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Might one of those sound hole stoppers help with the acoustic? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Waves-Screeching-Acoustic-Soundhole/dp/B0010SHU18

I use my WS-50 at an open mic night - plug it in and switch it on about 8:15pm and turn it off about 11pm. I've also used it for various gigs where it's switched on for 3 hours or so, and used to use it in rehearsals with one band where I'd use it for two 3-hour rehearsals on one charge. Looking at the Amazon specs, the WS-50 was released in 2019 and the WS-90 in 2022. Mind you, the WS-90 still has micro USB on it which is a slight annoyance with the WS-50, especially as the MS-1 IEM wireless is USB-C so they can obviously do it if they try. I suspect that the shorter range and the longer battery life are related. The WS-90 does have four switchable channels which would be useful if more than one band member was using them, and possibly would be useful if there was interference on one channel.

I think it boils down to the engineer aspect being the recording of the instruments and voices, and the producer aspect being putting them all together in a pleasing way. Both may be subject to a degree of interference by the musicians involved, especially the latter.

And there's bad-tempered tuning, when the guitarist sulks because he's been told he's got to use the digital tuner too.

Should have mains cable or bell wire at Home Depot.

PS. If making your own, you need to make sure the leads are connected with the same polarity. So the tip of one plug must be connected to the tip of the other plug - easy if you've got cable with (say) one red and one black core.

Can't see any Speakon sockets on the back of the amp, difficult to make out the recess in the speakers but I don't think there were Speakons in there either. You could probably manage right-angle jacks at the amp end but the speaker ends would almost certainly have to be straight jacks. It might be easier to have straight jacks at both ends if you're using thick wire. Bell wire or mains cable will do the job.

I meant along the lines of "how good do you think we are?", which I cringed internally at when Mrs Zero asked it of one engineer/producer (I'll stop saying "cum", it evidently evinces a strange reaction in those without the benefit of a grounding in Latin).

No you haven't. I may not know you but I have read your posts. Not taken in by your fake pearl-clutching.

FTFY.

"I only have one instrument cable so I'm in the market for a couple more." Didn't they teach you to always read the question fully before answering?

Back to studio etiquette, and I would say that asking the engineer-cum-producer ( @cheddatom - how do you refer to yourself?) to give an opinion of your band is bad form. If the opinion is offered, fair enough (after all, they're not going to say you're shit so if they give an opinion, it's going to be good).

Indeed, a troll trolling a troll.

Nobody has mentioned whoever played bass on "I'm still waiting" yet, even though he/she plays an awful lot of notes.

Pack away gear - as I am also PA man, getting all the leads into the case probably takes most time. By the time I've packed up my stuff, the guitarists are fully packed away and the drummer mostly done, so they help with the load out to the car. Then home and some alcohol. I do drink some alcohol at gigs most of the time, but no more than two pints and quite often just one. I still get the post-gig buzz.

Which would work, except that the official abbreviation of kilogram is kg, not KG, which would be Kelvin Gauss.

Just go wireless.

Indeed. I got as far as Bakithi Kumalo (whose playing on Graceland I absolutely love) and decided to give up (unless Daryl Jones was after him, in which case that's how far I got). They sound far better in context. This reminded me of

I just look at the rack, there's a couple in there. I use roundwounds on my fretlesses. Even using stainless strings, there is a bit of marking on the fingerboards but no serious wear.

How is saying that some people can't or don't use digital tuners dissing classic tunes? You really are making several mountains out of a grain of sand, just because you use a pitch pipe (oh f*cking la de da).

And funny!

Looking after it for a friend. PS. This does require that you have a friend, so make sure you're properly equipped in that department.

We won't gig for ridiculously low money (we think we're worth £75 apiece minimum) but we'll do the odd charity gig (where we know the charity) and very occasional lowball. We're by no means precious about anything, and we are genuinely surprised when audience members tell us after a gig that we're the best band that's played there ever/for ages/since last week.

One of the Seis has just gone in for a refret and I'm not going to have it back before the next gig. Use one of the fan frets, or buy a Cort Space? Decisions, decisions. Then I decided I'd just use a headed bass instead.

Bergerac - some lovely fretless bass on that. Morse, and its derivatives - Barrington Pheloung's compositions and incidental music are tremendous.