Downunderwonder

BF would tell you straight. The limiting factor is your amp having limited power. Sensitivity becomes the most important statistic for the cabinet(s). A 410 is generally going to wipe the floor with a 210.

Does round here. If it's a 'band' night it gets billed additionally as such but it's still an open mic for those that just want to jam solo. If a band shows up with gear it usually becomes an open jam. Loose as a goose and a great way to improve your ability to play off others' lead.

When I ran an open mic I only had one rig. OP would have been welcome to check it out. Around here that's pretty normal. Ymmv.

Get along to your local open mics.

I may have bought three lottery tickets in the last 30 years. Maybe only 2. Jackpot clearances. They give you a little less abysmal odds of winning exponentially more. Somehow the lizard brain fails the maths test when the rest of the decade it goes 'can't fool me with your shiny temptations'.

By reputation the 49'ers should smash them. Start right after the game so they can drown sorrows in sad cowboy tunes? If by chance they win they can celebrate to upbeat blues tunes. Win, win!

Looks like the loophole they exploit now is clipping the ticket on charged text messages to enter the free draw.

Those used to be common here. I haven't seen one in so long I forgot all about it. I guess the loophole was closed. Will look it up later.

Should get nil ski jump effect if your bridge end narrow shim straddles the screws and a half thickness shim at the other end likewise. Supporting nut end of neck on the last of the pocket while holding the other aloft on the shim definitely has a propensity to bend the neck between the held flat zone at the front of the pocket and the lifted zone at the back. If you only tighten the front screws to the point the neck touches down on the pocket then there is no great bending but who does that?

Illicit lottery operations not their bag. There will be a whole branch of Home Office dedicated to that.

My guess is the driver doing the delivery has no other drops to make it worth his mileage to go anywhere near the 'farm'.

Better still, agree to walk through the very sensible over sized sitting on the ground hoops of Overland on behalf of the buyer and get them to do all the arranging and paying so it is their insurance policy.

As the signal is being sent three different ways there should be a way to add stuff. I doubt there is the will though.

A good rule of thumb is if it stops getting appreciably louder when you turn it up then you should turn it back down a bit instead. Fix the lack of volume some other way, usually by getting guitar player to point his cab at his own head.

I must have missed the dual set presentation suggestion. Still don't see the point in normalising. It seriously masks an underperformance and the degree of boost is unknown.

Tone is highly dependent on volume. At lower volume our appreciation of the bass content lessens so it sounds more thin/weedy/trebly/shouty..pick your favourite descriptor, without changing any EQ. My vote would be naked truth with standard signal.

I thought the idea was to compare not make everything sound the same.

A criminal knowing this might assume a potential mark could discover his serial was thusly obtained. Better to get a fresh unpublished one from the OP.

Week after next implies 2 weeks to learn 10 tunes. If everyone has been around the block and they are 'standards' then I think it's ambitious but doable. I went to a gig where the bass player had been given the sheet music to a show of high falutin' original jazz a couple of weeks ahead. One rehearsal. Boom, nailed it. I don't think he is in too many pub cover bands.

That and the skills of the players and the standard required for the gig. I think if a singer is up for ten you should take him up on it. Make sure everyone is looking at the same version and give it a go. I like the 'priority list' idea. 4 or 5 to get down first and then the rest. There's only so much time in rehearsal. Unless you nail the first 5 you might only get a single run of the next 5 but that would be valuable.

If your DIY stores are like ours you will be lucky to find anyone with any skills in knowing what screw is what. They will have a selection of wood screws in packets of 10 and jars of 100, nut and bolt sets, nothing resembling a pickup mount screw....

Or if you really aren't that concerned about cosmetics you could rotate the small bit so it better fit and made the gap less noticeable.

I am no luthier but I doubt it came from a factory with a back bow. They would have built it straight and used the truss rod to control the relief. Have you tried re stringing it or just assuming it isn't there yet?

Possibly. You could take another out and get an engineers supply store to tell you what it is. Probably M for metric for starters in a pickup mount screw. A big one might even have one in a bin for you. The pickguard wouldn't be all that fussy so long as the head matches.

If you get it set up with an adjustable bridge it is less of a big deal to set up in future. You might like an easier ride to get going and change it up again yourself down the line when your strength improves. If you're doing it right most of the pressure on the string to form the note comes from the arm /shoulder pulling back not the thumb opposing the fingers. Maybe one day I'll get it.