tauzero

Not giraffics?

I was trying to find a photo from a recent gig which is the only one where we all wore shorts, but there appears to be no photographic evidence. Probably just as well. In our defence, it was ridiculously hot.

Ditto, I was wondering whether it should be in "Notable deaths".

No, a much better idea is to buy a 5-string, then sell it on in three months with "I've found I don't get on with 5-strings" in the advert. Incidentally, I moved to 5-string after 30 years on 4s.

I didn't realise it was showing adverts, I run an ad blocker. I find the search function really poor on JMB. It's sort of better on Bandmix, except that 75% of the people on there don't understand how to set the filters for what they're looking for, so they look for accordionists, bagpipers, and triangle players as well as bassists, when they're actually looking for a drummer.

I met someone called Ged for the first time after a couple of years on a bikers' email list. "Hi Ged" I said. "It's bloody Jed!" he replied. As there were several of us meeting up, "it's bloody Jed" got deployed a few times. I wonder if Geddy Lee has the reverse problem.

If he'd called it the Graphics Exchangeable Format, I'm sure everyone would have been happy to call it Jeff.

We play Sweet child o'mine dropped a semitone (ie in the original key) but I also play it with various others in standard tuning, so to avoid confusion I always play it in the same place and use a pitch shifter to take it down a semitone. At the last gig, the singer didn't have his SG which he has downtuned but he picked up his Les Paul which he keeps in standard tuning. I thought he must have decided he can sing it in standard tuning after all. It only took me two notes of the intro to realise that he'd downtuned the Les Paul, so I played the rest of the intro downshifted on the bass and then switched the pitch shifter on for the verse.

I'm so glad it's not just me.

Well, obviously everybody will be going out and buying soldering irons if they haven't already got one, so you could build a Thumpinator equivalent for a lot less: https://guitar-electronics.eu/en_US/c/SUBSONIC-FILTER/84

There are those of us who are advocates of 5-strings, and those of us who are advocates of buying basses. You should really be more surprised that nobody has told you to buy a P.

Open mic night at the Rhodehouse in Sutton Coldfield last night. This was a sort of audition slot for the Bonnevilles in order to try and get a gig there. Backline is all supplied and there's a PA with sound engineer. The house band was impressive, there were a couple of good solo artists, and we did five songs and got a pretty good reception. Provided bass setup was an Aguilar Tonehammer head and pair of Aguilar cabs (SL112s I think). Must get Mrs Zero and me booked in there some time. I only did backing vocals on a couple of numbers. My mic wasn't on initially but when the SE saw me singing into it, he unmuted me - I'd never heard my voice so clearly in a monitor before and I was rather startled and only slightly horrified.

Baseball caps generally aren't great, but the way they are worn is also a factor in how repellent they are.

Plus if you have a compressor, it won't be trying to act on sub-audio frequencies and messing up its response to audible sound.

You should have been thinking "Do I really think I know better than Leo Fender's (or John Hall's) accountants?".

Many years ago at rehearsals with one band, I used to switch off the guitarist's fuzz box to get him to play stuff right and not hide the mistakes.

Went on for the second half of a gig and silence from my bass. Backup bass - also silence. Swapped wireless to the spare and got sound. When I got home, I tested the suspect wireless and it was perfect. My conclusion was that after unplugging the two dongles to save batteries on the bass and the effects pedal, I had plugged them back in without looking to check that the one marked "Tx" in big friendly letters was on the bass and the one marked "Rx" was on the pedal. As bassist, I am of course the default sound engineer. With another band at another gig, we started the second set and all was well (we thought) until somebody told me that they couldn't hear the vocals out front. The channel mute switches only worked on the FOH, not the monitors. Turned up at one gig with what I thought was my bass amp, then found that I'd picked up the wrong silver case and had a case of microphones. I did have a spare amp with me, but sadly no means of connecting said amp to the cab, so that was a dash back home to get the amp. And I've done the wrong venue thing as well, fortunately only about five miles from where I should have been.

Get a 5-string Corvette.

Which is my point - simply saying turn left to right is ambiguous as there are two directions that you can go in to rotate something from left to right, clockwise and anticlockwise. Or deasil and widdershins if you prefer, or maybe dextrorotatory and laevorotatory.

Thanks, that's worth knowing.

I decided to take the bull by the horns and remove the neck, in the hope that I would put it back together within ten years. A 4mm allen key is the right fit for the truss rod end, which is inaccessible with the neck on, so I looked for a spoke wheel adaptor. There was one mentioned on here but it was from the EU (guitarsandwoods.com) and with shipping it came to about £40. More hunting produced one from Grainger Guitar Parts for £8 all in, so that's now ordered.

Although the new one hasn't improved your typing.

Whether it's single or double action. Hold a spanner pointing to the left and then rotate it 180 degrees clockwise. Return it to the left and rotate it 180 degrees anticlockwise. What are the two finishing positions?

You can create parallel paths on the Stomp, apply EQ to each to give HPF and LPF, and recombine them at the output or send them to separate outputs.

Can't beat colour coding. As everything's XLR-XLR it doesn't really matter but I've adopted a system of orange = FOH, yellow = monitors, and whatever you've brought for mics (singer red, 2nd guitar green, me purple). Also I have two lengths of IEC cables, 2m (colour coded red using insulting tape) and 3m (colour coded yellow).