Rosie C

That worked a treat - the socket was open at the end. Not easy but I managed to slip a small flat blade screwdriver in and release the plug. The plug looks like it's not been manufactured properly - mangled around the tip. Lesson to self: only Neutrik in future!

I swapped my Behringer amp for Fischer on the understanding that Fischer has a limiter built-in. I'm not sure whether Behringer amps do? I used Behringer for years with my double bass without any problems, but I wanted to use my IEMs for vocals too and was nervous about getting feedback.

I just measured and they're 18cm. My bass teacher's fingers are each 1" longer than mine, and it's a similar story with my nephew who is a classical guitarist. I'm a bit of a Ritchie Blackmore fan, and I'm sure on videos I see him using his thumb to fret on the E string - which must make his hands huge-normous!

Undertones "Teenage Kicks". I was about 16. On stage at a variety show at high school. The rest of the set was Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and The Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

Yes, it's exactly like the one in the photo so I can have a look inside. I will report back tomorrow!

I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem to this... I plugged a guitar cable into my mandolin, which has a Fishman battery compartment and combined jack like below - exactly the same as acoustic guitars. But now it's jammed! It rotates fine, but won't come out. Has anyone any suggestions?

I usually play bass guitar at church (of course), but on a whim this morning I took my guitar-bodied-mandolin instead. I arrived at church to find the band leader was absent due to the floods and I was the only musician with an instrument. 4th Sunday is an informal service anyway and we sit in a circle, so a guitar worked OK. We cut the hymns down to two. O Worship the King started off badly - I think people are used to the piano playing the melody, but also I've not done this before and was 'leading' rather than 'accompanying'. It settled down by verse 3, and the final hymn, Majesty, Worship his Majesty went quite well.

That's what I do - my previous band had no interest in IEMs so I went my own way. A Boss tuner with 'output' and 'bypass' jacks on my pedalboard lets me split the signal to drive a Fischer personal IEM amp with ACS ambient IEMs.

It can do - my policy has both PLI and gear insurance. I'm paying about £75 a year as well, but we only do a handful of gigs each year, and they ask how many gigs you do. I have two accordions, a mandocello and a PA covered - total value about £4k.

I've just done it by downloading the images in each post, then editing the post to use the version I've just downloaded, which tend to be about 1/10th the size

Not when a random store loyalty card fits the holder and leaves the air con running while I'm out 😉

It may be I've not learned to use it properly yet, I've not really had a chance to play with it properly yet.

My latest pedal... completely unplanned, I visited a friend who'd been messed around by a ebay buyer claiming the pedal he'd bought didn't work. "Here you have it" my friend said and thrust the returned package at me. Needless to say, it works perfectly! Not quite as strong a flange as the Boss pedals I've used but quite a nice sound. Since taking the photo I've invested in a Mooer switch cap.

I have an Orange Crush 25B (25W, 8") and not only is it fine for practice, I use it for playing bass at church services and it's fine (C of E, nothing too energetic! 😉 )

I've been with Allianz until recently - they seem good as far as their customer service and price goes, but I've not had to claim from them yet. But, they've just sold their musician's policies to another company but are still underwriting them.

True, and from the Boss website: "Wireless carrier frequency 2.4GHz". That makes it fine for practice at home, but I doubt our PA has a signal particularly different to any other (it's a Fender Passport). In a pub setting anyone might have Bluetooth active - so I don't have confidence to use it live What I'd really like is a multi-channel system which can send my mic and guitar/mandolin signals to the PA, and bring my IEM feed back. That would be so neat... probably exists for professionals at a price around what my car's worth.

It's maybe not as neat as it looks, as much of it is hiding in a hole cut into the pedal board. But is one of these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07D8NTK6Y/ currently out of stock but there are other similar ones. It takes in 18v and provides a bunch of 9v outputs. Here's a couple of photos from when I first built it where you can see the size of it...

Yes, EBS flat patch cables. I find them much easier to route, and on my other pedalboard they make the difference between 4 or 5 Boss pedals across.

An ebay buy - a CS-3 compressor to add to my bass pedalboard. Still quite minimal but it does what I need.

Congratulations and good luck with the adventures it will take you on!

I have a WL20 - generally works well, but if I use the Bluetooth channel on our PA it can drop out.

I'm not too bad if it's just plywood, PVA and screws, and sandpaper followed by grey primer hides things nicely! The cable is perfect, the blue fits in nicely.

OK, it isn't a bass pedalboard, instead it's for vocal and two mandolins. But with the arrival of an XLR patch lead from @Chienmortbb today, I finished it and I'm pretty pleased with it. Mostly plywood construction, set into the lid of an aluminium case. As with my bass pedalboard it runs from a Screwfix Erbauer cordless drill battery - about 6 hours from a 4Ah battery. The "MicMute" is new (since moving to a headset mic I can't just turn away from the mic) and there wasn't space on my old pedal board for it. The first version was flat, and I couldn't easily tap the pedals on the back row, so I made an angled plywood shelf. The shelf also helped hide the cabling and power distribution. The missing gap is in the hope that Santy Claws brings a Joyo "Oxford Sound" pedal 🤞 so I can take the mandolin straight into our PA rather than via my Orange amp.

Another excellent cable from @Chienmortbb - I needed an XLR patch lead at a particular length and with a right angle connector at a particular angle to finish off my pedal board and it didn't disappoint!