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Love that he puts an insanely strong magnet on the anvil, and then can't get it off DOOH!

In my mind, Mr Collins lives his days fully lost in funkadelia at Mothership Mews, Rubberband Land, and his whole house is decorated like it! 💫

I used these a couple of years ago and they were excellent. They needed a template to work from (i was after a white version of a black one i had), but don't know if that's normal. All in cost was £51. You'll obviously need to check they can do what you want, but I can definitely recommend them. https://tinytone.co.uk/

We've done a few gig for charity, which generally we don't mind too much. We've also been asked to run the PA for multiband lineups. This we don't do for free. We do charge, but at a reduced rate. Pub.. We're running a charity event, do you mind playing for free. It's good exposure. Band.. Sure. We're planning an event of our own. Can you supply free beer? You can advertise your pub.

I tried to hide it, but ended up going to the clinic

Brief back story. Our band own and run our own PA. HK line array system, upto 8 bass units and 8 top units. They sound great, really portable and a small foot print. We've had this for about 10 years and done many, many gigs with them. Both ourselves and other bands at gigs. Myself and the drummer are both experienced sound engineers. However, we do occasionally get a lot of bottom end flare and can sound a bit wooly/undefined in the bass frequency. Of course it's very venue dependant, but my question to the collective is, does anyone use rubber feet/stand/spikes to de-couple the bass units from the floor, much the same as is used in hifi? This would seem to make sense, but I've never known it for PAs. The best sound we had recently was when we sat them in the little trollies we use for transportation. Anyone use or tried them?

'Boosty's DNA included'

Very interesting video. Brings back memories of working with those 1/4" Studers, doing a line up of the multitrack machines everyday. Yes I agree, it's possible, but they would have to be very well looked after.

I'd be amazed if the 'original flat analog master tape' was in any state to be used to copy from after 50+ years

That's a great app, thanks Bill

Robin is a top bloke. Proof is in the thread below (last post) Short story, he went out of his way to help out. I've caught up with him at a few shows and had a chat. His work is fantastic, really nicely made guitars and basses. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/472237-fender-jazz-bass-1976-natural-ash-70s-vintage-sold/page/2/#findComment-4949210

Those are very useful and well worth buying. Other retailers are available

I like that idea. It's a pain to take them off individually

If you're doing it, I'd suggest putting masking tape over the wood of the fretboard.

Excuse the non bass anecdote, but it was an embarrassing rookie error. (and excuse the name drop...) While still a studio assistant early '80s, I had to run a session for Heaven 17 who were recording some demos. The engineer who I mainly worked with had a line in cheeky phrases that he could get away with and would always get a laugh. So we ran through a lead vocal with Glen Gregory. No issues, all fine. However, I thought I'd try one of his cheeky remarks, you know, as you do when you think you're above your station. "that was great Glen, thanks. If you'd lke to leave your name and number in the bin on the way out" It didn't really go down as well as expected! I was rather embarrassed, but had to balls it out.

Basically, yes. Though I'm more a free stroke kinda guy, relying on the left hand for muting

Same as Stub, 1st finger lower string/note, 1st finger octave, free strokes, left hand doing the muting. Find it slightly easier with the hand angled back a bit. Not saying thats technically correct technic, just mine.

Can I cut this off a the pass, before it decends into another 'sound engineers are rubbish' thread. It's about amps/guitarists being too loud on stage and the fact PoliceSquad did the heroes thing, and walked off

Some people are just dicks

Good man!

Superglue one of these to thier speaker grill

Another supportive post saying you did the right thing. I have tinnitus thanks to a loud guitar, and I'm still angry over it. Shame it took your action to point it out and the BL didn't notice. Ps- was this mid gig?

We played O'Neils in Bristol a while back. We thought we did ok. We asked how it went and for a rebooking. "yeah, the set list was great, but you weren't loud enough". We haven't been asked back. Bearing in mind that we have a 3k rig, in a smallish venue, and every time I've seen a band in there I've had to leave because my ears were bleeding. Seriously, if it was a work environment with HSE, you only be able to play for 15 mins.

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The guy banging the drum in last nights Spain/Germany game. In fact, anybody who brings an instrument to a sports game. And the trumpet bit they play over the pa to get the crowd to cheer..