Stub Mandrel

We just got back from the Blues Festival in Colne. I won't list all the awesome bands or mention a tiny few les do. Butt.. Gerry McAvoy's Band of Friends. They only had an hour slot, but due to a cancellation were told they vould fo another half hour. It was probably the best time I ever had at a gig. Grown men were weeping for joy. At the end everyone was walking around in a sort of blissful daze. One golden moment, we'd been at the front and my partner and another lady had been grooving all through. During a song near the end Gerry went off to let the redt of the band rip. Then someone stepped paste and tapped my partner on the shoulder, she turned round, saw Gerry and nearly shot through the ceiling. The other lady grabbed a huge hug as I failed to get a photo with more than his shoulder in! The energy, musicianship and sheer fun and engagement with the audience was dimy awesome.

It seems to me that if Bass Direct don't update their stock levels, then get uppity if people order out of stock items, they really need to pull their socks up.

It's worth an extra £2 not to spook Frank. He farts when spooked, and we really dont want that to happen.

Gone for an HH powered speaker, sound is a bit more balanced than I'd expect from a 5" one, price was silly cheap at £89. May find more applications than just a vocal monitor. https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/hh-hpx108-active-moulded-speaker-300w?gclid=CjwKCAjwmJeYBhAwEiwAXlg0AR7IxodnYb3xBU2UFtKCLQ6Jtx7zjrLWxiHDLEYqcUSZWIa7XRK83xoCW20QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Wouldn't cost a lot to get it powder coated black.

Hard to put into words. I haven't tried IEMs, but have to use earplugs sometimes in my workshop and have used various earphones. I just find them very difficult, I think it's psychological perhaps.

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Lots of food for thought. I am happy we keep sound levels sensible on stage, I just need something to bring a bit of clarity to vocals now Alex isn't using a personal monitor and obviously he doesn't want to bring a big floor wedge as that's why he's gone to a single IEM just for his vocals. Sounds like it may be worth trying a mini monitor.

That could be an advantage, as I don't want to be a source of feedback!

So Many Roads.

Yesterday at dojndcheck I couldn't here the vocals because the vocalist uses an iem and the pa was well forward of the stage. Had a monitor wedge set up gor me snd drummer and realised how much we've been missing since he went iem. Been looking at small 50w 5" monitors, are these any good? Would one be enough to help me with bvs? Don't want to switch to iems as I find in ear phones very hard to use.

Yep, Barry does a reel every time there's a gig at the EH. Means you get some great pics.

The Earl Haig in Cardiff. Great venue, big stage, full lights (Focus are playing there on thursday). Audience was bigger than our usual although it wasn't packed out as its 250 capacity. A bit nervous as loads of musicians in there! But we had an awesome time, much dancing and due to a watch misfunction we went 20 minutes over... Thanks to Barry Morris for photos.

Off to the Earl Haig soon. Playing to an audience that really know their blues rock. Eeek!

Someone of Mozart's talent and creativity would have been more likely to be writing Sgt Pepper than The Magic Flute - if he had been born in the 1940s.

Ok poor word choice. What I meant is the light weight/carbon fibre isn't fundamental to the sound. If my cab failed, i would got all the bits in a ply cab of identical dimensions.

Most traditional folk is strictly modal melodies major, minor or mixylodian. If you get the key you can't go too far wrong 🙂

Only made for one year. One figure in my head is 300 made but I may be wrong.

Bass - Fender Performer. T-Shirt - Orange website! ( @FinnDave one of the bands last night played Dark Star, bit of a cheat when you get 'three songs or 15 minutes 🤣 ) Rig... effin' awesome. Ridiculously loud, great for blues rock, best compliment I had was a sound engineer telling me I sounded like Jack Bruce (was using the Epiphone with twin 'probuckers') 🙂

I've seen a lot of well-finished bamboo houseware. It clearly machines well and gives a good finish. I think it's worth remembering that the GR Bass carbon enclosures are a bit of a 'gimmick' - they look good and are light (but relatively delicate). But the sound is not hugely from the cabinet material, it's mostly a good match of size, porting and drivers with a nice stiff construction. You could get the same sound with other materials and good design.

… in my purple wig, foot-high platforms and neon spandex.

"I think this one must be in E..."

Normal service at last night's jam 👌 But the drummer looks very worried!

Because at one gig I was playing a bit loud (ok I was also using an octaver) and at the end of the song the head was nearly off the top of the amp.