tauzero

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.

Just put some green LEDs behind the grille. Or go wild and multicoloured, like I did with a Berg AE112. Vid 20151231 195656-1.mp4

I had both a Superfly and a Superduperfly (the 1000W version). Both suffered slightly from high pitched twittering - not noticeable gigging but nevertheless annoying. The front end on them was brilliant and I did suggest to them that they revive the preamp as a stand-alone unit (they were polite but nothing has happened so I think that got filed in the round basket). I'd love to get hold of one with failed power amps for notalot and extract the preamp from it.

I don't know, I'm afraid it's just a vague memory.

I've encountered this on one or two Behringer effects - IIRC there's a protection diode on the DC socket to prevent reverse voltage being applied to it and that can fail.

I suspect that pushing the T-nut out slightly would almost certainly make it skew, meaning it would be more likely to cross-thread. Must remember to be gentle.

What about having it powder coated?

I was just about to mention my NS WAV-4 - dots everywhere, I find it very confusing.

Looking around the room, I can see 14 basses in natural finish (well, a couple are lacquered over natural finish), a black Ashbory and a sunburst Kala U-bass. So I think that's a vote for natural.

Briefly furious, then.

You could try asking a few amateur porn producers how they manage, as they face a similar challenge.

My Fender Precision fretless was like that. Pain in the bum. I learnt on unlined fretlessesses but my current main bass is lined. I'd rather it was unlined, especially as the lines are very very slightly raised. Only a hair's breadth, but perceptible.

Incidentally, Trace Elliot watts may be louder but they sound nastier too.