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[quote name='Mottlefeeder' timestamp='1468170741' post='3088985']... No-one has volunteered a strategy for quickly working out the key of a song... [/quote] Far from universal, but much music, especially popular songs, resolves, and so the last note or chord are often the key. Not guaranteed, but useful if there's no other indication. (Drummers often use this for finding the key... )

[quote name='bassintheface' timestamp='1468010521' post='3088118']... We were asked to play a short set at the end of the show as judges, plus Uli Jon wanted to play a song too!... [/quote] Just being a tad mischievous here, but would I be right in assuming that this was an [i]unpaid [/i]invitation to play..? Congratulations on the contacts made, of course, and good luck with the ongoing venture.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1468019907' post='3088194'] Available now from musicalperformanceaccessoriesforthelethargic.com [/quote] I note that you've taken the PC shilling and omitted the pouf as a foot-rest.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1468014143' post='3088168']... It's all so fast that you end before the page turn. Look here, AJ proves it from his chair. [media]http://youtu.be/tZOCdrwGch4[/media] [/quote] Thanks for posting that; a piece of [i]really [/i]good music played by [i]really [/i]good musicians. About time, I say; my thumb is up.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1468009864' post='3088107']...an understated billboard of the certificate during the men's Wimbledon final this weekend... [/quote] 'Understated', eh..? What do you do for 'brash'..?

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[quote name='lowlandtrees' timestamp='1468002966' post='3088038']...answer in one syllable words. [/quote] There is only one mic for all uses, but with differing mounting systems and cable adapters. One of these will cover all of your stated instrument needs. Sorry for the verbosity; hope this helps.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467996333' post='3087967'] Hmm. What if it sounds like Jimmy Chamberlin?? [/quote] Then there, too, you're doing it wrong. Think Charlie Watts, playing lightly, or even that most ubiquitous of drummers: Roland.

Some of us older folks dimly remember Vox cabs with Xlr, and Martin PA and foldback cabs with those connectors. Bose, too, had 'em... Speakons came later, but we've seen 'em all, from banana plugs to spade or fork terminals to bare wires..! Just sayin'.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1467983288' post='3087808'] I think we asumed that the xlr out from the passive tops into the active subs "carried on" the signal as if you were daisy chaining one passive top to another? Totaly ignorant I know!!! [/quote] Xlr does not mean 'line level' signal; on passive cabs it's a speaker-level (Martin's, anyone..?). Taking the xlr from the passive tops to the active subs is a Very Bad Idea, as the active subs are not wanting such a high signal, and could be damaged; the signal going into the passive tops will suffer, too, as will the amp driving all of this. Recommendation..? Have someone competent and experienced look over your set-up, and note how they say it should best be used. Set it up that way each time; don't 'improvise' without knowledge. Things can (and often do...) get to be expensive.

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[size=4][color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]And the winners are... Asambique, CamdenRob & discreet..! Well done, sirs. [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167486] Here, then, are your Winner's Certificates (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...[/font][/color] [attachment=222985:BC_Nood_Cert_2016_06.pdf] [color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...[/font][/color] [color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"] [/font][/color][/size]

[quote name='Agwin' timestamp='1467879602' post='3086862'] Eleven entries and only ten voters! Democracy in action - or should that be inaction (I'm one of the ten incidentally) [/quote] Sorry; that'll be me. Not well; I'll try to give 'em all a fair listen this evening (I have to get the Certificate done, anyway...). There's always one, isn't there..?

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1467561493' post='3084553']...the intonation on the bottom E string on one of them was out... [/quote] This is often caused by an old or duff string, on expensive as on more modest instruments. A string change may have fixed the issue, perhaps..?

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1467542734' post='3084360'] It's probably just me, but... whenever I see the word 'reliced', my mind interprets it as 're-liced'. As in, "the previous lice have all died, so I'm sending it off to be reliced". No? It's just me, isn't it. Ok, as you were. [/quote] That was lousy.

[size=4][color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]And the winner is... Mornats..! Well done, sir..! [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167486] Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...[/font][/color] [attachment=222565:BC_Chal_Cert_2016_06.pdf] [color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...[/font][/color] [/size]

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[quote name='Hide' timestamp='1467252543' post='3082296']... (hmmm... I don't know how can I embed...)... [/quote] http://youtu.be/AnDFHFvY0kk Edit out the 's' from 'https' when pasting the link into the editor. Nice video; nice bass.

[quote name='sebowden' timestamp='1467226639' post='3082141'] I have just bought a Selmer PA 100... [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]...There is also a 100V option, but I don't know what that means....[/font][/color] [/quote] The power of an amp is partly dissipated in the cabling resistance, which is why speaker cables are better if they're quite 'chunky'. When cabling over greater distances than just to a cab, however, it's very expensive to use chunky cable. Your amp, you say, is a PA amp; as such, it was designed to be able to power speakers laid out across a field, or all around a village hall. For these distances, it's more efficient to 'up' the voltage (and thus reduce the current, for the same power...), which enables long cable runs of lighter cable. The downside (there's always a downside...)..? The speakers have to be able to cope with this high voltage, either by having special windings, or having a 'drop-down' transformer built-in. Do not use this 100v tap, ever, unless doing specialised, long-distance cable runs with adequate speakers, such as those quaint Tannoy horns that used to be dotted around village fairs. Hope this helps.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1467148162' post='3081557'] For all those advocating going pre-eq...[/quote] The best analogy I can think of would be the singer. When Kiemsa were active (ska/punk/rock...), we had a sound man in the team who knew exactly what was required (he'd been in the team from the start, including the studio sessions for the albums...), and 'played' the console depending on the needs of the songs. A bit of reverb here, a large dose of echo at an appropriate moment, for all of the channels, throughout the concert. For a specific sound, from the bass, guitar or whatever, he'd do the necessary magic and it worked a treat. Yes, the bass was post-eq (and fx...), but there was still work going on at the desk. If one has a dedicated sound man, I don't see any problem. Things are different if there's someone on the console that knows nothing of the repertoire, or even the style of the band before sound check (if there even is a sound check..!). I've done this in the past, and there's no way that I could know if the bass (or anything else...) was what the band wanted to public to hear, or when the singer was going to chat to the public, and needed the fx cut. All I could do would be to get the best sound FOH that I thought best fitted what I heard, often for the first time, and 'live'. If the bass sounds bad (to me...) I'd correct it as best as I could. There's no accounting for tastes, and doubtless my mixing (or anyone else's, in the same circumstances...) could be less than optimum, but that's the price one pays for not touring with one's own rig, riggers and sound bloke. Same for lights (I've done years of that...); when is a blackout to be used..? When to 'spot' a soloist..? When does the tempo change..? One gets used to it, but it's not the same as having an experienced team that know the ropes. A clean feed is a minimum in that case, plus a mic on the cab if possible, and mix 'em. That's my recipe, anyway.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467146277' post='3081541']... Edit: Drummers who have decided to become members of this board are perfect in every way, of course. [/quote] ... or would be, but for their enormous modesty.

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[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1467122863' post='3081319']...which means a 15w light at 12v is 1.25 amps... [/quote] Your maths is right; each lamp will draw 1.25 A, so you'll be needing either an 1.5 A psu for each lamp, or a single psu able to support a minimum of 2.5 A. Running both from the 1.5 psu will overload it, and could cause trouble. It would be normal to have a little bit of margin, so I'd say a 3A psu would be better if you're running both from the same one. On the other hand, separate psu's would be more 'fail-safe', and could make for better cable runs.

[quote name='butlerk02' timestamp='1467061456' post='3080951'] OK. Thanks guys. Still no idea how much to sell it for [/quote] A very quick search on Ebay UK shows me one similar to yours (G12/75's...) which sold for around £250, and another newish-looking one with unspecified Celestions, in Spain, sold for £715. I'd put yours in between, probably more towards the lower figure; it then depends on how urgent a sale you need, whether you can ship (they're quite popular in the States...) and how much, if anything, you want to get as 'profit' from the cab. We don't know what you paid for it, of course, which may influence your costing.