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The toolbar buttons disappear if you are using basic editing mode - there's a little lightswitch icon on the LH side of the toolbar that you need to click to get into enhanced editing mode (where the toolbar buttons reside). Not sure what the delete problem is - as far as I'm aware, this section of the site should have the same permissions.

We rehearse a couple of times a month and generally agree new material via e-Mail and get it learned before meeting up. We can add between 6 and 8 new songs per rehearsal that way.

Yeah I watched this yesterday. Some interesting stories behind a lot of the tracks on the album. I never realised the bassist was English!

I think it has the component parts of a reasonable band but hasn't quite managed to gel as well as it could. Bringing in a new musician from a different genre is often a good way of injecting new life into a band. There's one blues band round here that added a rock guitarist to their rather staid lineup about 6 months ago and they're sounding really good now as they've all raised their game.

We only play a handful of pub gigs a year, and when we do, we use a cutdown version of our PA and use it purely for vocals and kick drum. This is partly logistical as we don't want to spend hours setting up our full rig for the sake of £300, but it also gives us an easy differentiation between what we charge for a pub gig and what we charge for a full blown function with a FOH engineer.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1409553558' post='2540703'] Yeh it's going up against the sr506, tbh looks are putting it ahead of the Ibby ATM [/quote] To be really frank, if I were choosing again I'd seriously consider the 506 (based on owning a 505). It looks a little plainer than the B206SM, but the weight is far friendlier. At the time I bought my B206SM I was swayed by a 'cost +10%' deal I was offered.

I've had one for a couple of years now and I've not been hugely disappointed with it. Nice wide (but shallow) neck and twin truss rods to keep it stable. Electronics aren't world beating, but they do the job more than adequately. Good hardware and a nice piece of wood. It was nicely setup and near enough playable out of the box and it stays in tune from one session to the next. The only minus things are that mine had a sharp corner on the lower side of the nut that made me wince whenever I managed to clip my hand on it (easily fixed with a file) and it weighs a bl**dy ton. Not sure how it responds to being detuned as I never work like that.

[quote name='leemarseillebass' timestamp='1409442212' post='2539834'] Thank you matey. I'm gonna have to get it taken in aren't i? [/quote] I reckon so. You've done everything you can do without taking the lid off and delving inside amp guts.

They're bridge saddles. Not too difficult to find 'Fender type' ones, but the posh ones can be problematic to track down. If they fall off that easily, try a dab of clear nail varnish to hold them in position (once you've adjusted your intonation of course )

[quote name='goingdownslow' timestamp='1409244684' post='2537936'] [url="http://www.speakerimpedance.co.uk/"]http://www.speakerimpedance.co.uk/[/url] [/quote] Probably obvious, but make sure you are using the 'parallel settings' and not the series ones if you're just looking at plugging cabs into your amp. Get it the wrong way round and you'll stand a good chance of needing http://www.whyhasmyampgonebang.com EDIT: Own up, how many of you tried clicking that link?

Never happens to me. At worst I'm described as a 'good bass player', my reputation tends to arrive long before I do and I'm pretty much given free reign artistically from day one. The only occasional 'curb' is some musicians that don't consider anything other than a Fender bass as being suitable. No big deal to me, I have a JB as a standby instrument for those occasions.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1409426229' post='2539649'] I'm in a similar situation- getting married in May, and definitely do not want to play my own wedding! [/quote] It's become a bit of a tradition for me...

I play several other instruments but I always gravitate towards bass if I'm given the choice.

[quote name='leemarseillebass' timestamp='1409126951' post='2536487'] It's odd that everything sounds epic and then it just drops.. [/quote] Not if you have a dry joint in there. The amp will be getting warm and metal expands when warm - add a nice low frequency vibration at volume to that and it's not so odd.

I never leave home without one. It takes up no room in my car and I like having a safety net.

This all kinda depends on what the motivation is behind playing. If you have a steady income from a non-musical career then you're in a much stronger position to choose when, what and where you play. I play to live at the moment and it is bl**dy hard, so I just grab each gig as it comes. Sure, I'd love to be playing every night and earning £500 a gig but if there's only a £50 pub gig available and nothing else in my diary then I grab it and throw everything I have into earning it.

Next time the volume dips, try the following: 1) plug a spare guitar lead from the send socket to the return socket (the switch contacts on the sockets can wear out). 2) 'Ping' the control buttons one at a time on the LH side of the amp with your fingertip - older Hartke stuff seems to have a tendency to have dry joints on that end of the LH end of the preamp board and a 'ping' can shake the joint into making proper contact again - albeit temporarily. Both of these are easily fixable but can take a little patience to trace. HTH

Looks like it's been leant up against a radiator over winter... ... just before an elephant sat on it.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1408878596' post='2534226'] Can the folk acts maintain that sort of interest..?? [/quote] The faux folk acts, I wouldn't have said so. The more established acts, yes, but only during the summer festival season. Cropredy pulls around 20,000 and Cambridge Folk Festival pulls 14,000 (the venue size is the limiter here). Like rock music, folk fades in and out of fashion, but it never dies.

It all sounds very much like the musical equivalent of vanity publishing to me.

Regardless of where someone is in the 'performance scale', they would have started out playing in their bedroom for fun when you dig back through the years. People don't start from 'zero' and immediately go to playing live. Some people make the transition to playing live quite quickly, some take a while and some never take that final step. If you remove those musicians who have to play if they want to eat, the correct answer is 'do what makes you happy'.

I've never done it and I never will. The venues will all expect a 'professional' performance to please their customers. I don't expect the garage to pay me for fixing my car, so why should a venue expect me to pay to entertain their customers.

I can't quite decide if it started life as a cricket bat and had bits added, or a bass that lost a battle with a chainsaw.

[quote name='E sharp' timestamp='1408395264' post='2529833'] I'm probably in the minority , and gonna get slated - but this racket , is pretty much how I hear most of Led Zep . I've just never 'got' them at all. [/quote] Me neither, but I'm very much a verse, chorus and middle 8 sort of guy. I have exactly the same problem with early Pink Floyd stuff as well.

I've always been out of touch. In the 70's kids were listening to punk music and doing the spikey hair thing. I had scraggy hair and listened to folk music. In the 80's the same kids were wearing jackets with the sleeves rolled up, listened to strange squeaky music played on sympathisers and had hair which should really have had planning permission. I had scraggy hair and listened to folk music. The 90's saw a surge in interest in Indi music and the kids from the 70's and 80's put on fake scowls like Oasis. My Dad announced that he thought 'Inksies are the best band ever' (he meant INXS ). I had scraggy hair and listened to folk music. The 00's saw lots of black clothing and the kids modelled themselves on characters from a morticians slab. I had scraggy hair and listened to folk music. The 10's got interesting. Anyone and his dog who played an acoustic guitar is suddenly folk. Any conversation starting with 'You'll like this...' has me desperately seeking an exit from the room. I got a haircut (I was having trouble seeing) and ignore them.