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Gig tonight, so I shall be seeing how I get on with them, will just have to crank up my amp until I can clearly hear myself.

Thanks for the advice guys, I have a gig this Saturday and will try them again, a couple of guys have mentioned turning up my amp volume, my fear doing this would upset the sound balance of the band and then the vocals and guitarist volume will need to go up, whereas it was spot on before.

I play in a rock band, so we are far from playing quietly. Had a hearing test when I had the impressions done for the earplugs, surprisingly the results came out pretty well.

Just received my new earplugs from ACS this week. Tried them out this afternoon in my house in isolation at gigging level and the sound was definitely lower but I could still hear my amp. Had a rehearsal tonight at full gigging level and could not hear my bass at all, not a thing, I only knew what I was playing by looking at my fingers on the fretboard, pulled them out after two songs, very disappointed. I understand ACS have a 30 day return policy that I can have different attenuaters fitted, I will be contacting them tomorrow and will be considering having the 10db ones fitted, hopefully I will still be able to hear my amp and have some hearing protection. Anyone else had this problem with the Pro 17’s ?

Also did a short stint with Wishbone Ash in the early eighties.

My past experiences of trying to recruit new band members using JMB (especially vocalists and guitarists) is a mirror image of yours, the majority are deluded flakes and courtesy is not within their vocabulary.

Blimey, your bang on there, I’ll eat my hat.

Didn’t know they ever had a female in Wishbone Ash 😀

Speak for yourself, some of us are of a certain age and I was well into JW (James Gang) well before The Eagles. James Gang debut album 1969. Eagles debut album 1972.

Must be a Fleetwood MaC tribute act at a guess. Seems a lot of tracks from band in the set list for a covers band.

Not for me, the other option is turn up for the rehearsal two hours after the agreed start time, then they just might be ready to start playing something.

Eric Clapton Steve Winwood Rory Gallagher

Just out of interest, what are the six songs you need to learn?

Either a pattern on the tee shirt or that’s some serious man boob sweat 💦

Been playing this baby in rock bands for years through a Markbass rig, superb instrument, no problems at all, except as mentioned before, G string volume. Teal green finish is gorgeous.

If I bumped into him, I wouldn’t give him the time of day.

You wouldn’t get me within a few hundred metres of Albarn, I find him totally annoying 👎 And - he would definitely find me annoying.

Sounds like a living hell. Worked in London for three years, but never lived there, detested the place.

You pays your £12.50 but the crap is still going in the air. My question is where is that £12.50 going to?

There to young to drive and go to pub gigs.

Sadiq Khan hammering the final nails in the coffin of smaller live music venues, hard up musicians in older vehicles being hit with additional costs, are they worth playing.☹️

Same here.

Get some traps 🐭🐭🐭 nothing worse than having them in a drum kit 😀

If you have an estate of 900 pubs and growing and employ over 37,000 people, it places you in a very strong position to negotiate the leanest buying prices, it’s economies of scale, that’s why I can go into my local one (and it is a local, manager and same staff been there years) and buy a pint of cider for £1.99. The original premises, a hotel, stood empty for a few years, Wetherspoons revived it to a very high standard retaining many of the original features and it’s now a great focal/meeting point in the small market town where I live. Showing a video of a brawl in one Wetherspoons out of 900 does not depict the usual type of clientele that use there pubs.

Weird to say the least. A lot of folks on here suggesting putting the kick through the PA, vmaxblues hasn’t mentioned the set up they are currently running, if they don’t have bass bins or a powered sub, putting the kick through would be a waste of time. It would be better for the drummer to sell his current silly bass amplification and invest the money in a powered sub, vmaxblues could also capitalise on this by di-ing his bass out through the PA/Sub.