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Rehearsal... really a catch-up as we (Bendricks Rock) haven't gigged for about 6 weeks. most of us met at the pub for a chat beforehand to agree new songs. Drummer was late so went straight there... no booking. Turns out my "That's great, 8-11." email wasn't interpreted as a 'yes'... but they had a room free and it was the best one (nearly twice the size with a high ceiling, no extra cost). Session went ok, we just focused on about ten songs where we felt things can get scrappy. Did some bvs for the first time since covid hit three weeks ago. Still got a bit of a cough but coped ok. My new earplugs are great with the 12dB inserts. I've used them three times now. Quieter but still loud enough to feel engaged, full range with clarity but cymbal crashes and snare hits have the edge taken right off.

Exactly. The best way to make a fan quiet is to make it bigger and slower.

Pass the kleenex.

It's your logo... do it how you want! Mine evolve!

As electrical noise, not fan noise, is the issue the choice is very broad. For your needs you could be best off with an advanced di/preamp pedal for recording and then a fairly basic power amp for stage use.

Next ... the Bunsen Honeydew bass. With 'meep' onnthe headstock...

Welcome to an island of sanity in a crazy world!

That's the dodgiest jack-shït web page I've ever seen. More red flags than the battleship potemkin. Lots of characters from non-latin fonts to greak search engines. Don't go there and if you do, don't click anything. It's a honeypot targeting the gullible. Mods... please remove the link.

I remember buying my Flea Jazz. I was tryinh it out along with some modern jazz basses. I couldn't get a tone I liked, the guy at the shop said you prefer a more traditional sound? He plugged me into a rumble 100 and lo! There was the sound I wanted.

Everyone is going to be rooting for you. Just getting up and being there is an achievement everyone will appreciate. The moment you start playing you will be too absorbed in the moment to worry. Nerves and excitement are not negative emotions they prepare you. Afterwards you'll wonder why you worried and be grateful for having such a special opportunity.

Curve ball alert. If low fan noise and transparency are important what about an Orange Terror? Before you mock me, remember it has a clean switch that gets rid of all that lovely Orange overdrive.

Lol... I've seriously considered taking a battered Squire, relicing it, spraying it Sherwood Green and relicing it again! Unfortunately the bass I fancy is an Adsm Clayton signature...

The originals were Squiers, only the reissues are Fender Japan. My Brother had a Katana six-string.

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There are two types of gold plating, hard and soft. The hard type uses alloying metals and underplating to achieve high wear resistance. Neutrik use hard plating on at least some of their jack connectors.

It has a lot to do with American pride and the reality is based on Fender making more 'elite' spec models in the USA, rather than better made ones.

Seems to combine the worst of Gibson and Rickenbacker onto a Fender body.

If you aren't a cork-sniffer, you could do worse than a Sire P10dx for about £1,300.

Having lived in Tamworth for some five years or so that stretches my imagination.

Serious suggestion 'I couldn't turn up because the foh sound was good'. Start with your onstage level noticeably higher tonight before foh levels are set. And make sure your bandmates know that you struggled lasg night and that was because you couldn't hear yourself properly.

Feeling a bit out of sorts tonight. Tail end of Covid and stuff. But the gig went ok, not packed but reasonable, the audience liked it. The band were new to the place but I've done several gigs there before. I put my cab upside-down* on the bench rather than on the flags to reduce boom, and I still had to brighten the eq. Got caught out by a couple of arrangements that don't follow the originals, not that anyone else noticed. Tuned to drop d for the wrong song, so had to go back up to E for the next, then down to D and back up again... all by ear as without my tuner, which had fallen on the floor. Also managed to pull my lead out of my head while spinning round looking for the tuner. Was to boomy to use the Squier Jazz with mutes on it, but it does look pretty. Amazing tort scratchplate for an ebay cheapy! *updide down ment the ports weren't blocked and it sat on the flat top, not wobbling on three legs.

It puts me right off buying a vintage instrument.

Only if you have a grip of steel and press the strings right down to the fretboard.

Effective cooling needs turbulent airflow. That means if you have to shift lot of heat, it will be noisy unless you have huge heatsinks or heatpipes served by multiple low velocity fans.