Downunderwonder

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 Better to get a fresh unpublished one from the OP.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.

Exhibit A is the nearly the same shape peg box. No cigar.

Seems likely unless they sell them like that with one U for Ultralite per set? If the three weigh in the same and the U is different I would be pretty darn sure it's a fake instead just nearly sure.

You can send a 100hz signal to your amp and if you have a multimeter it shouldn't be too had to access the voltage RMS reading at the speaker. Either a speakon with one end exposed to wiring or a 1//4" plug. If you are using 2V then 1.4 for the 4 ohm. At that rate it get the same nominal power but it still has a nominal 3dB sensitivity advantage from being a bigger 2 driver cab. Hence why I figured on a half voltage to fully peg it back, with recognition that it was getting 1/4 of the power. 2 of any other other cabs can also use 1/4 each in a projected comparison. This way the projection is virtual but more accessible from the observations I reckon. If you had two identical cabs and listened to the pair they would be way far more boomfy than the single. Cutting the pair down to 1/4 power would level them out pretty closely. We have to assume all cabs are going to take something like their rated power to make any use of a DIY sensitivity to bass voltage comparison.

I still reckon halving the power is a good idea for an "everything is equal when it really isn't" test when the one cab is 4 ohm and dual driver. Divide voltage by square root of 2 to knobble its sensitivity advantage. Intuitively that is much more equal than letting it rip with the same voltage as the 8 ohm single driver cabs.

Headroom is nothing but outright volume that is not used, by definition. So what is it you want? Always simply a whole lot of volume is what you want.

I'll make a contestant list when we get to 5.

I think I would be more concerned with why the swollen finger rather than end running it.

There will always be new music. New bands have a bigger problem than before when a couple of gig fees would cover the rent and some meager provisions.

That is not what was implied by being "forced into a job". Being forced into a job is being unable to make a living as a musician. The question was is it worse now for musicians in bands than it was before the current crisis. You really have to wind it back to before Covid. Bands are struggling to get any more out of venues who are also struggling. Must be harder for the musicians to make bank. I couldn't do it back in the 90's when live music was stronger than it is now and houses were a bloody sight more affordable than they are today. If I had had 5 gigs a week I would have been going great great guns and a mortgage would have been half paid off by now. I would drive a Tesla Model Y. I would be in big trouble about now as a full time muso. No way in hell I could keep up my mortgage these days playing 5 nights a week. That does not bode well for the aspiring band player who doesn't get a real job and treat music as a hobby. So essentially the OP is quite correct if you ask me.

Take a leap folks. Sign up for gas free Jan remainder.

Everything I pluck is on auto pilot and has been for a very long time. That leaves my conscious brain fully available to work on note choice and timing. Casting my mind back... Exercises that cross strings. Repeat until you get it. Do it again a couple more times and then work on another pattern before going back to the first one. Rinse and repeat. Where's your thumb? It's a good idea to aim for using alternate fingers, for each note that is on the same string at least.

It strikes me that the some members have a little too much GAS for the annual gas bash. So all you early fails have a shot at some sort of redemption if you can stay clean for the remainder of JANUARY. You know you want to... Success might inspire joining the February pledge. There's only 28 days in February. Nobody buys gear in March, that's just bad luck. After 2 and 3/4 months of not buying anything you might be good for the rest of the year.

Probably stolen @85 quid.

Attaboy!!!

Halve the voltage. Job done.

Also how surprisingly not nearly as loud at 50 hz as it is at 100hz with the same small signal.