PaulWarning

I once had the misfortune to play through an 1 x 8 elf combo, granted it was a large room, but it was woefully underpowered, no umph and poor projection, a million miles away from vintage Trace amps, maybe the 1 x 10 is better with an extra cab

Also the heat sink models are lower wattage so are a lot lighter, I've got 2, the rehearsal room has a fan modal, about 400 watts I think, weighs a lot more than mine and is not any louder as far as I can tell, mine are still plenty loud enough for gigging without a full PA

that thought occured to me, are BF not very sensitive then?

oh right, thinking about it I've only bought off business sellers recently, no buyer protection fee

maybe I'm being thick here but the buyer doesn't pay anything in my experience, do you mean selling fees?

I agree with this, much rather go and see a good tribute act in a small local venue than pay out an exorbitant fee to see the real thing at an arena gig and you don't get "Here's some tracks from our new album" cue, rush to the toilets and the bar

I won't pay it and hate stadium gigs anyway, my next gig is the Undertones at Rock City £35 plus booking fee £5.38 and £1.50 e ticket download I hate these extras that are unavoidable, much as I don't like Government interference it really is time they put a stop to this, The headline price should be the price you pay, it's ridiculous, £1.50 to send you an E-ticket, where's the justification in that? If people didn't pay the high price for the big name gigs they wouldn't charge it, supply and demand init?

a bit of audience interaction is a good thing, nothing worse that long silences between songs or incoherent mumble from someone who is clearly out of their comfort zone, though on occasions as @asingardenof said it can go on too long, and please, no preaching to the crowd, it's bound to upset someone

Problem with Jools Holland is it's very eclectic, which is understandable, being about the only music show on mainstream TV, I record it and finish up watching 1 act if I'm lucky

I use a zoom multi effects B1on pedal, there was one for sale on here, anything between slight overdrive to full on fuzz and eq as well

our vocalist being a total attention seeker is good at inter song chat, trouble is he doesn't alter it much so we get sick of hearing it, but a least we know what the next song is, which is handy when he misreads the set list, we don't alter the set much so we always finish up the set with about 4 songs one after the other, which works well. Unlike someone else's comment I hate it when the band introduce themselves, I'm really not interested in the names of the band, especially if it's accompanied by a solo spot for each member, just play another song

I've got a pair of HD 206's, bit bass light for me, and they don't fit over my big ears easily

My sound has changed over the years, I used to like the trebly JJ Burnel type of sound but have realised that's not what gives the band umph, now I have as much more low mids as I can get without boom kicking in and not much above 5K Hz. Sort of occupies the right frequency area We played a festival in the summer with a full PA and sound man and I realised the bands with an overly loud bass drum were the ones where the bass disappeared into the mix because they didn't have enough low mids, and for whatever reason the sound man couldn't compensate

I applied, never got a reply, perhaps they're trying to tell me something 😄