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Where can I buy a stylish bag electric guitar concert and matching strap?

Hi, I want to buy a new guitar bag and the strap of my electric, but I do not know where I can buy them. The styles I like include: Checked, camouflage, flames, anything childish like that. I live in England as well. Co.uk only sites please. Thank you!

hi try a music store.

Gilded Serpent presents Shelly of Unmata-Gig Bag Check #11

Okay, you've learned to play bass and you play now for a band concert. This series of articles will help you overcome some problems faced by all bass players when they play live. 9 Tips Gig awaiting professional during sound checks.

If you play for a group to a concert and another person (and not the group) is the sound – if the location or production company – here are some dos and don'ts for the soundcheck.

Once you've set up your amp and your bass – and you're happy with your sound stage – put your bass to his position and wait for the engineer of his request for some bass. Do not stay on the stage playing a medley of your greatest licks. I call this "syndrome Store music. You see every Saturday morning in the music stores up and down the land. There is no place for it to sound checks. Save your mix stones when your friends come for a beer … or a coke … or coffee (delete does not apply to you).

If you use pedals or effects, it is your responsibility to ensure that the different sounds that you use have similar volume levels. Do not expect to give the engineer the sound of a copy of your play list and say something like: "Uh man, I use a distortion in hysteria and my pedal is really hard so you might need to bring my level down to that.

Spend some time at home with your rig and get volume levels with your effects pedals to be approximately the same as the volume level without pedals, effects of your file.

When sound engineer calls you to give it a little low for him to get a line level and begin to apply EQ to your channel, do not pull not your potpourri of cool licks again. Instead of choosing a line from one of the tunes that you play and just play. If you have a song where the line Low covers much ground on the neck pick that one. In this way, the engineer will be able to hear the bass and the highs and should be able EQ and configure your channel.

Remember: you'll have more to impress the engineer giving a feed it can do its job by playing with something flashy. His job is to make the right group. It is in your interest he does a good job, and you can make it easier for him.

The other area you need to sort Out followed. A few concerts this will be the same engineer, really big gigs, you may find you have the luxary of having a monitor engineer. Once all the main channels have been ordered by the Engineer to ask the band to play together so it can adjust the front of house mix. Once that is done satisfaction monitor mixes will be sorted.

Now, it is common to check sound levels and levels of collaboration to be effective very different because of the adrenaline rush you get from being in front of an audience. So when you configure the monitors do not be too picky – Make sure you can hear the drums, keyboards and singing in that order.

A sound engineer can make some noise – or it can destroy your sound. People in the audience will not know why the group does not sound good, they'll just know it was not good. It's sad to say that I was on the receiving end several times to sabotage engineer – and it's not much fun (and the cost of my band work and money too).

To contribute to the sound engineer, as far as you can.

If you want more bass related info, head over to my how to play bass website where you’ll find video lessons, articles, reviews and much more. There’s also a weekly ezine you can sign up for – in return for signing up you’ll get a PDF file with 5 cool bass lines in – and each week’s ezine features a bass line in music notation and bass tab. http://www.how-to-play-bass.com

This article originally appeared in my free weekly ezine.

The making of Suzanne Vega’s Second Life Guitar

What is Chrome Moly anyway? Well first, if you've searched the internet for Chrome Moly, I must tell you that the spelling Chromoly is actually correct. Chromoly is like steel on steroids. It contains chromium and molybdenum, a splash of mostly carbon and iron.

The grade most chromoly tubing is 4130. Here's what it means 4130: The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has a numbering system that uses 4 digits to categorize steels.

The first digit indicates the major alloying element.

Take 1010 Carbon Steel, for example. The 1 is the steel carbon. The second number indicates the approximate percentage of the major alloying element. In the case of carbon steel, the number is zero because there is no major element alloys. The third and fourth digits indicate the carbon content of steel.

In the case of 1010 steel, they indicate that the steel contains about 0.1% carbon, or 0.1%, or point-one percent carbon.

OK lets look to 4130 chromoly.

The 41 in 4130 indicates the main alloying elements are chromium and molybdenum and that the steel contains about 1% chromium and molybdenum combined. 2 The latest figures show 0.3% carbon.

The reason 4130 chromoly is so freakin strong and why it performs so well when used in aircraft, bicycles, dragsters, etc. because the combination of chromium, molybdenum and carbon, and good treatment Thermal Standard, 4130 chromoly tubing to a combination of strength, toughness and ductility.

4130 chromoly tube has great properties and great strength to weight ratio. The trick is not to live that when welding.

There are some purists out there who insist that the welding Gas is the only way forward for welding chromoly tubing for small planes. The idea is that the slow heating and slow cooling part of the concert with welding gas is needed and where 4130 welded tubes are gas, it kind of stress relief at a time.

But with all available data on welding TIG 4130 chromoly tubing without the need to reduce the stress in me enough to feel good in the TIG welding it. Even for small aircraft

I just do that just welding in accordance with established guidelines and I do not use 4130 filler rod.

Learn more about Welding 4130 and find a buttload of other welding information, at http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/

the lays en show case (GIG) – Le Gang (BBBrunes cover)