stewblack

Anywhere away from the home is covered. Anywhere.

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1149990' date='Mar 4 2011, 11:39 PM']I have been wondering if I should get insurance now I am gigging on a more regular basis. Does house insurance cover the stuff if it's at a paid gig? Perhaps it would be best to get musicians insurance? (not that I class myself as a musician lol)[/quote] Entirely up to you how you do it but I just recommend that you do. My stuff is covered in the venue, in the car park, in transit to and from, in rehearsal etc etc

I'm sure this has been covered but it will stand reiterating. I share a lock up with my brother in law. He keeps classic motorcycles and I keep my trailer and speaker cabs. In a reasonably quiet location on a pleasant estate. Well it got broken into and being just after Christmas I had more stuff than usual in there to make room in the house for the festivities. To cut this short my flight case full of cables, effects pedals, microphones, straps, tools, ear plugs, torch, strings, batteries, fast fret, set lists, recording stuff, power supplies, gaffa tape etc etc etc etc was taken. Either it was too easy (being on wheels) or they got surprised or didn't expect to see such big heavy boxes but that was (thankfully) all they took. Now I'm a musician, and therefore disorganised, shambolic and utterly dependant on my partner for anything practical. In this case that means my wife. Unbeknown to me she examined our insurance a while back and discovered that my gear is covered under our hose insurance but not anywhere else. For a minor financial adjustment she was able to procure a 'contents away from home' add-on to our policy. Bear in mind I once caught a punter walking out of a gig with a very nice Strat under his coat belonging not to me but to the band that had just finished, it is all too easy to lose precious kit. I mean to say we've all had to leave stuff in the car in some pretty dodgy locations right? So as I say - get covered, if I wasn't then I'd be looking at a couple of grand to replace kit and that is money I don't have. ps she just shouted through to say my camera, mountain bike and all are covered too.

I'm back again as I have been a royal pain in the arse to Dave, demanding cables in a hurry, getting him to spend hours preparing quotes, changing my order as he goes along and all the time he has been calm, polite, professional and helpful. Also I have to say the new instrument cables are a revelation. Get his top of the range stuff you won't believe how good it makes your kit sound. So a public thank you to Dave who is helping me recover from having a pile of kit stolen, a further endorsement of his product, prices, efficiency and all round goodness. Thanks Dave I will never buy a cable from anyone else.

Just come back from rehearsal. Used my T1 through a Trace Elliot head - sounds of the 80's, lovely. That fretless looks gorgeous.

"cheap, nasty, horrid I know" The anti Behringer brigade have I suspect never once used any of it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I've always found their stuff punches way above it's weight and is ultra reliable.

I don't know any of the science but I've owned two Trace Elliot amps in my time and they were both obscenely loud compared with other amps of double the wattage.

This is part of a bigger picture. Pubs in general are closing not just music venues. As far as the 'what is local' debate goes. I'm in an original band based here in my home town and we travel 30 minutes max and I'm in a covers band based 2 hours away in Portsmouth and I don't have a limit on how far I'll travel for them.

[quote name='Chimike' post='968672' date='Sep 26 2010, 07:35 PM']Hi, Does anyone know the resistance, or have any data, on the 1980 sb1000 pickup ? Mine has gone open circuit, and I'm going to try to machine out the magnets and coil, in order to reuse the case, if I can. I should be able to save a bit of the coil wire to measure, and hopefully, the magnets. Bit of a long shot, but as far as I can see, nothing to lose ! Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks Mike.[/quote] I'll ask my guitar tech he replaced my SB pick up with a new one by Kent Armstrong in the end. But he might know.

Thank you both.

Guys and gals; I need to find a Toroidal mains transformer for a Trace Elliot AH200 series 6 amp. Any ideas at all where I might start looking? Any suggestions at all welcome. Thanks Stew

Turned up at a gig, set everything up except the guitar which I left until the very last moment. When I did go to set it up i found ... an old, broken bass from years back staring up at me from inside the case. My wife had been helpful and tidied a few things up for me. Aaaargh. Stupidest gear related thing I ever did though, was a result of my drinking (I don't any more). We'd done a gig at Swindon Town FC's function room and I woke up in the car in their car park the next morning. The first team getting onto their coach for an away fixture must have woken me. As I drove (yes probably over the limit) out of the car park I had to stop and pick up bits of my kit which marked a trail back to the door of the function room. Including my brand new Shure wireless rig in it's case. Miracle everything was still there not nicked or run over, I must have been dropping stuff, falling over wandering around pissed up. I don't need to tell anyone the moral here do I?

[quote name='Colledge' post='968268' date='Sep 26 2010, 12:57 PM']i finally got around to getting a set of earplugs. just went for the etymolic er-20's. will have their first try out later on tonight at practice. I look forward to finishing a gig without ringing ears.[/quote] I found they took a few rehearsals to get used to but honestly it is so worth it. Please stick with them.

I did the same thing the other week. Utter stupidity on my part. I'm going to buy a spare pair to keep in a different part of my kit to ensure it never happens again. [quote]But what sort of volumes are you playing to blow out your ears like that...and what about the audience..?[/quote] Can't speak for the original poster but in my case it's the drummer shatters my hearing. Nothing can be done about that.

goaround: I have a NA650 too so I am copying and pasting your post to send to my tech guy. Thanks very much for sharing.

I am on the move for most of my working day and a bass guitar is not an option. My other hobby is photography so I have my LX3 on me at all times!

Right, just back from picking up the amp. It was one of the two large capacitors had actually vibrated lose. The guy (who is the best in the West by far) said it was a design fault. They are vulnerable to deep bass vibration because of their size and placement. He has refixed and glued 'em up good and she sounds fine.

I'm quoting my tech guy's text message so not sure but it sounds similar. I had all sorts of horrible noises and distortions.

Mine turned out to be an electrolytic capacitor on the power supply - also fixed!!