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I turned this down today when asked based on anticipated price and the fact that my mob always go for good seats, stay the night, have a good feed and a few scoops too. It gets very expensive. I conservatively calculated a £400 night out all in. £200 ticket, £200 transport, accommodation, meal out, drinks. They'll probably take the train and that'll take it up a bit. That's the price of a main dealer B Service + brake fluid change on the car. It's also going to be over a year away from buying the tickets and that seems a long time. It's also mid-March, which is when we tend to go away. I saw Rush 3 times in the past. Fabulous but not £400+ fabulous in 2027.

Well after a series of trades, I picked this up today from a very strange dealership in Manchester, which takes up a whole upstairs factory floor. So it's an Overwater Perception Custom Classic made in 2006. The main differences from the Inspiration/Progress series is that the older basses have the pickups further back/closer together and quite the punch in the mids, not unlike a rampaging horde of angry Stingrays. I particularly liked the Rosewood on Mahogany spec as it reminds me of my first Status bass which I bought in 1990. After putting on some new Elixirs and adjusting the truss rod, the only issue is that despite the string height being just about perfect from frets 1-7, the huge brass blocks on the bridge don't allow the strings to go low enough. I'll call Overwater tomorrow and see if they have any smaller string blocks for these old bridges...

Well they both looked bloody lovely. Not ideal for my wallet.

Does NAM capture compression, or just EQ, gain, etc? I have a preset on my Zoom B6 I haven't been able to duplicate on anything else I've tried (tried it on a HX Stomp and a Headrush Flex Prime) - it's their model of a MXR Bass DI+ with their "red squeeze" compressor and some EQ. I was wondering if I'd be able to capture it, complete with compression, since I can't seem to dial it in by any other means and have it sound right. I made a ReValver amp clone for the Headrush that got the EQ about right, but not the compression.

Oooh. Haven't heard thst for a while. Was listening to Gladys' Leap in the car bdmosning the over-gated drums and cheesy 80s keyboard tones. If they have the stems it could be remixed to be epic. My Feet are Set For Dancing should haven been a number 1.

We have a winner. Scratchplate - corect. Knobs - correct (with the little white switch in front of them). Headstock - correct. My initial thought was one of the Hofner solidbodies, but controls and scratchplate didn't match.

I did some eq sweeps here I also pair mine with a hx stomp - I found (after those sweeps I did) line level out on the stomp with a TRS - xlr cable into the colourbox with the wee pad on the side on gave me the best variety of clean tones - and helps protect from some RFI noise i was getting at our church

This evening was Folk Night at the weekly Monday Night Jam - one of the “theme nights” that we do every so often. The themes quite loose so it meant a fairly eclectic mix of actual folk (rock) tunes, acoustic rock, country and singer-songwriter stuff. All good, fun stuff though. A few old classics like American Pie and Father and Son and newer classics like Hurt. And some less expected songs like Christopher Cross’ Sailing. And a lovely completely a capella rendition of The Parting Glass. Such a beautiful song. I had suggested a couple of songs in the 70s folk rock vein - All Around My Hat by Steeleye Span (bass and BVs) and Fairport Convention’s Crazy Man Michael - which I foolishly decided to play on acoustic and sing 😱. I also ended up bassing on a couple of others - Homeward Bound and Fire And Rain (both fave tunes so that’s a big bonus) with one of the better singers who attend. As with these things, it’s a “mixed ability group” so some renditions were better than others. Over all the standard was good - and there were a few really excellent performances. For those who know how averages work I will leave you to work out that particular maths! 🤨 I must admit that I was a bit trepidatious about Crazy Man - but it went amazingly well. My guitar playing skills are strictly bedroom standard but I was joined by another guitarist and a bass player. A bit of a contrast from the last song I sang at the Jam Night - that was God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols! 🤣 So over all a good evening out.

Totally gobsmacked they are playing Glasgow as so many large acts these days do not visit north of the border on tour. For anyone worried about the expense of staying over to see the show I would suggest booking a room at the Premier Inn within a few minutes walking distance of Glasgow Airport which is actually situated in Paisley around 8 to 10 miles away from Glasgow city centre. You can walk from the Premier Inn to Paisley Gilmour St train station in around 15 minutes on a main road and from there is a 10 minute train journey to Central station in Glasgow and then maybe a 20 minute walk along the waterfront to the OVO Hydro venue. My advice would be not to linger in Glasgow after the show but catch first train back to Paisley then enjoy a few pints at the pub adjoining the Gilmour St train station then you can walk back to your hotel right next to the airport.

I should bring: My Kay collection. My Hardly Bent-ones. ...

I have both of these, excellent amps. I got the TT800 first, then the D800+, and use them with a pair of subway 210s. The D800+ has a clarity and immediacy to the sound, kind of like a GK but not quite, Which the TT800 is slightly more woolly with some harmonics, and compresses nicely when pushed. I haven't really used the subway channel on the TT much, its kinda a halfway house between the two as its still got a tube front end. Both excellent amps and you'd be happy with either, just very different flavours. Mesa stuff has been quite difficult to get hold of in the UK, but I believe this is improving now. I'm currently waiting on the new Bass 800 head to arrive!

I've had this unit a little over two months and while I had it connected to my pc at the weekend a message popped upadvising me that there was a firmware update for the wireless transmitter so I installed it. Now it doesn't work - all I get is a faint red glow when it's plugged in. I've had a good look online and there is a post somewhere from Line6 advising that this may happen in error and that their server thinks that I had a Relay G10. The way to uninstall it is to go to the Line6 Updater app and the uninstall it back to the previous version. I've tried that but it doesn't see the transmitter, only the pod itself. I tried contacting Andertons earlier today to find out if it would be as simple as swapping transmitters over. Their response was to either use a cable instead of the wireless or contact Line6 directly. Before I go back to them with a strongly worded email given that the unit is only 2 months old, has anyone else been in this position and managed to resolve it? I've tried factory reset, installing older updates for the pod go itself then reinstalling the current version but nothing is working.

In an idle moment I clicked onto the Jet website, and aside from the JJB range having more colour options, they have a 5-string P bass in Charcoal and a 5-string 'deep blue' Jazz bass. https://jetguitars.com/guitars/bass-guitar/

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It used to be like that, we've got a loud drummer, but over the years after many polite suggestions he's got a lot quieter, at the same time PA's have gotten louder. Often i find the drums are too quiet FOH

True. I wonder how many more Spectors you'll have by then?

Be disappointed. Being unpleasant for no reason isn't an admirable quality, however you may see it.