PaulWarning

It does depend on the driver, the one that usually delivers to my house is very reliable and friendly, I've sent stuff via EVRi as well as the the drop off shop is just round the corner from me, never had any problems

we've got a similar set up, Yamaha EMX 512 power amp with Wharfdale titans we use just for vocals and maybe bass drum, done a few outdoor gigs, exactly the same setup outdoors as indoors, works fine.

I sort of get all that, my point being is there any point in faffing around with stereo for IEM, a lot of effort, and money, for negligible improvement, as long as you can hear yourself and what's going on with the rest of the band, it's job done

depends if that's all a band does, rather like a 'tribute' naming themselves so it leaves in no doubt who you are a tribute too, in this case, if all the band does is slow blues with long guitar solos then yes, keep blues in the title, if not, drop blues from the name. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a fellow bass player many years ago, "What's your band called then?" I asked, "ZZ Birmingham he replied", "ZZ Top covers band then?" I asked, "No, we don't do any ZZ Top songs" Another band I knew called themselves Two Guitar Clash, after a Stiff Little fingers obscure B side because they did a lot of SLF songs, of course your average punter thought they did Clash covers

there was a similar thread not long ago, I replied I've got a laptop, use a Behringer UM2 audio interface, load any song into the audacity app (free) you can slow it down or change key, if required, then play along using headphones

I don't think I've ever got through a gig without at least couple of mistakes, it's usually lack of concentration, normally I don't think anybody notices but the last gig we decided to do the Specials Rat Race for the first time in ages, I got completely lost and couldn't get it back until the second chorus, even the drummer said it was messy 🤣

but there's plenty of other old men wanting to relive the best time of their lives, can't see the harm in it myself

So I'm in the pub and someone has left a Daily Star on the table, so I have read, as you do, there's John Lydon giving it some about the Pistols doing gigs without him, oh dear, that hasn't done his ego any good

I've got a laptop, use a Behringer UM2 audio interface, load any song into the audacity app (free) you can slow it down or change key, if required, then play along using headphones

never really considered a 5, guess it depends on the style of music you play, not many punk bassists use a 5 string, I avoid playing anything below a G on the E string anyway, for instance I usually play F or F# on the D string seems to cut through better, to my ears anyway

went to see Black Water County at the Bodega in Nottingham on Saturday, packed small venue with mosh pit, very lively and enjoyable, all of a sudden a drum stick hit me in the face and broke my glasses 😡, which took the shine off the evening somewhat

one of my Trace amps thumps the other doesn't, I always assumed it was some sort of capacitor fault, it's never damaged the speaker

similar thread here, Rumbles are good if a little bulky

We have a similar problem, not the feedback, but being too loud in a small pub gig, I have raised the subject and asked if he could play quieter, but he just says he enjoys bashing hell out of the kit (he regularly trashes his 300 quid cymbals and at the end of gigs it's like a wood yard round his feet), in all other respects he's an ideal band member, decent drummers who don't cause problems within the band don't grow on trees so we just accept it