Silvia Bluejay

@Stingray5 Thanks - I've got two notifications, one from Landmarq and one from one of your channels, and followed back both. To reply to your question, the screenshot I posted earlier, before my last post, was from Studio - Customization - Basic Info. It still shows the same (lack of) options. It may be a matter of time, now that the channel is well over 100 followers. Many thanks! @Dood your follow is still not notified in the list (but counts towards the total number all the same), so I found your channel in your signature and followed it from there. 👍

And despite some of you having just subscribed, all I see in the Dashboard is a list where the most recent is dated 20/11. 🙄 Perhaps it's because some subscribers are set up to remain anonymous, as the screenshot below says. I've followed back all those who were notified to me.

Thank you! Neither of your follows is being notified to me on the channel, despite the subscriber number increasing accordingly. Weird. 🤔🤷‍♂️

Thank you both! @fretmeister, your Like is visible to me as the admin, but Likes and Dislikes are set up on the Dynamites channel to be hidden for everybody else (there's a reason, but it's a long, boring story). @Velarian I may consider that in the future, depending on the direction the band takes. For now, I'm grateful for you guys' help, and I'll spend the next few days - or weeks - monitoring what happens re. the option of a customised URL. I'll keep you all posted. 🙂🙏

Interestingly, I'm not getting notifications for all the channel's new followers. I've followed back those I've been notified who had content in their channel, but that only includes, for instance, one from @fretmeister. That's my notifications, though - the number of followers has correctly gone up by 3 when he followed with all his channels. All very intriguing. 🤔😉

You may be right. We shall see! And thanks. 🙏

Thank you all for your help! We're currently back to 102 followers. As per many complaints I've spotted online, there is no change whatsoever to the status of the channel, and still no option is offered to customise the URL. That option should appear below the channel URL highlighted in the screenshot below. I will keep you all posted if and when anything changes. 👍🙏

Many thanks! 🙏 I've learnt my lesson and will wait a few hours before hitting Settings! That's when the followers disappeared yesterday. YT is sneaky... 🙄

That's lovely, @Dankology, thank you ! The URL is this and the current count is 99, instead of 102 (as it should be if YT hadn't made several followers suddenly disappear). Some people are reporting being several followers over 100 for weeks, and still not being allowed a custom URL. It's a jungle out there... 😉🙄😂

Damo And The Dynamites have had their own Youtube channel since the beginning of 2019, and @Happy Jack and I have been posting videos from gig performances since then. (There are a lot of videos!) We tend to use the channel for the benefit of landlords and venue managers - for checking out and hopefully booking the band - so we've never been particularly obsessed with the 'glory' of gathering thousands of followers. We've allowed the channel growth to be completely organic, which means it's been painfully slow. Having said that, we wouldn't mind being able to change the default gobbledigook URL to the band's name. The current rules appear to say that we need at least 100 followers, which I noticed we reached yesterday. Except Youtube almost immediately reverted to showing 98 followers, then 99. This hadn't happened when we reached, say, 10, 20 or 50, so I imagine that, for some reason, Youtube really doesn't like people having customised names on their channels. Until now we've got round the problem of giving the band's URL for people to check by asking them to search Youtube for the name of the band, which is unique, and we have a QR code to the channel on posters and flyers. So there's no panic about that. However, I'd be curious to hear if the above experience was common among those of you who have a Youtube channel, when you reached 100 followers. 🙏

Welcome to Basschat, PJ. I've moved your post to Bass Guitars, where more people might be able to help. I would recommend you amend your thread title so it suggests you have a question.

I have absolutely no problem operating the interface, and that includes effects, compression and EQ on each channel, including the main, and everything in between. That's easy both on a 'hard' desk and on a tablet. On the old version XAir app, what we were always having trouble with, but managing just OK in the end, was setting up our customised scenes for each band and each setting (full electric, semi-acoustic, with or without a double bass, 3-piece, 4-piece or 5-piece band, etc.) i.e. 6 or 7 different scenes that show on the first page only the number of channels we need, but which allow all the other channels, plus effects and main, Aux etc. to be reached on other pages. The new app defeated us even in this apparently simple task. Life's too short.

That can't replace a tablet, am I right? No WiFi function as far as I can see.

We have Mixing Station XAir Pro*, the third-party one that costs around £5. It's always been utterly unintuitive, but sort-of-useable, just. Until now. The developer has now decided to ditch the app, build an entirely new one, offer that as a free upgrade to those who bought the previous version, and leave the old version available to use but stop updating it. We tried getting to grips with the new version, and gave up. We reverted to, and used, the old version twice since the upgrade was suggested, and as if on cue, the old version appears to be malfunctioning. Of course that might be caused by a glitch somewhere else in our system, but it's making us think... *amended after checking my phone

Heh. The Stray Cats have slightly more people, equipment and expertise in their stage and sound crew, though...

That's with the covers band. The rock n' roll band doesn't like to soundcheck - I've never understood why - so they're completely reliant on me knowing exactly how they're meant to sound and fixing any problem within the first three minutes, i.e. the first song. I'm now very good at that... 🙄😂

What a pity we're in Harrow! Damo And The Dynamites would fit the bill perfectly. Congratulations, @bassix, hope you find the band you're looking for. Surely there must be rocknroll and rockabilly FB groups or dance schools to ask around in Newcastle?

There's an interesting thread here too: https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisascam/comments/hsp9kc/is_sessions_live_a_scam/

Hmm, I see your point. If it's a matter of space rather than 'being man enough for the job', I think it's fair to conclude that only a real scroll with real DB machine heads will be large enough. My Eminence has a tiny pseudo-scroll where it was a massive PITA to fit a set of Silver Slaps when I decided I didn't like the steel strings it came with. My NXT5 has limited space on the actual tuners, as you say, but at least its modern design offers one invaluable advantage, once you find a set of strings that fits: the headstock is open at the back, which means finger access from almost all sides is very easy. Mind you, even with a full size scroll, @Happy Jack and I have to work as a team in order to change the strings to either of his 'proper' double basses. We wouldn't want do be doing the job on our own, the double bass will fight back and win! 😱

@Boodang, I'm intrigued by your comment that the tuners on the NS upright are too small for the job. Could you elaborate? I have an NS NXT5 and the Schaller (I think) tuners do an absolutely fine job, including on the low B. I played the D'Addario hybrids it came with for years, then changed to the new GHS strings especially created for NS uprights; in the 9 years I've had the bass it has never given me any trouble with keeping the tuning or problems with installing/retaining the strings, etc.

I can, but my point is, the pub I was working with created my account, on the basis of the Invapay account I had with them previously. I received an email from Greene King with a link to my account. Then I finished setting it up, and then a test payment of 1 penny was made to my account to see if everything worked. From what I understand, the pub always has to make the first move, not you, and if the pub is so lost at sea, or totally refuses to help, you really don't want to be working with them or, above all, trying to get paid afterwards. For what it's worth, here is the PDF I received. You will notice that it starts with telling you how to log on to your account, not how to create one. Concur Request - Supplier Getting Started.pdf

I received from the pub who booked the band a couple of PDFs with step-by-step instructions on where and how to start on Concur. I can't find online version of those I have, I'm afraid. You should probably ask the pub to direct you to the correct link to join their own flavour of Concur, so you can be sure you're both reading from the same, er, online page.

LOL I didn't bother with the video, I went old-school and RTFM'd... 😉

It wasn't too bad for us, when we used it for the first time a few weeks ago. However, it has a rather steep learning curve. Quite apart from the weird terminology, which doesn't match any of my experience as a self-employed person, there are some unexpected steps. To start with, it's not the Client who gives you a Purchase Order; the onus is on you, as the Supplier, to put a Request in the system, mentioning the agreed job and fee, BEFORE the job is carried out. The Client then approves your Request - possibly several times (twice in our case, by two different people). Then you do the job, play the gig. Then the onus is again on you to put the same amount you previously 'requested' in the system again, but this time in the form of an Expense to which you attach an invoice. You should do that just after playing the gig. Then, in the following few days, several people at the Client and at SAP Concur approve your Expense. Then you wait. And wait. And wait. Then you get paid, eventually, into the bank account you entered when setting up your Concur account. With us, it wasn't too bad, we were paid about 10 days after the day of the gig. I hear that Event UK normally takes 3 weeks. Mustn't grumble... 🙄

Good old Richmond riverside. And yes, no video trick or anything, Paul does do that with his bass, and the audience always loves it. 🙂