Dad3353

Any good..? China In Your Hand (Arr. Hannah Garnett) - T'Pau (Woodwind Ensemble) ...

Well now, for the very first time, I've listened to a whole Rush track from beginning to end, and with no regrets, to boot..! Thanks for the 'heads up'.

Is this a case of 'Where there's a Will, there's a way'..? ... I'll get my coat.

For the few that don't know, or know of, Rob, take it from me that there is not a Gooder Egg to be had. Top-notch bloke. Just sayin'.

A splendid offer, but there's an extra 33€ for delivery to France, and it's not available on Amazon.fr, so I shan't be taking it up. Thanks for the 'heads up', though.

No-one showed Jimi, either ...

Only in Scotland.

Stripping a cab is the easy part. There's a skill set to be learned in covering with Tolex or similar, especially if there is piping involved. The 'easier' way is to paint with Tuff or DuraTex paint, but any decent finish will eat up any cost benefit from having bought the cab cheaply in the first place. Maybe worthwhile for one's own cab, but doubtful as a financially-viable operation. Unless it's a case of needing a new hobby, of course.

I'm not sure that that would pass muster, these daze.

Yes. The bass is plugged into the Zoom, which is plugged into the TC, both with standard mono 1/4" jack leads. The TC is connected to the Markbass cab using a standard SpeakOn speaker cable. Does that help..?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that you can connect those two together. The Zoom is an Fx, with no amp, and the Markbass is a cab, that needs to be driven by an amp. The connectors on the cab are SpeakOns, used for connecting amps to cabs; the Zoom has no such functionality. You will need an amp of some sort, preferably one with a SpeakOn output connector, to enable use of a simple double-ended SpeakOn lead between amp and cab. The Zoom would be plugged into the input of said amp. Hope this helps, and apologies if I'm wrong.

What is this 'audience' of which you speak..? ...

Mmm... Tea..!

Yes, I was using it more as a generic term. I think that, in time, and not so far away, even those stadiums will fade away, maybe even the sports they were originally built for. We'll see in the next half-century or so (well, some of us, maybe...).

I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned this, in decades past, but... There was a time, not so long ago, when roller skating was popular; so popular the roller rinks were established in every major, then minor, town and city, across much of the Western World. It had become an enormous industry, with its own galaxies of stars, local, national and international competitions. Times passes, and the roller rinks lose their popularity in favour of the novelty of Cinema, heightened when 'talkies' came about. This, too, had its day; many cinemas became Bingo halls, then carpet or furniture warehouse shops; there was a short period when slot-racing clubs sprang up, had their moment of glory, then faded away. Pubs and bars have evolved over the decades, too, with the piano in the corner, then pool tables, juke-boxes, 'live' music, karaoke... each making a bid for custom. It all changes, from generation to generation, and will continue to do so. What will the next 'fashion' be..? When will it come..? How long can the 'old' ways continue..? Some will not die out so easily (there are still folk hunting with kestrels for pleasure, and roller skates can still be bought...), but these, and all the others, become progressively more and more 'niche', and hold little interest for modern commercially-motivated organisations. It's nothing to fear, and is perfectly normal; each generation has its day, then its twilight. For rock'n'roll, it's getting pretty dark.

Nevertheless, there are only so many venues, days (evenings...) of the week, and folk wanting to go out and listen to/watch a live band, and a fair number of original and covers bands, or multiple genres, courting those ever reducing number of slots. It would appear that the butter is being spread ever thinner on fewer slices; this trend is not likely to reverse, in the UK, soon. Just sayin'.

Living in rural France for the past half century, never an issue with La Poste (nor, to be fair, any other delivery service, from any country in the world...), either sending or receiving. Just lucky, I suppose.

Or Baroque, Big Band, Folk, Free Jazz, Gospel and more. All of these, whether covers, 'standards' or original have distinct differences in the approach needed. The Venue World is not as 'black or white' as you seem to often imply.

We (The Daub'z...) are quite definitely not a wedding band; we play nothing to dance to (RATM, Muse, Space Oddity, Wish you were here, Radiohead and more...). We have a buddy with an events company; he often supplied the PA and did the sound for our concerts, with heavy use of subs, from his Disco days. He badly wanted us to play at his own wedding, despite our protesting its unsuitability. The day came, we were set up on the gravel track beside the main reception building/hall (so outside, using our own more modest PA...) When the time came, mid-afternoon, we were signalled to start up; after about ten minutes, the groom (our buddy...) came out to ask us to turn it down..! No, we were not loud (that's not our style, and we were playing outdoors...). We played a couple more songs and decided, together, that it would be kinder to everyone to knock it on the head, packed up and left, leaving the happy couple and guests to their revelries inside. We remained buddies, but got no more offers of 'function' gigs, to our relief. :-|

This correct, and Standard Procedure for tracking down and rubbing out all the traces and debris left behind. CCleaner helps with these chores, but chores they remain. Some considerable precious time spent trying to profit from the offer, and almost as much precious time ridding one of the consequences. There are other culprits, so these measures becomes routine, after a while. My IT career gave me enough knowledge to survive these installations, but not enough to get the Vst on offer..! :-)

Thanks for the 'heads up', but Failure on all counts. Download needs a 'sign in', which requires filling in a daft tiny questionnaire. Once that's done, a Connect 'downloader' has to be downloaded and installed. This does an un-announced PC reboot (luckily I don't have several tasks ongoing, but they don't know that...). The 'Connect' software brings in iLok, again unannounced, which wants to tie in with UA. OK, why not; this is becoming ridiculous. I finally get to the plug-in Download page, which doesn't download the plug-in, it installs it. Where..? Default is to the 'C' drive (where nothing is installed; I 'change' to my 'J' drive, where all my Vst's are, but this applied change does nothing, it still says 'C' drive). All this for an amp sim (I have real Fender amps, but... Whatever...). I think I'm going to have to forgo this one, and spend half the evening ripping out the stuff that has been installed, everything but the Vst amp asked for. Oh well, it was a Good Idea, but... :-(

I'd be very pleased to see my own 71-year old legs again. ... I'm 75. :-|