Stub Mandrel

A friend of mine defined two types of dickhead: A "Poing" sound accompanied by a hand motion approximating a 'unicorn horn'. A "Whoosh whoosh" sound with the head gently swinging from side to side. In the end, only the actions were needed.

Chathpt wins! Good question — the **recommended wattage for a guitarist playing in a pub** depends on a few factors: the size of the venue, whether you’re mic’ing the amp through a PA, and what kind of tone you want. Here’s a breakdown to help you decide: --- ### 🎸 **If the amp is mic’d through the PA system** * **Recommended wattage:** **15–30 watts (tube)** or **30–50 watts (solid state)** * **Reason:** The PA will handle most of the volume for the audience, so you only need enough stage volume to hear yourself and blend with the band. * **Example amps:** Fender Blues Junior (15W), Vox AC15, Orange Rocker 15, Boss Katana 50. --- ### 🎶 **If the amp is *not* mic’d (you rely on it to fill the pub)** * **Recommended wattage:** **30–50 watts (tube)** or **60–100 watts (solid state)** * **Reason:** You’ll need more headroom and projection to reach the whole room without distorting (unless you *want* that natural breakup). * **Example amps:** Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (40W), Vox AC30, Marshall DSL40. --- ### 📏 **Rough guide by venue size** | Venue Size | Tube Amp | Solid-State Amp | Notes | | --------------------------- | -------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------- | | Small pub (30–50 people) | 15–20W | 30–50W | Often mic’d; moderate stage volume | | Medium pub (50–100 people) | 30–40W | 50–80W | Enough to carry the room if not mic’d | | Large pub / club (100–200+) | 40–50W+ | 80–100W+ | Mic strongly recommended | --- ### ⚙️ Other factors * **Drummer volume:** Loud drummer = need more headroom. * **Amp type:** Tube amps are louder per watt than solid-state. * **Style of music:** Clean tones need more wattage (for headroom); distorted tones can use less. * **Master volume:** Many modern amps have great tone at lower volume. --- **TL;DR:** > For most pub gigs, a **15–30W tube amp** (or **30–50W solid-state**) is perfect — as long as you can mic it up. > If you can’t, go for around **40–50W tube** (or **80–100W solid-state**). --- Would you like me to recommend specific amp models for your style (e.g., blues, rock, metal, etc.)?

The speaker demos at the bash looked like a line dropping about 3dB per ocrave with a peak or three. While it was easy to see how some went down to about 70Hz and others more like 120Hz, it would have been easier to interpret if the plot was normalised to get rid of the slope. It would also have been easier to visualise their high frequency performance. The app has a and c weighting options. A weighting reduces low and high frequencies to refect how the ear percieves loudness. C weighting is similar but for very loud sounds and is a bit flatter (i.e. doesn't reduce low and high frequencies as much).

There's probably something close . It would be more useful if it normalised to allow for the drop per octave, which would make it easier to interpret. Ah... just checked and you can switch it to A weighting...

In my younger days a band's worth of guys would have bounced the car out of the way (two bounce the rear up and down and three push when the weight is off the back axle). Not that I endorse such behaviour now!

Me? The 'some kind of spectrum analyser app' is in the Google app store. It's called, 'Spectrum Analyser'.

I've been enlightened by how many musicians have a good basic knowledge of theory but don't read. Also they often don't talk in terms if theory as they assume no-one else knows any. Discovered one of my bands we all know about resolving roots, basic modes and more 'interesting' chords, for example.

Doubtful, it seems pretty far fetched. 🤭 It might even have been an attempt at humour. 🙄

Cheddar Cheesesticks?

It was a Squirt.

I found that set about 3 o'clock I got a brilliant funk sound that made even my slapping sound half decent.

That's exactly what I was about to say. A new bass should be pretty much immaculate, not chipped and scratched. They should have refined the body before letting it out of their workshop.

They have a couple here.

Ptash. At least Rush will deliver a quality performance.