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I recently made some speaker cables because of all this talk about burning patch cables. I used mains cable because for whatever reason I have a big reel of the stuff. My problem is that the cable is so chunky I couldn't possibly get it to fit into a standard jack plug, and my cables (which work perfectly) are covered in insulation tape at the end, rather than a nice silver jack. Anyone know where I can get bigger jacks?

Hah, I know Screwloose really well, and they toured with Everything on Red before. Sounds like a good gig! Shame it's 2 hours up north.

[quote name='gnasher1993' post='903001' date='Jul 23 2010, 11:30 AM']It's a great pedal. Absolutely hopeless (IMO) in a band setting as it sounds quite digital and thin but great for noodling at home.[/quote] If you had it on a seperate effects chain it could be more useful? I'd use it to create textures to play over, and I wouldn't necessarily need much low end from that, but I suppose if you fancy doing big bassy drones, you'd need that.

I watched a video of the freeze the other day. I really want one!

I bought a mic from Sean. I say bought, but it was one of those very generous "pay the postage and you can have it" deals. Anyway, he was a pleasure to deal with and the mic made it here safe and sound

If you want to make a carear out of playing all sorts of sessions then obviously you need to be versatile. If you want to make a carear ou of playing your own weird music, then versatility is clearly not needed. I suppose your point would be that versatility can't hurt - like reading music. You can't really argue with that.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='900395' date='Jul 20 2010, 07:34 PM']Yeah I love playing to younger crowds. The two bands on before us last week were all 16-19 year olds and their crowd were all packed up against the barriers for our set too.[/quote] Fiendish. Our bassist is a 6th form teacher so we always get young mental crowds. We played at his school last night to a load of 15-18 year olds in the school hall. The hall was a bit too big for 60ish kids, but it was a fun gig! The lighting guy was having some fun, but I must have sweated 2 litres - probably the hottest stage i've been on.

I'm not bothered about being versatile - I don't want to play covers or sessions. However, the things I do want to play often require versatility, so while I think of myself as having a bit of a style, that style means quite a bit of slapping, fingering, picking, playing chords, playing very high up, and using a f*** load of effects. That pretty much covered all the techniques mentioned in this thread, but I wouldn't call myself versatile at all. How did you like reading that load of pointless sh*te?

I used to use my pedalboard case to create a shadow over my board.

What's your ashdown? It might be worth getting a cab to add to that as an extension, then getting a more powerful head when you can afford.

Happy Birthday! That looks like one meaty present.

I bought a power amp and headphones from Andy. He had them to me within 3 days of payment!! Pretty damn impressive. They were really well packed and work fine, and he's a pleasure to do business with. In fact i'm waiting for a set of mics i've just bought from him too. An all round great BC seller.

just make sure there's a load on your LB

[quote name='Colledge' post='893759' date='Jul 13 2010, 02:27 PM']there are quite a few amps out there with a poweramp in.[/quote] Heh, yeh, just a few!!!

[quote name='BluRay' post='893441' date='Jul 13 2010, 09:15 AM']Thats really cool. I'm going to start linking some amps as soon as I get home Stupid question - but am I right in thinking that if you then took a DI from the LM, you'd get a blend of the two amp sounds to FOH? And can you control that blend somehow?[/quote] It wouldn't be a blend, it would be the sound of the LB driving the LM, a signal in series, not parallel. You might get some interesting distortion by driving the LM but I doubt it!

if the amp has more than one input (lots of active and passive, hi and lo) or an effects return, you could plug your CD player into one of these and it will just mix with your bass sound.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='892768' date='Jul 12 2010, 01:38 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peavey-115-TNT-Bass-Amp-Scorpion-equipped-USA-/120591577257?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item1c13d170a9#ht_500wt_947"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peavey-115-TNT-Bass-...a9#ht_500wt_947[/url] That'll do your Reggae and deal with volume but not light at all. No inputs either still that's what I'd get.[/quote] a beast!! You could plug the CD player into one of the bass inputs, or maybe the FX return. It also has a pre-amp out (I think) which could do for headphones.

We played a "festival" on Saturday. My bassist (playing drums in this) is a teacher, and one of his students put on a big 2 day thing at a rugby club with the help of his mum. They had about 100 tents there and loads of teenage types, but having spent £20 to get in, they mostly just sat by their tents getting wasted, not watching the bands. Nevermind, there were about 30 in front of the stage for our set which was the most they'd seen all weekend. I've never seen so many 6th formers in short-shorts.

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I never noticed because I never used the master volume! Each effect has it's own level which I set to match each other. I can see why a master volume would be useful though.