Woodinblack

I got really annoyed at a 'charity' gig a couple of months ago. It was a local school and it was effectively a favour to the guitarist, he went there, his kids were there. We had to rush after work to get there and setup. We setup. Then this woman running the raffle came round to ask us if we were buying raffle tickets, I said no, I don't have any money (I did, but I wasn't paying them when I was doing a gig for free, and I really hate raffles) to which the guitarist said 'oh I will lend you the fiver' - gee thanks, can't say much there without looking bad. So another fiver down. We played, very little attention. Then we got told to stop so they could do the weirdest raffle you ever saw which took half an hour, then we played for another half an hour and apparently that was it, where the woman from the school used my PA to thank the volunteers for setting things up and the parents for coming (hello, we are right here, giving you the PA to talk through?). Then we started breaking down stuff, and one of the organisers was asking if we could hurry as they needed to put the stage away and couldn't get it done until we had finished and "didn't want to have to stay all evening". Suffice to say, that is the last time we are doing that! My rules for charity gigs now is, I normally get around £70+ for a gig. If we are doing a charity gig it has to be one that I would actually give that money to of my own accord.

For modern pop (ie, heavily vocally processed sounds) it actually is pretty impressive. And I am sure it will get better.

My wife runs an online shop where she does a lot of support and also we have done shows. I have not seen that. 95% of people are fine and then here are people who are just basically a**holes, and that is what they probably are in all walks of life, but what I have seen is people just expected to be acknowledged they are there. Personally never cared if the person was buying a ferarri or a coffee, just the fact they are there I am happy to treat them the same. And when it comes to employees, some are good, some are less so, its not their age or salary that effects that, except the good ones tend to be hung onto so it is easier to find the poor ones!

Hes got through a lot of mirrors getting that right!

That would be the same as me. Can lift it for about 3-4 hours but after that it gets way too heavy. two months? forget it!

I like my Euro (pre-lx) 5, sounds good and all, but the RST is so light and fits in the mix so well.

Indeed it is - do you want to speak to the manager?

Once two threads have been merged, there is no longer any trace of what post came from what thread, so no.

I only had one Plek'd instrument, a Les Paul. It wasn't noticably better than anything else I had, but as mentioned, the only way to know is a before and after on the same instrument

I didn't understand that! Oh yes, she is happy to help. I mean where else is she go to stop my buying anything

Yep, I took a break from mid 30s to 49. Glad I came back to it, but sometimes other things are more interesting / important.

Mine has solid maple wings and is a euro, but it has the NB serial

Important. ideally 16.5 is fine, I can sort of go up to nearly 18 before I start finding it uncomfortable to play, and those are the basses that basically don't get played. I had a gibson EB5 which was 19mm, sounded great (looked terrible) but in the end I just didn't play it, so no point having it. And I have to remember any time I am looking at a bass with a spacing of over 17.5, that I am never going to keep it.

Also I would say that what you want from a live synth (quick access to patches and sections you want to change) and the flexability you would need in a studio / home.

Impressive. I mean it sounds like one of those generic women karaoke singers in a pub, but it does at least actually sound human, so that is both impressive and a bit worrying at the same time.

Certainly really impressive if you want to have japanese children singing in your song. I guess it won't be too long until you can get rid of the singer alltogether. Or have entirely computer generated supergroups.

What kind of weird, just a bad vibe?

Same here, except it was the Juno 6 at the time, but I didn't quite have enough

Not sure what that was - I had a 10 year old macbook that I used to use, but now I have a new one. I would probably still take the old one out if I was going to gig it at a pub. I have a modal Argon 8, which is pretty good although not very accessible for live.

I find rolands are very easy to set up for live performances, although sound wise everything is going to sound good at that level. If it was just for home I would stick with the Roli and Equator 2.

He said another bass worked, and the two P basses didn't.

Or the other ones, the ones they now make overseas fall apart quickly and make you think 'oh it is a waste of money buying Dr Martens'

I think the made in england flag is the point of that - otherwise it is a lot of money for an older style amplifier.

Just need $6800 and some import duty!

I don't think so, just being around a while shows you how the values of some things is very transient, the guitarist in my band is in his 30s, loves jags, I was telling him how in the 80/90S you could pick up something like an XJS for sofa change, in the same way that you couldn't really give a 70s p bass away, now they are worth something. there really is no way to predict the value of something like a collectible, like a Wal currently goes for thousands, equally good things made at the time don't, can be just down to luck