TimR

This. Their version of 'Yes, it fits.' may well not match your version of 'Yes, it fits.' Just buy it, try it and return it in the unlikely event it doesn't. However, I bought a rucksack once and the place sent me the wrong one. I returned it, but the process was: return for a refund and purchase the item again... Somewhat convoluted.

20250628_195601.mp4 I finished work late on Saturday afternoon about 5:30, saw the Maiden fans heading for Canary Wharf tube. Stopped for a quick beer before heading home and decided to see if I could get a ticket. An hour and half later and I'm in the stadium with a front standing ticket...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_characteristics_of_dynamic_loudspeakers

Some odd conclusions being drawn here. The nominal impedance of a speaker is just the lowest resistance. At its resonant frequency it will have max impedance. In practice speakers are receiving complex AC waveforms and their actual impedance seen by the amplifier will be tens of ohms. The wire that a speaker is made from is extremely thin, and will burn out well before any connectors or 1.5mm² flex will. And that will be for a different reason. For long runs you should be using powered speakers, not running tens of metres of twin flex.

You guys clearly haven't watched Final Destination... 😆

The point is; the gates to the neutral and live will now remain open when you remove the transformer, until you remove the pencil. The original 'earth' pin would have been plastic and only there to open the gates. You could then drop all sorts of metallic objects into the socket by accident. Or if your fingers are small enough they could be pushed in. Only needs for the transformer to be doslodged while you change a string, when one end of the string just happens to flick into the live, and you have the ideal recipie for a scene from Final Destination, or The Omen. 😆

I had to read this twice. Don't use Instrument leads for your speakers or Speaker leads for your guitar. They are not interchangeable, you can't use them for 'double duty'. AND if your speakers are powered, don't use speaker leads between your mixer and the speakers. Use 2 core twisted sheilded pair with XLR or TRS jacks.

I can't work out if you're being serious or not. 😆 Just in case you are: Kids, don't do this!

One of the things is I do when I dep is ask for a dress code. I don't want to be the bass player in the wrong band. I have 2 basses, I won't be hiring or buying one for a dep gig, I'm happy to borrow the bands regular bass player's bass if it's that important, but I've never done a Tribute band so it's never come up.

These are wise word. We have had issues where the guitarist went down quite hard when he shifted weight to reach his pedals. If you have a vocalist who moves around a lot or jumps up and down, that's another potential disaster. If it's a raised stage you have potential to fall quite a long way. Plus playing to reduced size crowd because they all stayed at home, huddled under trees in the corners of the feild or are hiding under umbrellas, isn't fun.

Depends if its a one-off dep, or someone who is "second call" who does gigs when your main player can't play. There are plenty of musicians who are strictly too good to be playing regularly in amateur bands but are happy to stand in on occasion. I've done plenty of dep gigs at short notice. If it's get a dep in or cancel the gig, you have to weigh up the risk of another band getting their foot in the door and nicking potential gigs down the pipeline, and putting on a show that might not be to your standard but the punters won't realise.

We are human beings. Talk. Face to face.

What kind of generator is being supplied? Often they don't get earthed, but they should be. The signal and safety earth should be the same thing as the amps will use the normal earth.

If your main mixer has a spare aux out, you can mic everything and send yourself a dedicated sub mix. Those mics don't need to go to the front of house mix. If you don't have a spare AUX and your mixer has inserts there is a way of 'normalling' the output by using a mono jack and not pushing it all the way in (just to the first click) to give a send to another mixer without interrupting the signal path inside the first mixer, and dispensing with the need to have a return.

I recently got a message from the leader of one band that I was kind of in. Basically standing in until they found a permanent bass player. With date and details of a gig he'd booked us for. It confuses me how some of these people ever got organised enough to learn how to play an instrument.