Dan Dare

Gone I'm afraid.

Having made the change to flats, have 2 unused sets of D'Addario nickel round wounds in 40-95 gauge, long scale going begging. PM me your name and address and you can have them. All the best.

Get a dictionary, open it random and choose the first word you see. Then do the same again a couple of times and perm them. Might get something good, or perhaps not...

I don't think the vibrations will harm the head. However, they can cause it to "walk" off the cab, in my experience. I use a piece of 1" thick dense foam between them to prevent that.

Agree with Bill F. 50k useless unless you are a bat. Looks a bit like a hi-fi firm trying to make instrument cabs and selling them with the same pitch they use in the hifi world, where most everyone is mad/deluded - that should start something

Lots of good advice above. Agree with the suggestion to look at used - your budget is a bit tight for a complete new system. Used mixers will be fine - you won't need dozens of channels with your band and makes like Soundcraft, Mackie, etc will be fine . Speakers can have a hard life, so caution needed (would advise against eBay unless you can test them first). Ditto s/h vocal mics (and you don't know who's been dribbling all over them...). AKG D5 an excellent, good value choice - miles better than the SM58.

Was going to suggest Yamaha. They work, although they ain't all that pretty.

Just call me Sherlock, Chris. Presume the deluxe model will be the Starry Smooth Hound. Home grown and made by an angler? That'll do for me Order just placed. Atb.

Could be a tall order for £200. Anything light at that price is likely to be too small to create the volume you need.

Re. trollies, I use one of those sold for carrying fishing tackle (I'm an angler). They take plenty of weight and have large wheels, so easy to get up steps. They dismantle, too, so fit in the car. Don't know how available the are in Poland, but worth checking out.

This is timely I've been considering the Smooth Hound. It looks to be very good value and I like the fact that it's home grown. Wonder why the name. You're not a sea angler by any chance, Chris?

I think stringed instruments are different from pianos, wind instruments and so on. One hand is responsible for rhythm/timing on stringed instrurnents. That makes it important that the dominant hand wields the bow or pick. So lefties need lefty basses/guitars. Try leading a rhythm with your "wrong" hand. It's tricky.

Coming at it from the other side of the equation - i.e. I have decent kit, which has cost me plenty of hard earned - I never consent to others using my gear (and, to be fair, I don't expect to use theirs), unless it's someone I know. I'd say best to refuse the job and put your ambitions on hold until you have the necessary.

At that price, Mackie, EV, RCF or Yamaha pretty decent/comparable. But don't expect large amounts of low end without a sub.

Classy stuff. Excellent.

Old fashioned standalone drum machines can be picked up v. cheaply. Plug into a spare input and away you go. More interesting to practice with than metronome.

I thought it might be "bix", i.e. our favourite biscuits. Plain chocolate Bahlsens for me, please.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1438892212' post='2838533'] It's because the tambourine is very high-frequency and will cut through any mix, even when not anywhere near a microphone. So it's very difficult to ignore. The trick is not to have one anywhere near the band when you're playing live. Tambourines should be reserved exclusively for children, and the kind of people who learn to ride a unicycle and think that juggling is a valuable social skill, i.e. the homeless. [/quote] Too wide a distribution. Tambourines should be limited to the Salvation Army, imho.

My favourite sounding cab is my Ampeg SVT 210HE (the old US made one). Would love to find another in good shape. I use it with a 1x15 if I need more welly.

Probably, but I still like it because of what it meant to me at that stage of my life and the happy memories it represents . Pop music, as dear old Frank Zappa said, is music to dress up to. It doesn't matter if it's high art or not.

A number of comments to the effect that "Bass is as capable of soloing as any other instrument", etc. Perhaps, but that doesn't make it a good thing. Remember, a gentleman is someone who can play the banjo but doesn't...