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In a new video, Josh Scott reports on a weird situation regarding the current crop of NOTADÜMBLË pedals that has me a little bemused: apparently, the clean channel used the wrong circuit, one from a different Dumble pedal than was intended: This apparently came to light when Josh asked one of his engineers about using part of the circuit with an effects loop return in a future pedal, and the guy went "eh?". It was supposed to be the circuit he made for John Mayer called "a box later", but it's actually based on the rarer Dumble BBC-1 pedal that Mayer also has. Given Josh's history of pranks - I remember the Digitech Bad Monkey situation - I don't mind admitting I'm sceptical. The next and final batch of NOTADÜMBLË V1s will be released soon. Will the V1 gain some kind of legendary (pricey) status as a result? In the video, Josh says there's no difference, sonically. Me, I actually want to see a V2, since it sounds like he's going to put in an effects loop and channel switching, both of which will be welcome. But if you already bought a V1, hang on to it, and you might have a rare-ish pedal at your feet.

Apropo of nothing, today I came across some footage from the early '90's of Bernard Edwards playing his Ferrari Red Spector NS2. Looked like a fairly early model with dot markers rather than the crown MOP inlays they come with now. It must be the bass he played on Addicted To Love by Robert Palmer. I know that bass went to John Taylor after Bernard died.

Is it tone Lego or ordinary Lego?

Yes indeed. I don't think they ever stopped (pandemic notwithstanding).

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Wot No Lego Hair?

You're more than welcome to pop over and have a play squire.

Well, turns out these Musiclily knobs take a fair amount of shoving to get them to go on the solid shaft pots and grip really well with friction alone. So hopefully now it looks a little more like... itself.

Back to Wood... Wax, Tru-Oil or Danish Oil finish, and just the Bell Plate.

I always wished I didn't get a cinder red pulse 1 when they came out.

I guess whoever manufactures for Warwick, I don't know if that helps matters...

(The big brown truck is delayed until Monday, nothing to see here …)

Keep the foto flame ( if possible )and get it refinished/ lacquered by David Wilson. He sprayed my Atelier Z and it was superb.

After a few weekends off from the workshop we made some progress today! The fret board was machined with the channels for the fibre optic side dots in the underside of the board. The headstock face was then machined with the fretboard clamped in place to get the smooth transition 👌. Tomorrow we’ll add the side dots then run the fibre optics 🙌

Hi. Les Dawson knew how to play the funny wrong note and there are also some beautiful wrong notes. They're called add9, but they are often add2 but still called add9. add2 is much easier to understand. Start with C major C, E, G. Now count up the C major scale and stop at the 2nd note, so 1=C, 2=D stop. D. add the 2nd note in the C major scale to the C major chord and we have C, D, E, G. Inspiring and smoothy vibes. Where does the 9th come from. If you count up the C major scale to the next D, it's in 9th place. That's all I'm prepared to say about that. It's a friendly vibe in major, and beautiful in minor. Try this. It feels odd at first but you might grow to like it. Playing the bass and singing, swap between these two harmonies. Sing = D, Bass = C Sing = C, Bass = G♯ The first harmony could be major or minor. Using what we know from bass having the power to change chords, if we stack all the notes in, we can find the relative minor of the add9 by lowering the bass 3 semitones for major, or 4 for minor. Mind blowing, but beautiful. - find the relative minor of the add9, and know what you're talking about. Power to the bass player.

That ones all yours. Wrong colour for me

We spoke to Nicks sister today, Nick family are putting on a memorial concert in Peterborough on the 7th September and wants to draw the raffle then so I’d imagine we’ll start selling tickets 4-6 weeks before then