Woodinblack

I tend to use my bassstation as a waveform generator. It has the advantage you can put it on hold!

I had my first ever flu jab a few weeks ago, I walked in, said hello, went into a room, had the jab and was out again in less than a couple of minutes. No queue

Yes I have, and not all professional mac users need anything from Adobe! It seems weekly. and spending hours getting it working properly (and by that I mean hours yesterday!)

Does this count as a pedalboard? £27 Chinese job..

I still have to travel over 50 miles to get near a city with anything like the population of Nottingham.

I must admit if my experience had been like your experience, then I would probably feel the same. My experience of cover bands was largely in the 80s and largely devoid of working with people with much talent or drive. And they weren't really original either, they just played rock and / or punk, and they were the side of the line that it was original just purely in the sense that no-one had used those exact same words in that exact same order with that exact same chord, but not original in the sense that you would think listening to it it was anything different than all the other bands. But the covers, which is late in life. Turn up, setup, play the gig, get paid (some have had free drinks, weddings tend to have food), load the car up, home by 12, £80 in the drawer , minus the cost of 2 cokes if I was paying for them, and that money has paid for all musical equipment I have got in the last 5 years. Get to play some songs I love, some I hate, get good gigs and bad gigs, people dancing, don't have to worry about some prima donna worried you played their precious 2-3-4 intro wrong. Would love to do originals, but there are a shortage of people doing prog around here, only original bands are rock bands around here, and at least with the covers you get to play something decent.

Just take a music stand, then people will be so angry they won't even notice.

Ah, I said 91, now you are sneaking in 92 so you can get tool and RATM in there! but still don't understand why rock music has to be mainstream before you listen to it? 😀

I don't listen to any type of dance music, but I don't care if other people do. I don't really care what is in the mainstream, in fact I don't really know, i don't listen to radio stations often (if I do it is radio 6, which doesn't seem over dancy). I thought music had already gone pretty bad by 91!

Yeh, RichToneMusic had one at 240 and I was tempted. I don't *need* a 6 but it would be nice. But my numbers have to go down before anything new comes in or I would ahve one of those fancy short scale ones!

There are an awful lot of rock bands, and being 'only 15' isn't really a qualification. They sound good, they are clearly competant as a rock band, and hope they do well for their sakes, but there are no real edges being pushed there are there? Stop listening to EDM stuff then and leave it to people who want to listen to it. There is plenty of room for everyone.

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!