Woodinblack

I will also bring my Bongo as I remember when I wanted to try one there were none around. Maybe there would be interest in bringing the dwarf too and a screen so people can see what that is like to set one of those up?

I hate those - I guess we all do. But that is just the way of gigging, sometimes it just doesn't work.

SLX4 base <- SLX1 sender its always been a problem.

Is there an oportunity to haggle on that a bit, see if you can get it down to a tenner - I mean the paint is coming off!

The VG system in that case was designed due to Rolands dislike of people who didn't wear shoes. The edges are purposely sharpened for that reason!

Apart from outdoor venues, I have never played in any venue where our drummer couldn't be heard by anyone standing outside the venue louder than the rest of the band without any amplification! But we always do the bass drum as it makes him happy.

Agreed it is not nice, but it is not like you didn't have justification for it. Things go wrong sometimes, although seems very wrong in this case, but it is up to the company to try and resolve those difficulties and keep their customers informed. I mean if they told you it was taking 12 months and it went past 18 months, they should have at the very least offered a refund in that time if you werent' happy with the delay But they didn't for whatever the reason. Its one thing to trash someone elses reputation, its something entirely different to trash your own.

FInally one of their posts was the truth!

Wrong spacing though - that is 18mm, the bongo is 17.5, and I certainly wouldn't want to go wider. Just find it a bit odd, almost all bongos made now have black hardware, so not sure why there aren't black replacements.

I would say best to wait for second hand, but then if they can't deliver anything, I guess there can't be any second hand ones!

Indeed it is!

Yes, I guess that could work. Its odd they aren't spare parts!

What awful treatment they have given you. Its a shame, it is a company that i would be interested in the output off, but I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole now, and I am guessing that most people wouldn't.

Its just a launch of the web page, its not an app, so it is the web browser crashing.

Ooh a firebird VII like I said about in the 'what do you want' thread.

I think most of my aliexpress orders have come in at pretty well when they said,.

Although everything can have an argument, I am not sure I see what the argument for wireless for pub gigs is. The wireless costs less than £50, means I don't tread on any leads, I can go out the front and the end of the hall to check on levels at setup, and I can wander around. I am not sure I am seeing any downside there?

That wouldn't be that unusual for us - the wooden bit in the bottom middle is the bar, the built in seating is round the right and the double socket is on the side by the door!

Ours was a bit of a faff. Not the gig, the day leading up to it. There is another local group that we get gigs from sometimes, and we send things we can't do for them. Some time ago we almost formed one group, but that didn't work out. When we were in the process, they booked a gig in a place called the White Hart, 10 miles west of here. It went in the calendar. Come the day before the gig, and we are talking that we are doing the gig the following day, and someone says oh I thought they were doing the gig. A bit of a back and forth, and it was them that was supposed to have it, but one didn't want to do it, so we did it. Roll round to now, a gig at the white hart turns up in the calendar, passed through from the other group, no probs. Singer rings, talks to the pub, says we will be doing it instead. Comes the day of the gig, I have forgotten to put a poster up on all the facebook groups, so I ask what time we are starting, the drummer says 'they have already advertised the other group doing it, I say no they haven't. A bit of back and forth, and it tuns out, the other pub, called the White Hart, 10 miles east of here is the pub that they had booked and couldn't do, but now the white hart to the west is expecting us. Faffy way to start the day. Apologised to the East pub, did the west pub, wasn't expecting much as it is raining and the week before pay day, but turns out it is heaving and had a great night. Also I got to use my sign, even if I had to put it on the side as I cracked it

Not sure of the model - just had a look on the net, there are a lot of them. it has a yellow screen with channel numbers on it, two aerials, and a strength meter on the left. the sax unit is pretty flat with a single display saying what channel number it has. It has 2 AA batteries - it appears that they last one gig. We do an autoscan when all of my wireless stuff is on and it picks its own channel. Originally he put it in his saxophone but I thought that was a bad place being metal, so now he has a 3d printed side panel that it velcros on. Still the same problem. We have tried everything, its not the leads, it is the wireless.

Well, yes, I could buy another bongo and use that ones bridge but I was hoping for something cheaper!

Agreed. I don't like leads purely from the point of treading on them. It's just convenience and laziness. It's a bit more annoying on the sax because they are a pain to wire up and he is a very active frontman! stupid thing is, when it is working it is fine, and there is never distortion or anything, when it is working it's just like a lead, just clicking as it drops the connection and picks it up again.

See I get that but my cheap 5.8ghz wireless dongle has never dropped out, never clashed, sounds fine, works every time with no effort. I don't have and won't have stages to 10,000s so I don't have to worry about that, but I can't see anything else being better - especially as I don't need anything on the pedalboard for it. I guess I don't trust Shure that much, the only wireless things we have trouble with is the Shure wireless on the sax. It clicks all the time, needs new batteries every gig and is generally a pain.

I have the 5.8GHz - not listed as Lekato, but they are all the same thing, and a 2.4GHz, also not lekato. I gig the 5.8 version now as my main wireless and have had no problems. I don't notice any distortion, but obviously when gigging I probably wouldn't. But I haven't heard it at home either. I use the 2.4GHz as my home practicing for everything apart from my bongo (where all 2.4GHz dongles have too much interference). I think the wireless is one of the areas where I am pretty happy and am not looking any more for any changes.