Suburban Man

16 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Can someone explain what 'mistake' is please. Never come across this before? 😂

Yeah, you're right.  Rule Two - there is no Rule Two...

36 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said:

Everyone makes mistakes, it's how you deal with them that matters. Follow the singer as the rest of the audience will be and if you don't, they'll only notice you going wrong. It's good for the band to have something definite to do as well, as there is nothing worse than everyone doing something different as a reaction or the stubborn 'well it wasn't me' plough on regardless approach on stage.  

 

Yes, me too (within reason). One of the bands I'm in has inexperienced musicians in the line up and I've told them if it doesn't clash too badly, repeat the mistake and own it. If it does, stop playing until you can come back in correctly as it's better to play nothing than notes/chords that clearly stand out as wrong.

Rule One of Bass Playing - the correct note at the correct time.  Rule Two - the 'wrong' note at the correct time is also permissible - who in the audience is going to know its wrong???

Rule Three - wrong note at the wrong time indicates that you need to find a new instrument to play

180 Bass scales in Tab and Notation form. If you want a Bass Scale it will be here...

Chas Williams dissects and explains the Nashville Numbering System over 131 pages - it sure is comprehensive: see example pages below

Sensibly wire-bound and in excellent condition

A bit kicked around - obviously, that's what you do with it - but still functional. 

Excellent condition, boxed, no velcro 

A useful Gator Bag with a shoulder strap for 'stuff'. 

External dimensions are 36cm wide, 25cm high and 10cm deep.  Internal cutout is 20cm x 20cm x 5 cm plus a circular cutout (intended for a microphone?) and a rectangular cutout which looks like it was intended for a radio mic transmitter.  

Looking at the dimensions of the Elf and BAM200, they would fit inside. The zip down front 'pocket' gives you some space for cables (as well as the internal cutout - not sure why?)

A used item but still in good condition.

Fender practice amp in excellent condition.  All the good stuff from the v3 of this amp - phones output, DI out, Aux input, lots of EQ and contour settings, overdrive...

Roqsolid cover included

All in a package that is just over 8kg

I would prefer pickup, but will post if necessary at cost.

Dimensions are 43cm high x 39cm wide x 23cm deep

Cutout for handle 10cmx3cm centred at the top parallel to the width 

Usual heavy felt construction, Cable pocket on the side

Roqsolid accidentally centred the handle - which is slightly offset - so like the excellent bunch they are, they are providing a replacement with the cutout in the correct position.

This one is therefore available for the cost of postage.

On an active preamp the battery connection is usually made across the earth side - in other words when you put the jack plug into the bass its the ground/earth part of the connector (not the tip) that joins battery negative to preamp negative.

You can just cut the hot/signal connection if you want, but it leaves a nice little RF antenna in place of your neatly grounded pickup.  That may or may not cause a noise problem, but grounding the hot/signal connection definitely stops any cr@p getting into the nice high-gain front end of you amp as well as muting the pickup.

Andrew at Richmond Guitar Workshop - ex Chandlers Guitars I believe

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 Apart from the 'Producer Switch' option, which is always a good one 🙂 I'm a big fan of a 'mute' switch.  Just a 2 pole on/off that shorts live and earth on the outgoing jack socket.  It won't save battery, but it sure will mute.

I recorded Mike Pender's Searchers ('we split for musical reasons') at a live gig about 30 years ago and the band members all seemed to be 'getting-on' then, but I guess if you can still sing and play a bit its not a bad back catalogue to run through and they absolutely hit the button on every song.  I particularly remember the recording because I naively asked when they were going to do a run through so that I could sort out the levels and was told that the band and their PA engineer didn't need to do a run through - so I just had to sort out the mix during the first number - straight down to stereo in those days.

Hi Dan, well if it really is only 7kg then I'll buy it please.

I'm up in NW London - Uxbridge

Where are you?

Nick

Hi Dan, what weight is the retro 1x10 please? Could you stick it on a set of scales and let me know?

many thanks

Nick

Hi John, 

In typical fashion, someone else has just made me an offer for it.  Can I let you know if that falls through?  Sorry about that

And yes, I would package it up if necessary

Nick

Well if you got it from a guitar spares shop then the chances are that its the right value. 47k would be 47,000pf which is correct.  If it was 474,000pf then its ten times too large a value.

If you remove the capacitor altogether you should find that the tone control ceases to work.  If it is still acting like a volume control then the spare tag has got earthed, or the wiper is being earthed somehow.  You could try swapping the tone control connections so that the wire to the tip goes from one of the outer tags and the capacitor that goes to earth is soldered to the centre tag. If the capacitor was the wrong value then that would also 'mute' the output, like say if it was 0.47 instead of 0.047

Apologies to all those of you for whom I'm stating the bleedin' obvious, but having seen comments on other threads about online sound quality there is a major difference between what works as a live sound and what works in an online feed - with or without video. Apart from any number-crunching that your application may do which renders your in-house mix somewhat restricted in dynamics you also need to mix in the magic of 'Atmos'.  In other words if you take a PA feed directly off your mixing desk and use it online with no alteration, it will sound very flat.

The additional ingredient that you need is to add in a couple of 'Atmos' mics.  Ideally these are omni's set up in the rafters of your venue.  They will only go into the online mix where they will add in the sound of your adoring crowd applauding and singing along to your songs (aka congregation if you are a worship band). They also add in the room reverb of the venue - which is what makes it sound as if you are playing live in a particular place, rather than in a studio somewhere. They may also pick up a few comments that you didn't want the world to hear, so that's why you want to put your atmos mics up high, or at least as far away as is humanly possible.

Annoyingly, although a bit is vital, too much atmos will muddy up the sound something rotten - so play carefully folks.

If the length of the cable is less than half a metre then the core size is likely to be fine, its more about finding a nice robust outer and connector, so a mains-rated cable in a circular jacket is a good choice and should fit easily into the DC connector.

For 0.5mm core wire the resistance per metre is something like 0.035 ohms so it isn't going to affect your PSU voltage until you start using a few hundred metres of cable.

If your mixer is a Behringer Eurodesk then there are lots of options for picking up a feed from a 1/4" jack output.

Main outs 

Control room outs

Aux sends (4)

Sub-group outputs (4)

I think that the 1/8" jack on the Tascam DR07 is actually a line input so any of the above should give about the right recording level.

If you're just wanting to record the rehearsal for reference then main outs are easiest and don't forget to add lots of reverb to the mix, otherwise it'll sound like you were all singing straight into each other's ears from about 2" away...

good luck!

Like DAD says about listening while 'not standing just in front', tweeters are very directional, unlike your 12" speaker, so if you switch the tweeter on you may end up focussing a lot of HF sound somewhere you can't hear it, but other people can. Step away from the speaker a bit and listen at wherever the tweeter is pointing to appreciate what it may be doing.

PS This is why some cabs can be tilted - you won't hear the output of your tweeter if it is pointing at your knees

This is essentially a Little Mark 250 Black Line head coupled to a 151P cabinet without the tweeter.

Used sparingly in a Church setting, so well looked after and in excellent cosmetic condition

The 250 Black Line will put out 150W @ 8 ohms and 250W @ 4 ohms
The combo is set up to push the 150 W through the 1x15 cab.

Weighs in at just over 16kg

Dimensions  - its a 48cm cube (ok its not exactly that but in the Roqsolid cover its close enough).

I know that I'm entering the world of 'shutting the door after the horse has bolted' here, but I loved reading through this thread.  Great to see all the pictures as the project developed. I've built a number of studios professionally, so if anyone is interested the key to getting really solid walls is different thicknesses of board - ideally plasterboard, fixed back to back.  So something like one 12.5mm sheet directly attached to a 9mm sheet.  Double that up each side of a batten wall, take care not to have co-incident joins and you can get quite impressive insulation.  The weak point is always the door (or window if you have one).  Almost impossible to get better than 20db isolation with a single leaf door.  Double doors are the answer if you have enough space, or a neat 'bung' as used in the above design!