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We've had two Saturday gigs (26th Sept and 3rd Oct) postponed due to the rugby.

I was being idle so I used ready-made reasonable quality cables.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1442404941' post='2866671'] Now have any of you been to Johnson's of Leeds military surplus shop? That place is crazy. It used to have a white UN tank or something parked outside. For sale. [/quote] That would probably be good for metal.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1442406710' post='2866708'] Yes, although that would tend to make the whole snake slightly less flexible if the braid is too tight. [/quote] I was thinking more of reducing the wizard's sleeviness of it than making it really tight. Hmm, about £3-50 for 5m of 8mm braiding, about the same for 5m of 13mm heatshrink, and I have two cables, one 2m long and one 3m long. It may be time for an experiment.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1442401532' post='2866622'] I used this stuff (pic). Search for "braided cable sleeving". It's dead easy to use, just one cable tie holding it all together at each end of the sleeve. [/quote] Aha, that's more like it. Presumably you can pull it lengthways to reduce the diameter when you put the cable ties on?

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1442398132' post='2866589'] Edit: Search for "cable lacing" [/quote] Blimey, it's not cheap is it? I think I'll measure everything up and see whether heatshrink would do the job.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1442330001' post='2866089'] Imagine a space going full width of the stage between the mic stands and the backline. I'd aim to have nothing in that space except humans if at all possible. [/quote] Drummers? In common with others who've mentioned it, I use a cable snake for pedalboard (or effects) to amp. I'll either have a Zoom MS-60B or a Zoom B3 and a Line 6 G50 receiver on the floor, so the cable snake is actually a jack-to-jack with two DC power extension leads cable-tied to it, and I have a choice of two lengths. Out of curiosity, has anyone else made up this sort of thing, and if so, have you used cable-ties or some other means of consolidating it? I have to take care with cable ties round the lead, they're a little hard on my delicate little hands if I'm not careful. I do have a few colour-coded leads - two green XLR to balanced jack (one longer than the other) for the PA speakers, one 2m XLR in yellow to run between the active monitors, and a red jack-to-jack which is theoretically my backup lead if anything goes wrong with the wireless.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1442327498' post='2866059'] With the advent of all the online outlets for moving on used gear it's actually not that common to see much used gear in recognised music shops any more. I miss the 'rummage factor' a bit and old basses smelling of woodbines after they'd done years on the WMC circuit. Did I mention this all used to be fields once? [/quote] Yes, I used to go into Musical Exchanges in Brum back when it was in Broad Street (little Gary who went to PMT used to work there back then) and then Snow Hill, and the second-hand side of it just disappeared. Now there's just Stirchley Musical Exchange which is a tiny OMAAD place with some decent instruments but not very many of them, and you have to go somewhat further afield - Warwick is reasonably close for bass gear albeit not so much at the budget end of the scale, but other than that it's probably a trip to That London.

A Zoom MS-60B could do tuner and compressor duty... Have you tried the "Taste" control on the Puma?

I've just indulged myself and bought a wireless mic, so the mics and instruments are now all wireless. We have mains leads and input leads to both PA speakers and both active monitors, sometimes mic up the bass drum, and other than that there's just the leads from pedalboards to amps. Oh, and the lighting. The only leads now that go across the stage (rather than round the back) are the bass drum mic lead (which we put under the stands so there's as short an exposed run as possible) and the lead connecting the two monitors. Reasonably tidy, there may be a bit of room for improvement in the mains area.

2U 420mm rack bag: [url="http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/manufacturer/product.asp?item=spider-2u-rack-bag-padded-5367-6631"]http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/manufacturer/product.asp?item=spider-2u-rack-bag-padded-5367-6631[/url] 3U version: [url="http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/type/product.asp?item=spider-3u-rack-bag-padded-5368-7430"]http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/type/product.asp?item=spider-3u-rack-bag-padded-5368-7430[/url]

He may have overlooked the minor issues that could arise from having giant furrows all over a fretless fingerboard.

Another vote for Pro Audio Services - he's done a couple of repairs on Mackie SRM450s for me.

Sennheiser HD419 for me. But Bluetooth does appeal to me too. Edit: Those August Bluetooth headphones would appeal to me if there was a transmitter too.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1442096619' post='2864451'] The brown plastics on the back are quite interesting, as these are consistent with earlier '50s Les Pauls. Not sure about the rest of it, but it doesn't look too promising. Not sure about the mis-matched flame/plain top, the bare wood in the truss rod cavity or the clunky chrome tuners, which look like Klusons with different heads. [/quote] The top's a bit odd - in the fifth photo it seems to be bookmatched, in the fourth the two halves look very different.

One I want to do but the drummer vehemently refuses: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQgICDxGEQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQgICDxGEQ[/url]

[quote name='jonsmith' timestamp='1441990184' post='2863637'] Although it seems that some of us don't care about our sound - a concept I'm still trying to get to grips with - some of us do and want to get the best results with what is available to us. [/quote] I don't think anyone said they don't care about their sound. My personal feeling is that I do care about my sound but I don't care if that sound isn't the same as the sound on the original record.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1441999780' post='2863757'] Thanks! Car off road for the weekend. :-( But no problem really as it is my birthday and various friends are taking me out! :-) [/quote] Get them to take you to PMT then!

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1441988027' post='2863608'] Couldn't agree more! How many threads have we had discussing tone when noodling at home and tone to cut through in a band situation. [/quote] There's also the odd thread about being in front of or behind the beat, which I suspect is what's behind what may appear as sloppy timing in isolation.

There's a black classical guitar up for £8-61. It's getting silly when the postage is more expensive than the instrument.

We need another Midlands Bass Bash so I can try this out. And have cake, of course.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1441978535' post='2863483'] But a guitar or a bass IS a "hand held device". [/quote] So is pen and paper.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1441971185' post='2863360'] I'm not sure which I prefer and the reasons for that preference... Why-Fi [/quote] There's a lady down the road whose opinion I would value - MIL-Fi.

"The Slider" by T Rex. "Electric Warrior" tends to be the more recognised album but I think that "The Slider" was a further development of their sound and more sophistication to the songs.

How about [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s[/url] And of course there's [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU[/url] and [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM[/url] But maybe [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32SkxLCZz_o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32SkxLCZz_o[/url] is more like what the OP envisaged.