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Jo.gwillim

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  1. 4 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

    The forces induce bending moment in the neck. As soon as the holding down force of the screws is apparent it is resisted at the pocket end and the shim or the neck would be in motion. A beam force diagram for you:

     

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    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. 46 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

    That's because you don't do physics.

     

    Turn it all on its head.

     

    How does a neck get skijumped?

     

    Answer. Because force is applied over small distances over a long time, and timber warps under constant bending input.

    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?

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  3. 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

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  4. 4 hours ago, asingardenof said:

     

    User error (whatever the bass equivalent of PEBCAK is) strikes again. The sound guy told me that he'd turned off the distortion setting on the amp. What I didn't notice though is that he'd also helpfully turned down this rather crucial dial: 

     

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    FFS.

     

    Anyway, it's back to using my own gear in December and giving my ABM600 its first outing since June.

    I've got the same amp. It always seems to me that it's got more knobs that it really needs!

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  5. 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!

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  6. 2 hours ago, gadget said:

    So had a look around, and can't find any knobs here for the concentric pot. As mentioned though, they shouldn't be too hard to get a concentric pot set of knobs off eBay or from a musical instrument dealer. So the preamp is sold as pictured above with no knobs.

     

    Regards
    G!

     

    2 hours ago, gadget said:

    So had a look around, and can't find any knobs here for the concentric pot. As mentioned though, they shouldn't be too hard to get a concentric pot set of knobs off eBay or from a musical instrument dealer. So the preamp is sold as pictured above with no knobs.

     

    Regards
    G!

    Thanks for looking

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  7. 1 minute ago, Jo.gwillim said:

    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.

    Ps still using your barefaced 210, best gigging cab for me. 

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  8. 2 hours ago, colleya said:

    Penultimate Jump the Shark gig was a weird one.

     

    The Railway in Royton, usually a great gig. It was busy (not as packed as usual) but the crowd didn't seem as into it as normal. As a consequence we never really got into the top gear you find when you're getting a great reaction.

     

    Sound gremlins meant I had half an ear out for feedback all night too, which probably affected my ability to relax and properly enjoy it.

     

    Rig was my Ibanez sms1005, Ashdown RM 500 and TKS 212, which sounded reliably great.

     

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    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.

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  9. 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!

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  10. 19 minutes ago, stewblack said:

    Pub gig in Bristol, last minute filling in for a band who had dropped out 

    Absolutely no need for us to be there. The pub was heaving with rugby fans watching about 500 screens, including one  cinema sized at the back of the stage.

    The game finished, the place emptied, we went on.

    Lots of bad memories there, big screens big games and our band never seem to mix well. 

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  11. 4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

    Gig was actually Friday night, but hey ho.  Butchers Arms in Inverurie, and it was a decent night.  Started off slow, but we were grateful to a couple of lassies who were determined to dance and make the most of their evening.  It got busier in the second half and ended up being a decent show - decent enough for me to do some audience bass machine gun strafing at the end of a couple of songs.

     

    We did have one guy at the bar indicate that the singer needed turning up - right at the start of a song and continued to signal as such and get annoyed that we weren't doing anything abotu it.  Sure, man, I'll just get right on that with my third hand 🙄

     

    G&L Tribute LB-100 was the weapon of choice.  Amp behaved itself.

    That's so annoying when someone in the audience does that, even worse when it's a band member who really should know better. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, mrtcat said:

    Worst gig ever on weds. 

     

    Wedding in a swanky tipi in a beautiful setting. Forced to use in house PA and no backline. Like so many venues they send details to the bride and groom stating "we have a state of the art in house sound system with over ten trillion watts of power and speakers hand crafted by angels using components delivered direct from the gods". 

    The reality was that it was all cheap junk and limited to the point that the stereo in my old 1989 mini had more clout. Couldn't keep up with a drummer using brushes.

     

    If you ever get enquiries to play at Hadsham Farm Weddings near Banbury just walk away and say no thanks.

    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!

     

     

     

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  13. 10 hours ago, Gasman said:

    Another gig with my band Mustang Sally (I know!), this time at the George Inn, Mere, Wiltshire on Carnival night last Saturday. The pub is in the centre of the town so the parade goes right past the front door. Although this means that we got a good view of all the Majorette teams twirling their batons and the gaily lit Tableau and Action floats before we played, it also meant that we had to get to the venue by 5:30 'cos that's when the roads were closed to vehicles not in the parade. I made it by 30 seconds after a 45 mile drive from Bridport, after leaving home at four - I got back at 1 am.

     

    We are in a handover period between our departing rhythm guitar/vox and incoming keys/vox, so both are doing all gigs up to the end of October making us temporarily a six-piece. We somehow managed to all cram into one end of the front bar. I'd been feeling rather fluey/brain dead that morning so was a bit away with the fairies when loading up to leave home; result, no Ag700 amp in the jeep on arrival!  Calling myself a proper See You Next Tuesday, the day was saved by remembering that I did still have my trusty old TH350 in the all-purpose travelling spares box, thankfully with the right speaker lead, so I dodged a bit of a bullet there. 

     

    The pub was absolutely rammed all evening, plus loads of people outside in the town square all singing along and having fun - I have added a pic (not very good quality!) of the bar area that I grabbed whilst our guitarist and drummer worked their way through the verse of encore All Right Now. The lady on the table is our singstresse, thank heavens for her carefree approach to pub furniture , sense of balance  after a few bevvies and some decent batteries in her radio mic!

     

    We were immediately re-booked for 2024 - that's a plus - but on the minus side all three of us plank spankers in the band are still feeling a bit deaf today...

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    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!

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  14. 10 hours ago, Jonge McLengo said:

    Packed a couple dozen people into the small room above the Packhorse in Leeds for our originals outfit. There was pretty good sound (apparently), ‘thick bass tone’ got a couple of compliments though non-functional fans meant it got very sweaty. Good clean fun.

     

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    I read "non functional fans" wrongly for a while. Got there in the end!

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  15. On 04/09/2023 at 14:46, martthebass said:

    Totally agree. The Sadowsky Metro Express I bought used has the JE2. I just set it flattish and leave it….

    On gigs I mainly use mustangs….nowt to fiddle with 😂

     

    On 09/09/2023 at 18:00, Stub Mandrel said:

     

    Which pub? Back in the 80s that title would have fitted the Angel's back bar...

     

    19 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

     

    Ah yes, in my day Bacchus Wine Bar was always a bit posh (=expensive) so I didn’t go often.

     

    Hope it was a good night!

    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!

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  16. 4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

     

    Which pub? Back in the 80s that title would have fitted the Angel's back bar...

    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.

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