Woodinblack

Is that from the fall at the gig the other day?

Think i will stick with my £35 Lekatos for a while yet! To be fair, I have now done 5 gigs and 5 practices with them and no issues at all.

Normally I go every few years, have decided to leave it for the next 4, for some reason!

Anyone feeling lucky?

Oh he was always a maple on black P bass guy, whenever he had time to jam in Covent Garden!

How do those saddles stay in that position? are they bolted to the bottom of the bridge?

Well, at the next bass bash you can try it on the 42" scale bass!

So I tried the speaker at home, couldn't get it to go wrong. I took it apart, and checked the switch and the socket, they were fine, very solid. I disconnected, tested and reconnected the power terminals, and they are also solid, so I put it all back together. Had a gig on saturday, also open air, but also one we put the whole drum kit through so just in case of issues, I brought my BC speaker and an amp to drive it instead of the bam, in case there is a drop out. And it was rock solid all day, so who knows what that was about, the sound was great.

Its certainly going a bit crazy when suddenly £2k for an indonesian instrument is being talked about like a bargain!

Surprising myself in that I haven't put my own Ric in this forum. So here is a picture of it, on the event of getting a new strap after my birthday (most of my basses have their own strap) I have just redone the nut, which was too high and fitted lighter strings, which meant I didn't have to adjust the neck as it has brought the action down. I probably do need to do the intonation, but this will be coming with me for a gig tomorrow. Am toying with the idea of putting a dual gang pot in place of the volume to give me a mix of the two pickups.

Yes, over time you get to realise that their standards aren't the ones of any community that you would want to be part of!

And they would ignore them too. This is where facebook gets their money, promoting scam sites.

Well, you are lucky they aren't too prolific but you still have quite a few albums to go back through!

Can connect the S3 to logic if you want

Thats good, hope it stays that way. https://mixmag.net/read/uk-lost-venue-every-two-weeks-2024-news

I loved doing you should be dancing, and it went down a storm as we segued into Does your mother know when it gets to the instrumental part, but can't do that anymore as our keyboard player left, and it sounds a bit empty with a bass and a guitar!

It is quite a striking loss, so I am sure you will see it eventually. we have no shortage of places to play at the moment (pub covers), but since I have joined my current main band, 6 venues in my local town (2 of which weren't pubs and did a variety of music) have closed for good, and 2 new ones have opened. This is quite a small town, so it is noticable.

I would have thought they would be the same? I have only had one dingwall and quite a lot of ibanezs but I didn't get that feel from my dingwall.

Yeh, I had this before with one singer and drummer, I felt annoyed afterwards I had accepted it rather than pointing out that it was actually more my band than theirs. However we watched them over the next few years go through successions of guitarists / female singers / bass players before they finally seemed to give up. It was clear the weak area was the singer, I guess even if you refuse to accept you are the weak link at some point you get fed up trying to find out why everyone else is wrong. I was annoyed at the start, but the time they split up I was quite dissapointed I wouldn't be able to keep up with their facebook posts introducing the new singer / guitarist, and the next post saying about that same person going off to explore other avenues. You dodged a bullet, find someone else, make a new group, but yes, get in touch with the singer. If they signed on for a cafe / wine bar vibe they are probably not going to be happy doing blues

Is the singer ok with that? Looks like you need to start another wine-bar vibe band with someone more reliable.

That is often the way!

Why would you be updating the apps you use on a gigging iPad? I have an iPad for iPadding, like the latest thing, and I have a cheap iPad air which runs the mixer / lyrics / Some soft synths (though not currently, it used to). It does exactly what it did the day I loaded that software, and will continue doing so until it fails or gets replaced with something else, gets smashed falling off a stand (which note it has done many times, the falling, not the smashing), or gets nicked.

For the same price the Luminute graviton will do that. And can talk to the MVave probably

get a metal box, two speakon circuits, a jack socket and a bit wire, join them together in a box and job is done! Although it doesn't help if the speaker has a jack socket too. Other option, replace that plate with one with two speakon sockets.

Mine is almost the same except the exact opposite. But still it can be fun!