tauzero

I agree with @Hellzero about the OBP-3's being too powerful. I had one in one bass (IIRC it was the Sei 6-string) and it was just too much, it wasn't possible to do delicate adjustment on it. I put a Delano Sonar in instead. I normally have the tone on the bass set flat but it's useful to be able to make a change on the bass rather than the amp. I assume you mean individual tone controls for the whole lot, rather than per pickup? The OBP-3 has treble, bass, and switchable mid - do you want three band EQ? You could also consider toggling between on, off, and out of phase, for those extra sounds. These would do the job: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113926665065

Our band started out as a five-piece. One of the guitarists, who was at least in his 50s, had decent gear and could play certain songs but had never been in a band before. As it turned out, he was completely incapable of learning other songs, and played the worst intro to "Paranoid" that I have ever heard. We persevered for a little while and then dumped him encouraged him to leave.

MIDI messages are pretty simple, each message consists of an initial byte which defines the message type, generally followed by either one or two bytes which are the parameter values for that message. For example, a note on message will have the channel number (1-16, which IIRC is actually encoded as 0-15) in the message type byte, a second byte defining the note number, and a third defining the velocity. There's going to have to be some sort of queuing involved, as sending two MIDI messages simultaneously would be a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately I can't be much help as my programming career has been 95% COBOL, with tiny bits of exposure to C, C++, C#, JavaScript, and Python.

One place higher than we deserved. I saw bits of an interview with her and she made Gemma "I'm a fan of the dictionary" Collins look like an intellectual heavyweight.

Specialist butcher?

Couldn't you have got more from an adoption agency or a particularly specialist butcher?

Oooh, good point. Sub Zero made a chocolate-iced sponge cake last night and I think there's still some left.

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/6-piece-screw-extraction-set-3---25mm/ I'm assuming that the Sire is clockwise to tighten the truss rod.

Why did they bother telling UK viewers not to vote for the UK song? Surely nobody with ears would.

Dear lord, what did John Lennon do to deserve "Imagine" being so cruelly murdered?

Right, size specs change to the same dimensions as my GR Bass Cube 800 (40x35x43) so I could stack them up, as I wouldn't want to get rid of my bass amp, not knowing what the future holds. The band is fairly newly formed and I'm the only one who possesses PA. I'd rather not have the hassle TBH.

All of them.

Next week's project?

A good point. The amp module appears to have gone tits-up though following connecting it to a power supply that provided 20V. Rather puzzling. Onwards and sideways.

Why is it weird? Due to a bad back, I don't want to lift anything over 10kg but I'll stretch to 15 if necessary. I've already put a fair bit of money into PA gear, sod spending a significant extra amount. And I want to be able to store it somewhere in the house. All perfectly logical. Alto (and I like Alto, I have a pair of TS308s): double specified price, 30% overweight.

Under 15kg and £200 and maximum of a cube 30cm on a side?

You could try a headphone amp: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001118099692.html - they have input jacks so you can play along with MP3s/CDs.

I'm delighted for you. I'm not a professional bass player. For me it's a hobby and it's nice to get a bit of money back for doing it. The price of your IEMs alone is more than I'd make gigging in a year. The PA (more accurately, my PA) isn't sufficient to put bass through and I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the money or provide the storage space or haul the heavy gear around or do all the drum micing in order to do that. Plus I'm not sure if the guitarists would want to give up their backline. So I'd love to go IEM with everything through the PA, but it's never going to happen.

For the amp, what are your intentions? Home playing, gigging? How much room do you have and how loud do you want to go? Would just a headphone amp do? I'm a 5-string player who started on 4-strings (there weren't many 5-strings around in the 70s). I can't see any problem with starting on a 5, and short fingers shouldn't be an issue - mine aren't exactly long. Look for second-hand instruments as well as new ones - BC marketplace, Facebook, Ebay, Gumtree, Preloved. There's a lefties sub-forum which it might be worth asking in in case any lefties have skipped over this thread.

Stop bringing facts into it. What we demand is rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

I hadn't noticed that missing D in the chorus before - must have been mentally filling it in. Will have to do that next rehearsal and see if anyone notices.

We should be able to find out soon.

Now deFendered - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275847466773. And somebody's bid at £99.

I never realised there were acoustic Bongoes.

I thought the intro on the "live" version was going to lead into "A Little Respect" by Erasure.