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Maybe the guilty ones should have a sweep. Fiver a ticket and winner takes all. They can use it to buy some gear and immediately get binned from the 2026 event.

But a note of caution. I had a top of the range Martin. It had thunderous lows to the extent that I kept getting told from audience members that I was very very loud. But I wasn’t getting that on stage. If I turned the gain down I couldn’t hear much. I even switched the amp off in a seven piece and was ‘too loud’. So I sold it. I have no doubt they make excellent orchestral instruments.

I saw that too Matt. It looks like new. Very nice.

Social media's 'community standards' are just American cultural imperialism. As long as you remember that the only racial slurs that might get pulled are those seen as such over there - the N word comes to mind here - and portraying the destruction of life is fine but its creation is verboten, then you won't fall foul of their malgorithms. If I didn't need Faceache for band promo, I'd have ditched it long ago.

They say that only the good die young. So I hope the saints above have decent life insurance! Well done to those still in!

I with you on that one brother.

There’s a nice looking Tribute L-2500 in tobacco sunburst on Reverb. Looks like used prices on those in particular are trending upwards, which might be a 5 string thing, as there’s a bit more used supply of L-2000s.

Thanks. It looks like they've upgraded the original plugs since I bought mine. Mine look like this

Quite good! Of the three bands I play in, this is the least disciplined and we rehearse in the worst space so I always go into rehearsals with low expectations. A new (better) drummer has the rest of the band on their best behaviour so: the guitarists didn’t drink too much, we only took one smoke break (I don’t smoke so these drive me crazy) and we focused on the songs and got work done instead of hashing about and wasting time. Hooray! In addition, the tiny, messy, shared rehearsal space doesn’t have a working bass amp so I usually plug into the anemic P.A. Last night I decided to try plugging through a Sansamp BDDI (I am playing sans amp, after all) and it was a huge improvement. That little pedal, which I seldom use, did exactly as advertised and I’ll be using it for rehearsals from here on out. It sounded really nice, even through that lame P.A.

It's a cesspool out there

Yes, over time you get to realise that their standards aren't the ones of any community that you would want to be part of!

I know, wasn't accusing you of anything, I just thought I'd muddy the waters with a different perspective

I’ve been playing a Crafter DE7 electro acoustic since 2002. It’s a great all-rounder, with a solid cedar top, mahogany neck, back and sides. It didn’t cost me much at all back in the day and has definitely more than earned its keep over the last 20+ years of gigs.

I've given up reporting stuff to Farcebook. The other week I reported a hideous individual who was ranting on about immigrants, referring to them over and over again by a very derogatory name beginning with W and rhyming with 'snogs'. Perhaps predictably, I was informed that apparently it didn't contravene any of FB's "community standards".

To be fair, they also get their money from selling our data!

We're not the customers, we're the product.

Yeah I totally appreciate that Matt. Probably just bad luck. Your SB-2 was very nice. Not trying to dissuade anyone from a Tribby.

Facebook could slap the word "SCAM" in bright red bold typeface above the post, won't make a blind bit of difference; folk will still place orders then cry "victim". High time the general public started accepting responsibility for their actions .

Hello! Here’s my pedalboard. I play in a lot of festivals with multiple bands per stage and normally, musicians have to be ready to play in zero time. Since I was always struggling with monitoring, I made a box that goes under the pedalboard that feeds my in ear monitoring system (X Vive PX System) and for the DI out. Works great and I just have to unplug 4 cables and I’m fliyng out of the stage. In the next weeks will be added an Arkham Oracle Bass Preamp

This is what Congress with a stomp. I've got one of those adapter with a toothbrush that has a 'shaver plug'. The two pins go in the 'hole' and you can charge it from a normal three pin socket.