TimR

Is saying you have good taste, a bit like saying you're a good driver?

It's supply and demand. People are obviously paying the prices. The supply chains were broken after the pandemic, and in a lot of cases, we are still feeling the effects plus lag from pent-up demand. Lots of people do have money to spend. Would I buy a bass for £1500? Possibly. I like the look of the Ibanez Premium (£1300), but the SR600 (£800) probably do me once I'd changed the machineheads. A lot of basses seem at first glance to be pretty well made, they're all CNC machined so quality control is higher than it was in the 80s. But whether or not they last the rigours of gigging remains to be seen.

Keys players are usually pretty clued up as they can see the notes of the chords. Guitarists tend to play shapes. Cm, with a few suspense/transition chords like the G7 and the F. The bass line is great with a lot of chromatic lines from memory.

Barrie Palmer formerly of Machinehead Misic is still a tech there as I understand.

What's the line up? What do the two Brummies play? I think that's what I missing. Playing jazz you need drums, bass and, piano or guitar. Anything else is additional to requirements.

Well that's even more confusing. 😂 I just mean that chopping and changing leaves everyone wondering what's going on. For a relaxed 'jam', 'gig', it seems a lot of work. You play bass and there's another guitarist who can't make it, and if they could make it, they wanted something towards travel. You have a guitarist, bass and drums. To me that's sorted. You have a base trio, you're not getting paid, why complicate it?

Buy some other bits at the same time. Components are expensive if you buy them one at a time.

Or new gear.

I think this is where it all went wrong. If someone cant make a gig, then they find a dep and make all the arrangements. Stick to your area, otherwise confusion reigns. You've found someone to cover your part, and then someone goes and asks someone else? Especially annoying if the guy you asked has already started preparing. Tbh - I'd be sitting down with the band all together and flesh out these minor issues before they grow into resentment. I'd certainly not be happy subsidising someone else's hobby. In my experience people who can't afford to do things that are important to you - seem to find money to do things that are important to them.

https://uk.farnell.com/rubycon/400bxw39mefr12-5x25/cap-39-f-400v-20/dp/2480322 I'd stick with 39uF. Ignore the long skinny photo the cap is 12.5mm dia by 25mm high. See if that's a similar size to what you have.

As @itu states that model has a revision using 39uF and that would tie in with the 39 on the case. Not sure why there's not plastic sleeve on it though.

Later or earlier revisions? 🤣 Maybe it was a known issue...

47uF Electrolytic - get it the right way round. List and schematics here: https://wiki.console5.com/wiki/PlayStation

As I say, if you aim it middle aged white straight white males, you're going to alienate the LBGQT+, teenagers, and middle aged women, and turn it into a bland-fest. Seems odd that of the 52 countries that enter the contest none of them appeal to the particular demographic most of the posters here seem to be in. I haven't listened to the winner. I haven't even listened to our entry. I saw a man in box, with no shorts on, on Wednesday and then went and did something interesting. I don't know how they could make it interesting to me. Seems the whole of TV at the moment is designed not to appeal to me. It's either gritty police dramas, 'reality' TV, or comedy panel shows featuring the same 10 comedians in rotation. Hey ho.

Generally because if we want something we just go and get it, or get our mates to sort it out for us. I'm not asking for Eurovision to be better. If people want to sit at home watching TV - let them, I'm out watching, or playing, or doing something. Saturday night infront of the TV is not my idea of fun.

While the Eurovision/Ant and Dec/Come Dancing demographic are at home. It seems a bit odd that musicians, who are calling for a bigger audience and bemoaning the lack of decent venues, are now complaining that there's no decent Saturday night TV. 🤣

I'm talking about viewer demographic.

The UK entry is chosen by the BBC in an internal process. It doesn't seen very transparent. Anyway, it's not aimed at middle aged straight white men. If it was, we'd get an incredibly boring song that would sit comfortably on a CD of driving songs sold at Christmas and Father's day with a photo of Jeremy Clarkson on the front.

All music is copying. When you write music you're just deciding what elements you're copying. AI is the same except it doesn't have experience of the real world, doesn't understand the emotional context. Until AI has emotion, all it will be is a model working off an algorithm. Humans are losing the emotional context of life as well, too much written communication and not enough face to face. Maybe AI music will appeal to future generations who don't know what it is like to go outside and actually talk to people.

The last paragraph mainly. If you're playing 'standards' that's a cover band, but if you're playing standards no one wants to pay for, then that's a 'vanity project', or if that's too strong, it's just indulgent. I wouldn't worry about 'pubs', it's not the economy that's causing them to suffer it's council business rates and Brewery rents. £300 on onw night won't make one bit of difference. But that's another thread entirely.

Seems we are one of 5 countries who get a free pass to the finals.

I have mine from 1985. I pulled the frets and filled them with polyfilla. I'll get a photo if I have time to get it out of the loft. In about 2004 I found out you can adjust truss rods and I tuned it from an unplayable monster onto something approaching a bass with low enough action to be half playable. The pickups pick up every airborne RF signal known to man.

It's too many originals bands grateful just to be given a place to play that seems to be the problem. Don't know how it's to be fixed but if you have a dep playing on someone's vanity project then the dep should be aware of the package before signing up. That could be; 'the band' pay travelling expenses, drinks or the dep is happy to just be helpful. What the band is getting paid shouldn't come into this. The band are the people who want to play their music, not the dep. It's different to cover bands where the band are expecting to get paid the going rate. In short, if the gig isnt paying enough for the dep, the band members pay them out of their pockets. If a member of the band can't get to the gig because they're skint, that's up to the other members of the band (not including the dep) to decide how they continue to support that member.

Ebony/Black wood stain.

I assume you only have a 3 band EQ on the mixer and the mid is parametric. By doubling up you can use the 'mid' set at different frequencies. Might try this for our vocals. Take a thru out straight into the next chanel input.