Richard R

I'm playing in church on Sunday, but not as part of any band. I got a new bass at the weekend, and since I will be in church as part of the tech team I am taking it in with me, purely so I can play it LOUD through the PA when we are all finished 😎

As @Jus Lukin will need a lesson on what the switches do, and schools can reopen on 8th March, then meet up then and say it's Education.

I'm guessing that's a type of double bass? Welcome aboard!

This entire bass is quite obviously one man's unique creation top to bottom. And a gloriously over the top fabulous creation it is!

Did you watch the online holiday club service this morning? Martin just cracks me up - a man with no embarrassment genes!

Just up the road from me. I'm at Shirley Baptist, and there are a few people with links to both churches. I am very definitely the least talented musician when I'm on the stage. But I do consider I'm a pretty good FOH engineer 😉

Welcome aboard!

Off to the Famous quotes thread!

Welcome aboard! Unusual and friendly. Flame wars are very rare on these pages and get stopped by the mods PDQ. Terrible puns are rife though, you have been warned. 😉

"Corgi Registered Friends", by Half Man Half Buiscuit. Would have to be "Gas Safe Registered Friends".

If the string spacing is the same, does that must make the neck 25% wider than the 4 string, and did you find playing a much wider neck a problem? I'm particularly interested as the opportunity to buy a 5 string version of my Brawley has come up. Fabulous instrument, great condition, I know it will sound marvellous, but it's 50mm at the nut. It looks like the decision was to keep identical string spacing, but I am concerned I won't be able to play it. Thoughts welcome. (The 5th string and muting doesn't worry me, I use sliding thumb anyway and I don't have a repertoire of songs already learned in muscle memory)

Forgot Richard Digence! Saw him years ago and he was very funny, bit the poignant songs were real tear jerkers.

Almost any musical duo: Flanders and Swann, Stillgoe and Skellern, Kit and the Widow, etcetera etcetera. I'm a sucker for clever internal rhymes, pianos and dinner jackets.

"Operator" by Grateful Dead, no telephone operators any more.

"Could you file this please, Mary?" Another typing pool reference, from We Are Sane by Twelfth Night. "Got me a Chrysler as big as a whale". Love Shack by the B52s. Hope the mammal outlives the vehicle!

We are carefully spaced out, except for the tech desk where we installed polycarbonate screens between the three people working next to each other. Really looking forward to making a loud and worshipful racket again though!

Or he had drunk builders?

Good job my BC name isn't Richard R 😊

Welcome aboard! Usually I say something like "Stay away from the marketplace ", but it's too late for you already. 😞 Enjoy the thumb, nice bass.

Since the last update we have spent a bit more on streaming gear, the Piece of Cauliflower having proved successful. However it was successful for 2 camerasz adding a third complete crippled the system. The problem we found was that the PC could handle two phone cameras plus HDMI capture OK, but adding another source just crippled it. Wifi was tolerable for 2, but unusable for three. The biggest outlay was a PC capable of handling 4 video inputs, so that was a £1300 outlay on a gaming PC with a graphics card. The rest, in no particular order: Updating the HDMI capture card from £10 chinese thing to £100 reliable Taiwanese one. 2x Logitech StreamCam USB cameras to replace phones. 1xUSB 2 over ethernet extender to allow 15m runs to the cameras. Quality USB C to USB 3.1 adapters for the cameras. 1x Mackie Onyx interface purchased used on BC marketplace. New cost about £140. Having got this lot running perfectly for the Christmas Eve services with live band, video, three cameras etc, we haven't had a band in since. ☹ However we have been streaming the services live every Sunday but with recorded songs. Seems to be working OK 👌

Welcome aboard

Might be worth posting over on build diaries and asking for advice. There are lutherine geniuses over there and at least twice the phase "if it's wood, it can be repaired" has been proven true.

This is fabulous and utterly mind-boggling! Are you keeping a log of the hours spent on it?

Welcome aboard! Stay away from the marketplace 😄