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Works well, got one last month on aliexpress for £25

A weekend of two halves. Saturday night took us to a pub that I am not fond of playing in. It is very crowded, always feels like it is on the edge of something kicking off and has the acoustics of a swimming pool. Turned up, not very crowded, set up, still the acoustics of a swimming pool. Hit on a revolutionary idea I managed to get the band to go along with of 'turning the volume down'. It worked really well, and the sound was fairly balanced (for the venue - only so much you can do with wooden floors, shiney walls, massive tv behind the band and reflective ceiling). Started off and it was notable that there weren't many people there. Turns out that the put has fallen out of favour with the sort of people that are almost kicking off all the time, and instead of 100 people ignoring us, we had 25 people who were really listening. As a result, it turned out that although probably good for business, I enjoyed it a lot more than I ever have there. On packing up, some guy came up positively gushing as how good we were, and finding out where we were playing later. He had danced to pretty well everything since linkin park. Sunday was a club in a local village, I was having a problem with this as I didn't remember the venue at all, but had been assured by everyone we had played it, obviously they were right. A bit of a tricky decide as to how to set up - it was a long narrow shed, open to the sports field on the side, but it was also raining, so noone was going to be out there, so we faced down the room. The first half was pretty dire - loads of people, and there was a TV on the opposite wall we were facing with a load of blokes with their backs to us watching the football. There were people dotted around sort of moving and singing though, so not completely wasted. Then the game finished and the blokes wandered off, and we hit our 'you should be dancing' - 'does your mother know' combo and some women appeared from nowhere and did dance, and then basically carried on the for the rest of the gig, so in the end it went really well. They wanted to pay us extra at the end to go on for another hour, but I don't like doing that, it sounds sloppy and I am already tired, plus it was an afternoon gig, I could be home by 8, so I did and I was

There was one item when I looked last week that was £171.10, reduced to £171.00 - took all my self control to not snap up that deal!

This is a reasonable question, with regard to reopening an advert - if anyone needs to argue about the substance of the reason for not going through the sale, it would seem that either PM is a better place, or if you can't resolve it, take it up with the mods?

That is concerning. Mine has be fault free, except the time I got the wrong jack socket for the input, then it didn't work so well!

Indeed - you can't list the non vat price on a public facing price list as people can't buy it without vat, so anything you can't buy without a fee, the fee should be included.

Does it come with binoculars?

I dont' like eurovision, but it would still win over Oasis!

I can't say I am surprised, with no law against it and obviously people complaining but paying it, what is there to stop them apart from the artist, and I assume that Oasis are just in it for the money (although whether they get any of that money), they aren't going to stop them.

Yes - mine is a 2 as well, I only use it for thickening, not sure if it adds too much.

Gigs without phones are great, the last Tool gig and Placebo this summer were both no phone gigs, and it really does improve the atmosphere a lot.

Will do - I also have a mic mechanic, that just does a bit of fattening.

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I have the critical mass, it is one of the pedals I use for specific songs, like the 'hey teacher' in brick in the wall, the background of I get knocked down, both as gang vocals, and doubled for you should be dancing.

I tried to get one, but left it too long, and the ones I saw advertised were stupid money.

A multi effects unit? Currently switched from using my ABM600 to a ME90b straight to the PA.

Friend of mine said they were looking to get tickets. I recommended the 4th at cardiff, the first one. At least you stand a chance that they will actually start that one!

Well, I just looked. I 'think' bruce springsteen, coldplay and Hozier count as bands? Of the others I am sure there are actually quite a few with actual bass guitarists on the stage.

Yes, started on piano as a kid, then went to guitar when it wasn't cool to be playing piano in my later teens. Then went to bass then switched back to guitar. Quit guitar in my 30s and took it up again in my 40s, then got in with a good group of musicians, noting that most of them were better guitarists than me, and it was hard to get a gig as a guitarist as there were so many so went to bass, then realising I loved bass more than I did guitar. Then I got a chapman stick, which even after all this time I feel I am a beginner on, but still have a fascination for that stops me getting rid of it!

There are quite a few devices that have all of those, I would say it was more the normal than unique. Any cheap digital mixer or IO box does it, I have a spark amp that does that very well (but also has a lot of effects) that I use in my living room, I have a behringer uphoria 202 that has two mic / xlr / jack sockets in, headphones out and does 96k usb out which I use for my chapman stick (as that is stereo and can use its 48v phantom), that is less than £50 and uses proper usb sockets - I hate micro-usbs for anything, it is a terrible socket that is always the first failure point.

Group I was with a long time ago did that. Always liked it.

Was there a 'value of youthfulness, energy and happiness' can go up or down disclaimer?

Local club that can be hit or miss, but easy load in and a lot of space. I have been going through the PA recently apart from outdoor gigs where I need a bit more power, but tonight I thought I would take my home setup in to see what it sounded like, that is a Warwick Gnome 10" cab and a BAM200. I was very impressed at just how loud it got, and how you couldn't put anything on the speaker without it falling off! So I cut back on the PA and put a lot through the bam/gnome. Had the advantage of being able to feel it through the stage. Anyway, unusually, a group of older ladies started dancing from song 1, and largely speaking, danced most of the set, which was nice, so by the end of the gig everyone was up. Makes it quite rewarding, and for us, a short gig at only 2 hours so home before midnight.

this is true, there are always some exceptions and I know some great blues mucisians, but I have seen more bad than good when it comes to blues, it does tend to be the lowest common denominator of musicians so I am always impressed when I hear a good one and very impressed if I hear something special