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Jo.gwillim

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  1. Thx for this, it's helpful to have something to look at. 3 thoughts, first the defection can't be any more than the shim size and as you have rightly said contact between the neck and body can be minimal it's likely to be much less than that. Next if your theory is right we might expect the screws to need tightening after a while as the neck deforms. It would be interesting to hear if people find this to be so. I haven't but I'm not a very good statistical sample! Thirdly I'm not sure from your diagram how the skijump forms after the neck has left the pocket. I'm interested in all of this as I've a lovely fender jazz neck with awful skijump but i haven't plucked up the courage yet to take the frets off and shave a bit off the finger board. All the best
  2. I get that a force applied for a long time could cause warping. I have a jazz neck, bought second hand with bad skijimp. The problem isn't around where a shim might, or might not have been placed it's where the neck leaves the pocket. The neck in the pocket isn't distorted it's nice and flat. @Downunderwonder if you can describe your thinking a bit more I'd be genuinely interested. I've got a physics degree so don't hold back on the detail. I'm rusty but will cope!! As a PS if shim is placed immediately not at the end of the pocket but instead placed so that the bridge neck screws go right through it there wouldn't be any bending moment on the neck. Is that a good "covers all bases" strategy?
  3. I've got the microtubes 900 using it more and more, very versatile. It is a very good price indeed! Hope it sells soon.
  4. Thank you my friend. I hope you can clamber your way back in the end. Do feel free to PM me if you're feeling low. No great words of wisdom, just someone to be there.
  5. Everyone's different so I'm not saying do this but i lost my daughter to anorexia 18 months ago. Playing the most discordant rubbish on my own really helped. The grief was easier to express through what i played it often ended in floods of tears which was actually helpful. When it came to gigging i just played for my daughter as though she was right there in the audience. Just to let her know i was getting on with my life. She would have so wanted that. Please don't think "I'm saying look at me, do what i did". I'm certainly not, it was just how i coped. Very best wishes Jo
  6. I've got the same amp. It always seems to me that it's got more knobs that it really needs!
  7. James is a great guy to deal with he was incredibly helpful in a very protracted warranty issue we had with a gk amp. Good luck with the sale mate.
  8. 2 gigs this weekend, Friday night was the 50th anniversary of the Aberdyfi mountain rescue team and Saturday was a 50th birthday party held in Aberystwyth museum which is splendid old music hall complete with stage and footlights. Both gigs were fine but people didn't come for the music they came to talk to their mates. Fair enough but hard work for the band. We seem to get a lot of bookings of the "wouldn't it be nice if we had a band" variety. Not complaining, 2 paid nights out with my best mates and access to 2 very good buffets!
  9. Ps still using your barefaced 210, best gigging cab for me.
  10. Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem, moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.
  11. Hiya. No knobs i assume as you would have shown them in the picture? The stacked knobs can be hard to find do worth an ask!
  12. Yep definitely great sometimes but totally not needed others. Cured a terrible boomy room a couple of gigs ago without thinning the bottom end too much.
  13. Great gig yesterday at the castle hotel Aberystwyth 5 till 8. Llinos the landlady had live bands on every week and there's always a good pub turnout who come for just that. They're always very appreciative. Our drummer has covid so we had a brilliant stand-in who's only played with us once before but if you mumble the first line to him before starting her gets the feel and the groove straight away. Hats off to David Spivek!
  14. Lots of bad memories there, big screens big games and our band never seem to mix well.
  15. That's so annoying when someone in the audience does that, even worse when it's a band member who really should know better.
  16. That's a complete nightmare. Sorry mate. An old friend used to quote Love many Trust few Always paddle your own canoe. Works when it comes to house sound systems!
  17. It's heart in mouth time when you realise you've forgotten and amp isn't it. I drove from West Wales to Northumberland to find if left mine at home once. Luckily a GK mb200 always lurks in my gig bag and although it's DI is noisy it's good enough to get me through the PA. I like the blurred pic, for those gigs we have where no-one is dancing a bit of camera movement compensates. Not saying in your case but certainly with my band sometimes!
  18. I read "non functional fans" wrongly for a while. Got there in the end!
  19. Yes i remember now, it was posh. Rummers has a lot of undercover outdoor seating, which of course on a hot sweaty night is the place to be so the audience was mainly outside, i hope enjoying the ambience we were providing inside. But as the night went on people drifted in and by midnight we had a bar full of hot sweaty bodies dancing and calling for "one more song". For me doubling up on sound it was great i have bought a backup xr18 mixer as my original one has been struggling on but getting sicker and sicker. The new one made all the difference, i wasn't struggling to find channels that still worked. Our main singer has taken to a wired iem and we mike up the guitar amp so the stage sound is a lot quieter and so less prone to feedback which was always an issue with 4 mics up front. So all in all we came away happy!
  20. We're in Rummers, back in the 80s i think it was called Baccus. The angel is still going, but i think we may be a bit tame for there. Gig going great, i breath a sign of relief when the sounds right and i get on with playing. The final hour coming up after I've had a pee.
  21. Probably the wrong thread as the gig hasn't happened yet, but we're playing at the hottest sweatiest pub in Aberystwyth tonight, I'm playing bass and doing sound, I'll leave home at 6.30 and get to bed about 2 all for fifty quid. Would i give it up? Not a chance!
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