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Silvia Bluejay

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  1. Silvia Bluejay
    I'm astonished that nobody has so far mentioned shoes. Usually in new bass v. wife situations, shoes and handbags get mentioned almost immediately. Maybe there is a glimmer of hope for Basschat's collective and their long-suffering other halves? Incidentally, no, I'm not a great buyer of shoes. Warwicks, yes. Photo and recording equipment, yes. D'Addario goodies, yes.
  2. Silvia Bluejay
    So the LBGS is slowly waking up from its slumber, the dates have finally been corrected to September both on their website and on Facebook, and the entry prices have been confirmed (in a reply to my post on their FB page) as the same as last year: £17.50 Early Bird, £20 in advance, £25 on the door. It's a small step forward. LBGS website LBGS Facebook Page
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    Tweeted. I'll create the Facebook event now.
  4. Silvia Bluejay
    @Happy Jack's band Damo And The Dynamites are trying to establish a monthly Rock 'n' Roll/Rockabilly night at this renowned music pub, with the help of one of the managers. If any of you are in the area and at a loose end next Tuesday, come and say hi.
  5. Silvia Bluejay
    The experts at work! 😮
  6. Silvia Bluejay
    *noise of chains and locks being dragged in*
  7. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  8. Silvia Bluejay
    That's our Colin! (Or Barney...)
  9. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  10. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  11. Silvia Bluejay
    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'.
  12. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  13. Silvia Bluejay
    But rather worryingly, it doesn't! 😮
  14. Silvia Bluejay
    We'll bear that in mind. Thanks.
  15. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  16. Silvia Bluejay
    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?
  17. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  18. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  19. Silvia Bluejay
    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! 😮
  20. Silvia Bluejay
    You needn't be - no additional relevant info has been added to Jack's review...
  21. Silvia Bluejay
    This thread is a PA review. The vids show that system being used in different scenarios.
  22. Silvia Bluejay
    It's an excellent representation of the band's ability to help the pub keep the Council from the door.
  23. Silvia Bluejay
    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.
  24. Silvia Bluejay
    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. )
  25. Silvia Bluejay
    Thanks - I'll try that later.
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