Dad3353

Quite certainly overkill for pub gigs; there are very few equipped in such a way, I'd say. Concert halls, theatre stages and festivals, certainly, but not much elsewhere.

Amps will have a sticker or plate on the back, somewhere, indicating the power draw from the venue. It's not the same as the rated 'watts' of the amp. No calculation required; simply add up all the wattage from all those stickers and plates. Tell the venue what that wattage is. Dividing by 220 will give the amperage needed; should be below 10A, ideally.

You'll have to list all of your backline amps, and what LED projectors you have, to get a reasonable answer. Best guess from me would be 'less than 10kW', if you're not using valve amps and only LED PARs. The venue want to know if their power sockets and fuse boxes can support your equipment safely. In days of yore, with Genie tower lighting rigs and multi-head guitar and bass stacks, special power outlets were required. If you're below 10kW you should be OK using domestic power outlets. Hope this helps. Disclaimer : subject to completion, correction and/or contradiction from others.

Free, but for the Hornet, it means inscribing, then installing yet another Downloader programme, which sends the download to the wrong place (as usual...). No big deal, but with so many otfits doing the same stuff, it becomes tiresome for a 'one-off'. Melda don't do this, it's a straightforward download, once inscribed (I already am, soooooo...). Just sayin'. Hmm... Melda seem to have joined the club, too, with an Installer. A bit fiddly, but I got it to work, after a fashion. Very clunky, though.

No need for any artifices here; I'm just glad to still be breathing and able to play. S'not true of every day, though.

Bass directly into Tascam US-4x4HR interface, s'all, with Reaper as DAW. Simple, me..? Yup.

I've heard much, much worse at concerts and festivals over the decades. Nothing to criticise, just keep going in that vein and enjoy producing your stuff. I give it Five.

I can't remember if he was the Cornish smuggler in Blyton's 'The Famous Five on Holiday', or one of Ratty's friends in 'The Wind in the Willows'.

I'll embed a new one here, just as a test... https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/kill-bass-9?si=77b9713301fb43d3915e3b7951f694f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ... and I get this message... 'The link could not be embedded because soundcloud.com does not allow embedding of that video.' Some mighty oddness is afoot...

Not only, but also... The previous months are no longer there, either..! Spooky..! My individual tracks are still there in Soundcloud, but there are no longer any Soundcloud files embedded in the Challenge topics. Unexpected result of a recent Forum update, maybe..? Any Admin thoughts..?

Phonetically I'd guess 'jiu jitsu'.

Eddy Currents..? Eldest son of Ocean Currents..? Isn't he in the Scrubs for short-changing the electricity company with a doctored meter..?

Variax guitars and basses take their signal from individual piezo transducers under the bridge saddles. Any instrument with this same configuration would do, I should think. There is no use made of the 'normal' magnetic p/u. Retro-fitting a Variax bridge to another guitar or bass would probably be the simplest route, I'd suggest. Hope this helps...

It may be illustrated by an extreme, perhaps. It's difficult, without 'modelling', to have a nylon-strung classical guitar sound like a solid-body electric. A folk guitar..? Similar, but maybe closer. A 335..? It won't sound like a Strat. A Strat won't sound like a nylon-strung classical guitar, either. I play mostly arch-top guitars and basses; my vintage Verithin will never sound like our Cort 5-string, nor will my 335 copy sound like my thinline Xavière, etc. No problem; they all sound good, but different.

Your hands are telling you something. Listen to your hands. It's longer-term counter-productive to 'binge' in this way. Play for a while (a couple of hours is fine...), then rest (go for a walk, make a cuppa, read through the set list...) for half an hour or so, then back to practising. Slow is the new Fast, and is the quickest way of getting things done.

I wear glasses all the time (when not asleep in bed...), this since the age of about 12. Why the question..?

And the winner is ... @AndyTravis ..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificates (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2023_06.pdf ... which look like this (but bigger, of course..!)…

Hmm... I gave 'em a couple of minutes, then left 'em to it.

Unbolt the body and send it to me and I'll spray it black, if you want...

Sara Gosset Art ...

You can't get a roller into a paint pot, either, but folk paint walls with 'em. Imagination, son; imagination. +

Brushes come in many sizes...

Line 6 Variax MIDI bass..? Or any MIDI-controller, nowadays. I sometimes use a Sonuus MIDI interface to play basson or cello lines on my bass. Is that not digital enough..?

This was our 'tour bus'... Public transport..? I don't think so...