Silvia Bluejay

*noise of chains and locks being dragged in*

That's the Wagner dilemma once again. As a music listener, as opposed to performer in public, I separate the music from the character of the artist and play/listen to whatever I like.

That's our Colin! (Or Barney...)

Oh it must be 5-6 years old. We are planning to do our testing with it, and then, if we learn how to use an external router with the system properly, and decide to go that way permanently, we'll buy a new router with the necessary bells and whistles.

Thank you for all your posts, and especially this last one, Lisa. I didn't know your story. Now my thoughts are with you as well. Colin introduced himself as Colin when we newby Basschatters met him, and those of us on FB also knew him by his real name. What matters is that we're talking about the same lovely guy we all lost.

I've just dug out my old Plusnet Technicolor router I removed from my flat in Chiswick. We'll bring it with us to the 'tutorial'.

Interesting. One of the things I intend to sort out asap is adding security (WEP or similar), something that's mentioned in the manual, but in a rather obscure, unhelpful way. In general, if a person with a mobile phone is looking for a connection, noticing that it's secured should be a deterrent.

But rather worryingly, it doesn't! 😮

We'll bear that in mind. Thanks.

Thanks Si! We'll ask Jack's helpful bandmate a lot of relevant questions when we see him. We have tried the system with three tablets, all rather old but seemingly doing the job perfectly. The app doesn't appear to go heavy on the tablet's system resources: so far we have had no lag, no freezes or crashes, nothing. Not even any loss of signal, although admittedly the places we used the system at were relatively small. The actual distance between the PA and me was between, say, 4 and 8 metres, most of the time without obstacles (pillars etc.) other than people on the dancefloor.

IIRC we did all that, including turning off the wifi on the laptop, but we hit a brick wall in that the PA insisted that IP addresses be entered (no automatic recognition of any kind happening!) and we didn't know what to enter. Before BRX's helpful advice above, we couldn't find any relevant information anywhere. Even the user manual just tells you to enter one or more IP addresses in the same group. The point being, what IP address, FFS?

Damn, saw this on FB. So sad. I met Colin at the 2012 SE Bash, my first. I was sitting in a corner of the Auditorium, with my then newly acquired fretless Rockbass Corvette 5 which I wanted to test with someone's proper cab because its output sounded very weak on my practice amp. Only I didn't know many people in the room, so I was just standing there wondering what to do. Colin saw me, asked if I was OK, then immediately offered to plug my bass in his rig. He actually also played the bass for me (upside down), just to make sure it wasn't my then rather beginner-like playing that made it sound so weedy. (It wasn't.) We became FB friends the following day, and followed each other on there, and saw each other at a couple of other bashes. Then his health deteriorated, his mum died, but Kim remained by his side to the end. My thoughts go out to her especially. Love you Colin.

Thanks, we will. It was also my impression that, for a direct connection with no switch or router in between we might need something more than a normal Ethernet cable. We'll experiment again tomorrow.

In addition to hubby's reply above, I'd like to say that our main problem in this case is we have no clue what address to enter and what group our PC and mixing desk should be part of! 😮

You needn't be - no additional relevant info has been added to Jack's review...

This thread is a PA review. The vids show that system being used in different scenarios.

It's an excellent representation of the band's ability to help the pub keep the Council from the door.

A combination of the camera being placed high on a ledge and far from the band, and the fact that, in a pub in the middle of Chiswick, you can't turn up the music so loud that it pins punters to the wall. (Either the Council or the neighbours will make sure you don't do it again!) It was plenty loud on the dance floor.

Bear with me banging on about religion again, but one of the reasons our numbers are definitely increasing is that now, the fact that we are no longer shunned as the spawn of the Devil or some such rubbish is finally allowing us to reproduce 'normally' and pass on our lefty genes. (Says the childless woman who's an only child herself. )

Thanks - I'll try that later.

I can't see any further tests than the one I took. If I was to create a test like that, I wouldn't quite do the 'if I had my time again' thing but I certainly would ask which hand you WOULD use if you were learning to write now, as very many, too many of us have been victims of 'violence' from that point of view. Indeed, in our case, I'd also ask whether you would learn to play bass righty or lefty IF choice and availability of instruments wasn't an issue, as the latter seems to be a rather important reason for going with the right-handed flow. I'm sure there are dozens of similar examples I could quote.

Sorry but I've taken that test and it's rubbish. I was taught to write with my right hand, against my will, but the test doesn't consider that possibility, so it thinks I do that out of choice, and lowers my score. Also, there is no option for doing something with either hand. And of course, if all you have available is a tool that only works right-handed, such as the vast majority of scissors, you have to teach yourself to use it right-handed if it is to work properly. That, in this test, lowers your score too.

Yes.

One word: Catholicism. Left = the Devil = evil. I still have at least one friend who averts her eyes when she sees me doing something with the 'wrong' hand, and who is happy that her left-handed older brother was forced by family and school to learn to write right-handed. Even if she's never been able to read his handwriting as a result. Thank God for computers, huh? We went to high school together; similar backgrounds, main difference between us being, she and her family are religious, I and mine are not. We're all well over 50. I do hope things have changed now.

There has been a huge amount of discussion on the topic. There are various theories, but the one that seems most plausible is that originally, on instruments like guitar and bass, the main hand was the plucking/picking one, as opposed to the fretting one, so you would learn to use your stronger hand for the most important aspect of playing. All the virtuoso stuff on the fretboard came into fashion much later, when right-handed and left-handed playing were already established as we see now. I'm not too convinced by the above, as to me - an almost totally left-handed person - playing a left-handed instrument came much more naturally than a right-handed one from the very start, and I deliberately tried both. Also, if it was true that the fretting hand has actually become the most important hand on a guitar/bass, why aren't we seeing thousands of righty players find out, when they start learning, that they're far happier playing on a lefty guitar? To confuse the issue further, in normal life most of us are on a scale of righty to lefty, as opposed to being 100% one or the other, and some lucky ones are 50%; if they are musicians, they can play whatever they like, right way up or upside down! 😮 IIRC @leftybassman392 has a lot of knowledge and info about the whole concept.