Downunderwonder

Tonight I am jumping in and barely holding up my jazz end. The guy who was lined up for the gig turned out to be antivax and the bar won't let him in. I got the call on Tuesday night. The band is incredibly appreciative and don't seem to notice the bum note and clanger rate is awful. If there's any chin stroking going on it will be of the 'that ain't jazz' variety. They are probably going to tell me turn up. Troubling to me there's a cover charge on the door to keep out riffraff non real jazz fans and pay the band.

That's a tough one. What's it worth as a going one? Needing fixing 3 times previously doesn't speak well for the repairs. You would have to wonder what else might be on the way out that isn't on the main board, but maybe nothing and they are correct that it will be better than new. £200 might be a good deal. Still a fair chunk of change. Other deal where they keep it and give you £100 off something you fancy?

Orher way around. A lower number = higher sensitivity.

Most of the last eighteen months has been incredibly difficult to navigate band practices. Plus

What rock have you been living under? They would have had long enough between kickoff and the world going to hell in a handbasket to have done something but I can understand a project stalling out in the meantime. It's not fun. There's no gigs. The music isn't there. 2/3 is survivable but 0/0 = bail yesterday. You already gave it your best shot at getting guitar hero to act like a musician and he's still thinking he's the rockstar. There's no way to fire him without losing the singer. Try to hang onto the drummer.

OP decided already already.

What are the cabs and drivers in them? If you're lucky you might have an option of rewiring the cabs to 16ohm each. Needs a strong amp for when you use the one cab but that's not uncommon.

A joker doing a concert in a live music bar did it the best. Dude takes the stage. ''Good evening''....silence.... crowd settles down....silence.... crowd settles down some more...... silence... just one table still jibber jabbering.......................... actual silence. ''You done yet?'' Round of applause. Gig starts.

Sorta. It didn't work. I pressed it again. It worked. Twice.

Hell's bells. As the gig finder you have the power. Exercise it to the max. Demand the issues are resolved immediately or you are going to cancel to give the client time to find another band that has its kaka together.

Am I wrong to size up the band as a 50 something bassist hanging with 20 somethings?

A bit rich considering you effectively 'left him at the truck stop with the singer' and he's only just realized what's up. And if any Admin is watching, this double up occurred from quoting a selection while on the previous page.

A bit rich considering you effectively 'left him at the truck stop with the singer' and he's only just realized what's up.

I wouldn't have lasted a month with that.

A newfangled 12'' wipes the floor with any old 15 if you give it enough wattage, in a cab you can throw farther than you can spit.

If you didn't try a different amp with the cable and cab then you are still at square one of trouble shooting. Test the amp with a good cable and cab before looking to fix the amp.

I think you need to edit the thread title to include the word SOLVED in there.

If it's a "signal splitter" nothing really adds up does it?!? XLR's are fiddly little bastards for a first soldering project but have at it.

Sure. Turn the lights off.

That might be the source of my confusion. My Dad got Joe Jackson Jumping Jive around the time we went to Rodger Fox. Somehow the name Graham Maby for a bass player tickled me.

That's either a helluva coincidence or he lived in NZ in the late 80's?

Some shocker court case outcomes make me wonder about the musical competence of the judicial system.

I wouldn't be the slightest bit uncomfortable with that situation. Plenty of times the hook is coming from the groove created by the band and substituted lyrics would do just as well. Not many books of poetry got sold while albums sold by the millions. A talented tune writer still needs a band to come up with ideas or he's a songwriter that has no use for a band and is going to take off on them sooner or later. Since yours is happy to co create and share the spoils, simply count yourself lucky.

I think it rather depends on the number of applicants expected. For a lucrative gig there would be no shortage and the 'kinda abusive' filter only reduces the workload on getting down to the audition list. I haven't seen the listing so any assumption the gig is lucrative is based on previous postings.

There's a Crazy8 in the classifieds that can do low level gigs as well as practice duty if you cart along a micro amp. The reason it got called Crazy is it has a very stout 8'' Faital in a very small box to put out like a dog on heat. Kinda pricey though.