tauzero

Some standard fodder, some that's a bit different. We're a four-piece - vocals, guitar, bass, drums. All Right Now - Free Because the night - Patti Smith Born to be wild - Steppenwolf Brass in Pocket - Pretenders Crazy little thing called love - Queen Dakota - Stereophonics Doctor doctor - UFO Don't Speak - No Doubt Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac Ever fallen in love - Buzzcocks Get It On - T. Rex Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac Hotel California - Eagles I love rock'n'roll - Joan Jett I saw her standing there - Beatles I'll be there for you - Rembrandts Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry Kayleigh - Marillion Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers Make me smile (Come up and see me) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel Maria - Blondie Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett - Yay! One way or another - Blondie One of us - Joan Osborne Run to you - Bryan Adams Sex on fire - Kings of Leon Since you been gone - Rainbow Stand by me - Ben E King Stuck in the middle with you - Stealer's Wheel Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Teenage Kicks - Undertones Times like these - Foo Fighters Wishing Well - Free Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton

Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer Will you - Hazel O'Connor Mrs Zero and I have done both these as a duo, but it would be nice to have a full band for them.

I have the far more useful USS Enterprise one.

I forgot Johnny B Goode.

In: Hohner B2AV Harley Benton B35FL Out: Hohner B2V The reason for the Hohner ins and outs was that the B2V/B2AV makes an ideal backup bass for me, and the B2V was painted black in pretty much pristine condition, so rather than the B2V getting dinged, I bought a walnut B2AV and sold the B2V. I prefer natural finish anyway. The Harley Benton is a decoration-only which cost me £26 after review vouchers. How could I resist?

Oh, I thought you were going to post an infallible guide to winning the lottery. That seems to be my most significant GAS problem. Nothing on the website that I can see on whether they work with Schaller straplocks. I've asked the question.

I think I get half a dozen enquiries a year for each band, which is not insignificant for bands doing 30 gigs a year or so. Of course, I also get plenty of spam from SEO companies telling me that they can get my website higher in Google ratings (and now that Alan Sugar has given another of the gits a quarter of a million to do more SEO spamming, that's potentially another one to report to Spamcop).

Seems like a less than ideal solution to the problem of playing bass with your feet. I suspect that a set of pedals and a MIDI module would do the job an awful lot better.

I write the website - domain registration is about £3 a year and hosting all the websites I have costs (I think) £120 a year as I run a VPS (virtual private server - ie. it's a share on a server which appears to be a standalone server).

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1419608943' post='2641260'] FB events for every gig.. surely everyone does that..?? [/quote] We do. We also put them on our proper website. TBH, I think any band with just a Facebook page isn't taking the interwebs side of things seriously. Maybe I'm just being snobbish about it, but I can't control the design of the band's FB page. I see Facebook in the same light as Myspace before it and whatever will come after it, which may well be sooner rather than later as people get pissed off with FB's attitude. For the time being, I see FB as a somewhat useful evil, and regrettably people expect you to have an FB page so that's what you need to do. Incidentally, angrybadgers.co.uk has gone but theangrybadgers.co.uk is available...

Teenage Kicks Dakota Sex on fire Born to be wild All right now Mustang Sally (yay!) Crazy little thing called love Long train running Saw her standing there Ever fallen in love Summer of 69 Sweet home Alabama Times like these And, of course, all of Blue's originals.

I would like to know who signed the statement of neck, and were there two witnesses to the signature?

Have you tried asking Hohner direct? I can't help as mine is the jack-only version.

[quote name='DiMarco' timestamp='1417344938' post='2619260'] [b]If you had to downsize and could (besides your tuner) only use, say, max. two effect pedals... Which ones would you keep?[/b] [/quote] Zoom B3 and Zoom MS60-B.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1419337086' post='2638840'] For example, with four speakers with a 1mm Xmax, is it still considered a 1mm overall limit before distortion, or does the simultaneous cone movement equate to a 4mm Xmax in relation to the same signal? [/quote] Xmax is a physical limit on the cone excursion of a single driver, so each cone can move a maximum of 1mm without distortion regardless of how many drivers are in the cab, but if each of the cones moves 1mm then the total volume of air displaced (Vd, as Bill FitzYoda says) is four times as much with four drivers as with one.

There's very few 2x10s that weigh in at 15kg. Most of them are 20kg, so they weigh nearly as much as my 4x10. As I am weak and weedy, I want something light.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1419282071' post='2638390'] Nope, they are triangular-bodied. This seems to me to be a lute with only a single set of strings. [/quote] Lutes are fretted, aren't they? Gut frets rather than metal, wrapped round the neck. Perhaps it's someone's first home-made oud. Where they went "right, time to make the soundhole. Let's drill a few holes and jigsaw it and HOW MANY STRINGS DID YOU SAY IT SHOULD HAVE? Oh sh*t".

I don't use a stand in the main covers band. Guitarist uses an iPad on his mic stand, partly because it connects to his multieffects and sets it to the right patch for each song. Mrs Zero currently uses a stand but is trying to get the last few numbers memorised as she doesn't want to use it. Hasn't seemed to make anyone leave though, we rely on the music for that. Depped for my old club band on Saturday. Used a stand for the set list and for cribsheets for a few songs, with the top about where my waist (or equator) is. Ironically, the guitarist, who has been doing these songs for ten years or more, has his book on his stand at chest height, and the vocalist, who's done them a fair few times too, also had his stand at chest height. I think it's terribly amateurish when singers have to use lyric sheets. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZLdV9qDziY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZLdV9qDziY[/url]

Have you tried contacting Tecamp direct? They've been very helpful when I've contacted them.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1418932096' post='2635032'] OK, here it is: [font=arial, sans-serif][size=1]rifffactory.co.uk/golden_brown.mp3[/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=1]rifffactory.co.uk/golden_brown.wav[/size][/font] [size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]This was just a quick thing I did the other day for my own amusement (and a performance video) so no judgement on the mix or playing please![/font][/size] [font=arial, sans-serif]EDIT: I don't know what BC's software is doing to my post, I'm just pasting URLs into here, so in case it doesn't work I'll write it with words[/font] [font=arial, sans-serif]rifffactory DOT co DOT uk SLASH golden_brown.mp3[/font] [font=arial, sans-serif]rifffactory DOT co DOT uk SLASH golden_brown.wav[/font] [/quote] I've just had a listen and couldn't tell any difference. That snare sounds like it could do with tightening up a bit, very rattly. I'm using a built-in soundcard on the PC motherboard, which is going into a Behringer UB1202 mixer then a middle-aged Technics hi-fi amp and a pair of Mordaunt-Short bookshelf speakers. Certainly not up to audiophile standards but better than your average all-in-one compact system and streets ahead of a lapdog.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418920532' post='2634891'] I look forward to it, but I'm already pretty certain about what I'll think! It saddens me that children don't have access to high-quality systems and that most music is apparently consumed alone while staring at a screen. [/quote] You mean unlike when I was a teenager, when I used to listen to music (I didn't consume it, I consumed Mars bars and Pepsi) on a little transistor radio?

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1418904578' post='2634634'] Lossy compression (mp3s for instance) refers to file size compression using algorithms that bin parts of the original recording deemed not important. I guarantee that no one on this forum can detect a 320kbps mp3 against an original 16bit 44.1KHz wav on any speakers they wish to use with any accuracy in double blind testing. [/quote] In the interest of completeness, there's also lossless compression, where all the data is retained but compression algorithms are used to shrink the overall size - much like zip files, where people would be rather cross if they zipped up their latest novel and it omitted every "a" and "the". FLAC and OGG files are examples of this.

Mine arrived at 19:30 or so, so that was a long day for the driver. 5-string fretless. Only obvious (not very) defect is a small scratch to the top of the top bout. There's a design flaw, in that the dot markers are in the fretted, not the fretless, position. 4-band EQ with volume and presence (I think presence is a contour type control), and built-in LCD tuner. Output via jack or XLR. No obvious buzzes or rattles; there was a rattle from the bass when I first unpacked it, but as soon as I'd managed to shake the silica gel bag out of the soundhole, it went away. Strings are bronze and rather heavy for my liking, so they'll get replaced sometime soon (which will double the price of the bass). Well worth £26.

I have a couple of instruments with zero frets easily to hand so I've just examined them carefully. Eko 6-string acoustic - zero fret identical to other frets. Hohner B2AV - zero fret larger than other frets, seems to be jumbo fret wire as opposed to standard. I think the height difference would be a little less than 1mm, but it's definitely different.

Always plug the Superfly directly into the computer. Whenever I plugged it in via a hub, it wasn't recognised. I suspect that this is because the software twangs the wires direct rather than actually using proper USB drivers.