Rosie C

Yes, they've enough light for a small venue, though I tend to point them at the ceiling rather than at eye level. Back in the late 1990s I was part of a heavy rock DJing team. Our main lights were on a goal-post shaped tri-lite truss with 6x 300W halogen PAR56s, 4x 250W gobo projectors with moving-mirror style mechanism, 2x 250W moonflowers, fog machine and UV fluorescents. In comparison I can get the same amount of light from a bunch of lightweight and relatively cheap LED units. That said, even though MP3s were more efficient, I missed dropping the needle onto vinyl when we moved to laptops instead of turntables. In the same way there's something about the halogen PARs I miss - even though they were heavy, and lighting gel melted every few weeks and the bulbs would break and cost a small fortune to replace. But I'm sure this nostalgia would disappear within minutes of having to load that kit again

For the last few years these 'Stairville' LED lamps from Thomann have been hanging from the ceiling of our practice space. But with a house move coming up, they're on a T-bar now, and ready for our next gig. We abandoned using a DMX controller and went with built-in automatic programmes. Two lamps are running sound-to-light, with slightly different settings. DMX cables let the 3rd and 4th lamps duplicate the 1st & 2nd. https://www.thomann.co.uk/stairville_mini_stage_par_7x4w_rgb_ww.htm

I was going to say J G Windows. My dad bought me my first bass there, around 1985. The photo doesn't have the shop name, but it's on the right with the "gramophone records" sign

That doesn't seem an unreasonable question to ask

I'll second this. I also have the 3-way one:

^^^ This is my tablet's contents this morning. I share the prejudice but learning tunes takes me so long! The worst offender is our church band with 135 tunes. Our community big band has 68 tunes, and our band's regular Christmas show has 54 carols.

Oh yes, I can add "people who call my octave mandolin a guitar" 😡

Bass guitars. Somehow I always feel I'm letting the band down if I turn up with my bass guitar and not my upright.

Having a Squier Jazz with Fender fretless neck, aftermarket tuners, and about to get aftermarket pickups... in retrospect I'd have bought a Fender from the start. Nothing to do with quality, just the branding.

Thanks Lemmy. The Entwhistle pickups are particularly cheap, definitely worth considering!

That's why I took it to my technician, who I've a good and long relationship with - she recommended changing the pickups and I'm happy to go with that I'll look into the DP123BK you mentioned though - as well as being locally available they're a chunk cheaper.

Yes, they were recommended because of the "adjustable pole pieces to improve the string balance". Also, six months ago when we looked into this, I think they were more readily available. Now I have the funds to go ahead, time has moved on and they're not as available as they were at the time.

Is anyone playing with DiMarzio "Relentless J" pickups? For a while I blamed my old amp that some notes seemed quiet on my jazz bass, but last time I was in the studio (she says casually, as if not a rank amateur) the engineer was grumbling that notes on the A string were lower in volume. My technician had a look and recommended changing the pickups and suggested: https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/jazz-bass-hum-canceling/relentless-j-bass-pair They're not cheap and not readily available in the UK, so I wondered if anyone else was using them before going ahead? I mostly play jazz, folk-rock and worship music.

I went to Firebird for a classical piano exam. But they had no piano and were at a loss as to why the exam board had sent me there. The staff were helpful and friendly though, and it looked a decent set up.

Which is what I was playing in church today - alongside piano, electric guitar, drum and cornet. OK the volume was set to '9', and the acoustics are fantastic, but it was loud enough.

I'm surprised I'm the only person with only fretless - though that has been helped by moving house and selling instruments I wasn't playing. I started playing double bass and viola/violin at the start of covid lockdown and haven't really played fretted since.

I don't know what this is, but I love it! 💙

First Bass Owned: Aria Wildcat Pro II in white. Heavily influenced by John Taylor: 'Go To' Bass: Squier Jazz with Fender fretless neck 'Your' Bass: An unbranded cheap & cheerful plywood upright with neck and various other repairs, that somehow has a fantastic tone. Fitted with Innovation Rockabilly blacks & Realist Lifeline pickup. Custom paint job by a local artist too.

I have a challenging start to the day - woke up late having been unwell in the night. Then 'ForScore' refused to sync the music for this mornings' service so I had to print out the new tunes. For bonus fun, our MD had a new tune which I got to see only with five minutes before the service started. But it all went well and once the service started everything dropped into place. The hymns were: As the Deer Pants for Water When I Needed a Neighbour Behold the Lamb How Can I Keep From Singing All have decent bass parts, but I'm particularly fond of How Can I Keep From Singing

I sold Simisker a Behringer rack effects unit. Great comms, and very patient with me as I was nursing an injured leg and couldn't get to the post office.

Then we shall make that happen!

It's a CS7. Technically I can't fault it - the action and sound is great.

The first time I watched the video, I wasn't sure what I was watching. But I read your description, watched again and I get it! Impressive, and an interesting way to make music. In a way, not so different to our church band, except we have no tech, and play standing around the MD's piano so we can hear his instructions but the congregation can't.

Been there! Mid 1990s, me and a friend were renovating a flat I'd bought, on evenings after work. It was winter so we'd left the mains on, confident that a particular wire was not live.