stewblack

First of three gigs yesterday. Last minute booking. Pub gig, odd set up with us tucked around a corner with a choice of playing at an angle to a large pillar or facing one of two ways, either choice meaning one set of punters watching us from the side. For some reason there was quite a few tipsy groups done up for St Patrick's Day - on the 16th! They were high spirited and wanted us to play Irish music. I advised them to come to my two St Patrick's Day gigs I'm doing with my Irish band, actually on the right day. So lunchtime gig in Oxford evening gig in Bath still to come. Busy weekend.

While we're on this topic, I have so many things hanging off my stand these days the thing is prone to toppling over. Are there heavy weight, wide based stands? Heavy weight as opposed to heavy duty I mean. Or am I better off just carrying a weight?

Thank you all so much! And @phil.c60 is a star

Does anyone by any remote chance have the CD which came with this book? Thanks in anticipation Stew

Couldn't bear his music so if I had a say always no. However I am a hired gun so pay me and I play.

Really interesting, thanks for sharing can't ever hear enough new music.

Life teaches me all the time. For instance I've learned that there will always be someone better than me and that I can't ever really know how good I am. So the second cancels the first. I don't strive to be better, or the best I can be, I don't want to smother my love for music under such pressure. I will become more comfortable in my playing if I play more often and with a wider range of people. So that's all I can try to do.

It's a bit of an odd one. Unnoticeable in a live context but a head scratch nonetheless

I must confess I hadn't noticed it until my little test. Interference from the light around the volume knob? It definitely diminishes as the volume climbs. i use the mute button so proibably never dropped the volume below the 3rd click before, explains why I hadn't noticed.

And the answer is....(drumroll).... Yes. It sounds like a very faintly dirty pot. Never noticed it before. I was going to say something stupid like it seems to disappear the more you turn up the volume but of course it just gets swamped by an enormous bass note. It is so like a dirty pot that I still think it might be but unlike a dirty pot there is no effect on the note, no dead spots. Just a very faint interference. Back off out to give it a squirt of switch cleaner. Will report again.

It's in the lock up but I'll get it out the moment this rain stops and do exactly that

At present I have 3. 2 for live work 1 for rehearsal. If I had every strap I'd ever owned on the other hand I'd have hundreds. Which has got me thinking. What happened to all those straps?

Any software anyone knows would bulk edit the rate rather than one at a time? I have sets for six different bands to organise... EDIT - looks like Foobar does it!

Awesome, I totally missed this

Thanks, I'll look into this. You may have saved me from going round the bend!

I gave my back a rest last night and left the valves at home. Gave the Bugera a run out as it was a new venue, entirely unmapped, so didn't want to risk finding stairs or an awkward load in with huge heavy gear. Paired with two BF 15" cabs my goodness this was a monster trouser flapping feast of bass. Flat tone, just the high and low buttons in, and pushed the upper middle of the mids (coincidentally almost exactly the same as I set up my Ampeg) and it was good to go. The only thing I fiddled with was balance between gain and master. Didn't want to be too shy on the input level but didn't want to drive it either. Once I found my sweet spot I was a very happy bass bunny. Got two gigs in one day with a crazy drive between venues next weekend and an open mic the day before. Given the speed at which we will need to tear down, load, unload and set up again, lightweight will be the key once more. I fancy this rather splendid little amp will get another outing.

Anyone use the Tascam GB-10? I'm particularly fond of mine but it has an irritating fault I can't seem to solve. Certain tracks won't play. The screen shows either Non-supported or File error. Sometimes tracks play in broken speeded up fragments. Now, I have tried encoding them as mp3 same result, as wav same result, different memory card same result, format and start again same result, rename the files same result. This happens with tracks I've recorded myself or edited on Audacity or ripped from cd or downloaded, there seems no pattern I can discern. Some work others do not. Oh and when the card is in my pc or the device is connected via usb all tracks play just fine. Thank you in anticipation.