Richard R

Actually that does sound interesting - links to reference material please 🙂

Now we all know what a Stub Mandrel actually is, surely that's your porn name?

Second on the bill to Kempfinkle Gun Shop. Which is a real band.

Criccieth Kairos! Sounds more like an expletive than a stage name.

Lots of peeps from the West Midlands too, whereabouts are you? I'm in Solihull, there are others knocking about the outskirts of Brum too. You should Definitely check out the midlands bass bash for next year, on the events listings.

Blimey, I haven't listened to the Bozos since school days. Off to Spotify! 😁

I don't recognise that particular lyric, but that has surely got to be Half Man Half Biscuit!

Interesting question on whether a band can discriminate on grounds of age. An employer absolutely can't, and any company that explicitly said that a candidate was too old would be walking into court and out again a lot poorer.

So next question then - what amplification do people take? The travel bass I have is an Aria Sinsonido, so headphones plug straight in. Do others play unplugged, or with a little headphone amp, or a tiny cab?

Try using his lead, may well be a dry joint. I was at my tutor's on Thursday and had to crank the gain right up to get any volume. Since my guitar was just back from a full service with new strings and action low we knew it wasn't any of those. Swapped out the battery, no change. Swapped guitar leads for his and deafened the neighbours!

Not abroad, but I've taken a silent travel bass on the last two UK holidays. I'm still a relative newbie, so not playing for a whole week sets my muscle memory back aeons. And I intend to continue that argument even if one day I can play entire Yes albums from memory! 👍

"Maybe it's the way you wear your blue jeans so tight, I can put my finger on what you're doing right!" Status Quo, Something 'bout you baby I like. Every teenage boy, and the man he grew into, knows exactly what that's about 😁

It is the bank holiday Saturday. Any chance of the weekend before or after? I expect the missus will want to do something with the long weekend, so it would be easier to get a pass for other dates. Last event was fantastic, so I will make every effort to attend regardless! 👍👍

Is that the bank holiday weekend again?

No, he just likes very clean breakfast cereal.

Sorry for not getting back on this one. "Real life" in the way Seriously, I would keep it simple. For a mixer get something 8 in, main out plus four aux, analogue. That will give you more than enough for the time being. Mic up the singers and the guitarist cab only, use one channel of aux for the singers, and initially just one for the rock band. Remember most active monitors will let you daisy chain, so you can feed the same signal to a monitor for the rhythm section and for git/keys. There are a nice pair of Laney monitors for sale on this site ad a good price. Just work with that for now, and get the FOH sound ok. If the big band can't now hear the guitar because he is turned down, or want a bit more of the band, then you have two mixes available to give them. You should get a decent monitor and PA mix with that, and plenty of channels spare to DI the bass or keys and fly mics over the big band if you want to. cheers, Rich

I can imagine that with the layout as drawn the guitarist needed to really push the volume from the back to be heard out front in a dead hall, which is why he drowned the sax players. I'm supposed to be at work so I'll have a proper think later on, but my first thoughts - independent of any equipment purchase - would be to rotate the guitar, keys and bass round anticlockwise one position, so the bass & drums are on the back row, and the keys and guitar are in front. That gives the guitarist more projection without travelling through four people in front. Bass of course gets everywhere, that's why we're normally stuck in a corner 🙂 Where are you based, and when's the next gig?

Unbalanced runs from the mixer to the FOH amps or the on-stage foldback is quite common even at pro-level gear, its a line-level rather than mic-level signal so won't suffer in the same way from noise. I'm not quite clear on what you have and how you use it though - so let me just play it back if you'll pardon the pun: Behringer b205d: this is a little personal mixer/monitor which is currently used with the vocal mics plugged in, so that they can hear themselves. Also sends an output to an active speaker. 300W 12" active speaker: just the output from the vocal mix. "PA" - is this just the 12" speaker? Guitar amp Keyboard amp Bass amp - all three above independent mixed by the players. Drums - full kit unamplified? A large "big band" section of unamplified instruments who will balance their sound naturally (assuming they can hear each other) What you think you need: More FOH power for the backline and vocals, without drowning the big band The band members all being able to hear each other. First questions: How do you arrange yourselves on stage? Vocals out front with rock band behind and big band behind them? Vocals then big band, then rock band to one side?

Interesting, not what I would have expected at all. I shall have to keep an eye and ear out.

OK - so what's the advantage of an Alu neck? Yes you could make a truss that is light and stiff, but the thermal expansion is way higher than wood, so surely the thing will need constant retuning?

Very smart indeed.

Not seen this before - but I'm looking for a sturdy bag that has also space for my laptop and this looks pretty much perfect. I hope someone on BC has tried it.

in which case you should like these guys:

So to answer the original question, as someone learning bass and having to look at Tab, stave, lyrics with chords scribble on top of them etc. The main advantage of tab is that it tells you where to put your fingers. That's a pretty big advantage which we should appreciate. If the tab is badly written and there are better fingering available for the same notes then that isn't a fault of Tab per se. The second is that it's all plain text ASCII so easy to reproduce on the web or anywhere without special font. The huge drawback of Tab is that it's hard to convey rhythm very nicely. The best I have seen is to include bar lines in the scale and capital letters for minims (half notes) and lower case for crotchets (quarter notes), and to dot them. I also prefer when I have seen the note names used on Tab, as that helps with working alternate fingering. That gives a lot more use without trying to make Tab as rich and complex as full score, by which time it's harder to read, because it doesn't use specialist fonts.

The listing says it is a HUGE piece of musical history, and the photo of the guitar does not actually show the strap. So I think it's really 100m long and much of the cost if the hire of the truck for the included "free postage"