Happy Jack

I've played regular gigs at three pubs where a hat / jug / bucket / whatever was part of the regular arrangement, usually on top of a £150 fee (we normally go out for£250). At one venue the jug was taken around by someone with the band, and usually returned something at least half-decent, say £50. At the other two, the jug was taken around by a member of the bar staff and the contents "counted" behind the bar before being given to the band. Strange to relate, the amount given to the band always seemed to be a lot less than it looked when we saw the jug going round. We no longer play those gigs. At all.

But she has told us NOTHING ....

But if one artist gets very much deeper into the music than another, would that not be a strange division in altitudes?

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1412858542' post='2572723'] ... but they're a different company now. [/quote] Who are?

Bloody Rickenbackers, eh?

Still not convinced by the marketing possibilities of a boutique valve amp with a puddle of oil under it.

Is this free admission? Or do we get paid to come in? What time is KO? The SouthEast BassBash is happening that afternoon in deepest, darkest Surrey.

Returning to the fray, combining motorbikes with iconic valves, how about DESMO?

Bit unfair to describe Sunderland as a "category" ...

Tuning down like that is something I've not done, but with regular EADG on my Precisions my favourite strings are LaBella FLs. I really don't like chromes, and I find the LaBellas far more sympathetic to the blues / blues-rock / soul that I normally play. If I can't get LaBella (they're often out of stock) then I'll go for Status Hotwires or Lakland (the ones they used to market as Joe Osborne flats).

Outstanding work Dad. Thanks. I've got a rehearsal starting in 10 minutes (at which, bizarrely, I expect we'll spend a while watching videos of ... erm ... our last rehearsal ) so I'll drop back down onto this at a later stage. While I'm at it, thanks to all who have come up with information and suggestions - much appreciated.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1412790209' post='2572120'] As it's all valve, call it the V.Max. As in Yamaha's best ever muscle bike. [/quote] Sod that! If that's yer thinking, then call it Buell!

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1412787163' post='2572075'] Always thought Jon Anderson sounded like a girl, but when he speaks he sounds like a proper bloke, so he's all right now in my book. [/quote] To my ears, he sounds just like Sean Bean.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1412786208' post='2572057'] Pink Floyd - Bike? [/quote] John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Soory Dad, you're quite right. Bog standard PC, reasonable amount of RAM, decent video card. For conversion, I have a home-use version of VideoPad Video Editor (NCH), Windows Movie Maker, and a trial version of Movavi. For playback, I have VLC Media Player (which also plays Flash), Quicktime, and of course Windows Media Player.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1412784100' post='2572024'] Call it Gerald, like the mouse. [/quote] Surely you mean Gerald the Mole ...

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1412781521' post='2571990'] Does YT have a space limit..? [/quote] It's more a matter of how long it takes to upload on the connection I have here ... a three minute file is quoted as taking 90 minutes! [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1412782015' post='2572000'] This also means you could re-encode an AVI with embedded MPEG2 video into an AVI with embedded MPEG4 video for example. [/quote] Sad to relate, but to me this is roughly equivalent to "t'crossbeam's gone askew on't treddle". [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1412782104' post='2572001'] What's the frame size of the original video? If a clip of about 10 minutes needs a full gigabyte I'd guess it might be full HD? Thats 1920 x 1080 in 16:9 widescreen format. Try resampling/rendering it to something like 1280 x 720 or even 853 x 480 which should reduce the file size a fair bit. [/quote] OK, so all I need to know now is how to resample/render ...

OK, just tried converting the same file as before into .FLV. Results just in: Original MOV file = 565 Mb Converted to MP4 = 546 Mb Converted to WMV = 361 Mb Converted to FLV = 549 Mb It's hard to see that as progress ...

Are these 8x10 or 6x10?

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1412769030' post='2571773'] I don't want to fan any flames here, but I have to ask, why are people so accepting of this? [/quote] If you lean your bass against your cab while you have a cuppa, and it falls over and gets damaged, I don't see that as a design flaw in the bass. I see it as an example of "well don't DO that then". I don't see how someone else picking up a cab by the wrong handle is something I should either accept or be appalled by. It's his cab and if that's what he wants to do, well so be it.

I've spent far too much time trying to work out the answer to this. I already have, or am given, videos of my bands in either .MOV or .AVI. Typically a single song will be in the region of a gigabyte, which is pretty unwieldy especially if I want to upload it to YouTube. I have, or can obtain, file converters which will take those videos into .MP4 or .WMV but this doesn't seem to achieve a great deal. File sizes remain huge (WMV is about a third smaller) and it's not clear what I achieve by doing this. I realise that this can be a hugely complex subject. All I really want to do is to reduce a 1Gb file to something a lot smaller, say 250Mb, without a noticeable drop in quality when played back on a PC or through YouTube. It follows that the converted file, in whatever format, must be playable and uploadable without further conversion. I've searched the various bits of video handling software I have for tools that will allow me to reduce or compress filesize but I'm not finding anything. Am I barking up the wrong tree?

MoJoW

Really excellent BBC documentary on Yes playing Hemel in 1971. The band were (IMHO) hitting their peak, with (IMHO) their best line-up and (IMHO) their best album. I was a 15-year-old living in Guernsey, so gigs were something that happened to other people. I was desperately looking for someone to "replace the Beatles" (yes, I know, I know) and then along came Fragile. The rest is progrock. http://youtu.be/YuEZUG1ci1M

I have one of these: http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/pa-live/detail.asp?stock=13092511441632&gclid=CjwKEAjwns6hBRDTpb_jkbTv1UYSJACBhberuADhFDfmjhErm-fuHsku77wHrw6KjsAt0415_-G4URoCHJXw_wcB It's an excellent box, it's built like a tank and totally reliable, and it sounds great to my ears ... your ears may be different! I have had no problems using it with passive basses (mainly Fender Precision). BUT if I was only going to own just one DI box then I'd go with a Sansamp BDDI or similar. A studio-quality DI box like the Radial is superb for some purposes, but it not very versatile. A BDDI or MXR pre-amp pedal offers so many more possibilities.