Happy Jack

OK, I realise it ain't glam, but is there any way you could work this into the set? https://youtu.be/mQEPYfXWWnI

Doesn't photograph well when broken down for storage, but it's a bit like this: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/stagg-19-13uplus7u-multi-rack-stand-on-wheels?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkKPVBRDtARIsAA2CG6E9q_l8dU60lWtITcam2-KhL14J98iDbsI4ES6HOa-_F8OSm_H7q1QaAolkEALw_wcB&v=c Only nicer. All works as it should, hasn't been used since two studios ago, gathering dust for nearly five years. Free to a good home, for collection from HA1 3RG.

Would that be FRFR, by any chance?

By the time I bought my daughter her first bass, she was 14 and size wasn't an issue. Application was, though. She played it like crazy for a month, then put it down and never touched it again. Four months later I raided her bedroom, took the bass + practice amp + Crash Course For Bass (Stuart Clayton), and started playing. Haven't looked back since. You see ... children do have their uses.

I'll have my Zeller DB, Takamine TB10, and the Howlett Custom bass uke that Owen brought along last time. Rig-wise, I'll bring a Trace Elf through a Crazy 8, plus a GB Shuttle through a Crazy 88 - so far as I know, the only Crazy 88 in the UK.

Damn! I've just persuaded my band to tackle Ballroom Blitz ... partly because I've never heard another band play it in a pub.

You don't really understand relic'ing, do you?

And a lot of that confidence will come from actually hearing what you're singing. Monitoring is essential. I'm a big fan of https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/wharfedale-wpm1 and similar units.

What I know, Frank, is that Pi is not a variable.

Entirely agree with this ... what is it with these incredibly useless search engines? Given that the whole raison d'etre for these websites is to allow people to search, you have to wonder why the owners don't realise that they're shooting themselves in the foot.

As a complete amateur in these matters, I think of it as being surface area x excursion (i.e. the amount that the cone moves to & fro). If you think of the entire speaker cone moving forwards and backwards then the volume it occupies is a cylinder and that's something you can measure. While I typed that, Pete gave the same answer. Thing is, very few manufacturers publish excursion figures, and you've got this thing called "efficiency" which incorporates the idea of not losing too much power to heat (through friction) so I never feel that I either can work out displacement properly or estimate potential volume either. What I can do, though, is a quick mental calculation when comparing cabs. Since the only variable that I know for sure is the radius of the speakers, I can do a quick & dirty comparison of, say, a 1x15 -v- 2x10. Radius squared for a 15 is 56.25; radius squared for a 10 is 25, but there are two of them so that makes 50. So if someone tells me that a 1x15 is about as loud as a 2x10 that doesn't upset me. If someone tells me that their 1x10 (that's a 25) is as loud as someone else'e 1x12 (that's a 36) then I expect them to explain how they've achieved that ... more efficient speakers, greater excursion than usual, cab filled with magic smoke, whatever. And chees has nothing to do with it.

Baffling. An array of speakers arranged in a line is somehow not a linear array. Use of English is over-rated anyway.

Bloody relic job ...

Which gut-a-like strings are you talking about? And just how gutty are they? I've been very happy with Silver Slaps.

Each method seems to have a year or two in the sun before becoming useless. JoinMyBand was good for a while. BandMix was good for a while. Gumtree was good for a while. There have been plenty of others ...

It's definitely easier to sing high notes if your mouth is in 'letterbox' shape. Try singing a high note with a 'round' mouth (a big O) if you want to check.

Try a Sansamp into a Markbass 210.

On the passive one. The active one had more ...