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Erm, you weren't in Norwich on Wednesday by any chance? 😚

This is a sax question but I lack a sax hive mind to consult and I think the issue may be non instrument specific. I am a beginnery tenor player and am trying to get practice playing at a local blues jam. Thing is I’m crap, both because I’m crap but also because I can’t hear myself at all most of the time, except the very loudest shrieks. This is despite having a monitor pointing up at me. The sound guy insists I should be getting myself via a tilt down mic but I’m not. And every time I point this out he gets crosser. Does anyone with experience of sax in their band have any advice or suggestions as to solutions I may be missing? And no I’m not deaf.

Hey I'm a former BBC journalist - you want accurate reporting😮? 🤣. Below is the exact message content I had from Sire, which I argue reads as 'hadn't considered it, but now will'. Now go email 'em 😀 "Dear John, Greetings from SIRE! Thank you for reaching out to us. We do not have plans to release an unlined neck, but we will consider it after reading your email. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to let us know. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Wendell Young International Marketing Manager, Sire Revolution HQ www.sire-usa.com"

Revelation - under £200 new

If you're an unlined fretless sort of person and would like a Sire, then simply ask for one. Having written to Sire asking if they do them I've just got a reply saying they'd never thought of it but will consider making one now I've raised the thought. If you fancy reinforcing the idea in their minds, email [email protected].

Now refunded by venue

I did know it but it's helpful to be reminded, esp as I got a gig coming up tomoz. I generally push the low mids when 'in company', always drop the trebles and lows - but then 'my sound' is flats, fretless, P clone, vaguely faux upright. Another thing is that cheap speakers can sound lovely and subtle in the quiet-ish home environment but honk when turned up to gig levels. IME spending on decent drivers is rarely wasted and still regret shifting my BF Two10. My current Ashdown RM 210s are not bad on this, although cheap. Some years ago I bought two cheap TC BC210s because, well what can go wrong? Nothing in my bedroom, everything on a loud stage. YMMV, IMHE/O.

I have a Covid-delayed ticket to the James Taylor Quartet in Norwich (Arts Centre) for this Saturday 23rd at 8.00. I can't go because I have a gig that evening. Cost me £20 but free if you can use it. PM me if interested.

Here ya go @Paddy515

I always thought of relic'ing as pretentious until one day, fed up with the cheap glossy white of my Revelation, I took some sandpaper to the top edge where my plucking arm rests and rubs. It improved the overall look no end, and I'm not worried about any further knocks or scrapes. Where it looks real and subtle I'm now something of a fan.

Just out of interest, keep a log of how many days you keep cranking the strings up to tune and let us know when they finally settle.

I live in the east of England

Talk to @KiOgon on here about looms. I fit his creations to all my newly acquired basses. Not sure why you're swapping Duncan pups for Entwhistle. Entwhistle are mighty fine pups but in the same bracket money and quality wise? Yes no? Not sure if they do a J bass but for P bass I fit Toneriders as a matter of course.

Who's gonna be the first to ask to change their forum name to Sticky LaBella?

Always been typical for me and I regard my action as quite high for a fretless, deliberately so because I don't want any of that mwah malarkey.

E 2.4mm A 2.0mm D 1.8mm G 1.6mm

Attitude (=80 tune said with a bad sinus cold}

The A Team (A Ts = eighties}

Not even noticeably sweaty. Happens to me only when gigging. I'm not aware I sweat more then (no wet hands etc) but deffo my speed of note change on a fretless slows to a crawl as the finger stick to the strings (Dunlops, not super smooth but reasonably so). I posted elsewhere on here for solutions and got a number of suggestions. Strings Direct helpfully suggested a D'Addario product which you rub on. Will try it in action this Sunday.

Well, this is the end of the second day and I'm still cranking those ol' heads. The rate of detune has slowed but they still go out by half a half tone every 1/2 hour. Not blaming you as tastes and experiences vary and I decided to buy them but I call these a total waste of £40.