Woodinblack

I think you will find, compared to most other places, especially here, everything is crazy cheap in the US! Spot on, same here, noone cares what I play apart from me - the new rickenbacker I took to the gig a few weeks back was the first time someone actually mentioned that they hadn't seen it before, and that was someone in the band. So I take what I want. It is all insured, whether it costs £200 or £2000. Although I do tend to avoid taking the £2000 one to places where it might get knocked over. It might be insured but it is a one off!

I suppose you win some, lose some on those gigs! That was all very normal with our group. The drummer has always helped with the load in, but obviously, he has the drumkit too, and the singer now almost always sets up the PA when we have have it in (except always one wire missing in the end) after some not so subtle hints, but it still has been pretty much on me to get it in and set up, the guitarist has never helped with any of it.

Great price. I did actually get mine for £85 refurbished when Behringer had their own eBay channel, but if I hadn't I would go for that, it has been a great amp - I bought it as a backup (fits fine in a gig bag pocket as a spare), and currently is what I am using as my only amp on stage

Certainly makes a very stable neck!

There are several questions, so just trying to work out what you are really asking Depends on the whatever, 20k rubles in $197, 20k yen is $127! Assuming you mean enough to but that fedora, well, I wouldn't, its not something that appeals to me, so I wouldn't buy it even if it was a lot cheaper. I also am not at a place where I could justify buying a bass that was that sort of money, I wouldn't really buy a bass that my money from gigging wouldn't cover at some point - so you know, £1000 I can justify in my head in that its 8-12 gigs and I have paid for it. Better than that, it is retrospective gigs, all my gigging money goes in a drawer, if I want to buy something I look in the drawer to see if there is enough money, and if there is, I buy it. But, everyones justification limit is different. Some people wouldn't dream spending over a couple of hundred on a bass, some people wouldn't think twice of spending over £10,000 on an instrument that they want. Then the final question, sight unseen. Well, it is a truth that 2 of the 4th largest amounts of money I have spent on a bass has been untouched. Once because it was a custom instrument so it didn't exist before I bought it and one because it was a long way away, and I also believed. it was going to be fine, it was. I think if I was going to spend 15k on an instrument I would go and check it out, but then that is again down to my finances, maybe for the person who would drop that sort of money on a bass it wouldn't be worth their time. I am also sure that even though I don't like them, they are very high quality instruments, and you probably don't get a friday afternoon fodera, I am sure that if you play one of a certain model, and then play another one it is pretty similar, they aren't made like fenders. Also, if there is something wrong, I am in the UK, and assuming that I am buying in the UK, if something goes wrong, I can get the credit card company to sort it out!

I have 5.8GHz on both bass and mixer control, no interference. 5.8 is a lot better for that.

I had a SR2605 - that had a 15pc neck, Panga Panga, Maple, Padauk, Purpleheart and Walnut Headstock looked like this:

By its nature there is no such thing as a non aesthetically challenged tort pickguard, so it is a fair comparison! I assumed what you meant in your photos were 'ugly tort' and 'photocopy of an ugly tort'

Our singer does that. Which means at least 2 or 3 songs a gig he doesnt get the first line out as the microphone is off!

I used to use a TC Helicon MP75, which sound wise I think is much better for my voice, but have gone to a behringer backup as I found watching a video I move quite a bit when singing, and the MP75 is hypercardoid, so when I go a few degrees off axis the sound drops out drastically, and unfortunately I go off axis quite a lot.

In my band I do backing vocals (I am good at harmonies) and I have 3 songs as main vocals (was 4 but had to drop one due to the keyboard player leaving). I did find out though that some things are harder to sing then you would think - I did an open mic with the drummer and guitarist but not the singer, and we did a few songs, the guitarist wanted to do stuck in the middle with you - I found that although the song is easy to sing and play, I couldn't get the timing of the singing right for the 'stuck in the middle with you' of the chorus, because it was out of time with the bass and I couldn't get my voice to do it without practice.

Thats nice.. Would be good with gold hardware but still good. And also good video of the radiator

I can get enjoyment from all sorts although if something is too simple I have to really concentrate to not get distracted and lose my place. But although in general I am ok playing the straight stuff, I couldn't do more than a couple of songs of it, an prefer something a bit more interesting for enjoyment while playing - I don't really get enjoyment having done something unless I am practicing to myself

Makes sense, but I have rechargables in all these things and I just routinely rotate through them, there are the wireless microphone, guitar sender and IEM that get changed at every gig, a USB power bank and the batteries in various things such as the P2, cable tester, foot pedals etc that get changed every month or so.

I always keep on with me - they are small, it doesn't hurt and you never know.

I just take the mixer, never had a problem with it, so I doubt I would. I guess if something went wrong we could cobble something together, but never been an issue,

Not my gig, the drummers gig with his other band. He played the pub we are playing new years eve on, only when he got there he saw posters for another group at new years eve. So he asked and they don't remember booking us (we do, and confirmed it), a whole year ago. Also the gig that we had the week before christmas contacted us to say they didn't have enough ticket sales for their event so they are cancelling it, so there is Christmas gone as well as a non trivial amount of money! Going to be a quiet Christmas, have nothing to the end of January now

The ibanez ric copy I had in the 80s had stereo

I have just gone down to a smaller one - just seems that as I have a pedalboard on it, it is a pain that i need a separate pedal just to make one noise! Single shot sample triggered by midi. I will check the audio file plugin if it does that.

I have done that many times in my last group with 'ever fallen in love' and 'teenaged kicks' - they always merged into one with me!

Oh yes there is! https://www.willcoxguitars.com/lightwave-optical-pickup-system/

OK, so now I am back gigging with my mod dwarf and I am happy with the sound, although I probably need to set up some new patches that I used on my ME90B while the dwarf was away. If I can get a sample playback plugin I can drop a pedal from the pedalboard, and add some other things. Looking it seems that there is still no sample playback pedal so once again I think I need to try and make one. Has anyone (and I am probably guessing @SamIAm ) had any luck building a plugin on a mac? If not I have some PCs around, would just be easier on the mac. Then I need to look at some autowah - or I guess I can repurpose my voume pedal as a expression. but only if I get the room by removing the jamman!

I am fine with that but always mess up the verse

I would assume one stereo in, two mono out

We have a lot of singer songwriter types, guy/girl with acoustic guitar singing something soulful or righteous for a while, seems to have been the trend for a decade now. But we don't really have a shortage of bands either, most of the pubs that are still open have a live band one at the weekend, just not as many pubs that there used to be.