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Our drummer only got a mobile so he could talk to his bit on the side after years of slagging everyone off for having a mobile Only switches it on when he wants to talk to someone and doesn't do texts 'cause he doesn't know how too. I suppose that's because he's a drummer.

Flight case. Protect your cab in transit and stand the cab on top off it to gig.

Encore P copy.

Kansas - wayward son.

Barefaced 69er.

I use rechargeables in my G30.

Used to be 4 Sound City 4 x 12s but now it's the Barefaced 69er. Takes some beating.

+1 for the Tuff Cab. Get a stipple roller as well and you're set to go.

Good idea.

Does the jack still have the second nut screwed on under the scratch plate? If so, just take it off. If not, open the hole in scratch plate up a bit so that the collar of the socket just sits in the enlarged hole. You could countersink the inside of the mounting hole as well.

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Had a Firebass 700 and while it had the depth I wanted, it was at the cost of volume. With a decent bottom end, it wasn't very loud at all.

The man himself thought that the bass solo was quite important, he said so himself. [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]“On [/size][/font][/color][i][url="http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/tablature/substitute-bass.txt"]Substitute[/url][/i][color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] I played a two pickup medium scale Gibson bass and I managed to find a decent set of Gibson wirewound strings that vibrated properly. The session was going well and I felt that we were ready for the master take, so when it got to the solo in the middle, I turned the bass up and there was nothing the engineer could do about it. They’d previously balanced everything and it was all going through the mixer at the same time.”[/size][/font][/color]

That's no tuner, it's a gonk.

Thunderbird and Marshall stack(s).

Ah, 1969, remember it well. No tuners in those days. No amps back stage either, in fact it was either a tuning fork or an out of tune piano, no one I knew played harmonica. You'd press your ear to your bass and hope to hear the notes but if there was a back stage it was usually pretty noisy so what did we do? We walked on stage and tuned before we started to play just like Hendrix. Not play amazingly like Hendrix I mean but just play music.

To encourage better driving, Confused.com has created a playlist of the top 50 ultimate safe driving songs, which match this optimum tempo. Here's 30 of them. 01 Come Away With Me 03:18 02 Billionaire - Feat. Bruno Mars 03:31 03 I'm Yours 04:03 04 The Scientist 05:09 05 Tiny Dancer 06:14 06 Cry Me A River 04:48 07 I Don't Want To Miss A Thing 04:59 08 Karma Police 04:21 09 Never Had A Dream Come True 04:01 10 Skinny Love 03:58 11 Angels 02:51 12 Closer 03:57 13 Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon) 03:21 14 Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) [feat. Caron Wheeler] - 2003 - Remaster 03:45 15 Dub Be Good To Me 03:58 16 Price Tag - Acoustic Version 03:19 17 Never Gonna Happen 03:28 18 Tell Me 03:42 19 The Symphony 06:05 20 Burn - Confession Special Edition Version 03:52 21 Hero 04:17 22 Slow Dancing In A Burning Room 04:02 23 How Do I Live 04:27 24 Signal Fire 04:26 25 Video Games 04:44 26 A Woman's Worth 05:03 27 Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 05:38 28 Thinkin Bout You 03:20 29 Life On Mars? - 1999 Digital Remaster 03:51 30 Write It On Your Skin 03:13

Just received an unsolicited e-mail from confused.com and found this, http://www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/top-ten-most-dangerous-driving-songs?MediaCode=806&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter14Jan13&utm_content=Christmas, Interesting. What do you think?

Got a pair of Jack 15s looking for a new home. Kappalite 3015 loaded and a distortion free displacement limited power handling at 350 watts. No horns as they don't need them.

I thought I was going to hate [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Les Miserables as well and I did.[/font][/color]

I didn't realise it was No. 2, that's even better. Done quite a few gigs now and the speakers are well worn in and it just gets better. Thanks Alex! For those that are doubting if speakers benefit from a burn in period, yes they do.

From Shure themselves. [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif][size=3][b]The SM58 is available with or without a switch[/b][/size][/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif][size=3]SM58SE (with switch) RRP £138.00 SM58-LCE (without) RRP £126.79 [/size][/font][/color]

You could tie a bit of string to the head and the strap temporarily and see if it works.

We use a Yamaha MG206c mixer. This had 20 input channels, 16 mono and 2 stereo and has 4 auxiliary outputs. It has compressors on the first 8 channels and also has 4 sub groups. These are useful for if you want to set say a drum mix and control all the drums with one or two faders. We use one aux for effects, (echo) and 2 for monitors. We are a 3 piece and only want vocals in the monitors so the drummer has his own mix and the guitarist and me share a mix. We have one spare aux out. The 2 monitor mixes go to a Behringer ULTRAGRAPH PRO FBQ1502, [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FBQ1502.aspx"]http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FBQ1502.aspx[/url], which is very handy for overall eq adjustment and for knocking out frequencies that feed back. From there the mixes go to a Peavey IPR 1600 one side of which drives one EV force 12 for the drummer and the other side drives 2 EV force 12s, one for the guitarist and one for me. The monitors are great and we can always hear them. From the main outputs of the Yamaha we go into a 31 band stereo graphic EQ and from the graphic to an amp rack that contains a 3 way stereo crossover, a stereo limiter and then to a four channel power amp. 2 channels are bridged and these drive the bass bin on one side and the other 2 amps drive the mid and top. Also from the crossover to an amp rack on the other side of the stage containing another 4 channel amp driving the speakers on the other side of the stage. The reason for 2 amp racks is that you get no loss from long signal leads but you do get loss in long speaker leads. The limiter is used to protect the bass bins. We could do away with the crossover and limiter if we used a speaker controller like a DBX driverack or a Behringer ULTRA-DRIVE PRO DCX2496. Both of these have Real Time Analysers (RTA) built in but I used a separate RTA to set our graphic EQ. Apart from the 2 amp racks, one 4 U and the other 2U, everything else is permanently installed in another rack. Mixer on top, then ipod shuffle, minidisc player, graphic eq for main pa, graphic eq for monitors and monitor power amp. A panel at the bottom has power in and signal and speaker outs and it all rolls around on it’s own casters. Roll it into place, connect the monitor speakers and mains in, signal leads to amp rack, speaker leads to speakers, signal leads from first rack to the other rack, speaker leads to the other speakers, mains leads to amp racks. Mics into the mixer and it’s ready to go. I personally would avoid powered speakers as not only do you more than double the number of mains leads running about all over the place but if one stops working then you’re a bit stuffed but you can always carry a spare amp with you. I would also have a monitor amp with a much higher wattage than you think you’ll need. 400/500 watts a channel even if you only use 50. Plenty of headroom and monitors that you can hear with little or no feedback rather than a 100w amp that can’t go loud enough.

Has a V guitar once and it felt really weird. Much preferred a traditional body. You might find a V comfortable though, you'd have to give it a try and see.