IamScrooge

Tickets gone - thanks for looking.

She's been doing that for years!

The inclusion of the Les Paul is very intentional Dont see the point when you could have a fat strat. As with art, its like the mannie fa kissed the pigs arse. Its all a matter o taste.

Well...stick figures on a cave wall sure beats this. So...whats your point? That modern artists suck more than ever?

I've always found the ER-20s to sound a bit plastic-ey if that makes sense. I dont like rehearsing with them that much. Buy a set, they're not expensive, I think I got a set of 3. Still to find something better for the price.

Art that has nothing worthwhile to say or does not express its message in a way that its intended audience can interpret is an art fail.

If it IS a 2204, its 50w, vertical input type

BUT much safer than using phone plugs! No chance of accidental disconnect, dont suffer from the shorting out your amp problem when disconnecting at the speaker side, cant accidentally plug them into something you're not supposed to (well, extremely small chance anyway), bi/quad amping capability, more durable, easier to fix than a phone plug (no soldering), much tidier with heavier gauge wires, no chance of mixing up a speaker cable and an instrument cable... And miles better than using *shudder* XLRs for speaker connectors... Silly Bose!

Does this image help you atall? http://www.buyspeakercable.com/SPEAKON_OPEN_BIG.gif The white part in that image (yours might be black) is the strain relief. When the back of the connector is screwed on it applies force and grips the cable pretty tight. Over time IME they become pretty stubborn to unstick from the cable. There should be a side to it you can jam a wee screwdriver down and prise it apart enough to get it unstuck from the cable. Is this the part you're having difficulty with? Or is it the black part at the right hand side of the image? If I remember correctly its just one of those things you've got to shoogle around and keep pushing at until it comes away from the assembly with the terminators. If its stuck, a hammer might actually not be a bad idea to seperate the two plastic parts (nondestructively, preferably!) You need to pull that part *away* from the cable, like the housing of an XLR. The connector is assembled in order as shown in the image. Hope this helps.

And doesn't need to be installed! My colleague introduced me to it, brilliant for running off a USBstick when you're suspect of a machine thats been compromised. Agreed, iTunes is a terrible piece of software. Not in the way its written, but in the way its designed. Reminds me of most apple software in this respect Thank goodness you can access an iPod like a flash drive. Not that I would have one, but when I do have to deal with them its handy.

I'm running 7 right now, I've actually bought windows 7! I had a licence for vista with this computer, and I *bought* another licence for windows 7 (after running the beta, I was very impressed) to replace it, Vista was that bad. Depending on the age and spec of the laptop, a downgrade to XP may or may not be a better option if it is available.

I am Scrooge.

+1 for cdex!

Ooh, there was only one reply when I posted that! Good advice from everyone. But yeah, vista is crap, downgrade to XP pro if you can!

I'm sure you're already aware of this but its worth reiterating. Laptops live are a disaster waiting to happen. They should never be in a mission critical position. People can try and brag all they want about how they've done X for Y amount of time and never had a problem (yet) but at the end of the day, if that computer hangs, crashes or fails to boot, responsibility for the show stopping is yours. Of course, maybe (hopefully!) the laptop isn't mission critical in your situation and you have a stack of CDs and an appropriate player, perhaps the laptop is just for convenience. But personally, if I were using a laptop for a live perormance, I wouldn't be using it for home use as well, I'd preferably set it aside as a dedicated machine for live work because, one dodgy download is all it takes for the thing to go out of action for a few days. Filling up the hard drive to 80% with crap then expecting it to work flawlessly live...well... I'm a pedantic, so I dont want to perpetuate the popular belief that how full your hard drive is is directly proportional to a computers performance. Its a bit more complicated than that. Generally, a computers page is set to about 150% of how much RAM you have, so its definately a good idea to keep that amount free on your hard disc. When you install a program, just because you uninstall it doesn't mean it'll remove itself properly or completely from the system. A lot of programs run in the background that dont need to, simply because the manufacturer wants them to. Not a bad idea to disable these in msconifg or out of the registry altogether (depending on how confident you are you know what you're doing!!!) Windows keeps restore files and as time goes on, the repository of these definately doesn't get any smaller! So, as time goes on, your hard disc does become more full, and your computers performance does drop. The remedy? A good orgnised file system, a good backup routine, a proper OS install disc and copies of all the drivers/programs you need to wipe that sucker and start from scratch. A defrag is usually about as much use for increasing performance as a chocolate teapot is for fending off rabid sheep, but if your drives that full, it might be in a pretty bad way. I would try defragging the drive in this instance, but dont even hope that it'll solve anything! Good luck for friday!

Not safe!

I dont think that broken speakers would 'generate' a hissing noise. I would replace the whole getup, hi-fis are out of fashion and go for a criminally low amount of moolah these days. Random example: Sony Stereo with Speakers on eBay (end time 11-Aug-09 13:20:51 BST)

... I know which one I'd rather fuck

When I see some of these guys you have in the big city...sometimes I'm glad I live in the sticks!

Did they ever catch that scary fugitive man? I cant sleep well at night knowing he's out there with 'limitless resources' buying fugitive stuff and being elusive

From racist to saint in how long?? My my, todays media transitions far too quick for an old man like me.

Well I found this image on some forsaken hole on the internet but this car is making its rounds in aberdeen: That bike looks about as good as an aids report after a night of lust with several cheap hookers

My goodness les pauls sound shit!