singemonkey wrote:
eric vaxxine wrote:
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Apologies...Admin guys and girls.
WTF?
Nothing to do with us, and no reason why we should be concerned about this thread so far.
"Know thy equipment" is a great wisdom. When I saw Matthew van der Want the other week he had a G7 Capo. These are very good, and they have their advantages, but they have quite a different mechanism from any other capo and the release method is not intuitive. The capo was fastended to the mic stand at the start of the set, a good, handy place to put it (you can't park the G7, or the Shubb for that matter, on the headstock the way you can with a Kyser capo). So far so good. Then he wanted to use the thing and couldn't release it's grip from the mic stand. A brief wrestling match ensued and eventually humanity prevailed over inanimate capo (hoorah!) and he fitted it to the guitar neck. But it was not the end of the matter, because at the end of the song he had to wrestle again.
Not that there's anything wrong with the G7, indeed they have advantages over any other type of capo, and everything is explained in the little booklet that is included in the packaging, but if you don't know about that little thumb latch...
And it's like that with any device you're going to use on stage - know how to operate it.
Most members of this forum are not performing musicians - nothing wrong with that, you can still love and own guitars without putting your skills on display - so many of us may not have any kind of gig moment at all.
Last time I played live Fingerpicker (who has been scarce of late) tried some borrowd mics that sounded quite good, but had a sweet spot about 1 cubic millimeter in size (the SM58s he usually uses are far more forgiving) and that caused me some distress. Eventually I was trying to not move at all.
