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I stopped listening to that station in covid times 😷. I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘White Rabbit ‘ is in there , which is as dull as the prime minister 🤢🤮 Does Paul Ross still advertise Mac Donald’s cheeseburgers 🍔 ??

Theoretically, yes, as the widest dispersion from the bottom tweeter would then be in a vertical direction. I haven't tried it myself - so I can't be certain how it would work out. Theoretically, having the horns spaced wide apart with the bottom one on the floor isn't ideal, but in practice it's fine.

im starting got think 5.8GHZ is getting too busy these days. At a few recent gigs ive scanned the networks and found hardly any public wifi networks broadcasting on 5.8, and only a few on 2.4, but have had to switch back to 2.4 for our XR18 to work smoothly. I guess with everyone now using 5G on their phones maybe this end of the freq band is filling up. We have had more issues with our XR18 since more band members have started using 5.8Ghz devices (mainly on smaller stages).

These are meant to be quite good https://www.thomann.co.uk/yamaha_yh_wl500.htm

The ongoing chart: https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/the-500-greatest-rock-songs-of-all-time Up (or down) to number 368 as I type.

Ibanez or Cort to make a neck-through headless, 34" scale, variants with 4, 5, and 6 strings, parallel frets, switchable active, HH, Ibanez SR series neck profile, fretless also available. Natural wood and solid colours. Roland to open-source project LYDIA: https://articles.roland.com/introducing-project-lydia/ PiPedal inna box. Raspberry Pi, the guts of a decent USB audio interface, a display (possibly touch-screen), some buttons, and some knobs.

They have the coating on the inner wire, so the string your finger makes contact with is not all plasticy. They last a fair bit longer than regular strings but won't be as long wearing as fully coated but honestly, the only coated strings I get on with are Elites and they don't do those in Multiscale.

Had a similar issue, but I found getting a decent wide shoulder strap and adjusting the playing height via shortening the strap length a touch transformed my experience and enjoyment of my LX-5.

I’m looking for a set of mid priced headphones for home use that will plug into my amp phones socket and transmit to the headset without wires Does such a thing exist ?

Excellent outcome and you're welcome, haha! I know exactly what you mean about the sound quality in the way you've described it. I've experienced the exact same thing at the other (budget) end when upgrading from my cheap-as-chips Zoom B1-4 to the more mid-range Boss GT1000 Core / GX10 (and fwiw I do prefer both of those multifx's to my own experience of Helix Stomp and HX Effects). I suspect that this sound quality you mention is very much related to the processing power of the chipset in the unit (the Stomp has a relatively ancient 2015 PSU still in it, the Ampero and Boss units will be more up to date) combined with the quality of the software patches which, to their credit, Line6 have been excellent at updating. It would be interesting to find out what the DSP capabilities are in some of the leading multis - perhaps an analogous yardstick to SPL in amps & cabs?

Is there an argument for turning the tweeter in the bottom cab through 90 degrees in this configuration?

If you happen to like science fiction and fantasy, there's a few cats in SF. Heinlein comes to mind, and after checking, there's Pixel, Pirate, Petronius the Arbiter (aka Pete), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Miss Polka Dot Ma’am (aka Miss Pokie), Dr.-Livingston-I-Presume, El Diablo, Mama Cat, and Mister Underfoot (some of these are excluded due to gender issues). There's Mr Jones in Alien. And there's also Greebo in various Terry Pratchett books. If he's scrabbling at furniture, how about Scrabble? And for the sake of your curtains and furniture, get a scratching post. Ours have a couple of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354335902612?var=623735626888 and there's very little scratching at furniture and gig bags.

Get A Grip On Yourself - The Stranglers

Pretty much yeah - It's that awkward shade of grey that shows up any and all blemishes like you've drawn a circle around it! It's my own fault, I should've know better... I'd say it's the amp models and cabs, Al... as seems to be the story of my morning it's a feel thing, they just seem to have more life to them without needing parameters like "sag" and "hum" to dial them in. They're closer to captures than models though in that the SVT won't drive when you whack the gain up; but sticking a vintage microtubes and compressor in front of it does a cracking approximation. The cab sims feel more musical and less dramatic once the amp blocks are EQ'd to suit. The can go into the typical more dramatic IR thing if wanted though The fuzzes are also brilliant, I find fuzz to be a really difficult thing for digital modellers to get right but the 3 fuzzes available are great. The noble block adds something more than low end, some of the newer models like he Orange and EBS blocks will give tube like saturation at low drive settings The pitch shifting is decent - using the pitch shift to do an octave up is nice and clear and sharp, the oc2 approximation is decent as far as digital goes Even little things like the tuner seem well thought out - Long press to access, a footswitch for mute on/off and tap tempo at hand on third footswitch. There were a load of updates before xmas too, Darkglass do seem really invested in this so it feels like an investment in the sense that you know most things will be incrementally improved over time. Everything just feels more premium. The best way I can explain is that to me, the HX stuff always felt flat and 2D.. like a really good drawing of what it as supposed to be, where as the the Ampero felt more like a less accurate sculpture of what it was approximating. The Anagram feels like the best of both. I'll be honest in that most of my concerns come from a) the price tag, b) previous experiences with digital and c) Only hearing it in anger through headphones so being unsure how it sounds in an FOH mix or through my amp. I think I've just talked myself into being happy about keeping it though.. thanks Al! 😄

Cheers Dave - it depends what you mean by "typical"? Any covers band looking to do function work (e.g. birthday parties, weddings and corporate events) needs very good quality promo material to have a decent shot at getting work through agencies, given that the competition will all have it, and it's all the punters have to go on when deciding which band to book. If you check out agencies like Alive or Encore it will give you a good feel for what bands are doing. If you're purely focussed on pub work then you don't need something quite so formal/high quality to get yourself into new pubs venues, in my experience, but having some video footage (even decent phone clips) can be helpful in getting your foot in the door.

Xvive U45 is still mono, but moves frequency from the crowded 2.4 GHz of the U4 to the less busy 5.8 Ghz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRPRI65kdk Here's just the bass and drum tracks isolated. It's a great bassline and it's performed superbly. It's interesting how he keeps some notes very short, but uses fretless vibrato on others. Someone mentioned it sounding like a StingRay, but isolated you can hear the woodier characteristic of the Wal compared to the more metallic sound of a StingRay. It sounds like it was DI'ed into the board with no effects - very '80s. Years ago I transcribed both this song and the No Doubt version. Tony Kanal's line is slightly simplified - at the time I thought that maybe the reason why was that they are in different keys - I seem to recall thinking at the time that the key change would have made it harder to reproduce the original bassline note for note but I may be misremembering this. As for the No Doubt version, it sounds like bass guitar but through some kind of ring modulator/bitcrusher at the beginning, and some other kind of fuzz or synth/guitar doubling during the choruses. Other verse parts sound like just bass guitar. It also sounds fairly heavily quantized - you can just about tell it's bass guitar rather than a synth but I'd guess it's been cleaned up/snapped to grid fairly heavily (as was the custom at the time rather than a criticism of what No Doubt did). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nk3TMyWo1M&list=RD6Nk3TMyWo1M&start_radio=1

The major problem with these Top <insert number here> things is that they're so subjective. Thing is, you're almost definitely going to get the same turgid 50-year old stuff because that's pretty much the listening demographic is of the station. Add to this that the demographic in question are generally somewhat blinkered and unwilling to step out of their comfort zone, hence the same old song choices. Believe me, I know plenty if people who would prefer to listen to Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple rather than even considering anything from this decade. Mark my words. The top 20 will be peppered with Stairway To Heaven. Freebird. Smoke on the Water, Whole Lotta Rosie, Sweet Child of Mine, Bohemian Rhapsody, Alright Now, Enter Sandman, Ace of Spades.

Little update, now I've had it for a while: I'm not convinced. It sounds great (no credit due to Spector there though, as I've swapped out the pickups and the preamp), and is clearly very well made, but it doesn't balance for sh**, so is not comfortable at all in a band situation. I don't really understand how a manufacturer can become so respected despite ignoring the fact that their instruments don't hang comfortably on a strap. My far less fancy bitsa Jazz will by main squeeze for the band for the time being. Question: how much difference would swapping out the tuners for the lightest ones available realistically make?

I just want to see a firmware update for the Helix/HX series that includes a MIDI triggered VCF and VCA with full and independent ADSR envelopes for each.

Bose S1, I've used one for electric bass in all kinds of unplugged situations and it works very well... nice flat response, has enough volume to cope with most acoustic type situations, good battery life and only weighs 7kg... drawback its not cheap!

I haven't actually tracked that, so I am not sure what that upgrade offers? Well, it is less of an upgrade but for me I would still do it. I am lucky in my groups, in the metal group we are entirely IEM but have the P16s so you can have as many stereos as you have people (and get to set it up yourself). In my other band, the drummer has one channel (and seeing as he only has himself in it, I doubt he needs stereo), and the guitarist and singer don't use IEMs - the guitarist doesn't like the sound, the singer won't have any ear protection at all

Hence the proliferation of "Straight Edge" bands. It's now more "radical" not to use drugs.