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My lightest bass is my fretless 5-string. Unless you count my 5-string Kala SUB, of course.

A quick test showed the PS1 had insufficient oomph to power a Zoom B3n, so results are inconclusive. It will power a B3, so I'll experiment a bit more later.

Some effects are really fussy about isolated power supplies - I have a Zoom B3n and that doesn't like unisolated supplies at all. I'm going to swap the Vitoos PS1 into that pedalboard at some point in the near future (replacing the Vitoos Iso8 that's in there now) to find out whether it is or isn't properly isolated.

If I'm playing just with backline (95% of the gigs I do), I back the volume off a bit so I've got a little in reserve in case everybody else starts getting louder. Playing with PA, I just put it on 100% and let the soundman sort it out.

Red Red F'kin Whine All Right Now The entire Oasis catalogue

"I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot." - Vim Fuego Dammit, beaten to it.

Oh, and here's guitarpusher saying exactly what I said: https://www.facebook.com/guitarpusher/posts/its-now-here-vitoos-iso8-isolator-power-supplyp3500why-isolated-psu-to-reduceeli/1432526826862145/

Link doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox. Vitoos Iso8 is fully isolated, but don't believe me if you don't want to. As it's identical to the Harley Benton, it seems quite likely I'm right. Not sure about the PS1, there seems something rather odd about that when I go over the outputs in the same way so I'll reserve judgement on that.

Has anyone mentioned Marillion yet? Steve Rothery is the only remaining original member.

Which one? I checked the Iso8 with a multimeter which is why I say it has genuinely isolated outputs.

Does the Pitchblack still run from the old power supply?

I've got a Vitoos Iso8 and it's great (and genuinely fully isolated). I've bought a Vitoos PS1 off the back of that, which I haven't yet pressed into service. If you have 12V or 18V requirements, both will do those but the Iso8 is more flexible.

I properly switched ten years ago or so, after I'd been playing for 35 years.

I had a 4x10 which blew one speaker without me realising. It was wired as two pairs of parallel speakers in series, and the result was that the single speaker not only got twice as much current going through it as each of the paired speakers, but because the impedance was double that of the parallel pair, had twice the voltage across it too. So it was dissipating four times the power of each of the others, and also blew, which resulted in silence and a rather costly bill which would only have been half as much had I realised.

He was being interviewed on TV a couple of days ago - he looked like they'd got him from Madame Tussauds.

There's one that nobody checked the lyrics to.

But sometimes it's the band themselves doing it: 😁

I've had one for a year or two. Works well, nice and compact, no latency issues - gets run through a Zoom MS60B and no other digital bits.

Last night, we were band 3 in a 4-band line-up, on stage at 9 pm. We all said we'd get there about 7:30. I got there just before 8, neither of the others were there. Drummer turned up a few minutes later. Texted "Where are you?" to guitarist at 8:35. He rang me with not much idea of where he was or where he needed to get to, so I told him as much as I knew (not a lot). He finally arrived at 8:45 and we dashed straight on stage, got set up, and started just after 9.

I'm in two bands and a duo. There's no issue with either band, and the duo is with Mrs Zero so that's not an issue either. But we do have a slight problem, as the cajon player also plays keyboards for another, higher-profile band, who have started picking up a lot of gigs, and the singer has had to turn down several gigs for next year as there are diary conflicts. So we're faced with the opposite problem, as the singer has told me he knows someone who could dep, but we've got to bring the idea up with our cajon player and we have no idea how he'll react. We are in the fortunate position that it's only the keyboard player and the singer/guitarist who are essential, the cajon player and me can be replaced.

For many years, I've been the supplier of the PA as well as bassist, for assorted bands. Of late, I only do PA for the originals band, and even avoid that when we get a gig where the PA is there. That tends to make you pretty reliable. Current covers band, we're all pretty reliable, with the cajon player and me vying for who's there first (he does the PA).

No, it was a selectable pattern display - very similar to https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1M-2M-3M-4M-5M-QUALITY-RGB-LED-LIGHT-STRIP-ROPE-KIT-5050-MULTI-COLOUR-UK-PLUG/123837841880

A few bands ago, in a trio-plus-vocalist, I was teamed with a very good drummer who was also very inventive. We did "Sultans of Swing" - the original, of course, has keys and a second guitar as well as the lead guitar. After we'd rehearsed it a few times, rather than upping things when the first solo came round, the drummer dropped back. I realised what he was doing and followed him, so we were really underplaying below the first solo which suddenly didn't sound empty. The second solo got full tilt boogie which worked well, but probably wouldn't have without that alternative dynamic on the first one. It wouldn't work on a guitar solo using searing distortion, but fitted nicely with the slightly overdriven Knofler tone.

A, but I'm doing a mix of B and C on Sunday - about an hour and a half away, support, unknown audience size, fee? What fee? As, indeed, we did a couple of weeks ago.

It's normally 4-string players who think it's about the low notes.