Woodinblack

l can make a true VPN and also have a pair of pigeons, maybe I will try too, although so far can only manage a semaphore system with cable ties, and only if the recipient is sitting in a box n the upstairs hallway!

I used to do phone networks, so we had to do vpn tunnelling through many networks to get to the machines which were mostly in other countries in protected network providers. Doing it on windows, you just need putty, on a Mac / general unix you just use OpenSSL but have to type it out. You get pretty fast after you have done it a few hundred times! obviously these days most decent home routers have a button to switch a vpn on

yes, a true VPN, very simple to set up in a few seconds. Anyone could set one up following simple instructions. Not quite sure what you think a VPN is if you think there are 'true' ones?

Know the feeling - was going to have a big december, but one gig, then the private party on the 14th cancelled (fair enough) and the next day the NYE gig had forgotten we were playing there so no NYE. So that is all bad, but then a local club had a cancellation on New years and another one had a cancellation today, but our guitarist seems to have a hand problem so we can't do those, so nothing to the end of jan. I think i need to find another group to play in as well, this is getting quite common.

If you have (or can get) a multimeter, put it across the centre connection of the volume pot connection to ground, change the volume from maximum to minimum. At maximum is should be less than 10k (depends on the pickup and the pot), and at minimum it should be zero. If it doesn't go to zero, the pot or the pickup isn't grounded, if it goes much over 10k the pickup wire has probably come off or the pickup is broken

how can you blacklist a vpn? Anyone can setup a vpn server on any machine, and it doesn't even have to be a static address.

Actually seems not too onerous, one contact person to talk to, and a system to take down illegal things quickly, which we pretty well have.

yes, as mentioned, I removed it try off topic first then you should, I reduced the requirement

Yes.

Speaking as that admin, it was 5, I have bumped it down a few for no valid reason, so it shouldn't be a problem, and also any warning points are probably related to people having warning points over here, that are reflected over there, but that doesn't really make sense, as there have been no warnings there etc, so i have removed them where advised of them!

I got a bass in a hardcase posted to me a few weeks back, it was £26 for the shipping and £24 to insure it for £1300.

Neither my Euro or my Euro RST had a problem getting the strings flat on the neck if you wanted it, but then tbh, none of my neck through basses have ever had a problem with that, maybe people don't put so much effort into it on bolt on necks because they figure you can always shim it!

Like farenheight.. I have nothing in my head that gives me a concept of what that means, and unlike km/miles etc it is a trickier calculation, so someone says 70° - I don't know, I guess it isn't really cold, and I guess it isn't really hot, but it means next to nothing

Of course you can, it is just a switch, you can put 10 of them together if you want, all it does is switch between y<->a or y<->b - it makes no difference what is at the other end of it. So if you want y<-> a and y<->by<->ba y<->by<->bb that will work just fine

Oh if only the rest of us had to slum it with such low end equipment

It is penny pinching, but as I said, I paid £85 for mine as a refurb, so that seems not an unreasonable pinch to me. I paid a lot more for my CTM100 and that had jacks.

It gets pretty warm when run almost flat out for 3 hours (certainly not very hot, you can still pick it up straight away), but that isn't really that surprising considering how small it is, but that has never seemed to cause it (or me) an issue.

of course they can - 1, 2, 3, 4 lots.

They really are the same board in a different order aren't they!

I think the problem might be that there isn't really that much room on the back, I am not entirely sure it would fit!

I can't really boycott tax havens though, other than not putting my millions there, which I have so far managed to do by the simple scheme of not being rich. Obviously I don't use amazon or recommend others do, but sadly I know it will have next to no impact, but it keeps me happy. I try and use stores like andertons rather than amazon, for every quid you spend there, a lot of it stays in the country and community, compared to amazon where it leaves the country and goes to sit in piles of cash in other countries (wherever his stash is), and keeps some stores going in this country. It is very hard for normal stores to compete with people who can apply the pressure amazon can, and I have seen that from inside businesses. But I understand, most people want cheap over everything, as well as sitting there moaning how there are no local shops any more Anyway, sorry for the side track, back to the original thread, the BAM200 is actually excelent, wouldn't be without mine, go and get one (only downside is if you forget your jack to speakon connection!)

I bet he doesn't - I bet he uses an army of very expensive accountants to work every loophole, move his company to places where he doesn't have to pay and pressure governments to reduce his liabilities. I am betting Andertons pay a lot more tax proportionatly.

he's a drummer - I'm not going to write "kick" on the mixer 😀

I go for names for microphones, and instruments for the instruments. Which means the labels can be bigger, and the only trouble we ever had was that the bass drum ended up plugged into the bass socket a couple of times.

Oh people do plug themselves in - I don't even check that, if they aren't plugged in they are going to be pretty quiet, but every socket has a label on it as to what it is so there is no excuse to get it wrong, i wouldn't expect anyone to know the right channel numbers!