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My moulded plugs have now arrived and I'm in discussion with the sound guy for my main band about getting an aux line that I can control from my phone for my mix. A technical rehearsal would be good but I can't see that happening anytime soon. I was going to get 3 driver plugs from Mercury but they gave me a discount on 4 drivers as I had used them before for sound protection plugs I also experimented with using my Zoom H6 for an ambient line at rehearsal, and plugged my mic into it on an XLR splitter cable. I could also take another line to it from the DI on the Revolt Bass pedal and mix as required. As a quick check, the H6 line out into a Behringer P2 on my belt worked well at rehearsal as I could hear all that was going on and chat in between, so that shows a lot of promise. For live I'd need to think where to put the H6, possibly over the kit? Plugging mic and bass to that won't really be an option as I'd have no way of adjusting the mix on the fly, but possibly feeding the X16 aux into the H6 and setting a general mix between aux and ambient from the H6 mics at soundcheck will work. I'll also need to trust others for setting stage level of the bass, and soundguy to mix it in for FOH, but hopefully won't be digging in as hard as because I can't hear the bass on stage as I should have a line to the IEM's One guitarist is completely old school and will never go to IEM's and said "where are you going to put that live" after I put the H6 on a mic stand in the middle of the rehearsal room ... as if I was expecting to just plonk it on a mic stand front & centre for gigs

Had an expensive evening booking gigs at Trading Boundaries a week or so back. Next up there is: Graham Gouldman in July Barock Project for two nights in November; and Lazuli in December Hoping to make the Nik Kershaw gig in Brighton in October as well.

Wish we could have made it up to brother in law's in Ayr for the next night. We did a couple of years back and spent a while stood outside with the band while the fire brigade checked the building after the smoke machine set off the alarms Wish they could make it a bit further south. Had tickets for the Brighton gig (that was nowhere near Brighton) that got cancelled, so the last couple we managed were Southampton and GoR @ Butlins Minehead

Graham Gouldman in July @ Trading Boundaries Almost certainly Nik Kershaw at Concorde 2 in October Then two nights of Barock Project and one of Lazuli at Trading Boundaries again

Sad news. I heard it from Chimike a couple of days back when we were chatting after he popped by to buy the Mesa D800 I bought from Nigel a couple of years back. We had a good old chinwag when he came over for the sale. From the list above looks like he played in a band on the same circuit as me as well. Condolences to the family

A bit of Jazz Sabbath for a chilled bank holiday afternoon 😁 https://youtube.com/@JazzSabbath

A gig of two halves (aren’t they all!?) PA fine in the sound check. Went on for the first set and no idea what was going on…stuff suddenly really loud then gone and our sound guy having a ‘mare. Tried to start the first song twice, no joy so I just put the bass down and walked until it was fixed, sort of so the first set ok but I was not a happy camper. A break and some fettling and the second set set went very much better. Good crowd dancing and singing along. Alan a happier bunny. Slightly odd venue, large but playing out of a stage in the corner. Rather than stack the BB2’s like last week with a different & smaller band I tried them either side of the kit and at right angles to each other which seemed to work well

I ought to have another go at getting something there but have recollections of it being tiny from the last time I was there probably 10 years ago

Had just got up as I was off sick with a smashed shoulder. Turned on the news just as the second one went in 😢

Second night of the weekend. Twin BB2’s and the Aggie Tonehammer 350. Worked well and sounded great. Cut down night as one guitarist was away, but Max and I have played together as three piece so no great problem. Good crowd. Time for a rest now

We had fun reliving our youth and songs from 40+ years ago. Confused the hell out of some of the crowd with a set of spikey new wave songs in our stylie from back then - so sort of new wave but belying the eclectic roots of the band that listened to pre-punk and came out of a WMC club band that played country & hits from the 50's & 60's. Just three covers: "Another Girl, Another Planet" "Faithhealer" and "I Fought The Law", within a set of our 'classics': DeadTown, 9To5 (not Dolly P ), Melody Maker, Skateboard Love, Disco Generation, The Static, Bognor Boy, and many others none of you will ever have heard or be likely to you lucky things. Thankfully a crowd that included current bands and a bit of a school reunion for the other three helped. Supported by the old drummer from my main band's new band and got a chance to listen to my Darkglass + 2xBB2 rig that their bass player used (and it sounded rather nice ) Got through reasonably unscathed with the rhythm section holding things together with a nod of years together, and regular cries of "DON'T START IT TOO FAST!!!". Felt fast all the same but not as fast as when we were 18

Bought a second BB2 from Colin recently (WHY!? I hear you ask ... because it had to be done ). Popped up to try out and collect whilst away with wifey for a few days, having told her we needed to leave room in the car when we left and that we needed to make a quick detour and got away with it Cab together with its twin sound luverly Great comms and a pleasure to do business with.

Cheers Colin. Good to meet for the deal. I’m now proud parent to twin BBII’s and One10’s 😁 Anyone need anything demolishing 🤣

Could you put something like these at the desk end? https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/adapter-plug-adapter-cable/xlr-jack-adapter-plugs-cables

We used Alpha-Duplication.com and were happy with the results. Reasonable turnaround and price seemed on average with others that we looked at. Now we just need to sell a few more to recoup the cost I fronted for 100 copies

Dan just acquired my BF Super12t. Nice easy transaction and a pleasure to do business with, even if I miss the cab already

Lifesigns this coming Friday at Trading Boundaries, the start of a long weekend of music for me - 4 hour rehearsal Saturday day, gig Saturday night with main band then another 4 hour rehearsal with a third band Sunday day 😜

We ended up back at as it was with a couple of tweaks to get the board to fit, but essentially it is unchanged. Email from Joe Zon following up on a couple of queries as to how to make it fit Just waiting on a meet up to pick up the bass 🙂

…and cower at their grunt 🤣 Looks like an option to sit under my BBII for a modular 1 or 2 x 12 rig at 8 or 4 ohms respectively 🤔

...and no. My current faves are carbon fibre It seems most people don't notice the number of strings either. I have a 4 but all my other basses are 5's and I have been playing 5's almost exclusively for 10+ years, yet last gig someone who's been coming to see us almost as long expressed surprise that I had a 5 and asked when I had started that