pete.young

Did a 2-hour set last night with Ministry of Mojo as part of the Dereham Blues Festival. Really nice venue but very small and dwindling audience, which we just about outnumbered by the end. Unfortunately the venue is out of the town centre and blues fans clearly didn't fancy making the trip out to the suburbs. The office:

We have a new guitarist joining the blues band who is a Line 6 Helix user and doesn't have a guitar amp. At home, he uses a couple of large studio monitors. I'm guessing we can take a feed off the Helix system and run it into the PA , and put some of the signal into the vocal monitors. Surely it can't be that simple? If anyone else is using a Helix system and has any advice I'd be glad of it. Do we use 2 mono or one stereo channel? Do we attempt to mix in stereo for FOH? (I hope not, I think it's mostly a waste of time having stereo FOH for the kind of gigs we do). What do we do about the other guitarist, who does use an amp on stage and for most of his FOH sound? Not looking to go in-ears or anything like that, but if it can be a catalyst to reduce the on-stage volume that would help me control feedback with the upright bass.

It looks to be a similar size and shape to my Epiphone Century, which fits nicely in a TourTech hard case.

Nice to see a Duesenberg Star bass getting a rare outing too.

Ironic, given he only seemed to be playing 4 notes. Dullest act by miles, landfill indie personified.

Thanks for that Phil, it looks really useful. I've not had any problems with BandMule crashing, ether on my current Pixel 6a or the Redmi Note 9 that preceded it.

Dont try this at home kids

i have a load of HOAL5 and HOAL7 pond cable somewhere, it never occurred to me to make speaker cables out of it until now. It's very flexible, and also totally waterproof so handy for those swimming pool photoshoots. I used it to repair umbelical dive lights which were a big deal before the invention of the LED.

I have been told that it is due to the orientation of the High-Mid driver. @stevie if you are going to write an explanation for @Sean it might be worth putting it on the web site. It made me think I was too loud because I could actually hear everything, instead of the sound blasting past me at knee level, and the band told me to turn it up.

That might work for people who can only play one instrument.

Yes, I've used it. It's OK but not brilliant. Wheres The Gig was much easier to use but they started charging silly money for it. It does some things that Google Calendar does not. The Availability screen shows at a glance when people are available or not for a gig, provided that people fill it in and stand by it. It does set list management and you can build up a library of songs that you can then drag into set lists. It has limited multi-band support but this may have improved since I last used it. If someone suggests BAND, run away. We 'use' it in the blues band, and it's worse than useless.

I have a Monza, which is the 10" version, it copes perfectly well with my 5 string basses and so did the Goodwood pre-production cab that I had on trial for a short while, so I'm sure the bigger driver in the Monaco will be absolutely fine. it replaced an EBS2x12, which wasn't being worked particularly hard, but the Monza copes with a relatively loud blues band. Not tried it outdoors yet.

I can't take any credit for that - I'm standing on the shoulders of the giants who also post in this forum! I can't remember who suggested it or I'd credit them.