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[quote name='umph' post='972541' date='Sep 30 2010, 12:03 PM']theres no danger of shock with changing valves.[/quote] Unless you pull them out with your mouth It seems the Little Bastard suffers from the same issues most Mesa 400+'s do, they just shouldn't be putting 12ax7's in the drive section.

[quote name='Steve Amadeo' post='970774' date='Sep 28 2010, 03:23 PM']Hopefully it would be too difficult to create that kind of racket and we could hear some nicely played acoustic action instead [/quote] That sounds quite contary to the term Bass Day

Oddly the best sound we've got from a video camera live is a Flip Camcorder, they are quite cheap, use a solid state memory, pretty much bullet proof and the sound is great and we play loooooooud.

I don't know sounds difficult to create 12 hours of slappity poppity fury dead loud on DB

[quote name='cheddatom' post='970630' date='Sep 28 2010, 01:26 PM']Christ, what kind of venues are you playing!?![/quote] Everything from small pubs, to outdoor festivals. Your problem generally comes from new venues and new promoters. New promoters in particular that just think all you need is an idea and a myspace page. But often you don't know its bad until your there dealing with an idiot, hence why we bring everything we need to perform. It still beats the time we were nearly shot in America, should really open a tour stories thread.

[quote name='TomTFS' post='970535' date='Sep 28 2010, 11:56 AM']Awesome! Hahah. I've managed to avoid any quite this bad recently but it's happened before. Best one was a brand new venue (ended up being open for 2 weeks total) that was literally a tunnel the width of 2 guitar cabs and a bass cab. Drummer had to go in front with everything piled up on top of the cabs. We ended up taking up over half the room and being told to turn down so much we couldn't hear anything except drums, anywhere. Vocal mics hat to be taped to the roof and hung down for the singers. Then at the end of the gig they offered to sell us the recording of the show for £50!!![/quote] Ah but if you sound good their you sound good anywhere

I turned up one place and the promoter said "A what, A P A? What's that needed for? Don't the singers bring their own?"

Very tempting, but mainly for my guitarist who is always having problems, my Overwaters have neutrik locking jacks, no way they are coming off.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='970336' date='Sep 28 2010, 08:37 AM']It makes sense to always be prepared though. I'm not criticising, just wondering.[/quote] Same here, I'm currently gigging about 10 - 15 times a month in an originals band and the margin for error on the venues part goes through the roof. We've got to places with no xlr's, or mic stands they do oddly have mics though.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='970127' date='Sep 27 2010, 10:04 PM']Yup! You can't trust venues to have working gear, or knowing how to use it correctly. You CAN trust yourself to provide good fully working equipment. Makes sense to me![/quote] But can you trust yourself to use it properly?