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Plasterboard and power sockets all done. Being plastered tomorrow. Originally I was going to dry line and paint it but I just thought if I got it plastered the finish would look nicer, it'd be less hassle for me as I've never done taping and jointing before and it's pretty time consuming. Managed to get a reasonable price for the plastering too so happy days!

Is that considered small? Asking for a friend.

Courtesy of The Joy Of Tech:

'Weak'. LOLz I think it's a great song (It's Let it Be, FFS) and I like the remix. If you like it, listen to it. If you don't, the old mix is still available.

That's Possibly my favourite Aswad tune, along with:

Another of my personal favourites. Reminds me of better times.

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I never have a problem with our singer. She's my wife so I just tell her to shut up. Then she hits me until I do as I'm told and turn the monitor up.

IEMs sound like a solution, but short term get someone to video one of your gigs and then get him to watch it. Then explain that everyone in the audience saw the same and was thinking what a Pratt.

Fixed.

So one of the really great features of a pre 1996 Wick is the removable trussrod. That means I can - very carefully - graft on what will be the headless “head” without taking the fretboard off.

Not enough credit to @upside downer for the thread title. Way to go, sir

Seriously, if y see that image as pornographic then you should see a psychiatrist and then report to your nearest police station and tell them that you might be a closet nonce.

Ladies and gents its time to have a listen to these lovely tunes to decide on your favourite 3 Dont be shy , ask questions if you want to, but have a listen and place your 'x' in the appropriate boxes the picture was chosen by me and is in fact the toilet door of a pub/restaurant in the border town of Knighton The entries are as follows 1 Lurksalot I had a great idea about the door and what it could represent which is the initial point of the opening lyric , but as I based the rest of the tune around that I got a bit stuck , the main lyric will give you the gist of that! 2 @Leonard Smalls My "piece" (I hesitate to call it a song!!!) is an impression of who is in the mirror, and what happens when he's summoned. 3 @Nail Soup At first I thought the door was in a mirrored wall... so I based the lyrics around seeing a mirror Vs door as a metaphor similar to glass half empty or full. Also went for a more reflective feel in the music. 4 @Dad3353 There is a school of Science claiming the existence of an infinite number of Universes, in which, not only are all things possible, but all things must exist, somewhere or other. This is an illustration of this, whereby, in this Universe, The Monolith is, in fact, The Doordis, an invention of the wise Doctor Hugh, travelling through multi-dimensions in this strange craft. One might be fooled by its apparently slim profile, but, once ajar, one may see the inside, which resembles very much Windsor Great Park (yes, along with deer...). The apparition of this 'vehicle' in this humble bar is likely to provoke a reaction from the autochtones; they will throw bones in the air and emit whooping noises (just like every football night, really...). 5 @Doctor J I saw this as a doorway to the darker side of restaurant eating, where items not fit for any printed menu wait within for the more adventurous gastronaut. You takes your unlabelled grey meat and go where it takes you, with more than just the taste of regret in your mouth. 6 @Nicko This song is about those people that you meet that show you a false front - and you never know what is behind the facade. I wanted to get a grungy feel - not sure if I quite got there. 7 @upside downer All this talk of mirrors and toilet doors is a mile away from where my befuddled brain has led me. My take on the picture is that the door is a portal to a fantasy dining experience with a famous face from the afterlife. I join @Nicko in eschewing all that autotune malarkey so you'll just have to deal with my somewhat odd attempt at an Ian Dury style vocal which veers into Danny Dyer territory at some points. There we have it , great fun in these, quality inspiration from a toilet door! the voting will close midnight on 31st August good luck all

Every couple of days someone post a topic about 'what lightweight cabs should I get'. So I decided to help people and put up a (almost) complete list of what's about. The link below covers the brand, the most popular cab sizes (1x10, 2x10, 1x12, 2x12, 1x15 and 4x10) and NOW EVERY RANGE! I've also put Watts and ohm rating in there, as well as tweeter/horn inclusion, just to be extra nice. If there's anything missing or incorrect let me know and I'll update it. Enjoy! *Every current range has been added. Please let me know of any mistakes **info needed on tweeters functionality, fixed, on/off, multilevel https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GFuEsRKhs0CZcp3GrN_lzr8Ey1uB1YOi32_lS7RoHEQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

The power of BC - love it! More of this, less of that shouty bollox.

I think there’s a few Ramones fans here, you might be interested in recording program on sky arts at 00.15 tonight, Punk, the ramones visit London

Found it! As ever it was in the last place I looked. PM me your details and I'll bung it in the post.

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I thought I'd just do an update with a bit of a review. I've had a couple of months with the M18 and I'm really happy with it so far. The first thing to say is that the sound is superb, the mic pre's work really well. We are using decent mics Sennheiser 935's and Shure Beta 58's plus a £200ish EV and the quality shouts out at this level. The learning curve is really short, we had a mix up inside an hour and a day later I had set up a mix for my second band based on what I'd learned from the first and at rehearsal it worked first time, I barely had to touch levels and didn't need to touch anything else. The phone app for mixing your own monitor mix is faultless and it's all just so easy. Some nice bass sounds using the supplied emulators too but I'll stick to using my Zoom for the time being. No dropouts at all with the built in router and I can still mix two rooms away way, better connectivity than anything else in this 400 year old house. I've yet to report any niggles so far. I haven't had a chance to use it at a gig, we've either had hired PA or been cancelled at the last minute but I'll report back when I have.

Bit of easy listening here with a bit of a jazz feel , Tommy McCook

I received an email from John Hay and called him for more info about the endpin. It is available for $200 US and the email address that I posted earlier from another source is incorrect, you can reach him at [email protected].

I sing with foam ear plugs in. That way I sound louder in my own head. Not a lot needed in the monitors then.

Last shout guys and gals , I am travelling back from holiday today, so I’ll do the vote thread this evening , Mrs Lurks wanted a few more days but I had to remind her that 14000 Basschat members were desperate to cast their votes!

This should settle it!

Great looking 1987 Kramer NS2 for sale on TalkBass . $3700 .

I would have paid good money to be in the room when someone told Dave Grohl about it 😂

No, but the car's exhaust pipe wasn't on display so it wasn't pornographic.

According to another article referenced in the above, he recreated the photograph 5 years ago and allegedly suggested to the photographer that he, Elden, should be naked. "I said to the photographer, 'Let's do it naked.' But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts," Spencer told the New York Post. Money-grabbing twot

I've done it! I qualified although it's been many years since I earned my living from music. I still have a 25 year old pair of custom ER15 earplugs, but they might just be past their best. Just need to book the he appointment now. Thanks for this. Appreciate it.

They're acoustic plasterboards that are up there now (that was no fun lugging 40kg plasterboards through the house into the garden on my own!) and there's acoustic Rockwool behind them. Then there's the cavity wall behind that so I'm hoping that will block most of the sound. The ceiling has a double skin of plasterboard and is sealed with acoustic sealant. I plan on putting bass traps in as well as some acoustic panels along the walls and ceilings. I'm also toying with the idea of doing a vocal booth if the results on vocals aren't satisfactory.

Here's a test I did a couple years ago. I owned a pair I'd Aguilar 1x12s for a short time and a tested these against a pair of a mate's Barefaced 1x12s and my Big One. Hands down the both Barefaced set-ups won that shootout on all counts; they had more if the tonal characteristics I was chasing and were just more exciting compared to the Aguilar units. That said, there was little between the two Barefaced 1x12s and the Big One and not enough to for me to consider shelling out for a pair, so I sold the Aguilars and stuck with the Big One until last December. The Darkglass (IMO) suits me better than Big One, but there's not much in it.

I can feel the punch from those two hitting me in the back from here!

Easy solution now you have a digital desk - compressor insert on his channel set for fast attack and a high ratio with the threshold set so it isn’t quite activating on his soundcheck loudest level. He can turn up as much as he likes after that and it won’t get any louder.

Worth giving a set of IEMs a go - there are some fabulous units out there I'm sure, but our singer/keytar player and I both use fairly basic LD Systems ones with KZ ZS10 earbuds (and decent foam earpieces) and they certainly work well enough to be useful and do the job well in the 'pub rock' environment. I also sometimes do the frowned upon 'one in one out' (keeping the 'one in' on the drummers side helps!) Or just pop one in and out every now and then to get a bit of a reality check. We always mic all the drums btw which is obviously important. The guitarist and drummer still prefer a small monitor, but both really like being able to mix this just for them via the digital app. They are all more techy than me but even I can get my own mix ok. One of the biggest benefits is that you are definitely less battered at the end of a night.

Well my vote goes with 2x112's. More convenient to only have to carry one for small gigs, and still easier to transport than a single 2x12 should you need a second one for larger gigs. Plus the vertical stacking thing gives you a much better sound in your ears than a 2x12 firing at your ankles. That was my reasoning anyway. Which is why I just bought two 112's. 😁

Yay! I made the list with my Ashdown Evo 112's. I'm officially lightweight. There's a first time for everything. 😆

Guess who has two thumbs and is now regretting letting his 80's L2000 go 👍👍

I'm already loving this Sandberg VS4. Satin black, rosewood fb with abalone. Superb balance either sat or standing. Nice wide fingerboard, but not full PBass width, 22 frets with really good access, flattish radius and (for me) the perfect string spacing High output passive pickups (anyone know what they are?). 30in scale (it's the strangely named "Lionel" edition). I'm a very happy chappy.

DeoxIT D5 for me too. Tried once upon recommendation a long time ago and only use it since then.