Japhet

In my experience, micing up a drumkit takes a fair few inputs (minimum 4). Add in backing vocals and you're looking at 8+ channels which isn't really a small PA.

I'm 18 years older than the next oldest in my band and 26 years older than the youngest. I'd check out some jam nights if I was you. There are quite often good people from the same area looking to start something up.

When I'm playing it feels like I move about a fair bit and smile a lot. When I see a video of it, it looks like I'm rooted to the spot and have just lost everything. Strange.

You could pick up a Zoom B3 for the price of most decent drive pedals. The available patches would give you a lot of information on any pedals you might want to try with the added bonus of loads of other effects + tuner + looper in a giggable and very versatile unit. Don't write this piece of kit off because it is a 'multi' unit - it's really very good and fantastic value for the money.

Mr Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jr gets me at the moment since we recently lost one of our dogs. She was a star.

I'd put Leland Sklar in the 'versatile' bracket. One minute James Taylor, the next Billy Cobham.

This always gets me. The lyrics seem to be written for this man in this condition and is a brutal reminder of everybody's mortality no matter who they are or what they've done. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc[/url]

No H&S Officer? Did you do a risk assessment? Can you sue? Message to self; Stop it !

I use an SKB board which I got from Bass Direct. It comes with a power supply and 8 or 9 9v power outlets. Have used it for 4 years without a single problem. It has a covering which takes Velcro on the underneath of pedals too. Think I paid around £80 but probably dearer by now. Good piece of kit and also has a gig bag.

I play through the chords on a 6 string and learn the sequences. I write tricky bits down because I can recall a picture of what I've written much of the time. The rest is mainly patterns on the fretboard to get the left hand position right.

Rosie Vela - Magic Smile Love the groove and the bassline. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I

Not impressed with the TC Head - fair enough. That should have been the title of the thread. There are dozens of class D heads about that are way better than the BH250.

Used to play Delilah as done by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Cue lots of drunken falling over and crooning. Great fun to play though.

I'd get out to some jam nights. If you spot anyone that fits the bill, have a chat.

2 I can think of which I played at jam nights were a Hohner violin and a Gibson Thunderbird. Both horrible. One tiny and boomy and the other one enormous, uncomfortable, dull and ugly to boot.

My 2p worth - either get your cab up to a height where you can hear it well or use a tilt stand (or cab/combo with that facility).

I was at Led Zep at Earls Court but got so pissed I missed the entire thing crumpled in a heap by one of the pillars. You don't want to be hearing Moby Dick in that state.

Saw them at Hammersmith in the early 80's. Can vividly remember the sound waves making it feel like you were being hit in the chest.

I'd say it definitely needs some sort of level control.

Seems to add a huge amount of gain to the clean signal.

My cab has 2 speakon connectors so I'd be surprised if it failed. I have a DI on my amp though and one in a Markbass Super Booster on my effects board too so feel reasonably confident I'm covered. The only recent failure we had was our mixing desk but we put vocals through my backup amp (Streamliner) and they sounded great.

I use a SKB pedal board with 8 (I think) 9v outputs on it. I have a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser I'd like to run which needs 18v supply. In the past I've used a DC Brick to power it but I also use a T Rex Chamelion to give me 12v for a couple of pedals and the power supplies take up too much room on the board. Would a cable from 2 of the SKB outputs into 1 do the trick. I've read that to do this they need to be isolated and don't know if these would be. Any advice gladly received.

Our singer is a total knob when it comes to adjusting the desk. Unfortunately he's the only one with spare hands but he has no idea whatsoever how the thing works and no interest in learning. We often have a guy come to see us who's very good though and he fiddles with the desk and sends us hand signals. We record a few gigs and the ones he contributes to sound pretty decent.

Glad it's not just me. I find the Ditto difficult to get right but the looper on my Zoom B3 is easy to use. I don't particularly want to gig with the B3 though (size) so am avoiding anything with loops for now.