Telebass

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[quote name='NoRhino' timestamp='1496612185' post='3312758'] Point to your own ear and say "Sorry I can't hear you" [/quote] This, pointing out your plugs/in-ears. Usually works.

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Great thread! Although I have no truck with this idea of not playing this or that song. Playing exactly what the punters want has kept us going for many years!

Welcome! Believe me, that ambition is dangerously likely to grow! You'll have all the support you need to sustain it from here, never fear!

Howdy!

Very sweaty gig in Roche, Cornwall. But then I suspect every gig on Saturday was a a bit damp... Good crowd, good pay, repeat booking. Result!

Welcome! Oodles of brains to pick.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1495289896' post='3302759'] Hehehe..... [/quote] Yes, me too...

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1495275952' post='3302627'] I understand that more modern Tube trains (92 onwards) whilst using a 630v DC traction supply have inverters onboard as they have AC motors. [/quote] Indeed, but that won't generate the same level of interference as power lines. Some though, some.

Biggest hummer is fluorescent lighting. Tube trains as such won't produce hum, they run on DC. Clicks and thumps maybe, if you're very close...Power lines, including overhead electrified railways, yes. Some of the worst hum-inducing gear is in fact on big stages with large lighting rigs. If you want to get rid of the hum on your Jazz complertely...you can't, without mods. Making sure your bass wiring is correct often leads to big improvements. Shielding can help. Otherwise - single coils hum. Ye cannae change the laws o' physics, Captain!

All current NHS aids have two mics. That way, you can have a programme to switch off the rear mic, which helps a little in noisy situations, or when you are sitting next to a hard reflective surface - eg a table near a wal in a restaurant. The problem is, if you don't know about the different programmes, half the time they don't mention them. Even having the loop setting had to be done second time round for me. Although, bar a few limited situations, loop is pretty useless, as most place have crap loops/dpn't turn them on or don't know how/they are broken. My HAs drive me nuts. I hate them, and have had some amount of similar exprience to ivansc re the moulds. I finally ended up with moulds which have a cutaway and a tube, rather than the normal two tubes, which helps a bit listening to music. The 'music programme' on the aids is a total joke. Back to OP: aids out, plugs in.

Liking the shortie P and that blue Jazz!

Saturday's gig: shoehorned into the Rising Sun in Gunnislake, Cornwall. Hot, sweaty, loud! Excellent crowd well up for some raw, and they got it!

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[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1494074736' post='3293034'] Crusaders where quite lucky to have the guest artists they did fronting them - Randy Crawford, Bill Withers, BB King, Joe Cocker, Hugh Masekela. Wouldn't kick any of those out of my band! [/quote] Yup, works both ways!

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Randy Crawford was lucky to have The Crusaders as her band for that - doesn't get much better!

Great rediscovery!

Some glorious'Fenders' in this thread!

Friday: rather odd 30th party...50% bikers, not the slightest problem with that, they were great. Dance floor populated entirely by drunken women. There was the odd boob flash, and one entirely unprecedented, in my experience, example of a deliberate golden shower.... Today: audition at 2!

The Rock n Roll Outlaws is named after the track by Rose Tattoo, Rock n Roll Outlaw. Good theme tune to have!

[quote name='bigjimmyc' timestamp='1492890100' post='3283993'] Mmmmm. I have GAS for one of these now. [/quote] Definitely me too!

Whenever I've had one, the zero position was pointing centrally up the bell plate toward the neck, or I've set it that way...