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I played at the Charing Cross Road version 3 times, once supporting Carter the Unstoppables, and twice as headline...

Thought some of you guys might like this.

Gene Simmons: 'Wowza! That's me, there in the mirror. Rawkanroll! Hey, Gibson guy, you have a look'. Gibson Guy: (Looks) 'Sorry, Gene. The only person I can see is myself.' Gene Simmons: 'No, no. It's me. Look harder'.

That’s not uncommon for OEM valves, some manufacturers purchase them unlabeled or labeled with a code only. This is especially true if they have an arrangement to test/screen all parts and return those that don’t part their test criteria.

My solution using the IKEA laptop stand. I it modified a bit 🙂 Removed some of the larger plastic lip and trimmed it round the cab corners. Works a treat. The larger lip curves back on itself a little and is perfect for hooking over the front of the cab but I didn't like it covering the grill and speaker, hence the "mod".

We’ve just introduced this version of the New Order song into our set and it’s going down a storm at the gigs so far….

I can think of many words to describe Gene Simmons but 'Sleek' isn't one of them.

I assume it's music you'd want to run away from (or leg it).

For a punk band I think I'd favour the 424 over a 1024. I have both and was going to compare the two and sell the 'loser', but at the mo I still have both. The 424 tone is slightly more abnoxious than the politeness of the 1024. The 424 is a snotty teenager, all shouty and needing to be heard, compared to a grown up suave gent that is the 1024, who'd rather let his smooth charm speak for itself.

Would have been my answer too, Joey

Oh my, that's a hard one...

CBGB.

I didn't know that either. Even outwith Mesa forum you are a wealth of knowledge to us all @agedhorse. Always appreciated. Dave

My solution using the IKEA laptop stand. I modified it a bit 🙂 Removed some of the larger plastic lip and trimmed it round the cab corners. Works a treat. The larger lip curves back on itself a little and is perfect for hooking over the front of the cab but I didn't like it covering the grill and speaker, hence the "mod".

Don't think so looks further from the bridge than a std precision pick up position.

What is.... 'Legit music'?

Most function bands pump out the same old shite every week. Rather than the difference being defined by ability I would suggest it is defined by approach. Most function players are more focused on it being an income provider and for that reason they look harder at efficient earning and squeezing as much income as possible from their musical ability. It doesn't make them better just different in their approach. There are tons of great musicians on the pub scene who have the chops but not the desire for function work and that's all that separates. There are however loads of pub players who would struggle with all the guff that goes with function playing (lots of travelling, early arrivals, hanging around for hours on end, awkward clients, being comfortable and competent to play songs that haven't been rehearsed live, very late nights, bridezilla, endless rigging up and tearing down, venues with appalling acoustics, ridiculous noise limiters and on and on and on). If you're a great player but want some social fun and far less of the crap then pub playing is a great way to tick those boxes.

Dug a few more out. These first lot are from the early 90's when I lived in Hong Kong and was involved in quite a few bands. Great fun and memories. Apologies for the mullet content! The last 2 are from the mid 90's when I came back to the UK.

New cab on its way!!! Custom Zilla 1x12 in the colours of my beloved Watford Football Club! Cannot wait to try it out! I must say the service from Zilla has been second to none from the first conversation throughout the process. Paul is extremely knowledgeable and very easy to deal with. COYH

Just want to get my mitts on it. As interesting as all this theory and different ideas are, there's only one thing matters to me. Playing the bass. I have no doubts about the quality, I've played enough HBs to know there's nothing to worry about there. The only thing can spoil it for me is if it doesn't feel right. Only one way to find out. Playing the bass.

You can always tell "legit music" by the size of the audient. (singular).

My dad was a teenage dance band drummer in the early years of WW2*. They sound like they were wild gigs. Bomber crews dancing with easily impressed local girls. Wouldn’t it have been fantastic to play walking basslines to that audience? *eventually he was conscripted and hit the beach as a Green Howard on D-Day.

I done one too... I thought - that geezer's got some serious phones: feel the weight, feel the sound, heavy pressure's going down! We're talking EZ drummer with fills programmed by me. And a Wal, and a strat. And Addictive Keys mark one electric piano, plus some Vienna Sax vst layered with heavily edited 'net-found loops. Plus a bit of singin'!

Another first class transaction with Loz. I bought his LPB Precision bass, and what a bass! Absolutely lovely and a credit to its creator @walshy. So a quick drive over to Ashton to collect the bass in person, made to feel very welcome with the opportunity to try the bass and a coffee as well. Perfect! Cheers Loz and all the best.

I am Jo Olenski the founder of Leech. This is a Guitar Amplifier and was indeed designed by the Guru Roland Lumby. I left Leech and set up Ohm. I have many historic reviews of our products which were more than positive. I will post them one day. As one post said, our engineering always exceeded our marketing skills. I think it fair to say that our bass products inspired Trace Elliot’s designs, unfortunately their marketing was better than ours. With our Ohm designs we had Bi-Amp facilities to run single fifteens and four ten cabinets. Sadly the back line market became crowded and you were only as good as being able to be ten watts louder and ten pounds cheaper so we decided to concentrate on PA which we do to this day. Most of our products are sold to the export market China being our largest customer.

"It sports a sleek, modern design" Perhaps, if it's 1968.

It’s totally not the rule. Rule is n+1 and not (n+1)-1. How do you define n in your rule?

LeftyJ: rockin' the hose! 😀

Sometimes ya need both... Foam to hold the pup inside the cover... Springs for a firmer feel and adjust...

I’ve had mine a few days now so here is my take. if you aren’t prepared to hook it up to your PC forget it. If you are prepared to spend a few days trying out various presets, tweaking them to your needs and saving 6 easy access presets then it’s simply the best synth pedal out there. Tracking is superb. The onboard fuzzes and overdrives are actually great. 6 easy access presets is more than enough for most set lists. You don’t “need” to buy anything else to get the most out of it if you already have a computer. I love it. It’s phenomenal.

Our Easter Sunday service went well despite people slipping back into their old ways. I picked the songs for the past few weeks and on a Monday, without fail, I sent out the the songs for the following Sunday, sadly I wasn't picking the songs for Easter. Bearing in mind that we had to rehearse on Wednesday last week due to people being away etc, the person picking the songs decided to send out the list at 11:35pm Tuesday night. The song picker then rang me on Wednesday morning to proudly say that they had sent out the list and it should be fine as we weren't rehearsing until Wednesday, I casually told them that today was Wednesday, and that the first chance I would get to properly listen to the songs was that very evening, AT THE BL**DY REHEARSAL !! During the rehearsal another song was added, the song picker said that they would work out the key and let us all know, come 3pm Saturday afternoon and we've heard nothing. I messaged the song picker to ask what key the new song was going to be in, to which they replied that they had completely forgotten about it, hadn't practised it and could I sing it instead. I love playing in church but sometimes, it drives me up the wall.

I remember a number of years ago I was asked to join a hastily put together band to do a one-off improv jazz gig with the guidance of a local trumpeter... We got there, set up for the gig and she handed round a sort of colour wheel - she explained that she'd point to an area of colour, she'd start and we'd all join in as appropriate. There were some good bits, some awful bits and a whole lot of crazy noise! In contrast, another improv jazz band I played with always started with a groove from the drummer and I (we'd been playing in a punkfunk band together for years), keys and guitar would join in and the horn section (who used to play with Lol Coxhill) would do mad stuff; sometimes the keys player would signal an actual chord change, but more often we'd all go chromatically in many different directions. We weren't beholden to any bourgeois notions of key, and our creativity wasn't stiffled by notated edicts from the Capitalist Overlords! 😎😁

Yes, but a lot of bass player tonal expectations have changed as well as a need for more low frequency extension without sacrificing articulation. Of course HPF's have been used on bass channels in the studio and in live sound for decades, so IMO it's not a fad but an evolution in response to evolution.

And who is going to be the intellectual ballast? Eh?

Had a bit of a break with this due to life in general/family/work/uni, but got the rasps and files out this afternoon for a spot of neck carving.

But I am an amateur, pumping out the same old shite every week! Is there more? Should I be doing more?

I’m in love with the look of this.

There's a balance to be struck when playing covers. The harmonic structure, melody and key phrases/licks must be there. Outside of that, there is room to be "creative", but beware of going OTT. It's a judgment call. The important thing is to know the original, so you aren't changing things because you cannot play it as written.

Gone for this sunburst 4, p j. Now to find some money to replenish my poor bank account.

What I think is hilarious is that for ten years no-one has said "these humbuckers sound like single coils". Makes you wonder how much pickup snobbery is just bullshittery....

Finally got down to order one of these yesterday from Thomann. I am a bit surprised there haven't actually been more talk about this pedal. I at least look very much forward to trying it out. This demo of it on bass sounds very promising (even if I wish he would have demonstrated a bit more cleanish/lightly overdriven mids heavy settings, since that Is what I count on be using it for) : What are people who actually got this pedal already's experience with and verdict over it? Does anyone use it as a cleanish/lightly overdriven preamp? I've gathered from people on the internet that the Voice knob allegedly is supposed to work a little differently from how it works on the other pedals in this series, is there anything to that, and in what way exactly?