pete.young

Have you thought about switching off the amp before unplugging anything, or disconnecting the lead that plugs into the amp input first?

In theory, 8th August is our first gig that hasn't yet been cancelled. In practice, with 2 band members over 70 and one of them with an interesting medical history, I don' t think it's going to happen. I don't think it'll be rescheduled either. When the band leader booked it, he described it as a 'social club'. Didn't mention that it's actually a Conservative club. They might be needing a dep accordion player, if you know of anyone.

Amy Lee

Depends what you mean by 'reasonably priced'!

I was looking at one of the cases, also sold out. I guess they are waiting for the next shipment from China.

Definitely one for 'weird'. Why would anyone do this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-viola-electric-bass-guitar-3-string-conversion/164295098496?hash=item2640c04080:g:DhAAAOSwmz5e~wHL

I seem to recall Dood singing the praises of the Pedaltrain Volto, though I haven't tried one.

Go to a nail bar. They can build a thicker and harder casing on top of the original nail. I know an old-time banjo player who does this and it is very effective. Now they've got used to only having to do 2 of his fingers, it's all good.

Crossover? Why not just use the effects send of one to drive the effects return of the other one?

Good point, didn't really spot those. Douglas is on my wavelength, spookily.

Organisations the size of Yamaha, and the companies that make instruments for Ibanez, will hold huge stocks of tonewoods. Some will be bought to season for 10 or 20 years prior to use. So even though there is a ban, it seems reasonable to me for companies to use up existing stocks.

Looks more like a cello to me.

And luckily for Elvis, she wasn't buried at sea.

And before that, Usenet. A term often used for this kind of audio brainfart is 'mondegreen', coined by Sylvia Wright in 1954.

Did you mean to post something here?

Stereo is a complete waste of time in live gigs like this. No-one in the audience will notice, especially not when it's the first dance and people will be paying the band even less attention than usual. Maybe if you were the Foo Fighters and had a 12 gazillion pound touring rig, but for most of the gigs most of us are ever likely to play it's like tits on a bull. If you were going to do it, you'd need both channels from the pedal going into a separate input on the desk and panning one full left, one full right. Having stereo split between FOH and your bass rig is not going to achieve anything other than a horrible mush on stage.

A piezo typically requires a very high impedance pre-amp. An absolute minimum of 1 MOhm, more if possible.

Or "Hello, is it me you're looking for, A$$HOLE?"

Similarly, there was a band in the Suffolk/Norfolk area called 'Topless Barmaids'. Very unpopular with the bar staff.

Colin Hodgkinson and his '61 Precision

I always do anyway. The concept of cleaning mikes seems entirely alien to most rehearsal studios round here. Behringer XM8500, not exactly going to break the bank is it.