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Not an Adrian Mole fan then? 😁

Third session with the drummer and guitarist, second with our multi instrumentalist sax/ keys player. It's coming together nicely, of course song endings where the originals have fade outs and tricky bridge sections are a bit ragged but the core foundations of all the songs on the list are there. Meeting up every second week feels good for learning songs thoroughly and at our own pace. Having a live sax player in the room doing "the heat is on", "Maneater" and "careless whisper" is just bliss. Singer options are drying up, we really only have one so we are putting a lot of hope into this one guy... Having said that, the guitarist's girlfriend has sung at the last two sessions. She's never sang with a band before or through a mic and though she's sometimes a bit flat, etc. she is better than a lot of cover band singers I hear. So we always have her on hand! We are going to book a gig in for early January to put fire under our feet to get sorted with a solid set list and get tighter as a unit. There's a venue we know well, we will offer to do it for free on a random night so it's kind of a soft launch/ pressurised rehearsal.

Well I don’t intend to stop using my own backline and part of the fun is buying new gear 😃 It’s easy to buy an additional amp more so for a change but as a backup it’s where do you draw the line However Pre amp pedals seem to be all the rage these days hence my question if this is the way forward?

These do look interesting... Love the form factor of my EHB 6er. Would love to have a play to assess the multi-scale curvature and the sound of course. Look great too:

Well done, chaps 👏👏 the picture really brought out some diverse tunes this month.

One of the first things they did was reinstate the Fender headstock on the Charvel guitars and the Phil Collen signature, which I think was a cool move because they had sent them the dreaded cease and desist letter over that earlier . And the distribution through Fender's network saved a LOAD of costs too. I know because I had just bought a brand new Japanese-made Jackson DK2 guitar for €1039 and had to watch Fender drop the prices down to just €650 while adding genuine Seymour Duncans and black hardware to the model and retaining the factory in Japan when mine had Duncan Designed pickups

I see nothing to indicate anything more than cosmetic changes to the hardware, everything is done in software.

I'll see what I can do for you pal... Out of interest, has anyone had any success just putting a boost after the OC2 and kicking them in at the same time? I hate tap dancing but it seems less likely to result in a broken OC2!

Agreed. Any EQ fix for a poor sounding room might make it better where you are stood, but it is guaranteed to make it sound worse elsewhere. There was place I used to play regularly where the biggest improvement to the FoH sound (and that's the important one) was achieved not by any EQ fiddling but by simply drawing the curtains to cover the large windows that ran all the way down one side of the room.

Not really. It's mostly down to room acoustics, I'm afraid. Things like hollow stages act like giant resonators and will turn anything to boomy mush. I've heard Barefaced and similar quality cabs (including my PJBs, which are not noted for heavy low end) sound terrible in the wrong environment.

Funnily enough, it was... However, we had loads when we played the Doll's House just up the road!

If you take a spare amp do you take spare cabs too? In 45 years of gigging I've seen more speakers fail then I have amps. I've solved the problem by ditching the backline entirely.

So it's just a reskin of the original Tonex One? I'm hoping so! I can see the parallel wet/dry thing being useful, but beyond that I'm really not interested in any of the added "features", as I tend to find a lot of the user created captures are better than IKs stuff anyway.

Sounds good. Could replace an Octaver, Chorus, and a hipshot drop tuner. Could even convert me from a 5 to a 4. I wonder how good it'd sound switching 4 steps down (EADG to BEAD), there are a couple of songs I'd find that useful for with a 4 string. One problem I have with pitch shifting different amounts - or just for a part of a song is getting confused! I think I'd get less confused if I've just switched to BEAD for a whole song.

It’s absolutely nuts, complex, fascinating, entertaining and funny. It’s brilliant!

Maybe you just need to order one and if it doesn't suit, send it back, Steve. I did that once with Andertons and had no problems.

Now that looks amazing, DJ. Congratulations on your lovely new bass! I was only playing along with "Rio" & "Hungry Like The Wolf" on my GB the other day. Enjoy!

A tad more info here.

I carry the ubiquitous Behringer BD121 pedal everywhere in my leads case. An absolute no brainer for less than £30. 😃