TimR

Unfortunately mostly myth. You don't want graphite a woodshavings floating around in space capsule and you don't want ink floating around either. Mostly they used felt tip pens until Fisher independently developed a presurisd pen. So NASA spent no money inventing a pen. But like all these ideas "Why don't we fit a switch?" Probably because someone fitted a switch at some point and found actually it was less faff to just unplug when you've finished playing, like most people do anyway.

I have a silent tuner. Just hit that first. Or press mute on the amp. As you'd have to do when you remove the lead. I'm not sure what the purpose of the switch would be.

That is an extremely simple modification to do yourself. Drill hole. Fit switch. Cut the red wire to the battery and solder the cut ends to the switch terminals.

Sounds like a few of us post the 'a bit rough round the edges' bits because it makes us look more human or at least a bit humble. Well, that's what we hope. 😆 Think it's called humble-bragging. What I absolutely loathe is the "Something really bad is happening in my life..." posts, with no context, followed by a bunch of people saying "they're here for you". But then I'm a man of a certain age. Got a problem call a mate, don't stick it on Facebook fishing for attention. Anyway - I'm more interested in the musical side, thats why I put it in General. 👍😎

I'm only really asking because some of our rehearsals are pretty poor. Bad notes, out of tune vocals etc. The usual stuff that happens in rehearsals. I don't think anyone should be subject to that. It takes away a bit of the magic and if people do hear it and think I'm not going to see them, it's counter-productive. It's certainly a strange animal.

What kind of content do they put up. Is it carefully managed by a band leader or just whatever anyone likes?

I honestly think non-musicians don't know the difference. At least they probably make allowances. I guess a lot of my friends who come to see the band aren't necessarily there because we are awesome (although of course we are), it's more because it's a good social event with live music. When I was 17, we'd get practically the whole school along to a pub gig, I can't belive they all liked rock. That would have been through word of mouth and photocopied hand drawn flyers. My gut feeling was they loved to see mates in a band and were able say "I know the bass player" etc. Let's face it, to anyone who can't play an instrument it all appears extremely highly skilled and magical. Maybe it is and we have done it for so long we take it for granted.

Totally agree. And who wants to go on facebook to look at the mundane?

The subject of Social Media being not a true representing of what's going on in people's real lives. Influences borrowing supercars for photo shoots etc. Music Videos have always been produced to show the band having a lifestyle they probably don't have. Wham's Club Tropicana is a great example of that. So it's not new. On my personal fb feed I'm quite balanced at laughing at my failures and downplay my successes. Our band page is a strange animal. Some great professional photos mixed in with some very dubious hand held phone footage of the band in rehearsals wearing casual clothes etc. So do you have a highly crafted website and social media feed where everything his highly photoshopped, videos edited and only studio quality recordings to show a highly polished outfit, or do you just put up any old photos and videos? Or somewhere in between.

The screens are very distracting for anyone sitting near you. As has already been said, you go to watch the stage, not the surrounding audience members' phones. It's the same when there is a TV in a pub, people will be continually turning their attention to the TV screen. When we run dance competitions we allow recording under 2 criteria, your child is in the performance and you stand at the back of the hall. Standing at the back of the hall allows us to monitor who is videoing what, but mainly allows the judges to concentrate on the performances. It's a domino effect, one person does it and all of a sudden everyone is doing it.

Some of these artists need to do a gig at the Dog and Duck where the audience is either a man and his dog, or the entire pub empties as soon as your drummer starts sound checking because it mean the football has definitely finished. If someone is videoing your show, it's free advertising, unless it's theatre and then it should be all phones off as you enter. Not sure where I stand on the talking part. If you're there to chat to your mates with some live music, stand at the back. Although I've done enough jazz gigs, dinners and fetes to realise that sometimes you're just background music. All gigs are different.

But are youngsters buying them?

Yes. I don't think if you had 2 policies each of £500 that you could claim £1000. I was thinking damage to gear would be covered by the 3rd party who hit you. They'd be liable for all damage caused, not just to your car. Your comprehensive insurance would indeed detail the level of possesions covered. I think it's only covered as commuting if it's travel to your regular place of work. If you visit different sites that's business travel. But again - it's only a hobby if you're not at sole trader level. I'd be surprised if many here have business insurance specifically to cover gigging.

I wonder for how much longer though. Who is buying them new? The market must be pretty much saturated.

It was set in 2016. Its roughly the equivalent of 100-150 hours on minimum wage and I suspect its set at that level for that particular reason. Elsewhere on the Govt website it states that if the intention is to make a profit you need to be a Sole Trader, but elsewhere that you only have to notify them and fill in a Self Assesment if you turnover more than £1000. This is further complicated that if you make a 'loss' on your hobby income, you can't offset that against main income. I believe most people in that situation talk to HMRC and agree that there's no point in doing self assessment and they then write to you to agree. Interestingly if you sell a bass for over £6k with the intention of making a profit you have to inform them, but if you're not intending to make a profit, you don't. All very complicated.

My take on this is that if you have business use it implies that your tools and equipment are covered from damage in an accident and possibly if you're leaving tools and equipment in your vehicle, that makes it more attractive to theives. So normally the insurance company won't have a clue or be interested where you're going or what you're doing until you try to make a claim for musical instruments stolen from the car or damaged in an accident. And you can't double insure stuff, so if your gear is covered under a separate musical instruments/performing policy you'll only be covered under one of them. Regards the tax implications, to be able to claim tax back etc. I believe the IR are not interested unless you're operating with the intention to make a profit, and if you have a day job, you're operating as a hobby with any money earned unlikely to offset any costs. My costs just for rehearsing don't even cover what I get for gigs. I'm not sure if you could claim for the whole car and insurance as a business expense, I think just 40p per mile. I did look into it and it gets complicated tracking assets etc. Spotify subscription, mobile phone and broadband...

What exactly is causing the bleed?

If you read the reply from the Sansamp tech you asked for: It's not a 'problem'. It's how all gain structures work and and amplifier stages work. The problem is the user understanding it. If I have a PA. It has gain and volume. How you adjust gain and volume is up to the end user. Both affect the final volume. "Drive" is different as it's intention is to drive the input stage into clipping. So as you increase it the volume increases until it starts to clip. At which point the volume doesn't increase anymore, you just get more distortion (and compression). The "drive" on the other pedal is in a separate module with blend control. So doesn't affect the overall volume. It's just a case of understanding how it's designed to work and what the terms mean. A gain of 1 or 0dB is unity. Have a look at the controls on your PA. Note the 0dB level marks.

Have replied to OP. You're still trying to fix the symptom and not the root cause of the problem.

Sounds like two problems. Generator undersized or more probably cable run too long with too much load. This will cause voltage drop on stage. The amps will appear to be OK, but any digital devices will be in trouble. And at the pub, similar problem, extended circuits that haven't been impedance checked, so high resistance cause voltage drop under load. Had exactly the same when we played a school fete once. Found out after the gig that we were being supplied by 3 50m extension leads in series. 150m run of 10 amp leads. Whoops. Was OK in first set then when it got dark and teh lights came on the reverb unit in the PA died and guitarist lost his pedals.

Thing is, you have mains power for your Amp, PA and lights and the rest of the band. It's a solution without a problem. I bought a power supply for £15, like most people.

When the Sansamp technical guy comes on and clarifies it and then everyone ignores them... Read the thread chaps... 😆

Seems not Falken 1 Joyo JP-05 Harley Benton PowerPlant Mission 529 Anker Naztek And also the Songbird USB to 9v adaptor to power pedals from anything else. https://www.songbirdfx.com/products/birdcord/

These are already widely available.