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Shock Hazards - If you gig, read this now

  • 05-08-2005 5:32pm
    #1
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭


    This is an excellent insight into how easy it is to be killed by ropey power or a dodgy amp. Scary stuff. :eek:


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  • #2
    Mystic Fibrosis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Mystic Fibrosis


    "Never use your body as a piece of test equipment."

    Sound advice.


  • #3
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    TBH, you'd be amazed.

    How many gigs have you been to where you've seen a pint on an amp?


  • #4
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    EMG - no ground connection, no risk of shock ;)


  • #5
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Until you touch the metal volume knob :p


  • #6
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    That's connected to the battery ground though.


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  • #7
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Fine, you take out the lead and touch off the jackplate :p

    You can run but you can't hide ;)


  • #8
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Why not just smash a stage light and piss into the element in that case? :p


  • #9
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    I remember doing a gig in the Rock Garden when whatever cretin was playing before us spilled his pint all over the stage. While we were playing I slipped in the puddle and knocked off the bass mic, sending it into the puddle in front of the amp.

    "I'm not touching that!" I remember thinking to myself and nodded frantically to one of the plebs at the side of the stage to put it back :)


  • #10
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Ah, good auld roady monkeys ;)


  • #11
    John
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    Shocking stuff!


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  • #12
    fish-head
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    I get phantom shocking pains when I look at microphones.
    It always seems to happen to me when I'm singing.


  • #13
    Steoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    i get lethal shocks off microphones at gigs.. is it something to do with me playing bass while singing?... touching off metal strings? :confused:


  • #14
    Mystic Fibrosis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Mystic Fibrosis


    I somehow doubt they're lethal shocks, considering you've just posted that


  • #15
    Steoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    Mystic Fibrosis wrote:
    I somehow doubt they're lethal shocks, considering you've just posted that
    ever heard someone say."the program is deadly" etc... do they look dead?


  • #16
    jcoote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭jcoote


    Steoob wrote:
    ever heard someone say."the program is deadly" etc... do they look dead?


    some people do ...then again they look like they when they are eatin their dinner or just walking around too :p


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