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This is possibly the cause. Give it a few turns back and forth and try again?

iPad interference? Yes, it is a thing. The biggest problem with weddings is there generally isn't a "stage", but a "performance area" on the same level as the dance floor. I have signs on my subs politely asking people not to put any drinks on them, I have a background I use on my MacBook Pro (generally lives on one of the subs and used for music between sets) asking people not to touch it. I don't like to take my eye off anything because I regularly find a crowd of people surrounding and playing with it, and the Mac is surrounded by all their drinks, empties and spillage... so bloody disrespectful. I also often come back to the stage before the band starts, to find the bridesmaids yelling into inactive wireless mics, plonking away on the keyboard player's Nord, and someone struggling to get behind the drums... Last summer someone fell onto, and across the stage, breaking an arm off an ultimate Keyboard stand and knocking the Nord off, which landed on an acoustic guitar, sending it flying into the kick drum, all powered by the overweight body of a drunken fat sod. That was an interesting insurance claim after a non-productive conversation with an equally drunken wedding party... Also last season, during pack down at an incredibly posh wedding of two doctors, I came back from the van to find the bride, groom, best men and bridesmaids having piggyback fights on the dancefloor. They said, "its a tradition, wedding fightclub"... I then took a load back to the van, and came back for more to find the best man, a senior anaesthetist, sitting inside one of my (£80) sub covers and shuffling it across the floor like he was in a toy car... Jeez! People regularly invade the stage and grab whatever they can... You might say there is a fine line between a great atmosphere and things going too far, but no matter how posh the wedding loutish behaviour is exactly that and no more. I used to think I could get the measure of the event (if it was going to be lairy) early on in the evening, but now the mostly all are, so its academic...

I had an interesting confrontation with a wedding guest over the summer when I was doing PA for a band I regularly work with. A woman (not one of the bridesmaids) came up to me and told me the band should absolutely not be playing "Ignition" by R Kelly. (OK, so I'm not debating that thought here, its been done before, but she had some quite extreme opinions about it, along with a really unpleasant attitude). I told her I was simply the sound tech not a DJ, and she really should take it up with the band later... not good enough for her, she kept banging on about how insulted/offended she was, with a real in-my-face passive/aggressive manner. I offered her the iPad, pointed at the main LR fader, and suggested that she might like to mute the band's FOH mix while they were still doing the song. Funnily enough, she declined. I also then pointed out to her that, as always, the playlist had previously been agreed between the band and the newlyweds, and that the song had been requested by the bride... My favourite wedding guests are the drunken ones who think its funny to come up from behind, reach over my shoulder and start messing with the mix... oh, how we all laughed.....!

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yes! I know he's a guitarist an' all, but he is a bit special!

Did you go see Eric Gales?

I"m really sorry, i've only just seen this.... Here it is again... ACTIVATION OF MULTIAMP USB PORT.PDF Enjoy! I still love and regularly gig my Multiamp, 4 years on!

I have just bought a Fender P from Jade. It arrived from France in perfect condition, well packaged and almost still in tune It can often be a concern buying from or trading with newish members, but given that English is not his first language, communications were good, positive and friendly, he is very easy to deal with, and I would have absolutely no hesitation buying from him again. Buy/deal with confidence.

Indeed it was, and great to meet you too! Glad to help! Alway good to help convert new people to the yellow side, but equally nice to meet other happy users!

absolutely....!

Yes, that really was noticeable!

Yeah, that was a dumb move putting it there...

Byron Carter did a stunning job with him at Nell's a few months back... He has a more gospel approach to his playing, which does work well for the EGB I think...

and you forget, I introduced cheese to the thread... that was quite off topic...

What's that supposed to mean? That its staying on topic is bad, or something else?

Given that it said "review" and not "cheese" in the thread title, in this case I'd have to agree with you. I can review the show because I was there and the thread is titled "Bass Guitar Show Review". I perhaps should start a cheese thread if I want to discuss cheese, and others should start a "should bass shows be quieter, I don't know the answer because I wasn't actually at the London Show so I'm not really qualified to contribute in a constructive way" thread. Look, we can debate (not bicker) all day long. The fundamental point is not about noise ( @grumpyguts and several others didn't really think so either), so its probably this... Was the show any good? Was there enough or the right things to see/do/buy? Was it worth going? Was it worth exhibiting? Should it be supported so that our community is represented and catered for, or should we stay at home or do something else and let it die quietly? The guys at Future Publishing are big boys and don't need my help, but I DO want to see a positive and enriching bass community... surely thats why we're all here, unless its just for the cheese, of course!

Well I want it to be gorgonzola, or maybe some cornish yarg.... Following your logic it's rather pointless having forum categories or thread titles...

Yup, very valid...

I didn't log the whole show so can't answer that, it's not what I was there for! You'd need to ask the organisers, but I suspect they couldn't tell you either! From the readings I saw and using my ears/experience, I would say it was probably averaging around the high 80s, maybe low 90s, with very occasional peaks of 105 in the main hall when the show was busiest, but I was there to work, and generally only logging during the noisier times. The ambient noise at the beginning of the day was normal conversation level, and despite the comments, there WERE quieter times (not necessarily enforced, just a lull!) so this would have to be factored in. As said it wasn't what I was there for, and I did it out of personal interest rather than to prove anything. Not my circus, not my monkeys... I'd also love to know what was officially recorded.

Agree wholeheartedly. Apart from the lack of strict enforcement (suited venue staff, without sound meters cannot enforce anything), sadly the usual culprit is the ad hoc "on stand demo" or jam, and anyone then trying to hear what they sound like is completely compromised unless you resort to volume. So, the exhibitors aren't usually the problem and are more generally there riding the volume knob, because we don't want to be deafened either...! For that reason this year we intentionally did not have any on stand performances or loud jamming... Some exhibitors did, and that's usually when it went up overall, but, as said, rarely into the +100db range whatever....