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Surprisingly not - technically speaking the contract never happened as no contract makes an illegal item or act legal. Or more accurately - the contract is not enforceable. Even though the parties wanted to have a contract where one sold an item and the other bought it (like selling / buying anything else) it is the fact that it is a counterfeit item that means the contract cannot be lawful or enforced. Instead of being a contract it's an attempt to enter into an illegal contract. Semantics - yes, but an important one. So looking at this from either side in the event of a First Sale - from the maker to the first buyer, the first buyer knowing it is not a real "X" because there's a disclaimer or something: Person A makes a counterfeit (not illegal), then agrees to sell it (illegal) and posts it to Person B a bit keenly - before the money has been received. B never gets round to paying for it. If A tries to sue B, then B has a defence of "the item is illegal, so I don't owe anything" - unlikely to get anywhere with the authorities but the courts also won't order B to actually pay A because that would be enforcing an illegal contract. A never gets paid and B loses any benefit as well when it gets confiscated. Or same basic facts but money changes hands first and then A doesn't post it: B complains and A says "I don't sell counterfeits he sent me the money as a gift" or similar. Again - no rights of civil action in either direction as they both knew what they were doing. Or money and item swap and then the item doesn't work properly. A cannot offer a usual sellers warranty on an illegal item, and B has no warranty rights so if A refuses to fix / replace at his expense then B has no remedy. Cannot ask a court to force a seller of a counterfeit to fix it as that would be enforcing rights that would exist under a lawful contract and this isn't one. Whoever is holding the item after the first sale (it not being illegal before that) is where it might be confiscated from. Then the person holding has to try and undo the past to get their money back. This is why the rationale of "next seller might not be honest" is so important: If B buys it knowing it is a counterfeit then they basically give up any rights to refunds / actions against A because they knew the item was counterfeit. If it's got a makers logo and the seller has been completely open about it not being a real "X" then neither side can say they didn't know. But if person C gets it from B and has no idea, then even if the item is confiscated and destroyed C can seek a refund from B because they have been a victim of fraud, but B can't go back further as they knew what they were doing when they got it from A. There's a thing called "Equity" in law and that means you need to have "clean hands" when asking the court for assistance - so if B willingly took part in an illegal act they lose the right to get any assistance from the courts about that illegal act. And it can get a lot more complicated than that. That's why Trading Standards are never bothered with small outfits and spend all their time scouring big markets for counterfeit Burberry and Armani stuff - that stuff is cranked out by massive factories. Here's a nice twist - some things like Burberry / high fashion stuff that is counterfeit has been made in the factories that make the real stuff and just left by the back door! Still counterfeit as well as stolen even though they are identical and made to the exact spec etc. It's a fascinating and often head-melting topic!

Bring it down, I'll use the Mod Dwarf to act as a DSP, send one signal to one Gnome, and one to the other Gnome. I did think if I had the House Jam 6", use the Mod Dwarf as a gilter so the bass signal goes to the 8" and a portion of the rest goes to the 6" speaker. The Mod Dwarf is acting as an active crossover here. No idea if it will work, but this is just the event to try these ideas out Rob

@Gunsfreddy2003 I was able to subscribe on a computer.

Is that "wet" in the sense of being recorded with a lot of reverb (which I know ECM tends towards), or "wet" in the sense of Molesworth disparaging his classmate Fotherington-Thomas (utterly wet and a weed, etc)? Though it gets the point across either way!

Hi there! I am looking to mod one of my EHX Freeze's to disable the dry sound once the pedal has been activated. Would you be able to recommend any pedal modders out there? Cheers!

I've just taken delivery of this mini 23" scale Harley Benton for my daughter's 4th birthday next month! Hoping to be the proud dad of a bassist! She has wanted a bass of her own for a fair old while now and prefers when I play my basses over my guitars. Just need to tidy the fret ends before we wrap it up as they've sprouted. She's also said that she wants her second bass to be black. I've taught her well already 😂 And it just so happens that I've got a black Squier Jaguar SS stashed away for her too.

Ah, so you saw the singer on the far right. I didnt quite get a view of her most of the night. Yeah, they had so much energy, and seemed genuinely overwhelmed to be there which was nice. Strange place to come all that way for just of the one gig.

Welcome VC.

if it was my company I wouldn't be putting the Fender decal on it until it had been sold and paid for. Then it's not mine and it was sold with no logo Perhaps I'd pop one on after as a favour to the new owner 😁

I'm not surprised.... they never stopped moving! 🤣 I was to the left of the top of the stairs...

I have a PRS Silver Sky that had terrible static problems as soon as the central heating went on. Pick guard and neck were full of loud static which rendered it totally unplayable. i tried all sorts of stuff, including commercial anti static sprays, diluted fabric conditioner etc. all they did was leave some degree of residue on the guitar which worked for about 5 minutes. in the end i took the neck off and place a single piece of silver foil in the neck pocket, to which I soldered (tricky but possible) a ground wire that went to one of the ground wires, any one will do. I made certain that the neck screws contacted the silver foil when reassembling so that the neck plate and therefore the surface of the neck were grounded. This solved the neck problem. I did the same for the scratchplate, rather than shielding the whole thing which can be bad for tone, i did strips making sure the pickup adjusting screws and rear of scratch plate were connected then wired that to ground. sometimes I get the odd crackle now and again still from the scratchplate, when this happens I rub the scratchplate with a fabric conditioner tumble drier dry sheet, and that solves what the earthing cannot for a long time. strange because I had another Silver Sky with a maple neck and fingerboard rather than rosewood and a satin finish on neck not gloss, and it never had the same problems. if you get caught out on a gig, a bit of spit rubbed on the area of the scratchplate that is static will work for a while. good luck.

In both directions it would seem! Drummers it's time for payback! PS it's a good little BBC article. To summarise it, if I may: folk don't seem to mind AI being used to entertain, but they don't want "slop" filling up their threads. (For me that applies as much to original human slop as it does to AI slop). And they do mind deception and something being passed off as authentic/real/original when it's not. Amen to that.

Indeed... Though I know hifi buffs who reject entire genres of music because it's not recorded in a sufficiently high fidelity way. As a result when you go to shows you tend to hear mainly wet ECM (or worse!) type jazz, or breathy female vocal stuff - it's mainly about listening to the soundstage, or bass extension, or air'n'space and "inky black silences". It's the hifi they're into, not the music! * *Though I'm a fine one to talk, I happened to look up my power amp recently and they're £13k now!!!

Yeah, I thought it funny when the girls said their bodies couldn't take any more songs 😀 Where were you standing? We were to the left (looking at the stage) of the mixer.

Surely that's a minefield, as it has now been sold (which was illegal) but is now owned (which is legal) as the process of forming a contract of sale has been completed.

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@rwillett I have a Gnome i Pro. I wonder if we can work something out here?

I was there too! It was fantastic! Such great, energetic performers.... Many a band could learn a thing or two from them about live performance!

Using the effects return in many amps will defeat the amp's master volume control. Our Deluxe pedals have no global master volume control so it will be necessary to edit the Level for each preset and immediately save it. If that doesn't work for you I would suggest plugging it into the front input of the amp and set your amp for an undistorted clean and neutral sound.

Well I'll be bringing two I have also worked out how to biamp them (if only I had another Warwick Gnome to use). Rob

I just saw a clip and she says she wrote favourite mistake on the bass, lovely tasteful part too. I think many of her band have been around with her for a long time and like her play most instruments, I do wonder who plays what on the records but I wouldn't be surprised if everyone does a bit of everything.

Yes! It’s still slightly outside my planning window at the moment but I’m watching the topic and will confirm or deny when able. I wonder how many BC 8" cabs we can assemble in one place?