Happy Jack

Define "failed". The last time one of our subs failed, it completely failed to power up when switched on. We later discovered that the venue had a defective 13A socket built into the stage and there was nowt wrong with the sub. 🙄

Word.

@Silvia Bluejay and I only bring the subs along to carefully-selected gigs; most of the time we just run a pair of decent 1x12 passive tops with the whole band going through them at sensible volumes. We use a pair of MarkAudio 2x10 subs at really large venues (including outdoor gigs, natch) and at the very few gigs we play where they actually demand high volumes. When using the subs we put the passive tops above and drive them from the subs' on-board power amps so although we now have to carry the subs we save on carrying separate power amps. Location is driven by practicality rather than audio perfection and these days we invariably lay the 2x10 subs flat on the ground (for stability) rather than upright as we used to (avoiding combing etc).

Yup, I still use the Pitch Box at every gig with my covers band. It has been consistent & reliable for years now. Sound quality when detuned by a full tone is definitely 'processed', i.e. any competent bassist will recognise that something has been done to the sound, but it's unlikely the band will hear that and the audience certainly won't. The chorus effect is very reasonable but I have little need for that function. If I spent more time playing fretless then that would change. The harmoniser function is probably the weakest of the three, but also the least useful to a bass player (except perhaps as a novelty item) so no harm done.

Thanks, but for £235 there's a fair amount of choice out there. 😂 I like the sound of the 411 fitted to my Kolstein, and they used to sell for c.£120 new. I'd quite like to source a spare for non-silly money.

Anyone got one they could bear to part with?

In fairness, with those singers standing in front of you, it would be odd if the audience was fixated on you. 😉

Guitarist in my 3-piece covers band is an excellent rhythm guitarist and also plays pretty mean slide, but he's no sort of lead guitarist and it doesn't bother him. Or us. We play a wide range of pop/rock hits from the 60s/70s/80s and we just leave out the guitar solos. You'd be amazed how few people notice, even when the missing solo is allegedly 'iconic', e.g. Let's Dance.

Don't forget @Silvia Bluejay & me for 23rd June ...

Surely the Rolling Stones' 100 best drummers are just Charlie Watts written 100 times? Oh hang on, damn that pesky apostrophe ...

>30 years as a Finance Director here, and I would advise very strongly against going this route unless you genuinely expect to be as successful as Taylor Swift. Technically speaking, any working band is automatically a Partnership under the 1890 Act but nobody gives a toss and I've never heard of anyone acting (i.e. sueing someone or trying to claim equal shares of band revenues) on that basis. Don't mean it ain't happened, mind. Open a 'band' bank account, however, and you open a number of doors. Very probably, no bug-eyed monsters will walk through those doors; but if the doors aren't there then there's no risk. Shared ownership of anything in band is a disaster waiting to happen. The bands I play in get paid variously through all sorts of channels ... cash, Concur, Opus, etc. Whichever person can be bothered to deal with it collects the money and then distributes it later, usually (but not necessarily) as cash. If you can't trust one of your bandmates to give you your £50 from playing the Dog & Duck last week, then you should probably reconsider who you play with. 🤨

You just left my comfort zone. Someone who knows what they're talking about will be along in a minute ...

Upper front is PAN, upper rear is VOLUME, lower front/rear are Treble & Bass boost/cut. There's no parametric / sweepable mids.

Very Biblical.

Never really 'got' IEMs despite years of trying and silly amounts of money spent. Just too much bloody technology, too much wireless, too many things to go wrong, too much time spent 'tweaking', too many blank faces at sound check ... "it's not working, what's happened?". A low-volume backline on stage with all the serious volume out front through the PA works fine, and is more-or-less infinitely scaleable from a tiny backstreet boozer up to a big festival stage so the band hears a consistent sound at every gig. It's also completely obvious how to set it up quickly at any gig, all the components are easily swopped in & out when a failure occurs, and even the densest and most arrogant guitarist will eventually see/hear the benefits of not pointing their combo at the backs of their knees.

Thanks. So does that fall into the category of rewinding a dead pickup or is it over at the 'blatant fraud' end of things?

Not understanding electrickery, I watched what he did with the pots thinking, "Huh?". Can you explain what that was all about?

Quite a good watch.

I told you not to tighten the trussrod with molegrips ...

Outstanding piece of work.

Just stumbled across this (fascinating) thread. I realised that the ash-crete thing was an April Fool but I must admit I did start wondering whether it could be a thing. But, what all this chiefly reminded me of was:

If I were you, I'd abandon any notions of dismantling it until you've hit it with a decent application of switch cleaner. You may find that's enough on its own to sort out the crackles.

I always felt that Baritone Guitar was a better (and more accurate) description.

Do you need a strap if the bass will be mounted on a freestanding tripod?