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Saw joe bonomassa's rory gallagher tribute at the marquee in cork. Blistering gut churning visceral rock and roll - decent volume too (albeit not the best sound and a couple of technical issues but so what). The whole band were on fire, joe and lachy doley (keys) in particular. Bass was courtesy of Aongus Ralston of the waterboys although Gerry McAvoy also sat in for a couple of numbers. Bass was low, full and driving; not an especially articulate sound but that wasnt really the remit - it was perfect for the gig. It must also be noted that mr ralston is a sartorially elegant chap. unusual to see joe upstaged in that respect

I used to post images (photos or whatever...) hosted externally, so as not to load BC servers, or my 'quota', with stuff. It worked for many tears, but I've stopped doing that, now, as my 'host' site, Imgur, have made it very difficult to have an ID and keep it, without having to change Pwd every too often. To such a point that I don't now know how to log into there, and couldn't find any Help from them. I've lots of stuff there, but copied it over to Google (not so good as a host, but they don't mess me about, so...). As it happens, I post far fewer images these days, but for those wishing to post a lot, consider hosting the pics elsewhere..? Not Imgur, though, obviously.

Lolololololol: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286628515175 Pasing off an Affinity as a limited edition is bad enough (although I guess they don't do them in orange any more), but trying to pass it off as what is universally acknowledged to be one of the worst signature editions Fender has made yet takes the biscuit. 450 quid for a guitar that cost less than 200 new!

I used the Fuzzdog one, Dirt Dessert. Drive below 2pm is quiet and useless, and between 3pm and 4pm it gets incredibly loud and overdriven very very quickly. I can wah it, yeah. As blend, I assume you're referring to MIX? For me, that's not really a type of clean blend, as it's very much driven and impacted by the DRIVE value. The touch dynamic also changes greatly between low MIX and high MIX, it does not just change the signal balance/level. The bass switch will be removed, as it will be always on. I would be blending the clean bass signal into the driven bubbly mixed signal, but I'll breadboard this out to see if it makes any sense. On the long run when I might actually be selling anything more than 1 pedal per 3 months, I am also planning to have JLC solder on at least the resistors, and maybe some caps (depending on cost), to speed up things. But I also want to give it a go myself first SMT just seems like a different kind of fun.

Agreed. Also while it makes sense that people remove photos as we all have limited capacity on our accounts, I've always found it unusual to the point of being suspicious when people remove all the descriptive text as well

And if you don't delete the images, you will reach your allowed space limit quite quickly. When my items are sold, I only remove the images for that reason, the rest is remaining, if there was a way to let them without reaching my allowed space limit, I would do so...

Wow - that’s a lot. The timings and running orders have been leaked and most bands only seem to be getting 15 minute slots, with Metallica only getting 30 mins. im glad I am not going tbh

I think it is a waste, and would encourage people to leave them as a locked thing, but there is nothing to stop someone editing their posts, and if someone doesn't want their images there they can just remove them and there isn't anything that can be done about it. Luckily it is only a small minority of posts that go like that

Rok it to the moon. Stranglers

An active circuit would get rid of a hum induced in the cable, but if the hum is induced in the pickups there is nothing an active circuit can do about it. If I sit by my computers with one of my basses with the nordy singles, I get a hum, but can get rid of it by just tilting the bass at another angle.

Next Glastonbury will be Coldplay playing 12 sets each day on each of the 5 main stages.

Fry me to the moon - Frank Sinatra

I watched GB News once out of curiosity. It was exhausting keeping up with the outrage and depressing listening to them talk about how terrible life in Britain is (and they claim to be patriotic!) And then they got in to talking about how handsome and wonderful their mate Nigel is. They're politically unbiased you know? They said so many times and they wouldn't lie would they?

There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop - Kirsty McColl

that’s interesting, for me the aggressive Wavefolding is what I like about that pedal - and my gain pot is pretty good for most of its range, which schematic did you use? Will it do the wah wah thing with a volume pot that Justin medal Johnson showed in the video with pedals and effects? in terms of blend…. The prunes and custard does have a blend already, and a switch to inject extra low end into the signal … what have you built if there’s no blend??! SMD stuff - I cheated and got jlcpcb to do the assembly for me! So much simpler and cost effective. My laziness means ild like to try replacing the film caps with smd parts - but know it’s not quite so simple as that - and when I looked for some values the c0g part cost more than a box film cap would. I will check it out, I’ve been looking at the fdeck one and the broughton one for inspiration so far.

My brother’s friend paid several thousand pounds for two tickets.

Last week I released a YouTube video where I analysed Chas Chandler's walking line from an Animals Classic, and used this to show how to walk over one chord and make it sound exciting. I've now made a demo video of me playing the whole of Chas's bass line from 'Bury My Body.' Although the walking bass sections are fast, this is really fun to play and it's got an easy main riff. The walking section is pure Chandler gold! You can also grab a free PDF transcription of the whole bass line by clicking the link in the video description. Enjoy!

Anyone use this patch live?