Al Krow

It was just a light hearted poke! Clearly I need to be funnier 😁 I thought your question was a bit bizarre though? After 12 months of no gigs, I'm not sure why anyone is going to balk at playing to smaller audiences? The very question implies such a negative outlook about gigging and what we all get from it. As long as they are having a great time does it really matter whether there are 30 or 100? The day itself is such a celebration - right up there amongst the happiest. Besides, after June 21st we should be back up to normal numbers at weddings and other functions, fingers crossed. PS do you have a promo video? I think the DVD / Mary Poppins thing could take off...

I can now sell that to @gobasserk who likes gold even more than I do on his basses! (Good man).

Well maybe wedding couples should only look to book originals bands? At least they will be much more accustomed to playing to empty venues and could probably be hired for free, on the promise of "promoting" their brand?

Good shout Luke. I looked at that a couple of years back and very nearly bought it when it was up for sale back then for (I think) £800. My 5 string active bass itch is currently totally being dealt with by my Spector EURO LX5 which is simply blowing me away!

Lol! I suspect we'll still all manage to give them a good day, but thanks for your concern 😉 Plan is back to normal on June 21st. No 30 guest restriction after that date as far as I'm aware, but I'm sure you'll correct me if that's wrong.

Blimey I normally have to pay for that kinda service 😁

Well that's click bait if there was ever was one! Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me Till Dawn (Live On Countdown 1980) - YouTube Was this before they invented auto-tune or just poor man's Kate Bush?

Just had our first re-booking today of a wedding cancelled from last year. Rearranged for early Aug. I suspect calendars are going to get jam packed over the summer for function bands.

Good thread Mr Rioli!

Sounds like the Stanley Clarke could be your ideal pedal then given that you have the option of HPF or notch filter on either channel?

^^ This!

If need be, we will be open to doing cut price gigs to help our local get things going again. I appreciate that's not going to be an easy or desirable choice for a lot of folk, but it's a small way we feel able to put something back into our local communities. Besides our local pub landlord has looked after both my bands really well over several years; it just seems the right thing to do to return the loyalty he's shown us.

I'm resorting to a piece of kit which I suspect is going to be infinitely more capable of doing 80's FM synth and costs no more than a SYB-5. MASSIVE draw back is it's going to be a struggle to play it with a bass using pitch to midi conversion. Shame.

That's fair Pete. Things will take a long while to get back to normal. In fact what we knew as normal may never completely return and some things change permanently eg less office working / increased working from home, wearing masks on public transport etc. But folk are going to be in the mood for one heck of a party come the summer!

And on your part maybe try not to get over-patronising 😉 But this isn't just about you Pete - a lot of us will be getting going well before Sept, fingers crossed!

May 17th: looking at the details apparently venues can have up to 1,000 indoors provided they are no more than at 50% capacity. No idea whether this will extend to gigs or whether event managers are going to be able to get stuff organised in the next 3 months? Spring ends on Sunday June 20th this year. These vaccines and the way they have been successfully rolled out have been an amazing blessing - incredibly good news, in fact! And I hope, between us, there will be a fair bit of live music played by BC'ers this Spring.

Excellent news!! Just had another BC mate say he's just had two bookings in June, which isn't quite by the end of May, but getting close. Yours, on the other hand, is very much this side of the end of May! And it's hopefully the first of many such snippets of good news that will serve to encourage everyone.

Please keep us posted if any of you start to get enquiries for outdoor gigs post April 12 when pubs and restaurants can open out doors. Will obviously be very encouraging news to hear.

Hotone Ampero2 Stomp apparently due for release in May / June, just in time for end of lock down.

Korg Volca FM

Thanks Si - I'm actually looking to go straight into a synth pedal from a bass via midi (without a laptop in between), so I think from what you have said that rules out the Focusrite option, if that needs to be done via a DAW.

Thanks Douglas - that's encouraging to hear (particularly as the feedback on the G2Mv3 / B2M I've had from others has been somewhat disappointing). If I've understood correctly the Sonnus i2M provides additional recording interface capabilities to the G2M v3, but is otherwise the same tech? That could be useful to have, but my key immediate use is to be able to trigger a synth pedal e.g. the Moog Minitaur or Korg Volca FM with a bass rather than a keyboard. Does the i2M come with a USB --> 5 pin midi converter or would I need to buy that separately? How are you using your i2M? Also calling @stoo, @BigRedXand @Woodinblack as they're pretty knowledgeable about all this midi stuff!