Muzz

Yep... 🙂

He's also busy with something for me, too... 😁

One of the lairiest weddings we've ever played was at The Mere Golf Resort in Cheshire, haunt of the very rich...what a bunch of entitled derrières they were... Generally, we don't get much mither from wedding punters: certainly nothing like MoJoKe's above...we're probably a lot uglier, though, which wards off even the most pisht enthusiasts... 🙂

I know it's a dark scary corridor, but look at it from my point of view: I've got to walk back along here on my own later...ooops.

I'm more a No Hit No Wonder...

That's really strange, because it's the opposite of my experience. Probably down to band approach. We used to do a thing where we'd get the groom up, give him a spare 'stunt' guitar and a wig and get him playing with us. It was good fun for a while, (the brides always loved seeing the new husband look a bit of a berk) but we got bored with it. We always get them singing to the bride and groom, though, in the acoustic bit: we get them to form a large circle with the B&G in the middle. Other than that, people of all ages get up to dance with each other. In my clubbing days no-one ever faced the DJ, you always danced with your mates, it's only the last couple of decades when the DJ became the star that the kids face a DJ like people (we) used to face a band at a gig...it's even specifically identified as a phenomenon in 24 Hour Party People, with reference to the Hacienda...IIRC the term used is 'The Beatification Of The Beat'...

One with a TV tie-in: Nantucket Sleigh Ride by Mountain...

Ahhh, OK. I just hadn't imagined a flat surface an inch from a port NOT blocking it. Very interesting, thanks.

I'm right handed and left footed...who am I supposed to be sleeping with again? 😕😁

I play a lot of weddings, and no-one ever faces the band - why would they? OK, there's some who are interested for a little while, but unless you're the sort of band that puts on a show (like a tribute act), they've come to dance and have a good time with their friends, not to 'see' the band. We're just there to add the music in a live context. The iPad thing is a definite one, though: on many occasions I've had people (usually girls, but then most requesters are girls, I think blokes are too embarrassed) ask for a song, and when I've said 'Nope, sorry, we don't play it', they point at the iPad and go 'Just play it'...and it's not just kids that do this... The worst, though, is usually Irish pubs - here, it's not just girls by any means, and it usually goes like this: "Play Mrs McGinnity's Goat*" "Sorry, we don't know that one." "Sure you do, go on..." "Really, we don't" "Ahhh, you do: it goes 'Bippety boppity diddle dee doo" (cue drunken rendition of their favourite song, which goes on a while, leaving you standing there a bit embarassed). Then they stop and look expectantly at you... I should add that although we do SOME Irish stuff to please the punters, we're not a ceilidh band by any means; we're just an acoustic-ish trio... Oh, and the best one is: "Play some Irish; play Dirty Old Town" "You mean the song written and sung by an Englishman about Salford?" 😁 * Insert really obscure Irish tune here: it's like a challenge...

I'd been braced for that (SWIDT?) since I posted the opening comment yesterday...

Y'see, that's the sort of thing that'll be the ruin of us all. A gentleman should never ignore soup, and facilitating that is just the first step on the path to iniquity.

I'm with Daz. I think it's the soup.

Curved...but then I'm biased... 😁 This is a five-pot John East EQ...

Thanks Bill, authoritative as ever 😉 When you say 'make the feet the right size', the ones I've seen all have very short feet (like an inch or so), is that the sort of range you mean? Half an inch is too little but an inch would be too much, kind of thing?

This just come up while I was looking at some cabs in another thread...anyone know how a bottom port works? When I used rear ported cabs, I was always careful not to back them up against anything to effectively block the port, but a bottom port has a gap the size of the feet (less than an inch?), does this not compromise port output? Or have I just been wasting my time all those years?

I couldn't see anything on the first couple of page search results, but yeah, I'll take it over there. As you were...🙂

A related question (and this applies to the BF 10s, too) - anyone know how a bottom port works? When I used rear ported cabs, I was always careful not to back them up against anything to effectively block the port, but a bottom port has a gap the size of the feet (less than an inch?), does this not compromise port output? Or have I just been wasting my time all those years?

Played 2 consecutive gigs with the Rumble 100 for onstage monitoring with the trio. It was plenty loud enough. 100w is fine for monitoring if you position it well and the band isn't too loud onstage. I was right next to the drummer on a tight stage, tilted it back to point and my head, all good.

I had a 1515L for years, and loved it - not much bigger or heavier than the 1212L, so if you see one of those, give it a go. Like all the small angled Schroeder cabs, they're a bit boxy and honky on their own, but in a band setting they're as good as anything I've used before or since...

Yep; I think their bargain presence in the secondhand market is great for newer bassists (probably with stronger backs and the enthusiasm most of us dinosaurs used to have back in our giddy youths) to progress onto. Ahhh, those old tube tellys? There was a warm and heft to those old analogue signals that all this new digital nonsense has ruined, etc, etc... 🤐

That's the setup i use (bar the earpieces - I've got some ACS custom molds), and it works fine for these battered old ears...brace yourself for hearing yourself properly for the first time in yonks; doesn't half sharpen your technique up! 😕😀

I think this discussion is pretty much a replica of the one about vinyl: there's an old-school anachronism of a setup that is a lot of work and doesn't make an awful lot of sense, but some people can hear a difference or just want to stick with it anyway...

I've owned an Ampeg 810, 215, and several 410s and 412s back when they were the norm. Nowadays they're just not needed, I've a 212 that will do the same job at a quarter of the weight, and I've inears that will preclude even that amount of lifting. There's a Marshall 810 on FB at the moment for £150. That's how obsolete the big cabs are...