tauzero

I've just remembered with the tales of people pulling out with not a lot of notice - I was in a trio which expanded to a 4-piece with a slide guitarist coming in. We were doing two gigs a week apart, and one rehearsal in between. So we did the first gig, then went to rehearse, and the BL mentioned a couple of minor things to the drummer, not by any means in an offensive of hurtful way. The drummer took umbrage at this and simply packed up and disappeared, leaving us a little bemused. As it happened, the slide guitarist could also play drums so he took over for the gig (impressively, he had no drum rehearsal for it but acquitted himself well) and subsequent gigs too, plus some of the recording of the CD that was partway through being done.

Since taking that, have you cut the string ends off or poked them down inside the tuners?

Thanks, that was the solution (scaled to 150%). Completely overlooked that.

And this is what the current version looks like when run on my laptop: That is the full screen shot. Can't resize it. So it's unusable on the laptop (1920x1080 screen). Nobody thought to test it on something that size? The "keyboard" along the bottom for note selection is horrible. You do have my sympathy as in the past I've inherited some pretty horrible code and I know what it's like. However, I had an email about the issue with size telling me it would be fixed in a couple of days and I haven't seen a new version turn up yet.

When I made a grille for the Plenty cab, I used perforated aluminium. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362491694497?var=631653707743

That's what sticky back plastic was invented for.

. Load of rubbish

I've just started using Alpine Musicsafe Pro plugs and they seem pretty good. The band isn't overwhelmingly loud, so the silver filters are fine. The sound reduction seems well balanced. I do have another couple of pairs that I can't remember the origins of which seem to filter out highs a bit more than lows - usable (I used them last night for some reason, I'd got the Alpines with me). And for motorcycling I use the Howard Leight MAX earplugs, which I haven't tried at a gig but I suspect wouldn't be ideal.

I'm using a Nokia T20 which is OK. There are a few Chinese tablets from Oppo, Honor, and Xiaomi which would be worth looking at. Also the Samsung Tab A9+ comes in at around £180, so a bit more expensive than those but gets good reviews. I may treat myself to one.

Quality is very variable but open mics generally offer a friendly audience. Some players improve through playing in front of audiences - Mrs Zero was one of those, when I took her to her first open mic night to do some John Denver standards she was rubbish but I knew she was better than that, took her along to the next one and she was much better, and she finished up fronting a rock band. However, it is a two-edged sword - one guy who turns up sporadically to a couple of open mic nights should have the mic closed (his guitar playing is OK though).

Maybe a quarter or a third full. It was a showcase night, with four bands on - we were first on and Mrs Zero was rather tired so we only stayed on for one other band. Our drummer was the sound engineer there until a couple of years ago when he started doing sound in Birmingham.

"Temperament" by Stuart Isacoff explains the history. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461

Recently joined an originals band - trio of keys/vocals, drums, and bass. The BL got us onto the bill for a showcase at the Arches in Coventry as the opening act. So, after two and a half rehearsals, we did three songs together, then the BL did a couple more solo. We got quite a few compliments. The smoke machine did obscure our drummer somewhat. Photo taken during soundcheck when he was still visible. Videos can be seen here:

First gig for us - just three numbers (well, we've only had two and a half rehearsals).

That happened to the vocalist with one band. We drafted in Mrs Zero as a temporary replacement who became permanent (and was a considerable improvement, in my totally unbiased opinion).

The more you do it, the better you get.

Ikea Ivar or Hejne, just don't put shelves in the lower part.

Quick summary - use a PC, get Facebook Purity. https://www.fbpurity.com/

A friend of mine announced on FB that he'd be putting a set into his bass. I read the description and said "that load of pretentious bollocks has put me off ever using those in any of my basses."

Last night was my regular Wednesday night at the British Legion in Shirley. Took the 10-string Dean for a change. Mrs Zero was feeling unwell so I got to sing and play guitar, which the audience suffered without wincing too much. Accompanied a few people, notably Blind George, who is blind, called George, and is a 14 year old rather good blues guitarist who will be doing a slot at the Upton Blues Festival this year.

It's not in Kansas now.

There's bound to be another one.

Don't think so, the spec says that the outputs are mono jacks.

And 1590H. A handy reference attached. Hammond boxes.xlsx

You may have noticed that further on down I acknowledged not having noticed it was a through neck.