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[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1470003052' post='3102669'] I don't think LEDs/LDRs would be able to respond quick enough to deal with signals in the 20kHz range? [/quote] I don't know what's actually used as the transmitting and receiving devices as I haven't looked into it, but as broadband uses fibre, something must be able to modulate light at frequencies well above 20kHz, and something else must be able to respond to that modulation. I think it does count as AM, incidentally - the carrier goes on at one end and is removed at the other end, otherwise light would come out of the speaker. But it's not something I'd generally think of in terms of AM. It differs from radio AM in that with radio AM, you rectify the signal to chop off the bottom half of it, but with a light modulation system, the polarity of the light wave at any given point is irrelevant, all that matters is its intensity. I think people who understand AM will know what I'm going on about, and it'll be as clear as so much mud to everyone else.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1470214463' post='3104072'] I think it's still fair to blame brexit if brexit is what has given companies something to hide behind. [/quote] So you wouldn't blame British Gas if it put up its prices 50% because wholesale gas prices had gone up 1%?

Brexit - the excuse for everything. The pound is down a bit against the dollar and euro - it recovered after an initial drop. As it's somewhere round 10% down, that is not the sole reason for a 30% price rise. So it's simply money-grabbing greed while there's a good excuse to be had.

How do you delete a "due to idiot" error?

My beater is a Peavey Grind. I don't gig it - I may do if I feel really really anxious about somewhere, but I normally take out a Sei and either another Sei or an Esh. But they're all better-sounding and better-playing than the Peavey.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1469826339' post='3101410'] Oh dear, Ive had a bollocking on here for something similar! Everything from the desk, don't connect any speaker to another if they're active. ie. use the 2 main outs from the desk to each top and then 2 aux outs to each sub, at least thats what I was told. [/quote] Why? Some subs are designed with crossovers/high pass filters so you send the signal to the sub and it sends the treble component to the top. Seems logical to use that, and the purpose-designed circuitry, rather than sending a less-controlled signal to the mains from the desk.

It's just plummeted in price to £2k5. A 90% price cut!

[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1468769708' post='3093194'] What's the best Lightweight Gigging Amp at the moment? I don't mind if it's a combo or a stack and I'm flexible with my budget. When I was last playing around 2010, most were choosing a Genz Benz Streamliner w/ Neodynium Cabs and I want to know what the favourite is now? [/quote] For some reason, no-one's mentioned the Tecamp Puma yet, so I will. Paired with a couple of Bergantino AE112s, it makes a jolly nice noise, and I'm very happy with Class D.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1468922527' post='3094276'] I think you need to use Trace if you want 'that' Trace sound. [/quote] I remember 'that' Trace sound - "nnnnnng nnnnnnng nnnnnnnnnnng ooomeback".

I've seen the MB150 mentioned favourably a few times by double bassists. I had its predecessor the 200MB (not MB200) and used it occasionally with an EUB, with good results.

In terms of the mechanics of the lead as a whole, and ignoring the electrical side, the screw terminal holes in Speakon connectors are fairly large - there's probably a slight advantage in overall reliability terms of having a cable core that fills a significant part of the void rather than a titchy little thing that the grub screw only just reaches. I was quite surprised when I took my old GK 200MB combo apart at how thin the speaker wires were - must have been about .5mm cores, and the wires are 25cm or more long. For something pushing 100W into the internal 8[color=#252525][font=sans-serif]Ω[/font][/color] speaker, that did seem a bit flimsy.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1469779950' post='3100953'] Sorry Blue but didn't you mean "hay"? As in hay days are those that come once a year and you have to make the most of them. Sorry but being of a family that had to gather in the hay by hand I have to pick you up on it. But HEY what do I know. Heeheehee. [/quote] A pedant writes: You're both wrong. The word (not words) is "heyday". [url="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/heyday"]http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/heyday[/url]

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1469747612' post='3100876'] Ah yes, that record shop was brilliant. Was it called Plastic Fantastic? Something like that anyway. It was there when I first started working at Aston Uni (2003), but alas closed shortly thereafter. :-( [/quote] Not Reddingtons Rare Records?

Asda and That Ebay.

I had a Laney, either the DP150 or PB150, and an Ohm 15" cab. PXed them for a Gallien-Kreuger 200MB which weighed about 7kg (the forerunner of the current MB150 combos). That did me for a good few years, only sold it a year or two ago (although I'd gone back to bigger amps about 10 years ago).

[quote name='gs_triumph' timestamp='1469609240' post='3099643'] I bought a Zoom b3 as an experiment last year... Couldn't get on with it. Too fiddly. So I bought a tuner, EBS multicomp and a multidrive from the for sale section of the forum. I enjoyed them so I bought a unichorus. I was offered a dha bass valvedrive so took it. Liked that for a while. Worked well in the house but not in the rehearsal room. Sold that. Bought a BassIQ envelope filter. No idea why!? Just fancied it. Only ever use it for playing Sir psycho sexy in the house as we don't play it in the band. In fact... I don't really use effects in the band at all other than a bit of light overdrive and use Chorus on one song . Which is why I have now bought a Two Notes Le Bass from the sale section??? And another boutique drive pedal off the 'Bay. [/quote] Now you're getting used to using pedals, time to experiment with another Zoom B3, or maybe an MS-60B. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1469385425' post='3097905'] Abba might not be your cuppa char, but Rutger Gunnarsson's bass work was amazing. Dancing Queen is a masterpiece. [/quote] Agreed, though it's my least favourite Abba song.

You also have the option of a MIDI controller keyboard and synth module which increases your possibilities.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1468999766' post='3094901'] They're all on eBay looking for a cheap LS-2! [/quote] Not me, I went wireless.

I had a bad motorcycle crash in 2001, including several broken ribs and a punctured lung. The soft tissue damage around the lower part of my right shoulderblade means that I can't generally stand for more than 30 minutes or so without severe pain, so to avoid the risk, I practice and rehearse sitting down. For gigs, a high stool is one of my most essential pieces of equipment. If my back starts getting a bit dodgy, I'll sit down during slower numbers - always try to be standing for the rockier stuff though, and of course I have to stand to go walkabout in the audience.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1469623431' post='3099795'] Were one's front-man correctly to introduce Hanging On The Telephone as 'A song by The Nerves' some beetle-browed inebriate would doubtless later accost him to 'put him right', possibly involving a punch up the bracket. The vast majority of audiences (or 'civilians' as we might dub them) will unhesitatingly (if sometimes erroneously) confer original performance status on that specific version of a song which is the first to achieve mass popular dissemination and through which outcome the song will arrived at the audience's ears. Perhaps they've got it right. They're the customers. [/quote] But there's additional complexity from doing covers of covers - if one were to do a cover of Joe Cocker's rendition of "With a little help from my friends" instead of the Beatles' far inferior original version of the song, would one introduce it as being by one or the other of the aforementioned artistes, when the Beatles wrote it but Mr Cocker performed the only listenable version, and both are quite well-known? Also cf. "Valerie", where Amyl Winecellar's version and the Zutons' original were, in terms of musical ages, contemporaneous - which one does one say one is performing when one's own version falls halfway between the two? We do "Summertime Blues", but the Oo's rendition of that song rather than Eddie Cochrane's original. It gets randomly introduced as "by the Who", "originally by Eddie Cochrane", no mention of who originally did it at all, and no mention of anything whatsoever to do with the song - depends on what Mrs Zero feels like saying on the night.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1469401541' post='3098068'] Looks interesting. I don't quite understand what was done with the strap buttons (I suspect the choice of that body shape was Silly, given it was going to have all that extra weight at the headstock), and I don't like the name, but definitely interesting. [/quote] I think I can see the logic of the strap button placement - moving the attachment points relative to the centre of gravity, although it doesn't leave a very big loop to get your body through. The bridge isn't too great, intonation adjustment on all three courses of each string rather than split saddles with separate intonation adjustment for the bass and the octave strings.

Are they original Frisbees?

I saw a BMW a while ago with the apposite TWA77Y. I see personalised plates as a harmless indulgence, except for the ones with spacing messed around with and black screws in inappropriate places when it means it would be difficult to make out what the number actually was.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1469616774' post='3099711'] Not really. It could be, but It's a narrower definition. A cover band plays music it didn't originate. [/quote] I'd suggest that they play music that they neither originated nor performed the first release of (so Elvis and the Three Degrees, for example, aren't cover acts). If you wrote it and performed the first release of it, it's an original, and if you wrote it, someone else released it first so you got the royalties and then released it yourself and got even more, it's having your cake and eating it.