Rosie C

Oh, thanks for pointing that out! 😉 I'm singing it on Friday to a packed house and now I have to remember not to get it wrong. But not remember too hard or I definitely will!

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14kg? That's fantastic. I believe my current 15" cab is 37kg which is why it's just for my practice space. But a portable 15" would be interesting... We were just talking about winning the lottery last night and I said one of the 'life changing' things I'd do was hire a roadie with a van to arrange for my gear to be ready for me at every gig, bass tuned, etc. so I just have to turn up and walk on stage.

Yup! I can't lift it without getting someone to come and help, and I did it despite the blind testing that @Phil Starr organised at the SW bass bash, but I recently bought my first 15" and the sound is glorious. Of course (for me at least) how much that is a placebo effect because it looks so awesome, dominating the room from its corner, I don't know.

The oldest carol I know - we performed it last Saturday and we'll be doing it again on Friday! Anyway, here is Steeleye Span performing it:

That's good to know Phil, thanks! Not that I'm likely to use it at a gig, but in our practice room, while imagining I am a rock goddess , that is another matter! 😊 Thanks too for all the other replies, I'll likely just set it to a mode with a single RGB value for the whole bar for now, to use at a colour wash at gigs. As Phil says, if I like it I'll get another for our other speaker stand.

If not the same then very similar. Yes, it can do a range of modes from 5 channels to around 50. But, to mimic the sequences I saw in the promotional video (think of a Knight Rider effect, with a second in a different colour running opposite) then I think you need the 50 channel mode.

I've been trying to get the fader working but I've not had much luck yet - I think I need to be more careful about which colours I fade between as it seems to fade the new colour in before the old one goes out resulting in near-white light coming out for a while. I might be better having 2 of my PARs on one colour with the other two black, then fade to a new colour on the two that were previously black, an alternate that way. 🤔

I share your puzzlement. My 'new' Trace Elliot cabs have substantial metal grilles on them and a 4"x3" brand badge obscuring one of the 10" drivers. To the uneducated it seems like they would obstruct the sound.

Yes, judging by our outdoor lights (10W lighting the alley by the back door, and 40W doing the entire garden), its 24x3W has the potential to be quite bright. I managed to find a user manual for it. The fancy chases that were advertised aren't really practical for me - they need 50+ DMX channels and that would be a nightmare to programme manually. I'm thinking just the 5 channel RGB mode and have the whole bar one colour and maybe fix it vertically to one of the speaker stands. Edit: when I DJ'd I had a USB-DMX gadget and ran the lights from a rack-mount PC with a custom computer programme - and it managed some quite complex lighting. But I ain't going to attempt to programme a 50 channel unit with my £20 eBay controller!

Nice! I've just ordered one of the light bars (below) which seems to be a similar thing to the vertical light bars in the photo. I'm thinking maybe in the first instance to lay it on the floor by our mic stands, but I'll have to see how that looks. p.s. please stop posting cool lighting photos, it has a real world impact on my bank balance! 😆 😆

My cheap generic controller arrived today. £21 posted. It's good at creating scenes. Less good at programming chases as editing an error in a chase is awkward, and it seems to automatically play a chase then move to the next one, rather than keep repeating the same chases as I'd expect. I bought it for a gig next week, though we only have 4 LED par lamps. I'm thinking to not bother with the chase and just have 8 scenes in the first scene bank for colour wash.

I had a pretty bad face-to-face viola exam, just after covid. I got a 'merit' but it still put me off doing face to face exams. I have since done a couple of grades with Rock School which I found to be a little less formal.

Trinity do some nice performance grades too. There are only three, at roughly grades 3, 5 and 8. You video 4 pieces and send it in.

#1 Morris band practice last night with double bass. We're learning a bunch of Welsh & English rugby songs ahead of a Mari Lywd and Wassail in January. There was much interesting discussion about chord choices e.g. F or Dm/F etc. as we have double bass and piano accordion. We also started on a jazz version of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer which I attempted on violin despite it being a couple of notches above my ability, and this morning my left hand pinky finger is complaining about overuse

I did look at that one, but it didn't seem to follow the version I was watching on YouTube...

I don't suppose anyone has a transcription (tab or score) for Steeleye Span's "All Around *My* Hat" ? This would help me recover from having forgotten I'd promised to learn it at the band practice before the one we had tonight!

That puts it into perspective!

True. I had an un-diagnosed dairy allergy for 8-9 months, including having to call for an ambulance at one point when I couldn't breathe. But the GP kept brushing me off saying my 'sore throat' was 'just a virus that's going around'. Being overweight compounded the problem of poor medical care of course. My best wishes for a speedy recovery to Mrs.Woodinblack!