Acebassmusic

Just bought a pair of speaker cables off Graham. They're in great condition and it was an easy deal. Many thanks.

I'm interested in the possibilities and options of such a system. 👍 I'm assuming from your numbers above: 2 guitars (one in stereo) = 3 chan 2 keys (both in stereo) = 4 chan bass = 1 chan sax = 1 chan 5 vocal channels drums = ? chan That's 14 channels without any drums through the system. Is that enough as a sound engineer could easily use 6 mics / channels on a kit? Would you be mic'ing the kit or leave that to the engineer using house mics? I'm assuming you would be providing all the cabling between instruments and your mixer / splitters? Would this include from the drum mics? I'm not sure I would use a 10m loom from the splitter to FOH. I'd just use bulkhead connectors on the rack unit and let the sound engineer do the connecting from there to their stage box (just like they would if mic'ing up).

Yes I remember it. David Shields and John Vannerman ran it and did indeed have a Wall of Wals. Many years ago (April '98)I'd somehow found out that John was selling his matching pair of fretted / fretless 5 string Wals he'd had made and he was asking somewhere between £1500 and £2k for the pair! The next weekend I travelled down from Huddersfield with the intent to buy them.....but they had been snatched up just before I got there. I do remember John showing me a pair of Sei fretted / fretless 5 strings (never heard of Sei at that time) but I ended up trading my Pre EB MM Sabre in for a JD Calibas my gateway drug into 5 strings! 🤣

I think excessive volume is a common problem for many jams (and gigs). For a number of years I used to be in the house band for the local blues jam. I kept saying the volume is causing people leave. People would be sat with their fingers in their ears and then leave, it was that obvious. We had a really good sound guy who would (as requested) mic everything up......and then mute it at the desk as the stage volume was so high he couldnt do anything with it! He had a superb Nexo / Allen & Heath system at his fingertips that he could only use as a vocal PA I eventually tired of it and passed the batton to others.

Yes, I was planning on going to the Birmingham show as it's around my birthday but decided at New Year to give it a miss as (even today) the website gives a great list of exhibitors but minimal info on what else is happening. There are 10 items in the Blog of which 1 is bass related 🤷‍♂️ Again booking hotels etc at the last minute gets expensive.....at least Birmingham is only a mere 850 mile round trip 🤣 I'm probably going to regret not going but hope it its a great weekend. 👍

Blimey, this is the first post since this thread started on Nov 2nd which has some actual info. Thanks @Goliath_FX 👍 Like others, I've looked around the intenet to try and find more info with either nothing solid and very much a vagueness about the whole thing. I have heard Dan Edwins name many times on here but don't know him or his ways of working but if I was putting on a bass related show I'd want to be advertising as much info as possible to stir peoples interest and get them there. 🤷‍♂️ I'm assuming as he runs Bass Review Magazine he knows his competition / market and therefore is aware of Basschat / Talkbass / many bass specific Facebook groups which would help spread the word. I've noticed a bit of a trend of events like this drip-feeding information over the months beforehand to allegedly build up the anticipation levels. I used to go to the London Bass Show regularly until they started doing this. I was reluctant to commit a lot of time and money (the ticket price was a minor consideration) to attending something where I didn't know what was happening! I know I am very much an outlier in being in Aberdeen but I'm sure many of us have to plan / budget / manage family etc to be able to attend. For me leaving it to the last minute to decide to go is not feasible as it's at least 2 nights in a hotel hotel, food, last minute flights / train pricing or the thought of a 1,100 mile round trip in the car if its London based! Sorry, rant over.....I really do hope the event does go ahead and is successful. Whether it be a local Bass Bash or nationwide Bass Show they take a LOT of organising and commitment from the teams that put them on. We need them to be a success or we'll lose them 😢