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My personal view - if using the Stomp with in-ears, it is definitely worth spending some time playing with the global EQ. I cut extreme low frequencies, and also quite a lot of highs (roughly 40Hz low cut and something like 6kHz high cut) which helps to reduce the 'harshness'. Spending some time to get a good seal with your IEMs is important. Looking like a pillock while pulling on your ear to insert your IEMs properly is a price worth paying, IMO. Then again, if you cared what you looked like, you'd probably be up front on vocals or guitar My experience with the Stomp is that the mic pre and Noble (Regal) models were much better for me than any of the amps/cabs/IRs, plus exploiting a parallel path so you always get 50% of the direct sound really helps with clarity. Then again, I'm a rank amateur and have spent most of my bass-playing life plugging into a DI straight into the house - so your mileage might vary. Phil

WHSmiths? Not unless you happen to be an airport these days!

Congratulations! I still like print. It feels wrong to read an ipad on the bog! And an ipad is just a bit too rigid for the times I run out of loo roll...😬

And here's some pictures. The two cabs stack very nicely on top of each other. However they are only loosely connected through the rubber feet on the bottom and the holes in the corners. You're not going to knock them over without a push, but a drunken punter would easily push them down. The bottom one looks nicer than the top one as it's all black (IMO). I may retrofit the black corners onto the top one. The top one happens to have a Mod Dwarf on it and without that, would be the perfect place to place a pint. Still got to do a grill for the bottom one. Side angle and the rear. The handles are great., Easy to carry the whole cab with just one of them. And from the rear I'm quite pleased with how they have turned out. Even better when I can change the top Speakon panel and remove the gaskets. Work has got in the way all day today. Rob

Hi all… fired up my GK MB head last night. Lack of usual full range bassy goodness, noisy artifacts, lack of definition etc. basically, “some sound missing”. After plugging direct into head with known good jack lead, problem still there. Master volume knob was very crackly upon turning… so I muted the amp and gave it many a clockwise and anti turn until (I guess) the dirt in the pot shifted out of the audio path - normal sound restored. So, please, your wisdom: 1) does above sound feasible 2) Strikes me the issue will come back, no? 3) I guess squirting with proper contact cleaner likely causes more issues than solves? Thanks!

Absolutely - if you buy online you get a lot of protections that you don't have in a shop, regardless of price.

Great stuff and thank you!

I'd be amazed if that or similar hadn't been tried by someone at some point! Buy a nice brownish tartan bag and then a label with needle and thread appears in the post a week later...

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.