Downunderwonder

I don't reckon that should include the OP figuring he can follow instructions!!!!

night off" is what I was auto completing as I read it, make sure he's playing to the floor not the room and definitely not the meter mic. I would seriously look at getting B&G to spring for hiring in an electric kit. Either drummer can 'hit' quietly maintaining energy or he can't. It's rather important where the meter is situated! A well kicked kick drum is 100dB at the kick mic if I remember. Concrete block walls have a hard time slowing down the kick, your screens won't slow it down much at all. You might have to go mono with the (vocal only) PA. Half the sound right off the bat. So long as band is as good as you seem to think about playing hard out but quietly nobody will notice the lack of chest thump back at the bar.

By the time you reduced the cab size of a 110 by dint of making a 210iso the amount of timber saved would be less weight than the extra driver. Craziness.

How long before the big day? It sounds like the WP has promised you the venue the night before with no authority and/or the venue has booked themselves another gig. Either way between them they are in breach of verbal contract and expect you to just bend over. If you can do a stripped down vocal PA thing that's what I would do. Go take over an open mic some time if you have forgotten how.

I don't understand what you are trying to get done. Most people plug the bass straight in the bass amp and the guitar straight in the desk. Any basic A/B/Y box is 2 going to one or 1 going to two depending which way you plug it in.

Where is the meter? No way applause or a punter should be louder than the band unless the meter is out in the room. I think you are probably worried about nothing. Curious who cops what if the meter is tripped. Isn't the dB limit there to keep from annoying venue neighbours?

I don't go to many concerts but when I do it's like a really really really good cover band is playing. Having played countless gigs with just an acoustic guitar and a hand drummer it indeed is amazing how much the brain can fill in the missing bits.

That's self contradicting. Roghtly or wrongly the UK is now a foreign country in Europe wrt taxation and border controls at least. It's not that hard to get your head around. If only people would get basic facts understood then it would be done already already.

5/16 is knocking on 8mm so maybe you had a 3/16??

The EQ is far from intuitive on those, particularly the filters that are off at zero while the rest of the knobs are doing more each side of 12 o'clock. The center frequencies of the EQ's are all a bit different to other amps also. You might like to add a 7 band EQ pedal to help you along.

They really should have called it anything other than that oxymoron. The Precision was so named because it was a bass with frets for precise intonation.

Those comedians might not have his level of commercial success either.

You would actually do well to downsize the tops and keep running a good sub which you can put next to a wall for a handy bump.

I wouldn't abuse a nice level like that. Aluminum 'creeps' under load too.

It's not a practice amp's job to give you bottom end jollies. 20w is fine. The trick is to not overload the input on your amp and then turn up the master output to get some volume. Don't be shy to turn the input down some more and turn up the output. My 6'' speakered practice amp can just keep up with one saxophone. I forget how many watts are inside, 15 or 20 probably. I wouldn't spend good money on a practice amp. Better to get a small used rig that can do gigs.

Probably goes along with everyone being familiar with the ''no Ric'' rule. Hopefully the chancers keep their ''tributes'' under their beds once Rics appear for sale.

Without an agreed legal definition with Rickenbacker there can't be a line drawn by BC between allowable tributes and copies. Rickenbacker declined to play ball last time around. Expectations are non existent for them to provide a tribute guideline, or allow a reasonable timeframe for taking down infringing items. If you think it might be mistaken for a Rick after ten pints, it's probably not going to fly. There won't be any discussion, it will be gone.

That's how I guess the enforcement will operate. Looks like a duck, it's a duck, next, has a bill and feathers, it's a duck, next, has beady eyes waddles and begs for scraps, duck!

If you don't read Site News or the For Sale stickies you may well have missed the grand experiment announcement. By popular demand, original Rickenbacker product may again be traded. No copy stuff! Copy stuff will be summarily deleted but if detected by the new King Rick may result in further legal nastiness and no more Rickenbacker trading forever.

My mentor had a slightly later model which was 300w mono, when it was working. He gave it away and I haven't seen it or another since. Most of that 80's gear is getting dusty on shelves in garages or gone to landfill by now.

P basses are indeed a fairly hot output for being passive. No harm in backing off either the amp input gain control or the bass output.

There's a choice of Elf 110 combo, or Elf with Barefaced 10, £400 on the classifieds.

Your chances to find out for yourself just improved. Rickenbacker original equipment is now allowed to be traded on BC!!!! ( Copies still verboten )