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  1. TimR
    I once played a charity gig for extensions to a local church. It was for a dinner and dance at a local 5 star hotel. We went in for £1600 and got 'knocked down' to about £400 after the organiser laying it on thick. We found out tickets for the evening were £100 each. There was an auction of promises after the meal - it went on and on and on. We had been there at 5 to set up. The Auction made £20,000. We finally went on at 11:30, played for half an hour! That was about £60 each for 2 hours travel, 2 hours set up and pack down, 6 and a half hours sitting around and 30mins of playing. After that we were very careful to do our research for all gigs.
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    Depends whether its a corporate charity gig at a posh hotel, a small local festival, or a local church hall gig where no one gets paid.
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    Yes, that's what I was trying to get at.
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    Bedroom virtuoso players who can't play with other musicians or lay down a track when the red light comes on?
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    I suggest some people maybe taking some comments too literally. 😀
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    I don't think it needs a refret. I replaced the pre-amp with a very cheap one last year which isn't fantastic, but the bass is only worth a hundred quid at most. I'm better off moving on to a better new bass. I did put Gotoh machine heads on it which I'd probably fit to a replacement Ibanez.
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    It's similar to auto tune on vocals. Used on every recording - then when you see a real singer they don't meet expectations. I think we may already have covered bass players who can play several complex tunes at home in the bedroom along to the recordings, but can't play at a simple blues jam.
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    That gets very expensive very quickly. Fine if it's your own money, but the record companies aren't going to live with that if it's taking months to record an album.
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    He does cover that aspect in the SBL podcast. He seemed genuinely concerned about exposing someone wrongly, whether he was doing the right thing, and checking and double checking the facts over several days.
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    You should have given it a full minute. It gets much better.
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    I have just purchased a cheap kit from Amazon on the basis that my 25 year old Ibanez is ready to be retired and just needs a small amount of work to maybe get another few years out of it.
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    In any case usually loose wires are spotted when your guitarist/keyboard player keeps cutting out in the middle of the gig.
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    Spirit level.
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    10ms is the equivalent of 3.4m away from your speakers. It will depend what else you have in the chain.
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    The SRs are great. There's a 2105 prestige model for sale in the for sale section at the moment.
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    I don't think your brain would notice ears being out of phase as that happens all the time with sounds arriving at one ear before the other.
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    IEMs are an upgrade from normal ear plugs...
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    To enable the headphones over AUX it looks like you have to select 'listen' for that particular AUX out. So doesn't look like something that would be done accidentally. And I've never seen a line level input 'blown' by putting headphone level output into it. You just get an awful lot of distortion. So even if you did have something connected to that AUX and selected Listen, it would be unlikely to do any damage. Consumer electronics are very robust.
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    Page 69. Alt Out (CQ-20B) The Alt Out provides an alternative balanced TRS output connection. Source – Select any other Output or route the Listen out.  If Listen is set, when no Listen button is pressed, the Alt Out will be sourced from Main LR.  Listen is sent to the Alt Out at full volume for use with IEM systems that have input level control. For adjustable level, the headphone output should be used.
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    Yes. I guess one problem with WiFi is people having their phones searching for SSIDs all the time. Latching onto your transmitter and trying to see if they can connect.
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    Interesting piece. https://2loud2oldmusic.com/2020/06/22/the-original-vs-the-cover-its-my-life/
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    I suspect alcohol causes by far the most issues in bands. Whether that's from the players or the audience. I started to list the gigs that have gone wrong due to alcohol but gave up, suffice it to say: keep your wits about you at gigs where there are a large number of 40 something women.
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    When you're a millionaire sticking it to the man becomes harder to carry off.
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    Funnily enough I watched an interview of a Bass player by a drummer. Both professional players. The drummer's aim of the series of interviews was to find out what musicians wanted from drummers and various general tips. The bass player pointed out there was a difference between substance use and substance abuse. And that it's a fine line. He'd never seen anyone fired for not having a beer on stage with them, but seen plenty not hired again for just having a single beer. This was the US though and they can have very puritanical views.
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