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[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1433689543' post='2793109'] If you are willing to pack it up I'm happy to pay shipping! I would hate to see this thing go to the crusher! [/quote] I've already had an expression of interest, but if that falls through I'll get back to you. Hope that's ok. Where do you live by the way? Edit: Ah! Edinburgh it is then. Mrs. LBM's family all came from that area (Penicuik/Gullen/Bilston if we're being picky), so I know it quite well. The other party wants to pick it up on Saturday so I probably won't know much more until then. Watch this space...

Bump. It's been up here a month now and no apparent interest. I'll give it another couple of weeks then it'll go to the local recycling centre. Shame really as it still works perfectly well, but it's taking up house room and has to go one way or another.

If it's B flat then he must be a jazzer...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433178260' post='2788618'] I have a theory that a significant percentage of the public have no idea what the lyrics are to any given song. [/quote] I played in a covers band once in which the singer would often change the lyrics in songs to 'soundalikes' that gave the song a completely different meaning. On the downside, people at our regular gigs started to expect it and we would sometimes get a bit of flak for playing songs as per the original lyrics.

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1433145471' post='2788128'] I don't think the grammar is that bad. I have two friends that write worse than that. [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433146796' post='2788140'] Surely you mean, 'I have two friends WHAT write worse than that.' ? [/quote] [oldfartpedantry] Actually it should really be 'who', but hey ho who's counting! [/oldfartpedantry] ETA: @OP Bin it. Even if it is genuine, do you *really* want to work with this person?

Some oldies but goodies: Leaving on a jet plane. Don't take your love to town. Lazing on a Sunny afternoon. The thrill is gone. By the time I get to Phoenix. etc., etc.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1432640329' post='2783428'] It's just like when [i]{insert name of deceased US-based person who leaves their large estate to the remaining family}[/i] died! [/quote] It does look depressingly familiar doesn't it?

What it says on the tin. For those members too young to have any clue what I'm on about (who shouldn't actually be here anyway - it's way past your bedtime you know...), you pick a total of 8 'songs' that have had a big effect in making you the person you now are (doesn't actually need to be songs as such - it could be poems, speeches, t.v. clips, Facetweet entries, etc. - but that was the original format). Audio/video clips of said 'songs' are highly desirable. Once you get to the end of your eight discs, you have to pick one as your all-time biggie. You're also allowed one book (look it up if you're not sure...) and one luxury - could be a bass but doesn't need to be (no people though - it's a desert Island so Drew Barrymores aren't allowed). I'll go first: Song 1: All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan, as performed by Jimi Hendrix. I was 14 when Hendrix first appeared, and 17 when he died. More than anybody else before or since, he made me want to be a musician. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY"]https://www.youtube....h?v=TLV4_xaYynY[/url] Song 2: Rock Me Baby by BB King. If you love the sound of the electric guitar, then the chances are that this guy had something to do with it. Could have been any one of a dozen other songs, but this will do as well as any - hugely influential. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RRpq_jWnSs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=4RRpq_jWnSs[/url] Song 3: Sunshine of Your Love by Cream. The guitar riff as we know it today is born - this wasn't the first, but it's the one that resonates most for me. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDZqmF3zS04"]https://www.youtube....h?v=IDZqmF3zS04[/url] Song 4: Always With Me Always With You by Joe Satriani. Satriani and Van Halen changed the face of rock guitar forever, and Satriani in particular remains one of my all-time favourite guitar players. Again, I could have chosen any one of a dozen others but this early song still sounds fresh to my ears. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI57QHL6ge0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=VI57QHL6ge0[/url] Song 5: The Bends by Radiohead. A lot of people picking a Radiohead song would probably choose something from OK Computer, but I'm a great believer in bands establishing their credentials early. Huge sound, great song. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_QqX5ioWM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=gi_QqX5ioWM[/url] Song 6: Rush Hour by The Yellowjackets. Robben Ford and Jamie Haslip at the same time - what's not to like? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPA9z-jLPh4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=LPA9z-jLPh4[/url] Song 7: Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report. Bit of a personal choice, this one - yes it's great music, but included more as a 'happy memories' choice. No Jaco though... sorry but there it is. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ44_P6iM18"]https://www.youtube....h?v=bZ44_P6iM18[/url] Song 8: Schubert Piano Sonata in c minor, as played by Alfred Brendel - first movement. Another choice that has a personal aspect. Dark, restless and brooding, one of the great piano pieces of it's age IMHO. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUnntGdMOk"]https://www.youtube....h?v=zUUnntGdMOk[/url] So there we are. On another day I would choose 8 completely different pieces of music for 8 different reasons, but this is today's selection. If I could only choose one, and after a long time weighing up the options, it would have to be the Hendrix piece. In his short life, I believe he changed the face of popular music more completely than any other single individual, and spawned a love affair with the electric guitar that is as passionate today as it was when he was alive. Whatever choice of 8 pieces I make, this is the one song would always be there. For my book I would choose Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (the works of Shakespeare is a given, but I'll do without a bible thanks all the same) For my luxury I'll take my Takamine EN10 acoustic guitar and a lifetime's supply of replacement strings and cleaning materials. Right. Who's next?

When I first looked at this thread all those years ago, I thought it might be a sort of bass player's 'Desert Island Discs' - which I thought was a really good idea... In fact I think I'll start a new thread now. Watch this space. Well, not *this* space if you know what I mean...

Cantankerous old farts rule! Oh, and it would have to be the Seibass Original headless 5 - since I've asked for it to go into the box with me when I shuffle off this mortal coil (after slackening off the strings of course...), it's only right that I just happen to have it with me when I'm shipwrecked.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1432557187' post='2782595'] Many, but not all. [/quote] Edit to add: Would this be a bad time to mention that Polar bears don't live in the Antarctic?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1432556795' post='2782584'] or this, from the Urban Dictionary... [color=#800080]Deadpan...[/color] [color=#800080]Dry humor with a blank expressionless face. This type of humor is common among shy and socially indifferent people. Includes other elements of humor ranging from shy humor, sarcastic even macabre humor and other personal characteristics which makes it unique to the individual. Deadpan humor is one of the most complex and to many enigmatic comedy styles as only a select few truly understand it enough to appreciate it for it's brilliance. [/color] [/quote] Noted with thanks (although I'd be inclined to entertain a degree of suspicion towards any publication that can't spel 'humour'....).

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1432556571' post='2782579'] 'Desert' just means 'deserted'. It doesn't mean it's tropical. Antarctica is the world's biggest desert. [/quote] From the Oxford: '[i]a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it. Many deserts are covered by sand[/i].'

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1432555268' post='2782557'] From the Oxford... [color=#800080]1 - An uninhabited and uncultivated tract of country; a wilderness: a.1.a now conceived as a desolate, barren region, waterless and treeless, and with but scanty growth of herbage;—e.g. the Desert of Sahara, Desert of the Wanderings, etc.[/color] [color=#800080]2 - Formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land.[/color] [color=#800080]3 - Desert or deserted condition; desolation.[/color] [color=#800080]4 - An alleged name for a covey of lapwings.[/color] [color=#800080]5 - desert island, an uninhabited, or seemingly uninhabited, and remote island; also attrib. and fig., esp. (of equipment, cultural objects, or behaviour) suited to the social isolation and limited baggage allowance of a castaway on a desert island.[/color] Nowt about being exempt of polar bears. [/quote] It may be one of those rare situations where the OED might not be as useful as it would normally be... How about this from the (admittedly less prestigious) Chambers Dictionary: [b][color=#0000cd]'common sense[/color][/b] [color=#ff0000][i]noun[/i][/color] practical wisdom and understanding'

Polar bears? On a desert Island? Call me pedantic, but shirley the clue's in the name...?

River Phoenix was actually a guitarist, but was a big mate of Flea and would have got some handy bass-playing hints from him (probably). Does that count?

All kinds of advice about all kinds of stuff - often at the same time. Welcome.

I used to hand-make all my cables using top quality components and a soldering iron (I got sick of paying through the nose for 'professional' cables that were forever falling apart). Without rushing unduly I could wire up an XLR cable (3 soldered joints at each end) in around 30 minutes. Another minute or two with a multimeter to test the connections, and away we go. If I were ordering from a company that makes bespoke cables (and presumably employs a team of people with the right kit who do it all the time) I'd be disappointed if it wasn't made the same day. Delivery is in the hands of the Post Office, but making a cable to a professional standard is not a long job. Just saying...

I presume the idea is to treat the 1x15 as a sub. I understand the argument (and it [i]would[/i] work, albeit at the cost of some more equipment to lug around), but like JTUK I don't really see the point for the vast majority of players; and let's face it, how many people are going to notice - really? Also, doing this would change the sound balance of your rig as you would no longer be getting any contribution from the 1x15 above the (very, very low) cutoff frequency. Potentially quite a lot of time and money to discover you don't like the sound any more...

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1431731409' post='2774549'] Looking at the kit you've got, you can actually achieve this by using the "Power Amp Insert" points on the mixer. From what I can gather looking at the manual, they're post master fader so you could pick up a couple of TRS to XLR insert leads and connect them from the insert point with the "Send" going to the inputs of your sub and the "Return" coming from the outputs. This will make the sub work as part of your complete system with no extra buggering about with monitor sends etc and have the added bonus of using the crossover built in to the sub to filter the extreme low end out of the signal being sent to your tops, so both the power amp in your mixing desk and your main PA speakers aren't being worked as hard. [/quote] Yup, that would do it too. Using the X-over built into the sub will definitely get the best from it. Hadn't noticed the power amp sends and inserts - sorry! I'd agree that the insert looks post master fader - despite it not being explicitly stated in the manual it would be a bit weird if it wasn't given it's intended function. A circuit diagram would have helped... @OP If you decide to go this route you'll have a number of cabling solutions for the sub. Probably best not to give too much detail here, but if you have long cable runs it could get a bit messy - one option would be to use a cable snake: it would most likely have to be custom made (not hard but a bit fiddly unless you're handy with a soldering iron), but would be much the neatest way to do it. Long story short, any of the above would work although mike257's suggestion looks the most elegant.

[quote name='Triumphman' timestamp='1431699427' post='2774109'] Why would mon1 level for the kick need to be zero? [/quote] It's not strictly necessary, but if you're sending just the vocals through the onstage monitors (as you must have been up to now), having the kick sound there as well can confuse the issue a bit. If you're playing the kind of gigs you seem to be then the drummer (and the bass player while we're at it) is likely to provide all the reinforcement you need from a few feet behind you. Dad3353 can speak to this from the drummer's perspective; it's just how I would do it in your situation. This all assumes you have monitoring in the first place of course, but do you really want a monitor mix consisting of vocals, bass and kick drum? Dad also reinforced and developed my point about how the subs work. All they should be doing is adding a bit of 'weight' to the sound - if they're set up correctly most people won't really notice them. Please take this in the spirit in which it's offered, but trying to use them in the way you seem to want to is to slightly misunderstand what they're there for.