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Booked to play outdoors on the Prom at Girvan Beach but Ayrshire's beautiful bank holiday weather meant a late change to indoors. A local youth facility premises with a cosy yet lively atmosphere. Max capacity is 100 souls and it was full. Band mascot Roger approved.

Here's a whole song from our last gig at Going Feral Festival...

Popped round with Mrs Scrumpy to pick 'yorks5stringer' Keith's stuff up yesterday. Spent a very pleasant hour or so drinking tea with wife Anna and daughter Loren in the garden. Haven't had a proper sort through yet but - apart from the Markbass cab already sold to neepheid, the only items of substance in terms of sales value seem to be a couple of nice gig bags and a mic stand. I'll try and sell those at the Bash and put the rest in the raffle, which Anna has said it's OK to do. Anna has given me some words she'd like shared with the Bashers, which I'll either read out, put on display, or both.

Stumbled on this - Thomas Dolby's the making of SBMWS. I always admired Dolby, and he always seemed like a genuine human being, as well as a fabulous composer. Has a great sense of humour too, IMO

loving the big ehx muff!! I may have got a second on the way to do some mods on!!

I have no shame asking as I'm not that knowledgable and would miss obvious things that other people who know more would immediately spot. In return, I can advise on all sorts of useful things such as public sector procurment, contract law as it pertains to G-Cloud contracts, delivery of complex IT projects, C/Perl programming and Unix kernel development, 3d printing and coaching girls rugby teams. A rich source of information that apparently nobody has any interest in whatsoever Rob

I have a problem... Had an unexpected gear sale, so was debating the cali76 cb or expresses compressors. Decided to take a punt on the completely original Demon FX Call76 first though with the huge price difference! Opinions will be on another thread, but I think it's a keeper!

For that money you can have my 1961!

What this has taught me, is that before I buy, check with people here about their thoughts and also if a guitar price is too good to be true, it may be too good to be true. Rob

Neither can I but it doesn’t stop me 😁

I quite enjoy a good covers band , but i always end up more interested in the gear they are using. Can't help it, GAS never sleeps

Duo gig Sunday afternoon left me with a mild back ache. 3 hours standing playing bass and vocals, with a short break in the middle. 40 songs. I guess I’m getting old. I used to that and more without any problems when I were a younger lad. Great receptive crowd made it for us though.

School reunion party at Ludlow Brewery. Great seeing all those faces from my youth and chatting to people desperately trying to remember their names😊 We played pretty well ...a few fubars but no-one noticed Pic of sound check - hence no drummer

It's a great pair with the Mustang.

Wheat home Alfafa. Leonard Skinner ive taken it too far

Here Comes The Grain Again ～ Eurythmics

Don't pooshit, Don't force it - Leon Hayward

Used both Jnr. and Snr. this weekend. Adore them both.

It’s becoming clearer that you have two issues to address but only one problem. The first is that nobody can really hear what they are doing and the second is acoustic feedback. The first is caused by too much sound at their ears and the second by too much at the mics. None of this is down to you, they have to change or accept that they can never sound as good as other bands. So addressing the monitoring. They can all hear themselves, if they were at home on their own they’d hear themselves without the PA or the monitors. With what you have they’d probably be deafened. The problem is everyone else being too loud. If everyone else turned down you’d all hear the vocals. It may well be that the guitarist is drowning out his own vocals, but the reality is that with stage monitoring you can’t alll be the loudest sound in a small space. Only one thing can be the loudest sound and the best way of achieving that is to all agree what that is and to turn everything else down. They won’t agree of course and the best you can do is to agree to all be at the same volume. The mantra has to be a consistent ‘you can’t hear, everyone turn down’. Nobody wins a volume war! There is only one way round this. If you can isolate your ears from everyone else’s monitors then you can have what you want. Plug your ears and make a hole you can squirt your own mix in. In-ears it is then. Im seriously concerned for your guitarist, with that level of hearing loss he needs to manage his sound exposure really carefully or his gigging days will be over, and soon. It’s also not fair to the rest of the band for him to expect to be twice as loud as the rest of the band to compensate for his hearing loss. Get him to wear a good fitting set of over ears at rehearsals if you can. It’ll prove that headphones will improve his guitar and singing without impinging upon everyone else, and he’ll be able to hear at levels that won’t make his hearing loss worse. If he doesn’t believe you get him to talk to an audiologist, his remaining hearing is probably already fragile. Im sure we can all give some tips about reducing feedback if you can’t get the so and so’s to turn down but this is long enough ’

I often ask advice here, sometimes by PM to certain people as I like the vintage fenders , there’s some knowledgeable and helpful people here ,I’ve met quite a few, and also they might see something that I’ve missed, which is easily done

HAHAHAHA ok, I went by importance, red first as they are more fiery and feisty, then blonde as blondes have the most fun and then green as they are green with envy of the other two 🤣 1. Frank n funker - Red Precision 2. Linus27 - Red Precision 3. GlamBass74 - Red Precision 4. grapefruitmoon - Red Precision 5. Delberthot - Red Precision 6. Phil Starr - Red Precision 7. Jd56hawk - Red Precision 8. Sharkfinger - Vintage Blonde Precision 9. ezbass - Vintage Blonde Precision 10. Odi - Vintage Blonde Precision 11. Uncle psychosis - SFG Jazz 12. floFC - SFG Jazz

They can challenge your feedback and get it reviewed and removed. It seems my Reverb report worked. Which is good news.

Added a second short scale to the collection, next to the Mustang. I've always wanted a Höfner Club and finally pulled the trigger on an Ignition SE. I have considered the Contemporary but I wanted a full hollow Club I'm really really surprised by the quality, actually. The finish is immaculate, the frets are really good and it sounds great. I did put some Labella flats on it.

Cheers all. I should’ve checked it properly before parting with £900. Anyways 3 hour trip later. I got my money back and very apologetic dude. He might’ve been playing me but felt genuine- I think he got ripped off first thanks everyone- kebab and wine waiting. Now on look out for genuine RW or might go 60th anniversary but don’t like pau ferro if anyone has a bass like this - talk to me I’ve got some cash!! love BCers are the best

Well - 2 guitar amps - I think its a 40 Watt Marshal Combo and a Friedman JEL-20/Marshall ?? via a 2x12 Marshal cab - so at face value not too loud. But they are ........... (My Genzler 800Watt Magellan via a 15/12inch Mesa rig rarely get above 10 O'Clock on the volume, but even that in small spaces is LOUD!) To put this into context - we use RCF 932's and a RCF 705 Sub. The Sub's just ticking over but the volume on the Tops is pretty much full at most gigs. So, I'm embarrassed to say we are just too loud! I've enough info to make a stab at solving some of the on stage volume issues and am negotiating within the band. Controlling the overall volume will come but it'll take a while. I'll check out the Paul White pocketbook - thanks.

I initially wondered if your drummer not turning up to the sound check was a regular occurrence....

Blimey were having an auction already 😁

The Wheat Is Taboo ～ Sade

Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo - South Park

Love his work with prefab sprout.

That's great. You can the overlap between punk and Hawkwind.

@Bobb You already have a variable HPF and plenty of EQ options - I would do a few gigs with that gear first and see how you get on. No need to buy more gear preemptively. Good clip here of John Patitucci talking through how he sets up his amp: https://youtu.be/sNQclaAmyX8?t=85 What style of music is it (which requires grind and drive)?

I object to your choice of ranking. Could have gone alphabetically, chronologically or sorted by colour but nooooo...

You'd be so disappointed if you opened the wrong case. First world problem.

Click seller reviews and scroll down and there’s a report listing to reverb option

Phew

That’s poly paint, not nitro

That doesn't look like an official roadworn to me, sorry. The ones I've seen certainly don't have "craters" like that where the paint wear is. I'd say that's been (and I'm being polite), f*cked around with by someone at home. Possibly Stevie Wonder?