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I've tried many, many over the years and insubstantial is nothing like I'd describe them. Yamaha guitars and basses are generally very good.

This is so crazy! Please whenever it is ready.

Moi aussi. Geddy has always had a unique tone, but the Moving Pictures/Subdivisions era are just untouchable.

And back to my cab (maybe I should start a different thread). A little bit of action as I glued in the back and tried to round the edges, forgetting which side the workpiece should have been on, so they're a bit messy. I shall try and tidy up a bit tomorrow. Also put a brace in, far enough down so it won't foul the speaker. My quest to get my 110 back into service after the poxy Made in USA Eminence driver blew up has been a little less fruitful, I didn't do a great job of cutting out the speaker hole in the baffle in the first place, and had to bodge the fixings, and the replacement speaker hasn't got holes in quite the same places so I either have to drill new holes and redo my bodges or graft in a new section of baffle (removing the old baffle is impractical).

Oh My God! Our Band Used To Do This In The Social Clubs Of Central Scotland In The Time Before The Dinosaurs Roamed!! Street Cred Shot To Hell.

Pre-spoiler I prefer the order of 2,1,4,3. On the first demo I didn't gel with 3 at all. Now I will have a look what they are.

I was already playing bass, with a pretty generic tone, when I heard Geddy Lee on Permanent Waves and then Moving Pictures, that tone set the standard for me and I've played variations of that bright, distorted sound for 45 years. Lee's aggressive playing style also influenced my own very hard-hitting finger-style, which compliments the sound very well. I blame Geddy, however, I don't play Ricky's or Jazz basses, so it's not all a carbon copy.

This would be a big loss, Reaktor and Kontakt are both great, Reaktor in particular is pretty unique and the user library is full of amazing stuff going back decades. I have a feeling that this will keep happening to similar companies and we are seeing the early stages of the death of electronic music, or at least software based electronic music. As AI eats everything digital, people are slowly losing interest in this stuff and values are beginning to shift. If AI can crap out a generic house tune which is indistinguishable from a human-made one, it’s game over. When people can’t tell the difference between digital and AI, they will just lose faith in the whole thing and move on. Same thing is beginning to happen to digital art too. Interesting times.

Amazing band !

There's also the M-Vave Blackbox/ANNBlackbox or Lekato ME-01. I've just got one which I've started describing in

I've had a bit of a play, after updating the firmware and PC and Android software to the latest. Nice solid piece of kit. One conventional pot as master volume, one rotary transducer to set parameter values, with a click to select. There are two Bluetooth channels, one full Bluetooth and the other Bluetooth BLE, one for control and the other for audio interface. Limited effects - there's a chain of up to six, which, just like the old days, are one of each type. However, they can be reordered if required 1) FX Noise gate Boost Compressor AI Gate MS - I have no idea what this is, it's a recent addition that's not in the manual 2) AMP 1-15 for guitar 16-20 for bass (the models are AgDb750, ApSVT, PJBuddy, DgXu, MarkLm - four of them seem obvious, I assume the Dg one is DarkGlass but not sure what Xu signifies) Same controls for all: Gain, Level, Bass, Mid, Treble 3) MOD Chorus Phaser Tremolo Flanger Vibrato Univibe (combines chorus and phaser) 4) DLY Analog Ducking dTape (I want to have a play with this as it emulates tape saturation, my favourite bass distortion) Dual Lofi 5) REV Room Hall Swell Spring Shimmer Cloud 6) CAB 1-15 for guitar 16-20 for bass (models Agula410, AgSVT410, DgDG212N, MbSway210, Tace412) Same controls for all - Level, Lowcut, Highcut There's also a tuner which can be put in either Mute or Bypass mode, and the reference can be changed from 440Hz. It responds quickly and is easy to use and accurate (I put it in series with my Zoom MS-70CDR+ and it was as responsive and easy to use, and very visible). The Android software is easy to use too. It also allows you to load cab IRs and AMx files (AM2, AM3, and AM4 AFAIK) which are equivalent to NAM files - NAM files can be converted to them. That's something for me to try to see if I can get an octaver and a pitch shift emulated.

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Probably my still favourite album of all time.

I bought some strings from Paddy. Hassle free, lots of communication, everything on time and well packaged. Couldn’t ask for more.

I don't know who it is, but that's not Emile Castillo on sax. Great band though.

Sounds like a great bass!😍

snap!

The Summit. Sly and Robbie. If this doesn't get you bouncing nothing will

Nice! Haven't checked for spoilers but the 4th is comfortably my favourite, really nice with the flats and rounds, a real rubbery tone. Least favourite is 3, seems a bit odd and unbalanced in the mids and woolly by comparison. 1 & 2 are very nice, 1 probably edges it, but 4 is a bit special.

Hi Harry, you've chose one of the best luthiers in the country! Chris will generally run everything past you stage by stage, you'll choose all the wood blanks (he let me choose directly from the supplier, not just stock he had), the exact hardware you want etc. You'll get photos every time he works on it and isn't precious about changing spec during the build (provided he hasn't already done the work!) I can't give any recommendations on what spec your bass will be, but whatever you ask for Chris and Alex will deliver, and their communication is terrific.