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This is very much my thinking too. For the bass I rarely use any of the amp or cab sims and when I do it's normally a guitar one chosen for the sound it produces in context with the other instruments in my band. I've yet to use the Helix with the guitar, but as I'm selling my guitar amp this weekend that will change in the next few weeks. However given that there (IIRC) over 100 different amp models in the Helix I'm sure that I can find one or two that make my guitar sound howe I want.

I've been thinking about this more - I have 3 shorties, two of which are P only and the other is PJ. And I have a medium scale PJ. So with that in mind I think I might just make this bass a ray only - at least for the moment.

Currently learning this, great bassline

https://custom-lynx.co.uk/product/tukrj45-cat5e-tukrj45/ ?

Oh, I'm just an idealist, I don't think it will ever happen to anyone who has stolen above a certain threshold 😁 But the above actually happened in US courts, it was a real life example. It just doesn't happen enough, and we're certainly not even going in the right direction.

From basses on the sofa... only two of these are shorties, but they are all compact.

Which do you prefer? Hamer vs. Hamer... I'll get my coat.

As someone who has played in many bands where the drums are produced by non-human means and has shared the stage with lots of bands with human drummer this used to be a massive problem back in the 80s and 90s and we were always having to ask the drummers in other bands to turn their snares off so they wouldn't rattle along in sympathy with out backing track. However this thread made me realise that I can't remember the last time I had to make this request, so at least the drummers in the bands on the small bill as us are clued up to this now.

Strats and Jazz on AliExpress... maybe worth a further look or msg. Lots of pickguard sheet material cheap.

Show me where else the same is true - certainly not in banking fraud, tax avoidance etc - and also tell me who would enforce it?

I've had his before and they are good, but they don't do bevelled edges so can't get the BWB look.

Hypnotised - Fleetwood Mac

In my opinion accusations aren't enough in this case, I hope someone will take it further, or the victims band together, or something. If you can still sell your stolen gear and continue getting the Instagram money, what's the deterrence for the next up and coming thief? One of these videos (can't even keep up anymore myself) made the point that the penalties need to be BIGGER than the profits, otherwise it's just a low-risk gamble to continue stealing and MAYBE if you get caught, then you get nothing but don't lose anything either. While if you don't get caught, you're a "winner". No. They need to lose, and lose A LOT.

It fascinates me to see this. Social mediais awash with ripped off content, rarely with acknowledgement of the original creator beyond cynical and meaningless disclaimer statements. What appears different here is not reposting someone's work, but studiously reproducing it and putting it out there as original. Thevthing I don't get is the guy is clearly talented. Even if he doesn't reach Rick Beato's gold standard and relies on editing tricks, he can learn and play complex music well enough. It seems he struggles to improvise or create at even a relatively basic level (even the level we do). It's reminiscent of the phenomenon known as the 'idiot savant' - ability without understanding (I'm not saying he's an idiot, though he may be a fool). There are hints of other psychological issues around disregard for others or lack of consideration. Presumably his instagram started small, and its growth may be driven more by his personal needs rather than base greed. He may be dealing with a range of issues that don't excuse what he's done but provide an explanation.

That'll be most of them then, unfortunately...

Only the most naive of users would put a USB stick from an essentially unknown source into their computer. It's positively begging for your device to be hacked at turned into part of a bot net.

Take Me Back - Noiseworks

Two gigs in the last week or so.... Canadian melodic rockers 'Harem Scarem' turned in a fantastic set at Camden Underworld last Monday. Huge riffs and melodies and probably the most underrated rock guitarist of the last 30 years in Pete Lesperance! Sunday saw me visiting Hoxton Hall (a quaint old variety venue in East London) for the first time.... to see Yacht Rock kings 'Young Gun Silver Fox' with support from the excellent Joel Sarakula! Wonderful sets of 'west coast' sounds dripping with Fender Rhodes, tight bass grooves with a Doobie bounce... and luscious vocals. Simply fantastic!

This.

Return to Sender - Elvis Presley

Live footage of me installing another metal drum VST (thanks for the heads up!)

Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four

There will no doubt be a 'second wave' of accusations, cancellations, and people further capitalising on this. There'll already be hundreds if not thousands of people around the web digging for any evidence, no matter how tenuous, that one of the music influencers accusing this guy are guilty of the same thing. The desperate need to feed the machine to get attention drives fakery and plagiarism everywhere because it requires levels of creativity beyond nearly all normal people, so people become magpies, relying on the creativity of multiple other people to maintain status - I used to be an 'ideas man' in a science business, I'd open my mouth at a client meeting and two hours later there'd be a good chance that someone at the meeting had posted a 'Thought Leadership' piece on Linkedin along the lines 'So, I was talking to a guy this morning and it got me thinking.......' when it didn't 'get them thinking', they literally took my ideas word for word and presented them as their own. It happens in the arts, in science, in literature, in product design and manufacture, everywhere, it's rife and is being fuelled by what is to all intents the wild and lawless frontier of the internet about to be made infinitely worse by the indiscriminate use of AI by the type of muppets who would do that sort of thing........

Charley's put up a vid too!