Jo.gwillim

Etienne has kept me in chromes this past couple of years. Really friendly, fast and helpful. Many thanks!!

Just sold Dunc an XR18 mixer. Lovely to get to know him a bit with all the messaging. Great guy and easy sale if it wasn't for parcelforce not delivering when they said they would Arrg!! Many thanks Dunc

Just bought a set of strings from this fine fella. All went very well, thanks James

Zach bought a stomp XL from me, really smooth quick transaction with good comms. I hope you enjoy it mate.

Thx for this, it's helpful to have something to look at. 3 thoughts, first the defection can't be any more than the shim size and as you have rightly said contact between the neck and body can be minimal it's likely to be much less than that. Next if your theory is right we might expect the screws to need tightening after a while as the neck deforms. It would be interesting to hear if people find this to be so. I haven't but I'm not a very good statistical sample! Thirdly I'm not sure from your diagram how the skijump forms after the neck has left the pocket. I'm interested in all of this as I've a lovely fender jazz neck with awful skijump but i haven't plucked up the courage yet to take the frets off and shave a bit off the finger board. All the best

I get that a force applied for a long time could cause warping. I have a jazz neck, bought second hand with bad skijimp. The problem isn't around where a shim might, or might not have been placed it's where the neck leaves the pocket. The neck in the pocket isn't distorted it's nice and flat. @Downunderwonder if you can describe your thinking a bit more I'd be genuinely interested. I've got a physics degree so don't hold back on the detail. I'm rusty but will cope!! As a PS if shim is placed immediately not at the end of the pocket but instead placed so that the bridge neck screws go right through it there wouldn't be any bending moment on the neck. Is that a good "covers all bases" strategy?

Thank you my friend. I hope you can clamber your way back in the end. Do feel free to PM me if you're feeling low. No great words of wisdom, just someone to be there.

Everyone's different so I'm not saying do this but i lost my daughter to anorexia 18 months ago. Playing the most discordant rubbish on my own really helped. The grief was easier to express through what i played it often ended in floods of tears which was actually helpful. When it came to gigging i just played for my daughter as though she was right there in the audience. Just to let her know i was getting on with my life. She would have so wanted that. Please don't think "I'm saying look at me, do what i did". I'm certainly not, it was just how i coped. Very best wishes Jo

I've got the same amp. It always seems to me that it's got more knobs that it really needs!

2 gigs this weekend, Friday night was the 50th anniversary of the Aberdyfi mountain rescue team and Saturday was a 50th birthday party held in Aberystwyth museum which is splendid old music hall complete with stage and footlights. Both gigs were fine but people didn't come for the music they came to talk to their mates. Fair enough but hard work for the band. We seem to get a lot of bookings of the "wouldn't it be nice if we had a band" variety. Not complaining, 2 paid nights out with my best mates and access to 2 very good buffets!

Ps still using your barefaced 210, best gigging cab for me.

Hard to relax with feedback on the prowl isn't it? I hate being the sound guy and bass player. Either job is fine but both together arrgh. We have at least 6 mics onstage and feedback was an awful problem, moved over to IEMs, but they didn't gel except for the main singer who loves them as she could never hear herself and kept on asking for more stage monitor volume. Feedback probs gone now! Happy daze.

Glad I'm not the only one!

Yep definitely great sometimes but totally not needed others. Cured a terrible boomy room a couple of gigs ago without thinning the bottom end too much.

Great gig yesterday at the castle hotel Aberystwyth 5 till 8. Llinos the landlady had live bands on every week and there's always a good pub turnout who come for just that. They're always very appreciative. Our drummer has covid so we had a brilliant stand-in who's only played with us once before but if you mumble the first line to him before starting her gets the feel and the groove straight away. Hats off to David Spivek!

Lots of bad memories there, big screens big games and our band never seem to mix well.

That's so annoying when someone in the audience does that, even worse when it's a band member who really should know better.