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Mine is also engaged on power up. It also drives me mad. It is a lovely sounding chorus though. 😊

I'm increasingly teaching ethics and AI in a University. I use music as quite a good example. We need to see AI as a tool, and like any tool it can make some work more efficient, but we must not mistake quantity with quality. Generative AI in particular can create large quantities of music etc. very rapidly, but that doesn't mean it is any good. Conversly, in the right hands, AI can help creators generate really high quality work - for me the main benefit of AI in music is more in recording/remastering than composing (for instance). There's plenty of aphorisms about this but I quite like: "Those who are carried to a goal should not think they have reached it" regarding AI - it's one I use with my students and coursework!

Thanks, the Gates of Babylon we do is by Volbeat.

Oh how I wish I could do the same!!

Living In A Box - Living In A Box

It wasn’t shiny, but it’s a lot less fragile and helps keep power requirements low enough to work off one Cioks output in its defence. It definitely isn’t cutting it though now and even on newer devices with touch screens their UI design is pretty atrocious. Their amp modelling is solid though and eventually they had a really solid offering. The effects are solid although sometimes not the most exciting. The thing that grated on me was the ecosystem, all the companion apps and patch sharing sites etc are so low quality and archaic. I also think the release cadence should be more consistent, a quarterly release with some fixes and bonus features/blocks keeps it exciting. Honestly, not a clue what they’d do for a flagship to compete with the other high end offerings. I don’t feel like they’d go down the capture route personally.

My Boy Builds Coffins - Florence & The Machine

It always is. We're lucky that Airbourne always play our local as a warmup when they tour the UK. Ive seen them several times. I don't really listen to their records much but theyre such a great live band.

Used my A58 last night and I agree I’ve had 6-8hrs out of mine from the charge it came with from new ! Great wireless and sensible size too Nice little storage case included

Easily. The only thing is the MXR has a few on-panel controls that the FI needs the editor or a MIDI controller to access (eg portamento time, waveform mixer levels and waveform shape, LFO speed). We could have added onboard controls for all parameters but it would’ve required a crib sheet or, if we’d added a naming system, it would have eaten up too much memory space.

You and your crazy, radical ideas! It's so absolutely ridiculous it almost makes sense!

So good, but why the pickguard? Let it all out!

I'm looking at a refret on my '63 Jazz. Any recommendations for having professional work carried out? I'm located YO62 North Yorkshire but can travel a reasonable distance. Cheers

Got a wee confession to make: I had a twinge of regret on missing out on that MXR synth pedal in the FS a couple of days back, which was snapped up before I'd even seen it listed! Having now seen what the v4.5 FI is capable of, that regret has been replaced with relief! Seems to me the updated FI can do everything the MXR can, and then some?

Pump It Up is a cracking bassline.

He should put something inside the gap to avoid the risk of trapping your hand if the strings break. Perhaps a block of wood. Maybe some more wood surrounding that block of wood attaching to the entire frame of the body to keep it stable. You could then paint that wood in all sorts of cool colours and finishes, and use different types of wood to get different tones.

Sorry mate I missed this! So I have it set up a few different ways and I’m kinda experimenting to see what I like. If I’m using a cab I use an active cab, so Anagram is comp/fx and I use noble and/or harmonic booster for tone rather than amp sim, that then runs into the Nordstrand Starlifter which goes into the powered cab. However mostly I’m ampless, I can either run the above setup to foh, or instead of the noble/harmonic booster combo I use an amp/cab sim, but again it’s into the Starlifter and out to FOH. I think the Amp sims are really easy to use, the sound excellent - Peggy Bass, Leo Bass, Markbass and Swirl is likely my order of preference - I’m not huge on dirt, or at least not in my base tone, so I run them pretty clean - if I want dirt I use either a NAM capture, Atomic sans or Vintage microtubes. Amp/Cab sim into another preamp probably isn’t how it’s meant to be done but it sounds excellent - I find cab sims a bit too much sometimes and it kinda works to clean them up a bit, the Starlifter adds some magic to it. Honestly I find I don’t tweak the amp sims all that much - cut a bit of bass here, add a bit of mids there that’s about it. Also if you want a more dirty/vintage amp with some gan the “Horror Bass” is excellent. It is basically what I wanted and expected the Stomp to be - less fx but more than enough for me

I can't remember offhand but I'll have a look in the morning