yeah, saw the FB post, cheers. Have to confess I wouldn't consider myself a Goth in any way, shape or form, but I do like the music so it's a pleasure to support an endeavour like this. More power to you! 👍

Excellent, just waiting for the CD to drop through the door now... 😎

Personally, I use a mixture of velcro and bike chain links, but found these an intriguing idea (albeit a likely-to-get-very-expensive-very-quickly idea!)... https://www.stomptrap.com/

Sounds like you need to add some horns... 🙃 Numbers 10:1-6 King James Version And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

The only gigs we (Rascallion) have got booked so far this year are at one of our regular village hall venues on April 27th, an outdoor charity festival on July 13th (middle of the nine-band bill), and another outdoor charity festival on August 18th (we're actually headlining this one, but as there's only one other band on, it's not exactly a major coup!). 1. Why you don't have any gigs? Our frontman and rhythm guitarist are both recuperating after recent operations, so we can't commit to anything just yet. 2. Do you rely on an agent ? No. 3. Who finds coordinates and confirms gigs? Usually either the frontman or drummer as they've got the most contacts, so tend to get the enquiries. 4. Are you or any band members in this for the money? Nope, just for the fun of it. 5. How much do you want to gig? When we started, we agreed on once a month at the most (and no pubs!), but tbh it's turned out to be less frequent than that. On the plus side, even if we haven't got any gigs actually booked, we do seem to have become the first-call substitute band for a couple of venues (i.e. the village hall we're playing at in April, and the pub we're playing in August) if someone lets them down and they need a replacement (though obviously this isn't an option at the moment).