TimR

With respect you have no idea what you are talking about. Many of us on the forum deal with this all day everyday for a living. Thanks.

No we were talking about electricity. If it goes directly from one side of your head to the other your brain is protected by the skull having high resistance. You'll just get badly burned skin. If it goes directly across your body (and the heart) - you're dead. It's why RCDs have to trip at 30mA within a set time. You get struck by lightening or get a mains shock, and the path doesn't go across your body you'll probably be lucky and not die immediately.

Not if the current goes through the heart.

Maybe they would have been more concerned if you'd bashed one their £150k 'keyboards'! 😆

The Wikipedia article points out it's the high skull resistance that lowered the current. If you put that voltage across your body it would destroy your heart. It would certainly kill you if you put the electrodes in your mouth.

In the interests of BassChat Science I have performed an experiment. The resistance of my 10" Adjustable spanner is 0.4Ω The resistance of 1/4" of my tongue is 153kΩ I calculate the current through the spanner given a 6v source would be 6/0.4 = 15amps, this would give 90watts of heating. And probably glow like a light bulb! I calculate the current through my tongue given a 9v source would be 9/153000 = 58μA, that would give 0.5mW of heating. Its well below the 30mA level that could be potentially lethal. So similar values to those that @tauzero obtained.

I think this stems from certain members who think they're above playing the venues. Usually its the members who don't actually book gigs and then complain that the band isn't getting any gigs. We did turn up to a gig once where the landlord said we weren't the kind of band he wanted paying at his pub. The pub had changed hands, he'd seen that "we were booked on Lemonrock, but he had no way of contacting us." He spent the entire night upstairs, the audience loved us, dancing and at the end had lots said we were better than the other bands he'd been putting on. He came down to pay us and said he wouldn't be rebooking us because his customers didn't want our kind of band. Anyway, he's gone now and we really should go and see the new landlord for a gig.

Legal Tender does not mean what people think it does. If someone offers you money, you are perfectly within your rights to refuse, regardless to whether its English or Scottish, and you can refuse to sell them the goods if they don't agree to your payment terms. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-tender

Sold a car last year for £5k cash.

It's "The disease of the amateur" Don't worry about working on internal dynamics, note placement, note length. Just play it faster.

Everyone should have some element of practice at home individually with a metronome. I'm not sure there's any benefit to rehearsing as a band to one if everyone is working on their timing during practice.

Ha. I'm not the OP. Assuming you're replying to me. Currently I'm using a Warwick Profet 5.1 for bigger gigs into a pair of 210pros. But something lighter would be good. Think the 5.1 weighs about 15kg with flight case.

I'm wondering about the Gnome 600.

That, and TISWAS were Saturday mornings. I remember doing a paper round with a massive hangover. Getting back. Eating a bowl of coco pops and sleeping with it in the background until the world came back into focus. Unless it was rugby season, in which case 16 year old drunk kids would be beating each other senseless in the cold instead... Ah the 80s...

Right. I'm going to have a good listen to Initial Success. I loved that album and my mum really disapproved of it. So think the 55 year old version of the 14 year old me would really like to see what was so bad about it. In any case it'll be research as to whether he employed the same musicians. 😆

That's good. Really good. AI needs to check my Strava.

Written by BA Robertson and none of them played the instruments.

My money is on the bass player being Alan Jones. Wonder who the musicians actually were.

I don't think music venues are particularly viable in cities like London and NYC. Especially for new original artists. The old Pay To Play system has pretty much been run out of town. If I had a venue in the city I would be charging admission and put on high quality professional bands. People have less money and are choosing where to spend it carefully. I went to see a friend's band in Portland Square last month. I suspect they hired the venue at a loss. Better than pay to play, as you take risk but also no one is skimming off the bottom and hiding the door from you.

Overrated: Heft. Underrated: Thump. YMMV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66993297 Are the BBC reading Basschat?

It's easy to forget that turning on a tap to have clean water isn't normal to a huge number of people.

Needs more dogs and shotguns.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was a great album. The only U2 album I bought.

I've not used this particular mixer but the manual refers to 2 modes. FOH mode in which case the 6 outputs are G1 - G4, L and R. And Mix mode in which case the 6 outputs are Aux 1 - 6. That implies to me you can have L&R for front of house and 1-4 for monitors. Or 1-6 for monitors. In which case you're using it as a monitor mixer and need another mixer to deal with FOH. Anyway, it's Allen and Heath, that's a high end mixer as already pointed out nearly £1600 new and with 14+ channels a tad overkill for a pub band. Most pub bands are going to be using a Soundcraft Spirit at most expensive or behringer/Yammah equivalent.