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I've had trigger finger in my fretting hand fourth finger and in my plucking hand third finger. Cotisone injections helped for a while, but it was the minor op that fixed them. In through the palm, sort the tendon, keep it still for a few days, and light duties for a few weeks. Sorted. David

I may be burned at the stake for this, but I prefer IEMs with less bass, and I turn down the bass on my monitor mixer. I find I can hear my bass notes with more clarity without that bottom octave or so. I'm using a cheap mixer with 3-band eq to approximate to the profile of my hearing aids, and I feed that through a passive belt-mounted volume control to a pair of Shure SE215s. I take a feed from the desk (acoustic guitars and vocals), a feed from my bass amp, and a stage ambience mic to pick up drums and band comments. David

Most of the PJB briefcases I have seen work from mains or a 12v 7Ahr lead acid battery, not a laptop battery, but I think one of the newer combos does use a laptop battery. Depending in the OP's DIY skills, a brick sized 12 v battery and a car audio booster amplifier can be used with existing speakers, and is sensitive enough that you don't need a preamp or booster with an active bass. The item on the left is a 150w into 4 ohms when bridged, class AB amplifier, and lasts over an hour with the battery shown. The item on the right is a class D amplifier of similar power. David

The instruction book says one speaker jack and one headphone jack, which mutes the speaker jack. My interpretation of the handbook is that they allow you to add extra speakers, but only in series with the one supplied. David

Band in a box? Type the chords you want onto a stave, and it will make you a backing track in the style you want, with the instruments you want, and a score if you want to practice reading the dots. Software, designed for a PC, so would still need a sound card or outboard D to A convertor.

I'm fairly sure that there is a requirement that mains gear has to be supplied with a fitted plug suitable for the country in which it is sold. That might cause some companies to specify which model can be used in which country.

EU harmonisation was a fudge. The UK voltage is 230v +10%-6% and the rest of the EU is 230v +6% -10%. So, we are harmonised but still operating at the voltages we had before. David

You are focused on playing notes. I don't know you, and do not mean to cause offence, but have you considered your attitude? Are you being fired because you are not a good fit in some way? David

My current band has a history history of putting the main pa speakers at the back of the stage because they couldn't fit a monitor speaker in the car with everything else. After a few gigs where I was standing beside a head height speaker, I volunteered to bring a monitor speaker to every gig I played in. It's also worth bearing in mind that the mix you want in the monitor may not be the mix that is going out to FoH. David

At the risk of being a pedant, the definition of being 'at work' was defined by court cases may years ago, and includes master-servant relationships (unless they are your servants at home), so the band leader(s) is/are effectively the employer, even if, as in my case, we are a charity, and all the band members are non-paid volunteers. In general terms, the Health and Safety at Work Act requires the employer to take all reasonably practicable precautions to ensure the safety and health of their employees, AND those not in his employment. To me, that means that the band leader(s) has/have the responsibility of ensuring that each band member's gear is as safe as it can reasonably be. David

There is a possibility that the aound man was worried that as he connected his phantom power to your rig, the initial pulse of power might break something. Rod Elliott has a good rep in electronics circles and explains it here. https://sound-au.com/project152-2.htm David

https://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/information/public.htm Indg247- Electrical safety for entertainers David

If it is a 12v fan, this circuit will make it temperature controlled. David https://sound-au.com/project42.htm

Have you considered a cricket bat or an acoustic, both are lighter than almost any solid body and both are available with 5 strings. David

I'm not sure that WinISD was written assuming a given port position. When you move into bandpass designs, the front and rear enclosures have ports labelled as front and rear. I think that they have carried that over into the ported single box designs. David

I read a comment about WinISD a couple of years ago, where someone was complaining that shelf ports always came out too long, and the explanation given was that the default calculation was for a port terminating some distance from any obstructions. With a shelf port, one side of the port is obstructed, and this increases the apparent length of the port. Unfortunately, I posted the links on the now defunct Finnbass site, so I can't direct you the the link. David

Looking at graphic eq to fix a hearing problem, I concluded that half of the faders would be flat, and the rest at max- then I ran some tests. Interestingly, my audio test chart appears to show my hearing as ok up to 1kHz then dropping by 30dB for most of the rest of the spectrum. However, playing with the eq on a DAW I found that a low Q boost of 8-10dB at about 4kHz brought back most of the clarity I was missing. I presume that this is the difference between detection threshold and normal listening levels as described by the Fletcher Munnsen curves, but I'm well out of my depth on the theory. David

We mainly play outdoors using an analogue powered mixer, and I was hoping to avoid having to share our 3m x 3m gazebo with rack mounted gear. A 7 band pedal eq might be worth a punt. Thanks for your thoughts.

As a fellow hearing aid user, I have noticed that when you take hearing aids out and put in-ears in, you lose the mids/top end that the hearing aid was providing. Does anyone make a monitor amplifier that has suitable eq built in? David

+1 on this. Nice and clean and a DI too. Also, the pedal can be powered by battery, external 9v, or from the mixer desk phantom power. David

With respect, I strongly disagree. Daisy chaining adds extra connections into the earth path, which needs to be low impedance to blow a fuse quickly under fault conditions. Also, a faulty earth connection will not show up under normal operation, only when tested, or when it fails to protect you. There is an argument that the pub RCD will protect you, but most of those are tested for sensitivity, and not speed of operation, so I wouldn't rely on them. David

I didn't have a balance problem, but I did have a problem with the bridge being about 5cm to the left compared with my other basses. I solved it with a boot lace. Thread the bootlace through the bridge end of your strap, and tie the ends to the two strap pins, with the bootlace on the back of the bass. Move the strap-end from the bridge-end pin towards the center of the bass and see if you can find a spot where it balances the way you want. If it works for you, knot the lace into a loop to hold the strap-end at that point. It's cheap, reversible when you sell the bass, and barely noticeable in use. David