Woodinblack

Need? What is this word, what does it mean in this context - need one?

The preorder is over, it is open to ordering. It takes a lot of refreshes but I ordered one in the end.

Oddly, and somewhat uncharacteristically I haven't bought any basses this year. I have bought a Lava Me Play guitar, but apart from that not much new. Maybe I will bring the Bongo, they are always good for people to like or hate and you don't see many of those in the wild.

Oh conceptally not a problem, or even accuracy, its just manipulating a screen with a finger is always going to be worse than a moving thing, I have the same problems with touch screen on cars, especially when that iPad also has lyrics on it, so you might have to switch to it first. But I did several hundred gigs before getting the X-Touch, so certainly not a huge stress, just quite a bit nicer with it!

For me it isn't tablet that is an issue - I use the tablet most of the time and for most adjustments, but I use the X touch control surface in the gig while playing. As I am singing, playing bass and mixing, a physical control is just easier to hit than a point on the screen when you have a fraction of a second to do it, it just makes it eaiser with not much time to change some levels, which is the 99% job. And it is wired, so worse comes to the worse, if there is a problem with wireless, it is always there.

Yes there is a problem - I will sort it

Hi, Sorry, I didn't see this in general discussion, no I doubt many people know what this is, it actually means 'Too many sales'. A limit was put in last year of the maximum amount of open sales that could exist at any given time, and that error is that you have hit the limit (offhand, it is about 11 I think as I can't count to 10).

The speakers are 1 x Evox 8 and 1 Exox J8, both got when I could get them cheap (so both for under £1000). Our singer isn't particularl clear - which used to worry me then I listened to the straight recording of him, and he actually isn't that clear in general, but a few mic swaps and he is sounding about as good as he can get. Sometimes I feel the evox lack power in some situations but they never lack clarity, going from what we had before really helped the clarity of the vocals. From my point of view, it means I can get it all in the car, without needing something else - I couldn't transport the kit they had and I wouldn't want to lift it. A couple of times I thought the evox 12 would be nice but I couldn't carry it, I don't have the car space for it and I certainly don't have the money for it!

Last night we did a gig with a multi band setup, but with our own PA (which seemed a bit odd, and involved fast changeovers). As usual we had our (my) PA which consists of a pair of EVOX8 speakers, in a variety of colours. I am bass speaker-less these days and go through the PA, not 100% happy with it at the moment but it works in general. The room was shiny floor, shiny ceiling, sounds like a swimming pool, resonant frequency of an E! Got it the best we could, and it sounded clear enough. Group after us, much more professional (and tidier stage which I think was good), good lights (which were on for us too), speakers were a pair of RCF 712s on stalks on top of some furry Eurolive 1800, guitarist DI'd marshal amp, bass player, didn't see what but same thing. Mic'd drum kit. Obviously way more money than our setup. Listened to their first few songs and the vocals weren't at all clear (instruments sounded great). Just seemed way too much for the venue (would have been killer outdoors I would imagine). Such a tidy stage though, jealous of that.

Never seen Guns 'n' Roses then?

no it isn't the case. Not only is that not how it works, that would be tricky to do!

ok, that is handier - before that I had nothing to work on. Not that I have noticed, otherwise my bass wouldn't be on page 5. Looking at some effects pedals, I have some that haven't had any activity and they are on page 4, so no, that shouldn't be happening. But I can look into it now I know what the item was. I looked into the function of the bump up feature (I didn't install it) and know what it does, it puts the date of the post to the time of the bump by changing the last text response. But maybe it is because people are sorting by something, I have never sorted by anything. But I don't know, it is on page 1 now, so I can't tell what is wrong.

I have no idea, I haven't looked at your item. My ibanez that I bumped a few days ago is on page 5, which would seem reasonable. I looked on page 21 of that forum, I don't see anything by you, or page 20/22 but it would be odd if it was that far back, everything there is all sold. without knowing what your items is or any other details I can't really say much more but it doesn't seem to be like what i am seeing here

If you bump it, it goes to the top with nothing else, that is its only point.

Virtually impossible to say, they are different on all my basses, between the bongo and the acrylic bass they are almost the other ends, so it really depends, sorry it isn't more helpful!

Is it that much of a shift? I just looked at the wiki entry for top selling single in a given year ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_by_year_in_the_United_Kingdom ) and the majority of singles going back to 1952 are in an individual name, rather than a group,. When you look at those figures, it is only the 70s and 80s where more songs were made by groups, the 50s, 60s, 00s, 10s and 20s were mostly individual artists (or featuring in the case of the 10s) and the 90s were a tossup.

No, the tube in the ABM is in the preamp, it doesn't know or care what speaker you have connected, which is dealt with by the power amp. If the response you get out of the speaker is different it must be to do with driving the power amp. So no, changing the valve won't do anything.

Bone of contention there, ours is 1-1:15 in the first set and 1:30+ in the second. Personally I think it is too long. At the one that haas to cover 3 hours, we do 44 songs

Bands are not just the current way of doing music. Doesn't seem that shocking really.

My NS-Stick was bamboo - I loved the feel of that, surprising it isn't more used. My stick is made of.. I assume aluminium?

Why don't you and Mr Balderdash get a room and sort it out together until you love each other again, rather than doing it here?

Luckily we were above the floor, it wasn't so nice at ground level!

It was, on all 3 events. Which is handy as the weather on monday was terrible!

Weird end of the week this weekend. Started off going to a school on thursday night, the school the keyboard player and guitarist went for some kind of charity thing. 8-10, not so badly attended but an odd thing (we had done it before). Set up in a tennis court or something. Then saturday off to a 50th birthday party, well attended, slightly odd as we set up at the doorway of a room, and obviously for the first half of the evening half the audience were behind us here: Would have been a lot better to set up outside, but never mind. We turned one of the Evox 8 tops round and seemed to have a good enough sound. Later on when it was cold they all came in and we turned it back! Then sunday, there was a local Euro Fan Zone. Aparently there was some kind of football competition or something. Anyway, big stage, big but slightly distorting PA, and absolutely no sound man. Really awkward to set the sound up but apparently it sounded fine out the front. Quite a few people singing along to the songs, but then nothing at the end of the song! Got a reaction for I get knocked down, and a half hearted unrehearsed version of 3 lions. Now slightly knackered.

We do You should be dancing going into Does your mother know, and it goes down a storm. We were going to do you should be dancing but we couldn't get the big gap in the middle to sound anything other than a big gap, so instead we go into does your mother know, which we already did. Done it 3 times now and it really is a high point.