Richard R

This is a great build to follow. I understand the woodwork, after that makes almost no sense, but it's clearly going to very good indeed.

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Tim Minchin, Birmingham Symphony Hall, July 9th. Should be good fun.

Spare ticket going if anyone's interested- see the Recycling forum.

Obviously I'm not giving away Tim Minchin himself, but I do have a ticket for his show going spare. E-ticket so meet at the venue.

Joanne Shaw Taylor is fabulous in concert!  I've seen her twice in Birmingham UK. She's playing Wolverhampton in September, so I should try to get tickets.

We have a periodic debate about The Piano on stage. It's large, awkward, and doesn't sound as good in the mix as the keyboard which was bought with piano-weighted keys etc etc.

However one lady will only play the piano and not the keys, we host music exams who require a piano, and for small funerals where a piano is enough then we don't need a sound tech.

So it's still on the stage.

Only 2 according to your profile.

Welcome aboard.

Post a Hello/ Hi on the introductions forum, and reply to a few threads. Just join in generally. Then all of a sudden you'll have thousands of posts of random rubbish and no friends in real life other than those you meet at bass bashes. And if you stray into the Marketplace then you'll also have no money and a reputation for meeting strange men and women in supermarket car parks up and down the country. 

Don't ask how I know... 😅

New album dropped on Friday, only just seen it.  Fave track so far.

"Hip Hip Hooray! It's Record Store Day
So get yourself a second mortgage!"

After all that I've just been given a spare Designacable speaker lead, so no need to solder my own after all. 

On 18/05/2025 at 13:30, Stub Mandrel said:

<Pedantic botanist alert>

 

Sycamore isn't native to the UK, although there's lots of it here. Provenance can therefore be UK.

 

So after how many generations/years in the UK does a tree/plant/animal become a native species, assuming a wild population? 

Not a political statement or loaded question, just curious. 

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https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/pmt-placed-into-administration/

Another news link. PMT in Brum were generally OK, the bass players were always helpful, and we've bought a bit over the years. Sad times for the staff.

Still have Guitar Guitar and Fair Deal Music in town (plus Hobgoblin for those times when 19 strings just aren't enough.)

I have spent the last few posts wondering why punk bands were playing a Donald Fagen song. Off to Spotify to find that UK Subs also have a song of that name - which makes a lot more sense 😄

@mikebass456 - a tenner if you open your set with this one:

Superb workmanship @Grainger guitars.

On 07/06/2025 at 11:39, Richard R said:

Finished up one of the most groovy rehearsals we've ever had! 😃

Sadly I didn't get to play the actua service as this Lurgi is getting the better of me.

Especially gutted -  this is a bit of what I missed: 💃

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxlefBzSV-1qGvE5SpIrUt91kmbbISTSwC?si=Fe32n0kqr1c6uDXe

I don't think f-ck all can be four, so it must be zero, and the same as sod all.

Just noticed the alliteration: Square root: Sod, Five: F-uck.

At the risk of a complete thread derail and the wrath of @scrumpymike*, are there any other expressions for nothing that have equivalent additions?

The wrath of Mike is a terrible thing - you are denied any crumble!

7 hours ago, rwillett said:

square root of sod-all 

Is that more or less than 5/10 of f-ck all?

Asking for an engineer friend.

I have a friend in SD who often comes back to the UK in the summer. I'll see what he's doing and PM if there's a possibility of couriering "the package."

On 05/06/2025 at 12:22, Si600 said:

Do I have to rehearse or practice?  Can't I just get good/competent without expending any effort or time.

Tried this, didn't work. 😬

Now paying for lessons -  on the basis that if I don't then practice what I'm told I will be  p*ssing money away as well as time.

Let's see how it goes by Christmas....

Strange one at church last night. New songs,I'm fighting off a cold, the IEMs were playing up and the sound engineer was relying on me to sort them out, and so the band couldn't always hear themselves. Fab drummer though, so all I did was play a rhythm with roots and thirds while squinting at the chord chart and try to hear myself from the FOH.

Finished up one of the most groovy rehearsals we've ever had! 😃

9 hours ago, tauzero said:

8 ohm cab? Power = I^2 * R, substituting known values 200 = I^2 * 8 (assuming it's an 8 ohm cab) so I^2 = 12.5, so the current is about 3.5A.

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I had forgotten that I had the resistance of the cab as another known quantity and so the current could be calculated.

I wondered why anyone would quote a cable rating in W not A, but I guess it's easier to read the amp specs which quote power into a given speaker and buy a cable to match the power.

Which is of course @jezzaboy's very sensible suggestion 😀

I had worried about the size of the wires onto the terminals.

I may have some 5A wire somewhere.  I shall have a look and report back.

6 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

You'll generally only have three leads to worry about - ground, battery negative, and signal. As long as ground and negative aren't connected together, and signal goes to tip, you're OK. The issue of which of the other two goes to ring and to sleeve is generally not relevant except if you're using one of the Boss wirelesses which have stereo plugs and charge through the plugs, as they expect (IIRC) ground to be sleeve and battery negative to be ring.

I know that, but it doesn't mean I won't absentmindedly earth the tip, or solder my fingers into the signal path*. Check and check again.

*That might save all that mucking about with proper technique though...

1 minute ago, jezzaboy said:

You can buy a decent speaker cable for £15 or so, I wouldn`t be faffing about with a mains cable. Better off with the right thing?

True, but I have the cable and connectors sat in the garage.

It's not flat twin-and-earth, it's mains cable from an appliance- should be flexible enough.

The amps rating is relevant - 200W at 20V is 10A. That would melt a 3A cable which at 250V would handle well over 500W.