TimR

The problem with with trying to find a way of holding strings without ball ends, is it brings in an added complexity. You need a pair of cutters to cut off the ball end. You need an Allen key to undo and retighten the grub screw. Anything goes wrong with a string at a gig and instead of restringing in 30 seconds while the singer chats you have a minor engineering exercise on your hands. .

Either pop in or phone them. I've found emailing pubs is always a bit hit and miss, although I didn't know about the Hope.

Are you just looking for a way to hold the ball end so that you can't see the ball? Some kind of bar with recesses for each string. The only problem with recessing the ball is getting it out after it has been sitting there for several weeks/months/years under tension. You need some kind of slot as opposed to a hole. There are lots of small engineering companies locally who might be able to machine you a prototype. .

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1489489670' post='3257312'] IME you would need to set up a separate Spotify account on each virtual machine, and they would have to be full paid-for accounts as the free version will stop playing without user intervention every couple of hours. [/quote] Yes. I'm sure there is some way to make it unviable. Reading on the BBC website it's weighted so 150 streams=1 download anyway.

Yep. Set up a server with 100 virtual machines streaming the same song over and over again. You could increase the figures by 300,000 a week. Would be fairly easy to do at home in your bedroom, assuming Spotify isn't watching for this kind of behaviour.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1489479588' post='3257198'] I entirely agree ... except ... what makes the number of physical 45rpm singles sold a better answer? As a teenager I bought loads of 45s. Some got played twice and then never again, some were still being played regularly years later. The charts of my yoof didn't detect any of that. A 1973 Top 20 chart based purely on the number of plays each song got on UK radio would look different from a chart based on sales, but would be equally valid or invalid depending on your point of view. Streaming is just radio-on-demand. [/quote] It's a measure of how many people like what you produce rather than a measure of how much those people like you. Spotify works on a monthly fee basis, not a per play basis. So commercially they're more interested in someone who sells to a wide fan base rather than someone who has a small fanatical fan base. Downloads are similar. No one really cares how many times the download is played. It's irrelevant. What's important is how many sales the artist makes. It's what drives revenue and advertising.

They shouldn't include streaming, only downloads. My daughter has been streaming one song several times a journey every time she gets in the car. One person could be responsible for maybe 100plays in one week. To me that's not really a true measure of 'popularity' of a song. .

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1489421156' post='3256767'] When I pointed this out to my guitarist all I got was a blank look and 'it's a 12bar isn't it?' [/quote] Yep. That's usual. Shortly followed by "Well, let's just play it as a 12 bar it'll be simpler to remember."

I agree, but that Jonny B Goode turnaround is a nightmare to get anyone to agree on. I've played in bands where we're all playing off the same page at one rehearsal but come the next rehearsal or the gig, it's like we had never agreed how to play it.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1489273765' post='3255733'] :like: [/quote] Thanks. See. Some people get it. Some people don't. I like to see who gets it. And who doesn't.

If you look in Account settings you can block anyone from sending you friend requests, stop people from looking you up via email or phone number and hide your profile information. Your name will still come up in a search but that's as far as anyone will get.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1489169043' post='3254972'] You lost me at bin update? Photos of stuff in your bin? [/quote] No I just post what colour bin I'm putting out. Along with some other nonsense. Something like: It's Friday February 14th, can only mean one thing.. Black Bin today. Or It's the second Friday after the the first bank holiday in May, must be Brown bin today. Some people get it. Some don't. My wife doesn't understand it... I might do it as a deeply philosophical comment about the dull existence of a middle aged man, or maybe I just do it to make people smile, or puzzle them. It's up to the reader to decide. .

You can set it so that no one can find you.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1489009920' post='3253775'] Geddy playing Roundabout!!! He'll not need his Jazz. [/quote] Knowing the Rush sense of humour I bet he uses his Jazz but puts his Rick on a stand in a prominent place on stage. And EQs it to sound exactly like the Rick.

Facebook is not a place for people who take themselves or life too seriously. It will drive them mad. My weekly bin update gets a huge number of likes and comments. Some people get it and some don't. I don't think people should slam it as a terrible thing just because they don't partake in it. I moderate a huge social group, I don't want to be close friends with 540 people as I only see some of them occasionally but I do need to exchange information and ideas with all of them on a regular basis. Some of those 540 people don't get Facebook either and are constantly complaining about the background noise. It's like going to a pub and complaining that someone at the table next to you is talking about Eastenders but you're talking about Football.

Nice. It's a shame both bands weren't inducted sooner. They're both very niche though.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1488885107' post='3252586'] Subs only reproduce the frequencies below the cut off point where the mid/high units can't effectively and efficiently recreate them. In a gig, "All the bass" doesn't go through the subs. They just reproduce the extreme low end (generally around 100Hz and below). The presence of subs aren't to blame for a below-par mix. [/quote] Harmonic Enhancement. It's supposed to be used a low volume to enhance the bass or treble. Use it at high volume and you just break the mix.

Someone pasted a load of junk and it got bumped. It's been removed now.

I like it. Would work really well for us as our singer has just started a new job which means he is busy during wedding season.

Thread is only two years old.

There's a 'vintage' Marlin Sidewinder for sale in Hobgoblin music. £249!

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1488574737' post='3250275'] I thought I'd share this with you all. I recently acquired a 4x10 combo that weighs more than a collapsed star and was thinking of ways to easily transfer it to my car. I found this, less than £20 and it fits exactly the footprint of the combo. It's good for 150kg and I'm absolutely made up with it! (So is my back...) http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/transport-helper-hand-truck-376979 [/quote] Get yourself some ratchet straps too. Then when it comes to lifting it the whole lot moves together. There's nothing worse then lifting the cab to get it over a threshold only to have the wheels rolling off in the opposite direction.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1488543922' post='3249838'] It [i]can[/i] work with two similar sounding instruments and setups, but in that case the roles of the two guitars need to be carefully thought out, like Television for instance. [/quote] Yes. You need them to think about their arrangements. Which requires them to think musically rather than with their ego...

EQ mixing. It's why when you have a two guitar band you often get the volume wars where neither can hear themselves or each other.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1488496699' post='3249560'] You can edit the patches and then save them to the "user" section. Setting your amp flat will then give you least colour but if you like your amp's usual settings, edit the patches to suit. [/quote] I read this a couple of times and think it needs some expansion. Once you have the patches in the user area you can edit the actual eq setting within that patch. I've not used the B1 but have the old zoom506. The built in effects tend to have things like eq and reverb added that make it sound really good through headphones but don't work very well in a band setting. I would copy across, make a note of all the values and then delete things like reverb and eq (if you can) then rest in a band situation. YMMV.