Owen

"Your 'cello looks great and it sounds like a bass guitar" My avatar will give you a clue as to what I was playing. Why do I bother.

Thanks Y'all. Clarky, I had kind of clocked your thread and then forgot it. I had a lead on an AI focus 2 from TB but that fizzled out. I am possibly going to go for a radical rig overhaul but that is not finished thought process yet so the purchase of something now is not an option- there are many variables I need to work out before I actually drop the £ (including selling what I have!).

Acoustic Image used to do their Focus (400w into 8, 800w into 4 + 1Kw into 2) as a power amp only module. I have preamps that meet my needs but would love a very small power amp which is nice and gutsy. I used to drive a Berg NV610 with an AI Focus 2 and it rocked so I know it has the grunt. Does anyone make just a power amp module of that size?

He had this thing that I did not know I needed. I paid and it came the next day. Most excellent.

I bought his complete XLR to jack collection. Everything was cool

Thanks all. That has helped me set this year's exam paper. I will be back in about a year for more

[quote name='4000' post='1224283' date='May 8 2011, 05:11 PM']Big +1.[/quote] As I'm sure I have said somewhere in this thread, I totally agree. However, being able to spot a bad edit is kind of useful for a budding engineer and if the guitar had been tuned before the take, it cannot hurt

Resurecting this thread due to me setting an exam next week and wondering if anyone had anything to add to the pot? TIA

It's all good

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I played there in 2007. I never want to go again. I was so dismayed I wrote a blog about it Mudstonbury So, Glastonbury. A friend said "I'd rather go to the dentist". How we laughed. He was right. Played a couple of gigs there with Gruff on Saturday and Sunday night. The gigs went very well indeed. No complaints about those. Sound was good, crew were good. It ends there. The conditions were just appalling. 180,000 people in 900 acres of 6" mud. Constant rain. It took us 2 hours of plodding/slipping/(just about) not falling to get off site and a taxi to the hotel (Camping? What do you think?) after the Saturday night gig. OK we did plunge through the thick bit of the crowd in front of the main stage, which on reflection we should not have done (sorry Nath) but really it was just a miserable experience. Someone else suggested that beer goggles would have made it better. I think a helicopter or Landrover with a blue light on top would have been the only thing that would have made it better. We played to about 2500 on Sunday night at midnight. We were under cover but it was tipping it down and still they came. Madness. The food? Had a really nice steak in a pub in Wells for Sunday lunch, slightly rare, but with a double helping of pepper sauce so that was OK. Had a Danish pastry thing in Starbucks that was nice but would have been nicer without cinnamon. Had a Burger King on the way down. I am ashamed and feel dirty, but we had to eat. I was actually secretly looking forward to it as we queued, but it was deeply underwhelming. Nice tinned grapefruit for breakfast at the hotel. I always enjoy scooping all the juice from the bowl into a glass (when no one is looking obviously) and then drinking it. Famous people? We spent some time with Corrine Bailey-Rae...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in a traffic jam waiting to get on site. Difficult to know what to say to famous people that would not be really tedious for them and ultimately not deep and meaningful for you. So I said nothing. On reflection I should have said "I really like the rhythm section work on your album". Maybe next time huh? If it had been sunny it would have been just fabulous. It wasn't and it wasn't. The playing was good. Mustn't grumble.

[quote name='Silent Fly' post='1206533' date='Apr 20 2011, 10:36 PM']"Simple" and "50 high impedance sources" are somehow not entirely compatible I would recommend Liam to contact me directly to discuss the details. My email address is in my signature. Just as a personal curiosity, what is the source(s) of the 50 piezo?[/quote] It is not personal curiosity. We all want to know!

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And so it continues. Pete has carved a neck from pine to get the measurements right. He will do mine asymetrically, cos I like them like that. He has spent a long time working out the machine heads and eventually came to the conclusion that he would fabricate his own. The headstock will have a cocobolo veneer. There will be a cutaway on the lower bout, and the fingerboard is oversized at the moment.