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Stood next to one of those when it started, a Mk14 later one, which is a bit louder, and can confirm, it is not going to get under 85db. The crowd would easily break 85db. Yeh, we won't play with a limiter, too much risk to the equipment and doesn't make for an enjoyable gig.

Well, I certainly wouldn't be looking at making a profit (but then I never am), but I was refering to the case where you didn't want to give it up. "Yes I have that bass, and no you can't have it". I wouldn't be happy saying that. I was also thinking that. All of those choices are personal, but if I sell something it is because I don't want it anymore, or I want something more, so it no longer has any meaning to me. HOwever, maybe it has meaning to her, even if it didn't to him, or maybe he had to sell it.

Thats the problem isn't it. If a drummer drops his sticks on a hard floor you have already exceeded 85dB!

Almost got one of those as it came up cheap but I dithered as usual and it had gone

Precicely my point. I hate haggling at the best of times. Do you really want to haggle with someone recently widowed over something with emotional significance for them? And if you decline to sell it would you feel great about that? I guess some wouldn't care, I would have a big problem with that. There is a very big price difference between a new commisioned bass and the price you would get for a second hand one - one of the downsides of custom instruments.

Noise limit of 85db - were they using the laptops internal speakers?

Wouldn't be my first choice. When I had to remove the sticky stuff from my GK3 pickup on my precision, I just used cooking oil and a bit of effort.

I did find the title a little irritating, but I moved past it

I was travelling across nevada, and on one of the desert roads was 'the biggest sex shop in <wherever I was>'. I thought it was quite amusing at the time as there were large billboards both sides of the road, one side had about god and repenting, the other had about this sex shop. When we got there it had a really big carpark (it was a barn in the desert) and had a big sign by the car park entrance which said 'No Semi's Allowed'. Almost crashed I did.

Yes, you need to earth the controls. One big black* wire going from every control to the earth point of the circuit, or the body connection of the jack socket (which is not the bit connected to the battery, but the 0v of the circuit * other colours are available.

Not all covers are bad, some bring a lot to the part:

Its fairly accurate, from on top of a fence you can see all sides equally, but from one side or the other, you can only understand your own side.

See the 100 threads that cover that subject. There are a whole breadth of opinions between the extremes, most of them unreconcilable. Indeed. Good and bad. I have heard exception and terrible both in originals and covers. It is easier to tell if a cover is a terrible cover than just a terrible original because you have something to compare it with. And obviously you can listen to a groups entire set and not have a clue if it was original or not (or in fact with a lot of bands, if they changed song at all). I used to do sales at tattoo conventions, I have had my fair share of those!

Well, apart from writing it down on a piece of paper, it does appear in the GR20s midi map that the parameter can be requested by system request (but strangely not provided in bulk dump). So if you are good with midi, you can set up a computer to request the sensitivity and send a new set for different guitars. But I suspect the piece of paper is probably an easier approach!

Oh they look shiney enough, but if you try and take off you will realise that the government sold off the engines

Works for me

Indeed - good what you say if there is money riding on it. Except it isn't true, we don't 'decouple from the EU regulatory and purchasing mechanisms' until the end of the month, because we are still under EU rules until the end of the month. This is all permitted under EU rules. Obviously, or we wouldn't have been able to do it. Here is the link to the gov.uk page on it: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-mhra-statement Not trying to damage the paint your spitfire or anything But I am glad we can get this, we need it, we have bigger problem to deal with than most countries due to our govt and all their faults!

“I heard Ed play the solo. I freaked. ‘You’re in the wrong key, Ed!’ He looked at me with this sly look on his face and said, ‘This song is in the key of G, Al. That’s the chord we end the song on when we play it live.’ They actually ended on the IV chord (G) live as opposed to the root, which was D, the key the song is actually in. In their book of music theory, whatever chord you ended on was the key the song was in. I listened again to the solo, which was in another mode, not unlike John Coltrane’s work. ‘It’s very progressive, Ed. I can live with it if that’s what you want,’ I said, once again backing down from any kind of music theory debate. By the time I mixed the song, I loved the solo, but I’ll always know why he played it that way. Ed felt the opening chord of the song (D) was the V chord. And he still does to this day. Al’s advice: Don’t stand in the way of genius!”

I would think in that situation John Easts website will give you all the information you want, and if not, I assume the man himself will. Does this not help? https://www.east-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UNI-PRE-01-3-KNOB-01-1.pdf Also the wiring between the original pre and the east pre won't change the wiring, the output is still the same and the battery connections are still the same.

Hardly necessary, if you are doing it you probably aren't shamed about it and naming people never really has a positive. I wouldn't either, although probably not because it was the law, but because there is no amount of playing mustang sally that would compensate for not being able to think straight or walk any distance.

Not a bad idea. I put a glockenklang pre in my SR5005 when that preamp was a bit dead, but that has 4 knob pre, instead of 3, and also a bypass switch, which is covered by push/pull on the glock. So one pot is a dummy and I am not sure whether to put the switch back in to fill the hole or put a low battery indicator in it. But I have never needed one so seems a bit superflous!

Some people were very much breaking the spirit of the rules even if there was some wiggle room in the letter of the law, and some BCers will absolultely break the law to play a gig if they have the oportunity.

Its on the ACG Basses and Guitars group https://www.facebook.com/groups/117104031648312/permalink/4982034371821896/

Its a bit different for them though isn't it, they have to spend quite a long time with prep, get everything ready, spend large sums of money and it probably takes many months to get right. Ferry companies have to lay on other ferries, things need clearing. If it doesn't go ahead there would be huge financial implications. With us, we just rock up at the pub*, and if it is cancelled the night before, then it is a pain but nothing too drastic. * other genres of music are available for arriving.