TimR

Sorry. I wasn't aware you were having an argument. I was just pointing out the difference between drive and gain and the way the two units apply drive. They're overdrive pedals that emulate overdrive.

Really? It's not labelled as gain, it isn't gain. The two units operate differently. Industry standard when using gain is it increases gain. Hence the word gain. Drive is not gain.

IEMs are just monitor speakers for your ears. Unless it's a digital desk and you have access to it via your tablet/phone you get what you're given from the desk.

Two DIs to desk. One for in-ears mix and one for the desk. He wants the first mixed with the band and sent to his in-ears as it has local eq applied. The second is DI from bass so engineer can do whatever he wants with it.

Sounds to me like you're giving the engineer a headache as he will have to give you a separate mix with nothing from chanel 9 mixed with everyone else. Depends how he has his desk set up and how many free channels he has for monitoring. He may just have one monitor mix for stage.

He doesn't.

That's not gain though. That's drive, which gives the impression of being louder due to the effect of distortion. Looks like the Ampeg blends the overdrive rather than increasing the 'gain' to produce the overdrive effect.

You'll always get phase difference between monitor speakers and main speakers and your in-ears just due to the physical positioning of the speakers and the in-ears. Although the monitors should be louder to you than the mains and if your in-ears make a good seal then that should be blocking out the monitors and mains. You'll even get phase issues if the bass amp is too far from the back wall and reflections off the back wall can cancel some of the frequencies that are direct from the speaker. Whether or not you notice them will depend on lots of factors. Is that what you're asking?

Thoman also sell a plate.

Unscrew the plate and turn it upside down.

How have I missed that story? That's an even more amazing story.

I suspect many people who buy them will loan them to collections. Maybe actually play the piano. There's an interesting story about 'Greeney' told by Kirk Hammett. Originally broken by Peter Green, then smashed up in a car accident with Gary Moore and more recently dropped by Kirk, and repaired again. Estimated to be worth £2m but Kirk doesn't say how much he paid for it. He actually plays it on the Metallica tours.

And dying of AIDS? https://www.mercuryphoenixtrust.org/site/post_Freddie Mercury - A World Of His Own - Sotheby’s Exhibition and Auction_12004

Plus 13% buyers premium and 20% Vat. £1.7m.

More tommorow evening by the looks of it.

Yes. Piano went for £1.4m. Record for a piano at Sotheby's. Possibly world.

Jukebox. Estimate £15-25k. Gone at £320k.

Currently on lot 35, 44 is the piano. Likely to make £1-2m.

Watching live on tictok via Yahoo UK. Some high bids going on. A dress ring just went for £95k.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/483087-have-you-ever-been-tempted-to-learn-a-song-just-in-case/

Not a lot of love for Live and Let die. This for me is the best cover- probably better than the original. James Last Orchestra with Benny Bendorff.

Metallica's version of Am I Evil, is a straight copy of the original, but somehow much better. I suspect if Diamond Head had the production equipment available to them, the Metallica version is what they would have produced. Although the drumming on the original doesn't have the hindsight of 30 years of rock*. *even if it is Lars. 😆

Does anyone have any insight as to why the original S&G number doesn't convey or reflect any of the anger the lyrics contain? Its almost like they're completely given up and resigned to apathy, while the lyrics get more and more angry. 🙄 Is it a 60s hippy thing?

That's awful. At least Disturbed appear to have read and understood what the lyrics are about. "Faux emotion".? That's what every actor and singer does and has done since the dawn of time. That's what they get paid for.

The Disturbed version of Sound of Silence is a better rendition of the words. They're very powerful words and the original S&G version has either been got at by the film producers or sung deliberately like that for some reason. I'm not up with 60s protest songs and that part of US history is a bit difficult to understand. Although I think the Disturbed version is trying too hard to be different. A lot of the phrasing and some tuning has been changed in an effort to make it different. Probably didn't need to do that.