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Thank you!

I think you’ll find that “being a hopeless case” won’t mark you out of the crowd here

I quite like it, reminds of the bands in the 80's early 90's I was listening too. Congratulations to them! By the way, was there a CD released? When yes, I'd like to buy it.

I bought a Porter & Davies board when the band I was in went all in ears. I did like the added depth and feel that it provided but, the band never got the IEM system set up properly and the whole experience was just frustrating. Also the board weighs more than my bass rig and is more awkward to cart about. I haven't used it in over a year now. I am considering connecting to to my surround sound sub woofer channel and popping the sofa on top and using it to add another dimension when watching films and concerts.

Hell Hole! - Spinal Tap

I like that, they've got a great sound. It sounds nicely recorded and mixed as well. I shall have a proper listen.

This quote reminds us all about the reality of what we do. We’ve probably all played venues where there is no sound check.Food venues are the worst, I’ve been told no noise until the punters finish eating and had to wait half an hour for ‘Uncle Albert’ to finish his pud on more than one occasion. The other issue is how you are amplifying the band. If most of what the audience hear is from back line you are pretty much stuffed in acoustically poor venues. You can re eq the bass , maybe damp the drums but good luck with trying to get the guitarist to make adjustments 😀 If you are silent stage and using a digital mixer then using your saved settings and global eq for the PA is the only option that makes sense. The room interactions are with just two speakers. You know what you are sending to the speakers is what you want the audience to hear so the master eq is the tool for getting that as good as possible. I suspect most people are doing something in between these approaches, some proportion of the sound coming from backline with PA backup filling in the gaps. In some ways the worst of all worlds. I’d still be using global eq for the PA though as a first resort, In the end you are stuck with the situation on the night and just have to do the best you can,

Ha! I have Lozz's Keeley compressor, which I bought from him 4 years ago. It's brilliant. Always on.

Ooo I love that! Well done sir! 👏 @fretmeister

Bass looks great, by the way! Had my eye on these.

Fair play Lozz 😀 Joking aside, it's really easy to set up a compressor incorrectly or so over the top that it destroys your dynamics, and I think it's because people don't understand what to do with them. And I don't mean that in a condescending or patronising way, but it takes a time and experience to get the best from them. With pedal compressors, my assumption people switch them on expecting an immediate and obvious change as you get with most stomp boxes and when that doesn't happen they either dial in up so it's clearly audible - by which point you've usually strangled the life out of your sound - or end up dismissing them as not doing anything. But when done right, it polishes up the bass and makes it slot into the mix more consistently. And it is more of a feel thing than a tonal one. For example, I was gigging last night and getting a bit carried away as usual and there's a few tracks we do that have large dynamic shifts and sometimes we exaggerate those from whisper quiet to full tilt. With the right settings, the lighter passages are uncompressed but as you dig in you can feel the compression pushing back and controlling the signal. There's still volume and dynamic shifts but they're controlled, I can dig in really hard and get an aggressive energy and while the volume increases it does so in a way that doesn't blow people's heads off. I mentioned my humble Boss LMB-3 earlier and this is what it excels at, once you're pushing against the threshold the pedal really adds something that I've not been able get any other compressor to replicate (a couple have come close, the most notable being the Basswitch dual band) the way it controls the signal and punches back at you, the bass still has the energy as you dig in but feels somehow bigger and more alive without too much of a volume increase. That's not to say compression is for everyone, there's lots of people who don't use them and that's fine too.

Those were the days; with exchange rates being favourable so many bargains were had (and foolishly parted with).

I am not tiny! I am still in. Truss rod adjusted last month - seems the saddles are at the lowest they'll go. Still plays well.

House of 1000 Corpses — Rob Zombie

Of course it is. "And a very profitable Thanksgiving to one and all" said Tiny Tim