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Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer

Splitting hairs is part of the game. Let's make some analogies: A new tuner plugged into the bass pedalboard. T2 as an accessory unless a replacement for a failed unit? The mechanical footswitch add-on to my amp that can either switch between EQ in and Out, or (more usefully) mute the amp, depending on which socket it's pluggged into. Probably T2 accessory as well as it makes life easier? This is a very fancy equivalent of that pedal, so probably T2 as well? Either way a very cool piece of kit 👍

78mm left to right, 122mm back to front (as you say). about 37mm high at the highest point, not including the knob.

12 years after the last one, another great transaction with Neil Had a Hiwatt practice combo off him for free (I just paid postage), arrived faster than the speed of light and packed more securely than a very secure thing. Definitely one of the good guys on this forum, thanks mate!

Stolen from The Gear Page... but some google search implies this is correct. I know the pedals actually work on 9v, but use a system to internally downgrade the 12v input to 9v. I'm not entirely sure why they did that, but the following explains how the daisy chain bypasses that process: ""The Boss ACA pedal works when daisy chained to a 9V supply because the shared ground in the daisy chain bypasses the internal voltage limiting components in the ACA pedal. This allows the pedal to receive the full 9V supplied by the daisy chain, which is sufficient for its operation. The ACA pedal's design relies on isolated grounds to control its internal voltage drop, and when the ground is shared, it no longer forces the voltage reduction, enabling the pedal to operate at the 9V supplied by the daisy chain. This behavior is consistent across any power supply where the outputs share a common ground, such as daisy chain setups or power supplies like the DC Brick.""

The only time I've ever felt I need a G is for an open string riff, otherwise 5 frets down the neck and you're there 😁

Oh that is major event for you guys! Did his departure come as a surprise and / or was it done amicably? I guess your guitarist deserved a well-earned retirement and, as you say, it could be a good thing for the band once the dust settles - I suspect you may not be short of candidates to join such an established band!

If they were out of phase, you would hear a very noticeable drop in output and a thin, nasal tone. From what you've written here, I think you're in phase. If you're feeling adventurous, swap the hot and ground wires of one of the pickups and see what difference it makes. Or just leave it, because what you describe sounds fine to me.

I hear a slight drop in volume and a slight compression in the mids, but it's the same thing I hear on a jazz bass

Sorry, I should have stated that those are the pictures supplied by the venue and that is the lead that the venue have been providing to their other acts. I'll see if I can find out a bit more.

Can anyone confirm the dimensions please? The website says 122mm wide but I assume that's actually the 'length' from the top of the screen to down where the footswitches are?

Well, I'm going to be a meanie and call shenanigans on this one. Was it necessary to make the MultiFX work? Presumably the MultiFX worked fine before, it was just a bit fiddlier to select stuff? You could argue that it's not specifically bass gear, but it's being used to control bass gear and you could argue that a Line6 M5 is not specifically bass gear and then where would we be? It's a T2 fail at the very minimum, and that's if I'm being charitable. It's creeping into T1 territory because of the use case. I would also argue that something which manipulates the signal chain IS in the signal chain. It's not a strap, is it? Seems like an indulgence to me, but maybe I haven't had it explained sufficiently for my pea brain to figure it out. Happy to hear any rebuttal of the above.

Good news although sometimes you find damp has got into components and is slowly corroding yet still appearing to work. It’s the same reason cars that get flood water damage even minor are now written off by insurers as they discovered over time failures of components. Not so sure I would have total faith in the amp if it had been wet but you may be lucky, hope so 👍

My first thought when I saw the clip was that , if true, he's certainly not the first musician who's been unable to reproduce a song or parts of a song exactly like the recording live. Although in the examples in the Sapko clip it's not clear if the recording vs live examples are even supposed to be the same piece, so it doesn't really prove anything.

Just looked at the link. Looks good. It reverses the newspaper model of print and distribute to distribute and print. So distribute the files locally and then print. I tried to set a colour printing business to do this about 30 years ago and we failed to raise the business. I understand what he's trying to do and he's addressed most of the concerns that were raised to us, things like NDA'S. Would be very interested in seeing the pricing model they use. Perhaps I might put my rates up from free 😁

This is an interesting one. I’ve worked with several producers of big bands who’ve told me stories of musicians whose tracks are all composites of takes because they literally can’t play it all the way through. In the 60s they’d smuggle studio musicians in to redo parts etc. Stitching together takes isn’t the same as plagiarism. Danny is making cash and we’re all contributing to it, so he’s currently winning.

RE Ichika Nito, someone has tried an obsessive take down (one wonders about neurodiversity!) of him which I think Danny Sapko must have seen. I've linked the below to 34 minutes in which I think summarises what has happened in this case - Ichika has produced super virtuoso videos that are beyond his own ability to perform which I suppose is cheating, although not the "ultimate" fake guitarist. Mind you the most popular comment in the chat underneath is Jared Dines complaining no one has accused him of being a fake guitarist yet!