Les

Have you got enough PA to put the kit through ? You'll certainly have an easier time finding the problem frequency and rolling it off on the desk I should think

Another for Google Calendar. We've used it since April 2014 and not had a balls up. It has it's limitations I suppose but they can all fly it and I can do rebookings on the night on my phone whilst the iron is hot. Any calendar/diary will only work if everyone is on board and on top of it. Needs to be discipline as with every team activity. One thing nearly caught us out but we've fixed it now is you must cross yourself off a date that you're unavailable EVEN if somebody else had already crossed the night off and the band isn't gigging. ie MemberA crosses night off for some event. MemberB looks and thinks great I'll take the wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/secret lover etc away for a romantic weekend if we're not gigging. MemberA's event gets cancelled some weeks later so he marks the date as free. MemberB hasn't blocked themselves off as they didn't think we were working anyway. Date shows as free now. Gig goes in. Problem. Les

Can we have an update when you get them please ? I quite fancy them but wondering if they are bright enough cheers Les

Sounds to me like the singer has flipped cos' he's the one who gets the gigs and he has to check with everyone before he takes them and when he takes a chance people come back and say they can't do it. (apologies if I've read the scenario wrong) I'm with him on this. Get an online diary and yourselves out.

We put our fees up this year for new venues and are bringing our regular venues in line with it for next year. So far only had one refusal. Interestingly we have one left to do at this place in about 2 weeks so I suppose it's up to us to change their mind.

How come Blue ? Band holidays or just slack work wise ? Les

It was 😃 what band are you in Muzz ?

Short notice jam night, house band. Drummer I'd never played with who organised it to fill for the regular house band, guitarist out of my band and a singer I'd played with before but only when he was on drums. Cracking night. Landlady.... I'll ring you tomorrow and book you for a Sunday night Drummer..... errr ok Landlady..... how long have you been a band ? Drummer..... about twenty five minutes. 😂

you Sir, are a sage.

ok, I'm sorted

Totally get what @molan is saying and I've seen it happen. I'm not sure it's as prevalent today as it was if I'm honest. I gig a lot so I'm not the most avid band watcher but the ones I do see seem to get the volume rightish. Gear is much better than it was years ago so maybe it's easier to get right.

At 20 it was beer, women bands and motorbikes. Later on in my twenties when I bought my first house we couldn't have managed without us both working and me doing 3 gigs at the weekend. Bit more relaxed now I'm in my 50's thankfully.

Yes Ibanez is another serious contender. To be honest mate at a 300 quid budget it's going to be very hard for you to get it wrong. Pretty much any of the basses mentioned on this thread will get you through every gig you'll need to do.

Yeah I get that. I've just put a band together to do Fridays only. Fairly incestuous as it's the guitarist from my main band, and former drummer with our current drummers husband on vox. I suppose it took a few months just talking about it but once it was decided it was 3 rehearsals and go. I think using payers I knew and were still active made it easier.

Reading these sort of threads with interest it does seem to be that the guys who haven't gigged for a while seem to to have the most difficulty. Maybe being out the loop and rusty networks take their toll. Les

Didn't Yam do a P bass with the pickup the other way round ? ie E and A string section nearer the bridge ?

I bought an excellent condition Squier VM Jazz about 18 months ago for £180 with an ally flight case. It became my gigging bass. Just scored a second showroom condition one with a ritter gig bag for a hundred quid 2 days ago. I can't believe the quality of these things, they're about 300 quid new I think. Les

I still don't get it. If a bands busy enough to want and indeed warrant your commitment and you want to leave them to get a dep to scratch a musical itch with another then you're in the wrong band.

I used to leave a Snark on the bridge of my EUB for tuning and if I played when it was on it used to laugh at me, I swear the display used to come up with "REALLY ?"😒

Thanks for that, I've had mine about 2 years and never read the manual, didn't know there was a bass mode.

That was good and gets the point over. Great band.

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Thanks everyone, going to use them in anger at Fridays gig and I'll let you know how I get on.

Sorry pal, only just seen your reply. No that's not me mate. I know this unit is dead cheap but it's missing a trick if it can't deal with a mono input and put it in both ears.

Cheers, kinda figured better in ears would help Thanks Paul Did you make your own lead up ? It would be stereo to dual mono wouldn't it ? I've got a work round solution with adapters but it seemed so ar*e about face I was wondering if I was doing something daft as I would imagine most mixers would send a mono out from the aux.