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Small pub in Lichfield last night, what it lacks in size it always makes up for in atmosphere, great beer, great landlord and a blast from start to finish. We were really on it and the crown were great, one really weird guy though, why is there always one? We do punk/ indie/ grunge/ rock and he asks for various miles Cyrus songs. He wasnt local as he told us at great length after the gig as we tried to avoid him. Landlord loved it and gave us 50% on top of fee and wants us back.

When I googled one I was suspicious of I got about 100 hits for ‘is this genuine’ threads. It was good enough to have fooled a previous buyer sadly, who was very upset and out of pocket by more than a few quid.

It's worth googling the serial number, there are a few that appear very regularly on copies. It won’t proove it’s genuine but could prove it’s fake.

Read the full story and the organisers did a lot, sorted the main event, free upgrade, offer of free carer tickets, access to private toilet facilities etc. As a passionate supporter of disability rights I find this a bit frustrating. Unless there is something being missed by all the media, which is possible, then it seems to be someone looking for an angle to moan at. I truly hope that isn’t the case as it’s been a hard slog to get rights for the disabled and it only takes a few freeloading idiots to spoil it for everyone.

I don’t always smile a great deal when I am concentrating, if I do I think I probably appear slightly crazy. This is an example of ‘game face’.

there are some very distinct similarities. I listened to thirty seconds of it and that was 29 too long.

Thanks guys, jutsbthe sort of thing I was wondering about. The Thomann ones look interesting and being that cheap it wouldn’t be a killer if they didn’t really fit with the new PA whenever that happens.

Sorry, I purposefully left it a bit vague to see what others run at the moment. At present we run two active Laney monitors that take a feed from the vox only PA, backline is totally independent. Plan is to upgrade the PA in the future to put a full mix through but that could be six months or six years away. Budget wise, the cheaper the better but we can get a pair of Laney 120w brand new for £340 so that would be a max at present unless there was a sensibly priced PA system that would cover the monitoring and do what I mentioned before but can’t see that happening within the budget we are likely to stretch to. I would love to hear any suggestions from a direct replacement to a completely different way of doing it.

One of our Laney wedge monitors has died so it’s time for replacement/ upgrade. I would like to go in ear but total cost for all of us is too high so we will either replace like for like (probably second hand Laney ones or new if we can’t find any) or the type that attach to microphone stands. Does anyone have any suggestions/ recommendations? Cost is a major factor as whilst I am willing to invest I am in a minority of one I think.

Odd that, the pictures show an enormous shop and yet not a single land line. Wonder why? Well I don’t actually but you know what I mean.

Give them a call and ask what time their shop is open as you would like to test a few out. The premises look impressive. My guess is it will either be an answerphone or you will get some BS as to why you can’t visit.

What a shame

I dont get it, do the muppet sellers think they are fixable?

It wouldn’t bother me at all, a band is a team, different people bring different things to it.

Stack lives in the conservatory or rehearsal room as I like to call it, Basses mostly in the living room but a couple in the bedroom including the acoustic for last minute noodles before kipping.

Been searching for this sort of sound myself and haven’t got there yet, the closest so far is the Soul food, had one, sold it, regretted it, got another.

I love them, but I swap them out every 2 months at most and sooner if it’s a big gig for us. I do a lot of practice/ rehearsals but I think they have a life of about 20 - 30 hours before they begin to off. But they aren’t expensive and do sound fantastic when new. I have tried a few others but can’t get that sound with anything else. I just cannot imagine what a set would sound like after 16 years.

Very true, just goes to show it’s possible, not easy by any stretch, but possible.

He seemed realllllllyyyyyy old at the time though.

I run a Mooer Reverb off a Mosky power supply without issue. Not sure if I am just lucky or not.

Just got back from a three hour rehearsal and the Soul food is suiting me very nicely. Enough to make its self known but not so much that it’s distracting me.

Yup exactly that, so far I have tried a couple of cheap pedals I got from mates plus an awful boss heavy metal (?) pedal, then a big bass muff, mojomojo, soul food, boss bass driver (pretty good), hot wax, everything on my B3 and a good few at PMT in Brum as well!

This^^^^^ we rehearse once a week but it can slip due to other pressures, as soon as we a couple of weeks out from a gig we can suddenly manage a couple a week and longer at that. We are still trying to build a bigger setlist (well two actually) and getting some or the more complex stuff from good to spot on which can take time.

I only play fingerstyle, I must admit I don’t like really fuzzy sounds on bass, probably why I am struggling to find the perfect overdrive!

I forgot to update this, I took the pedal to where I got it from and we tested it back to back with another and it was no different but very different to how it sounded for me (still not what I want though), there must be something about my setup that just doesn’t work with the mojomojo pedal so I will look to move that on. I then spotted a Soul food for sale on here. I had one a while back but let it go looking for that ‘perfect tone’, it’s a great mild overdrive and whilst not perfect it is very good. Within a minute I had dialled in a nice natural valve break up sort of tone. The search for perfect continues but I have got somewhere I am happy with for now.