Happy Jack

I was actually looking at sash window weights ... much the same approach.

I'm sure something could be kludged together, but not sure why you'd want to attach it to the car? If it's the whole blowing-away-in-the-wind-thing and you've got your car right there, four breezeblocks (eight if you're particularly worried) would be the easy solution.

We played a couple of gigs last year in pub carparks where the pub's marquee was quite literally trying to achieve lift-off in the middle of a song ... cue much hilarity.

The other limiting factor is that you forgot your bass!

Is it waterproof?

We thought some of you might be interested in the thought process we've just been through. @Silvia Bluejay and I get all the gigs for the bands I play in, and the early feedback from contacting (the surviving) landlords is that carefully-organised outdoor gigs are still the most likely things to be on offer after 12th April and running through until 21st June. If pubs and punters like those gigs enough, many pubs may well continue doing them while the weather stays warm, so until - say - late September. The problem is of course that this is England. If we agree to play on a Saturday afternoon in the beer garden or car park, and on Friday afternoon the weather forecast is '40% chance of rain' or something, what do we do? Cancel because even a brief shower will wreck our equipment? So we've punted £104 on a waterproof gazebo. The thinking is NOT that we will put it up for all outdoor gigs, more that possession of that gazebo means that we can commit to play in anything short of heavy rain, and if there's heavy rain then the pub will cancel the gig anyway. I have a couple of acres of woodland in the Chilterns with a lock-up hut and a petrol generator, so Silvie and I went up there this afternoon to test out the idea. This is the first in an occasional series of informative and entertaining short films entitled Educate Your Band ...

You just have to hold your phone very still as you take the photo. Alternatively, try pressing any of: Print Screen ALT + Print Screen CTRL + Print Screen At least one of those should do it for you.

Thread gets above a hundred replies and I'm well off out of it. Thread with 1,371 replies? You're 'avin' a giraffe.

Bathtubs Over Broadway Uttery, utterly wonderful, and a climax that you'll never see in any other documentary. 90 minutes you won't want to get back.

This ^ I genuinely don't understand why some vendors edit their ad after it has sold to remove the price ... why on earth would you do that? The prices achieved by previous sales on Basschat are one of the best guides in Europe to the genuine state of the pre-owned market.

I started using Reaper from a standing start in mid Movember. These two videos (both songs are originals) have been released in March, i.e. in the last two weeks:

I was having reasonable success with a Samson C01 large diaphragm condenser before I decided to go crazy upmarket. They're normally £69 but I've just found that DV247 are selling them at £45 delivered: https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Samson-C01-Large-Diaphragm-Condenser-Microphone-/art-REC0004572-000?campaign=GShopping/GB&ProgramUUID=5G_AqJarZwoAAAFl0FZyjI8V&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi7yCBhDJARIsAMWFScPHV1RKw6AJclMwHo4zKime7CsqEG-_iLV3ncCfC20k0mIR8pB2_p0aAsUNEALw_wcB Even at that price, the mic comes with an adaptor for any mic stand and a solid case. For me that's a no-brainer, so 🙄 I've just bought a second one to make a pair. They're also absolutely ideal for drumkit overheads ...

Don't bogart that J ...

Contact Phil Jones direct. He's an Englishman working in the USA, a lovely guy, and very approachable.

Noooooooo!!!

All fair comment BUT the download route requires someone to operate a bank account with linked PayPal account. I've done this for my own stuff for many years and I don't want to try to run a parallel universe on behalf of a guy who's a great musician but utterly illiterate when it comes to IT. Seriously, he's never owned a PC and when I tried to give him one he turned it down! We've talked it through and decided to wait and see if we get people buying the CDs and then saying "But where's my download?" before we put too much effort into that side of things. This is just a 'toe in the water' to see whether there's any actual demand for CDs at our gigs. In the bottom of my wardrobe I still have a box of 50 vinyl albums (I managed to give away half a dozen to friends and family) that I played on a few years back. Incidentally, as at today 100 CDs with cardboard sleeves would cost £174 whereas 100 CDs in PVC wallets would cost £114. No brainer.

I've been talking this week to Sean at Torch (yes, he's still in business!) and only discovered this topic afterwards, courtesy of Silvia Holmes, Sherlock's prettier younger sister. http://www.torchmusic.co.uk/ He's sending us a sample (of our own CD) just now and if we're happy then we'll be placing an order.

Is it just me, or are those EQ settings pretty extreme?

For myself, I've always hated that bassline. I simply can't think of a LESS funky bassline than that, so I've always played it more-or-less Bootsy style instead, and with about two thirds of the notes removed!

@Bassassin

Agreed, but you're talking about live situations with other musicians, whereas the OP wants something for home practice on his own. For myself, I bought the footswitch because I thought I'd be using it like you. I ran into so much resistance that I soon abandoned that idea. I use mine mainly for setting up guide tracks when recording new songs (for which purpose it's excellent) since I can't play the drums, and also for home practice. Neither of those make any real use of the footswitch.

Deffo agree with this. Extremely easy to use, very good sample sounds, not over-laden with bells and whistles you'll never use. Speaking of that, if you go for the Beat Buddy don't buy the optional footswitch controller unless you're sure you'll need it. The basic unit is very good VFM, the footswitch rather less so!