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I love your work. Can I, could I, make a suggestion on the You Tube presentations? Maybe (maybe) run the bass through a crossover of some sort (Rolls make the SX21) and output the lows through a cleanish bass amp (or something with a bit of whump) and the highs through something with a bit of dirt. I owned a 12-string for a while, my personal feeling is that the bulk of owners/players are looking for a dUg Pinnick/Tom Petersson tone.

first part sorted ...

It was done in Hungary by Boldogh guitars. (The others too)

You're in a band with Elton John? Well played.

A superb blowout of joint winners in April, all on the money with excellent tuneage. By a marvelously community spirited resolution , Jean-luc Pickguard has provided us with a lovely image .... "Ralph the Bulldog" I chuckled muchly when this presented itself in my PM's ! So, we need rules , ✅ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ❌ No Bagpipes, May be ... May not .. unless as a background ambience at -65db ❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th May ... but I am out on the Sunday morning so you might get a few more hours polishing and rolling in glitter till Tea time on the 25th A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be super duper smashing lovely. Good luck, Have fun

Practice may not make us all perfect Tim but just about everyone improves with the opportunity to learn. When I used to teach photography My students got bogged down in technicalities. Even with decent cameras getting them to concentrate on on composition was a struggle. A roll of film was expensive to use and it was rare for anyone without a professional interest to use multipe rolls every week. Even then you had to take the film in to be developed and printed. Few people got to experiment in the darkroom and even then it was time consuming. Phones allow us all to take hundreds of shots a day all properly exposed and focussed with images stabilised. Crucially the feedback is instant as to what is a good shot and what doesn't work. That the photos the kids are taking are better than 90% of the black and white pictures my generation took is more of an observation than anything. You of course may disagree. I think your assumption is that there are more cloth eared guitarists than serious musicians who have craved access to all the features now available to them? My experience is that most are serious about getting the band to get better, have a good idea about the sound they are trying to achieve and liberated by having the tools to do a better job. Not all musicians are cloth eared even guitarists

Now im stuck behind the keyboards i miss being able to do this, and while there are others that could, i wouldn't trust them to listen to anything other than themselves.

Gallery appear to avoid descriptions

He never said they sounded good though 😂😎

I use wireless for everything - rehearsals, open mics, gigs. On Tuesday I forgot to take a decent length jack-jack cable to run between effects and amp to rehearsal, but I always carry both the WS-50 and WS-90 so I used one for bass to effects and the other for effects to amp.

Strangely, he was only using the bridge pickup with mids and treble quite high on the bass, and not that much bass there. The amp was quite the same. This allowed him to play slap and fingerstyle during the same "song" without bothering about the EQ.

Can’t be sure but it looks like a refinish to me, and unless I’ve missed it there isn’t a description , is there

We have a carpet shoppe in the village and they have a big Grundon bin out back. Will have a root around tomorrow. Might need to get some adhesive from them to justify the taking.

We have one song that uses all our elements and also doesn’t appear in our regular set (that’s key to the soundcheck). It has vox, backing, all instruments and the drummer’s FX pad. We tell the audience we’re gonna have a quick sound check, play the intro, a verse, a chorus then end it. Then tell the audience we’ll be back in ‘x’ mins. I have a wander out front while we’re playing the verse to gauge everything then nip back on stage for BV in the chorus.

I back , I’ll go and set up for May and try making the certificates!

I think I would be more worried about catching septicemia playing that one!

Agreed, most likely a refinished sunburst.

Looking to see if anybody knows what 3 band EQ settings Mark used on his bass in the early 80s and his amp settings.

Me... ...and my Band Of Muppets

I have a suspicion that one of my latest creations will be looked at with approval by some on this thread who probably think this is the best use for a speaker cab (although I will point out that I did this after using the speakers to fix the cabs shown in my earlier post, so yes one 4x10 died, but two other broken cabs were revived!)

This was done on analogue desks - not too difficult to set up and you can always mute the channel and mix as normal if you want to so long as the desk has a couple options for buses/sub-mixes. I agree, however, on the convenience of savings things on digital desks, however we currently use one that needs to be rebooted every time a new programme is loaded before it will apply changes which is a bit irritating - I think it's a Yamaha something or other but I generally stay away from it!