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Just home from a great gig up at the stables in Milton Keynes with the Phil Collins tribute’ no jacket required’. Fantastic audience as usual and always such a pleasure and privilege to play at this wonderful venue. Some guy donated £1000,(yes £1000) to our charity the bridge house trust for the homeless. Another kind person gave £100! Never ceases to amaze me , our audiences appreciation and generosity .Decided to use my status empathy 5, it’s been a while since it’s had an outing but really enjoyed playing it.A lovely thing indeed. ‘Appy days!😊

TODAY! AND TONIGHT! Two very different gigs! I use the term loosely. Up at unacceptable for a Saturday o'clock to drive to Tamworth (through Storm Darragh, mind you... pelting rain, high winds and yet *still* bellends (mostly in Audis, Beamers, Mercs and Teslas) screaming down (up? (actually, let's not get into that again)) the M6 at about 90, undertaking, tailgating some idiot fop (me) in a Hyundai who's just trying to stay alive... arseholes) for 11am to play carols in the Ankerside shopping centre with the mighty Tamworth wind band. (Em (the TWB Euph player and JJO (more about them later!) trumpet player) asked me to stand in so I couldn't say no). Imagine a depressed shopping centre in a modest regional town (with much to be modest about) with lots of closed units and not many shoppers around (it was supposed to be the christmas lights switch on but they cancelled it due to the weather) actually no, imagine dawn of the dead (is it dawn of the dead? Or day of the dead? The one where they're all stuck in that godforsaken mall with the zombies outside?) and you're probably closer to it. It was *feezing* cold (Em bought me some fingerless gloves in the break, which helped) and a pretty grim experience... we played loads of stuff from 'The Red Book' (not the Mao Zedong one), which anyone who's been near a wind band in December will know - they're all beautiful arrangments and in horrible keys - six flats, anyone?! We were supposed to play until 4 o'clock (!), but by about 2 we'd all lost the will to live, so the conductor suggested we just knock it on the head about half two (we all eagerly agreed) so we did. We played and sounded OK all things considered but it wasn't an experience I'm in a rush to repeat. Unless Em asks really nicely again, which she probably will. Then it was hotfoot to Brum for a quick pitstop at my Pa's place and to pick up Birmingham's finest Japanese non-binary morris dancing jazz trombonist and off to the Cameo Suite in Coleshill for the JJO Black Tie James Bond/Christmas (first set Bond themes, second christmas stuff. No idea why.) concert! It took ages to get there due to horrendous weather and a couple of roads blocked by fallen trees (!) but we made it in time for a quick top 'n' tail rehearsal. The first set (Bond) sounded fantastic - The main theme sounds great, Goldfinger was mint, Skyfall was really good, Writing's on the wall (how a man can sing that high is beyond me) sounded superb and Live and let die (the Stan Kenton big band arrangement) was a particular highlight, the trumpets reach notes that are far too high to reasonably exist. Oh and nobody does it better is an absolute belter - the flute in the intro which I'd never really been able to hear before was the glaze on the cherry on the icing on the cake. I drop D (Hipshot) on that one for extra phatness. Five differnt singers! Couple of minor flubs, but overall we sounded great. A friend of the BL who's a pro player (West End type stuff) said some lovely things about my playing at half time, which was nice. Second set was all the christmas stuff, not as exciting to play as the Bond themes, but a couple of good'uns in there... The opener was It's the most wonderful time of the year, which is ace to play, my part in Jingle Bells is bonkers - four pages of relentless FAST crochets... I even hit a couple of the right notes (purely by accident), we did a weird Latin style arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman which is a taste I have so far failed to acquire, we did a lovely (Tom Kubis) arrangement of O Holy Night which is really weird and tricky but it all came together (Soprano sax solo by Sarah and Flugle solo by Steve) and a cracking playout/mashup which cracks along at about 800 bpm. Sold out audience of about 90-100 people (all friends and family, we're a 'community' band) who were all dressed up to the nines in black tie/dinner jackets/posh frocks and were very appreciative. Played the 70s (reissue mex) Precision -> small board (VTDI -> Thumpinator (the secret weapons!)) -> MB 802 which sounded cracking! I was at the front for some reason and the BL commented how good the Bass sounded which is always nice to hear. Full on suited and booted affair (Midnight Blue 1460 DMs with orange laces (the band logo is orange on black)). Packed up, dropped Brum's finest JNBMDJT off, The Wondermints on the way home, back about 1230 (avoiding more downed trees) for a *very* stiff V&T and the remains of yesterdays Jambalaya. And so to bed, and looking forward to a Sunday of doing absolutely NOTHING.

Few pics appeared from our Alloa gig. Dave

BLOCKBUSTARZ Glam covers at The Auld Gambling Hoose in Alloa last night. An old Bingo hall that they are now trying to convert to a decent sized live music venue. Biggest problem last night was their heating system was down and they were using 2off propane space heaters at front of stage facing audience so the stage was freezing cold at the start. Changing room had no heating whatsoever and we didn't hang around too long in there but they are trying hard to make it work and all credit to them. Average audience size at the moment is 80-120 which is smallish in such a large venue but we reckon we had 100 ish in all sitting down front end so it looked ok from stage area. Load in was great from their private car park at rear straight thru to front of stage area and then a lift onto stage from there. We hired a PA for this one because of its size which was a good decision. Kick off 8pm to 10:30 limit due to their licence restrictions to be closed by 11pm. We ran on to 10:45pm due to encore requests. To be fair the female staff were top notch and offered us free drinks, coffee or tea and even offered to help load the cars at night. No pressure to get packed up for 11pm at all Few mistakes on the night which is unusual for us but the cold was having an adverse effect. Good night tho and everyone was shouting for more at the end. They definitely want us back and will contact us again in January to arrange dates. Usual rig of Sandberg VM4 into Shure Wireless, Mesa TT800 and Mesa SW210/115. Sound on stage was generally good altho 2nd set vocals in monitors seemed to get louder and i struggled to hear my on stage amp but struggled on. Guitarist said he noted same. ? Odd one. Anyways a stop at McDonalds on way out of Alloa was a def. Then a wee 1hr and 20min drive home for 1:30am ish. All in all a good night. Dave

Last night, a new venue for Nine Lives - the St. Olaf Golf Hotel in Cruden Bay. It was a bit blowy driving up to the place - thought this might limit attendance. Place is nice though, we got to set up in the lounge bar which felt like playing a gig in someone's living room (albeit with a bar at the opposite end. Setup was a doddle - small room, levels were easy to dial in. In the first half, it was surprisingly busy - a group of 6 or 7 ladies determined to dance the night away made for a great time. Unfortunately, they had to leave to go to another social engagement (for which one of them apologised - that was nice). Second half was a bit dead, unfortunately and annoyingly there were quite a few folk through in the main bar but barely any of the effers came through, despite me going through a couple of times in an attempt to shame them into it. Honestly, you can take your second hand "enjoyed the band" comments delivered later by the staff and stick them up your holes sideways as far as I'm concerned. Props to one lass who kept coming through when she heard a song she liked, you're alright! Gear was the G4M "rat" bass, then the Epiphone/DiMarzio Les Paul into the Markbass cubes. One plus from last night was finding the culprit for some recent pedalboard nonsense - my old 80s Yamaha compressor is getting cranky and making humming sounds which change when you wiggle at it. I removed it from the signal chain last night and played without it, but it looks like its time may be up.

Played at on old slightly run down independent country pub last night. Didn't look promising to start: Stormy weather, small space, not many people, dogs, skittle alley and billiards table and open fire sort of real ale pub - didn't seem like the place for quite a loud lively 7 piece ska band. ....but it turned out great, almost entirety down to the landlords and small crowd of about 30 people (it can't have been profitable paying us) who were all really friendly, welcoming, all knew each other (the pub closes when the landlord couple go on holiday as there are no other staff, and 10 customers went on holiday with them this year!), a proper boozy (lots of good cheap beer, no food served) community pub. Not the sort of country pub you see many of nowadays, they mostly seem to basically be restaurants in a pub building. The music was all good, but that kinda felt secondary - mostly it was good to feel part of a communal party where everyone wanted (and therefore had) a fun evening. On the Bass playing side - I didn't use a compressor, and I missed it. I could tell the slight lack in punch and consistency.

Yesterday I bought a very nice 6 string Unicorn Artist. This is the third Unicorn for me; the first - a 32" four string - I sold to a friend. The 32" was not for me. My second was, or is, my jolly green giant, the five string in British Racing Green. This one is the most flamboyant of all basses I've ever had. Lots and lots of different wood species. The best thing is, it is solid as a rock, sounds like a HUGE Jazz Bass in my hands, and really demands me to wear a tuxedo... Anyway, I like it!

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Go back a few months, we got booked to play for the South Wales Liverpool Supporters at the Tramshed (epic venue). Out rythym guitarist is a member. Then instead of 10% of their 9,000 members, it looked like less than 1% were interested. So it got moved to Taffs Well Football Club (essentially a portacabin with a capacity of about 70 with a band in). So yesterday I braved the tail end of Storm Darragh to turn up at a locked gate. Saw the drummers van disappearing down a narrow country lane to one side in the dark... Rang the vocalist. The rest of the guys were at the Rugby Club, trying to see if it was the venue. No. I suggested trying the local Ex's club, but the RG eventually got on the blower and discovered we were five miles further up the valley in Treforest. Much wending up narrow hillside terraces. Turned out the RG had got a message montsh ago saying it WOULDN'T be in Taffs Well and he misunderstood it... Anyway usual valleys audience, really great and helped us set up. First set was great, about 80 people all in a good mood, we did classic rock. I was using my Harley Benton kit bass with a Squier neck and it sounded great. I also wore my "Temu Stylish Pig T-Shirt (Style: Sexy). In the break a large chap in the loo looked at my t-shirt and said "F- me! It's a mirror!" We were doing two sets, one either side of Liverpool legend Andy Hodgson, who was driving all the way down and arrived 15 minutes before we finished our first set. He was meant to do an hour but did over an hour and a half and even though I'm not a Liverpool fan, he was excellent entertainment and the supporters went crazy. He used our PA and was very generous to us. Poor had about half an hour of endless selfies etc. before hitting the road for Liverpool again. Second set I used my Flea jazz. It was 10:45 before we went back on and people were slowly fading away so we just did a thirty-minute set focusing on what we knew people would like - Dakota, Motorcycle Emptiness (brilliant non-naff song for Welsh venues!), Saturday Night, Heroes./and some up-tempo songs like Rock and Roll. Lots of great comments but not the reception Andy had! Got back to Penarth in time for a couple of swift Penderyn Madeira cask whiskys at the Bear's Head. Photos in next post as will be from my phone.

I played my final gig with Yellowhouse last night at a packed out Cow and Telescope in Southend. That's me now taking at least 6 months off now to get over the last year and concentrate on family and personal stuff without weekend gigs and doing all the booking and social media getting in the way. I lost my dad a few months back, my mother in law 2 months before that and my closest uncle at Xmas last year. It's been a difficult year for many reasons and I want to totally switch off from band commitments. I handed my notice in to the guys in July and they wanted to fold the band rather than replace me so we cancelled all the gigs apart from 6 of our favourites. The gig was awesome. We filled the place and they were ready to party! People travelled to Southend from all over the place in the storm to say goodbye. We had some from the West Midlands, Guildford, Margate. Some friends and family turned up unexpectedly as well. I was truly humbled by it and the love from the locals was overwhelming. I have a little tendon issue which flared up in the last 4 songs which was fun - it means I can't actually lift my fretting index finger off the board. It just locks down solid and I can't lift it off. You sort of stare at it willing it to move and it doesn't. So that was fun trying to work round it but I got through it ok. And then to add to the excitement some d##khead in a whizz bang BMW M5 decided to floor it outside the pub on the wet road as we were loading out. He narrowly missed us but managed to hit 5 other cars and nearly ended up in the 24hr shop that I was walking towards to get some milk shake and choccies for the trip home. You've probably seen my typical gig pics and videos so here's some of Carlos Fandango instead...

Last night's gig was the Black Bear in Tewkesbury. A very old pub which was renovated a little while ago, car parking was 500 metres away but we could park outside for load in and out. We were originally told the pub would do our sound, the manager who told us that subsequently left and then we were told we'd be using their speakers for FOH but needed everything else. So I just put everything in the car. It turned out that they have active speakers attached to the beams along the pub - I just needed to plug the main outs from the mixer into the wall. We only put vocals through the PA (I'm going to start putting a bit of bass drum through too). And as I was most of the way through setting things up, I realised that my mic stand was in the stands bag, which I'd left in the car as I didn't need the speaker stands, and parked in the car park. Damn. Still, the staff were very nice and gave us free drinks (and the Hopfather was rather nice). The white things on the beam above the guitarists (also just about visible above me) are the speakers. The gig itself went very well. Very enthusiastic audience, although one who had (judging by the state of his shirt) been doing a lot of quaffing [1] let his exuberant dancing exceed his coordination and collided with a monitor a couple of times - the first time, it pulled the mains lead out (must start feeding it through the handle) which Mrs Zero saw and quickly rectified. There was also an old bloke with a harmonica who just kept blowing it (mostly inaudibly). I kept thinking "Not now, Arthur" - quite appropriately as it happened, the Roses Theatre is just around the corner and that's where Eric Morecambe died. We came home as the wind was getting up - a sixty mile drive for us and the drummer, much less for the singer, somewhere in between for the other guitarist. At least the M42 closure had been cancelled so it wasn't too bad a drive. The journey down had been rather worse - rush hour traffic on a Friday and a crash on the M42 so we went round the M6/M5 instead. [1] Quaffing is like drinking but messier - T. Pratchett

Not posted for a few weeks but our new named ‘Glam Viva!’ Band has been fairly busy as is typical for this festive time. Last Friday was at a nice private social club in Dronfield. Takes a bit of sorting as the sec likes the volume on the low side for a band but we’re happy to cater and just adjust fold back to give us a decent feel on stage. Vox was happy with sound out front though when he ventured out for his normal audience participation. We were pretty tight, my Sandy Lionel has a few gigs under its belt now and we’re bonding nicely. Ended up doing an extended encore set and promise of gigs for next year. Felt odd when we were asked for NYE 2025 but had to decline as we’re booked…..so we’re in the diary for NYE 2026!

Friday was our (In Progress) 1st gig outside of Jam Night. So 17 songs rather than 4. We weren’t as tight over the 17 as we are for 4, and the error to song ratio probably went up a bit. It was my company’s Christmas Party and I’d agreed to pick up and drop off the hired PA gear (a faff). We had 2 hours to set up and soundcheck and took 1h52mins of it 😀. The high / lowlight was finding out that the only monitor we’d managed to position an hour into set-up to be feedback free (space restriction in the restaurant), didn’t have the jack plugged in properly and was indeed feeding back😖. So we had no foldback. The singer couldn’t hear herself. Luckily a couple of us had in ears with us and a long connector that reached the desk so we sorted her out ok. People seemed to enjoy it, some dancing and plenty of singing. Overall we enjoyed ourselves and were reasonably pleased with how it went.

Back in Brixham last night for our last gig of the year. Our drummer brought his electric kit as a test for a couple of small pubs we play. At first it didn't really work with a mono out to the desk, but with a L & R output into 2 channels it was OK. Our modest PA and monitors just about delivered the drums, but he'll look at other options next time. It was bit quiet at first possibly due to the weather, bit filled out for the second set.

A late one for last weekend, a decent night at a place we like playing; it's a fair trek, being up in Barrowford North of Burnley, but always worth it for the lively crowd; it's one of those 'last place open in town' pubs, which is middling till about 10:45, then someone flicks the Crowd switch, and instantly the place is rammed. Played it as a trio, which meant more room onstage and more money - I mean, seriously, what's not to like? The drummers situation is settling down now, it's a choice of #1 or #2, and I love playing with either of them, so all good. Only fly in the ointment is that was apparently our last gig there, down to some hoohah between the agent, the landlord and the BL - he didn't go into detail (he controls all the gig arrangments (his choice)), so I just shrugged and loaded up. I did have an interesting conversation afterwards with a girl in her 20s who'd liked the band, and introduced herself as 'Brooke Nutter'. Given where we were (in the deeps of Pendle) I asked the inevitable question about Alice, and she said yeah, she was related on her Mum's side. Good job she liked the band; it's hard to load the gear out if you've been turned into a newt... Lightweight Cheapo P, Stomp, inears and, erm, trainers*. * I'm not very shoe-focused; they might be Asics or something? I've had them years. Sorry.

Orchestra gig tonight in Carlisle with the cello. A première of a new work, Holst's Perfect Fool ballet suite then the Lieutenant Kijé suite by Prokofiev and the Carol Symphony by Hely-Hutchinson. Decent audience around 200. Survived despite the H-H being very tricky....

CONGRATS, YOU MADE IT! DETAIL AND FINAL PRODUCT REVEAL! This is one of the most accurate pictures in colour and texture I would say: Lovely undercoat reveal, wood exposed darkened with an extra dark grain thanks to the wax... Some more from the back with light against it... All in all, I have to say I am genuinely shocked it came out that nice - I have made tons of mistakes but I've used those blemishes to my advantage to apply wear around them and make them more believable (ie. I dinged the instrument and peeled the paint in a particular spot where I had a heavy run of sherwood green, same as I wore and sanded it near the upper horn to disguise the silvery run I made by accident etc). I am super satisfied on the outcome, the bass sounds and plays like butter, really nice actually! And a very healthy 3.5kg weight indeed. Considering I did this in the windy cold snap of November outside in my garden, I don't think I could've asked for a better result! Another consideration: I tried to crackle the nitro but either my nitro wont crackle, OR it is not fully cured yet - I did the hair dryer + air duster trick and nothing happened... I may try again in some 2 months once it is certainly dried up - we shall see! Ander.

Slightly different mistake last night... rhythm guitarist organised the gig... and told us wrong venue! Luckily right place was only 15 minutes away.

If I lived closer, I'd be happy to check the circuitry. If only the pots, and 9 V lines are defect, the repairing takes maybe two, three hours: removing the preamp, some analysis, soldering... As said, this bass is special and should be fixed to its glory.

There’s a huge amount of horseshit about 440 being “evil” and 432 being the natural harmonic of the universe. its bollocks. Tune to whatever reference pitch you like. Just don’t expect pianists, wind guys and just about any other traditional instrument player to invite you to play!

I'm a little wary of the 432 thing because, while deciding you prefer a different pitch is quite harmless in itself, people rarely have just one unusual belief and once you open yourself to the conspiracy worldview, some of the ideas going around are a lot less benign.

Just when you think you've seen it all, eh?!

Makes exactly the same point as I would about numerology - the number 432 relies on the duration of a second, and a second is an arbitrary quantity.

Most of them did. This is pretty typical: This is less so: And this is, well - Brazilian.

Tuning and temperaments are a very substantial set of rabbit holes you can fall into.... The history of tuning is complex... Ignoring a pile of history and complexity, essentially A=440Hz was 'settled' as a standard in the early to mid-C20th. If you look at the history of it, it has varied significantly - even from one town to another - from A=380 to A=460 and no doubt more besides. The idea that A=432Hz has some sort of universal harmonic resonance that harmonises with your crystals and chakras... is a heap of steaming ordure. The 'historically informed performance' movement has 'settled' on A=415Hz which is about a semi-tone down from concert A. This helps a lot with gut strings as the tension is a bit lower. It also makes singing the high notes a bit easier since as a bass those top F#s in Handel and Bach are down to being Fs. Whenever I've sung baroque repertoire with a period instrument orchestra it's always at A=415. I play the viol (viola da gamba) and that has gut strings. If I'm playing with say recorders which are A440 then I ahve to tune the viol up to that and it's always a worry about the possibility of strings snapping - which does happen. It's a serious issue with the higher stirngs as they tend to be plain gut, the lower strings are usually twisted gut which are stronger and the lowest strings may be wire wound as well (viols have a common ancestry with guitars and mostly have 6 strings)

The only emotion I let anyone see at a gig is the huge smile on my face. Daryl

Thanks, I'm 70 and gigging more than ever in my life. Even with our drummer issue, I have it pretty good. If you've got good gigs and good health you've got it made. DaryL

If I'd known, I might have considered coming out to see you. OTOH, Mrs Zero went out yesterday morning and reported back that it was dreadful weather, so maybe not, and I hadn't got to bed till about 3 with a long drive home and post-gig buzz. Ankerside has been gradually bleeding out for years since Ventura Park (the big just-out-of-town shopping centre) opened, hence all the closed shops.

No way that's a bass. That's a cake. An absolutely mouth-watering tour de force of a cake. What do I win?

Can anyone help? Mark *Disclaimer - I don't even know if this is a bass, I just saw the image on Fb and laughed at it much more than was actually appropriate and though some here may appreciate it too.

Have a look at this for a pretty exciting 8 mins or so.

Simon Dawson Drummer from British lion , the new Maiden drummer

@itu @AndyTravis @Shaggy @Misdee @Cosmo Valdemar @Mickeyboro @OliverBlackman many thanks for your posts, much appreciated 👍 There is a lot of anger tied up in this, and yes there shouldn't be and I need to let that go. There are at least two faults with the circuit, one of which leads to it completely cutting out occasionally, so it's not usable in a band situation as is. The other is that the mid circuit doesn't work through more than around 20% of it's range which is frustrating as one of the things that really attarcted me to this bass was some comments online about how powerful that function/circuit is on stage. To be confident that I have a reliable bass I suspect it's going to need a replacement Status circuit at the very least, and I don't think they stock the circuit in question (and Rob has suggested that they're not taking in repair work at present). But this stuff happens, the anger is not that, it's that the seller has simply refused to respond in any meaningful way, refusing to make any contribution towards making it right (and I suspect we're looking at a few hundred quid here at least). I made a partial claim of a couple of hundred pounds through Reverb which he simply rejected without comment, so I then made a full claim, in part in the hope that when confronted with a reversal of the deal and full refund he might at least engage. However I'm starting to realise out that while eBay tend to side with the buyer, Reverb's process is tortuous and illogical and appears designed to put buyers off claiming for damage/not as described etc 😡 Sadly I'm going to think twice about using Reverb in future also

All the best buddy. Thanks for your contributions to the site and make sure you check in now and again!

In the pre-eq mode, the signal is taken just after the first (half of of the first) 12AX7. A 12AX7 is a twin triode, so it has 2 halves.

"One more step along the world I go" - I haven't heard that since the kids were in infant school 20 years ago!😲

Which is kinda ironic from JHS given their reputation… the more important thing for cost isn’t as much the R&D but the cost of manufacture. sourcing pcbs and population and assembly in the U.K. or China costs more. Living wage in Kansas city will be more than in China … the thing to work out is if those wages then help fund a company who’s going to be investing in r&d in what’s not a massive market… it’s a hard one though as I will quite happily build my own clone of a big muff rather than a £300 boutique brand big muff

The fact that they spell bass B A S E is enough of a warning for me without even opening the advert.

I traded for a dreamy Warwick thumb on here and completely the trade at Waterloo train station. Unfortunately there was no way of really knowing the truss rod was shot at that point. seller denied the truss rod had gone, so I had to lump out for the bass gallery to fix it. A lesson learned but I still had a rare (not so compared to your buzzard) bass in my hands and it was wonderful when fixed. Your bass is special enough to persevere with IMO and if the seller is being a sh*t, don’t put much time into them and leave yourself stressed. Walk away, like our friend who has ordered a Letts bass should have done.

Don't cut the red wire!

You're entitled to your opinion, although it is completely wrong.

Hell, I couldn’t even pick out my own basses in the blind test!!!

I watched my mate's band play a quiet cafe-style gig last night. Towards the end of the set they introduced a new song, Taylor Swift's Shake it Off. And they had a communal band-wide brain fart and couldn't get the riff going. They took three attempts then moved on to the next song. They handled it brilliantly though, with lots of humour and asking the audience if anyone knew how to play it. When they finished, people asked them to have another go. And this time they nailed it. Got the biggest cheer of the night too.

I've used Rick-O-Sound to send the Bass pickup to one amp and the Treble pickup to another, or two channels of the same amp, or a mixer. It means you can optimise the sound for each pickup and eliminate interactions between the two (Geddy Lee used the stereo capability). The ROS cable is nothing special - just a stereo splitter; you can also buy expensive boxes to do the function, or this is my DIY "Hack-O-Sound" one (stereo/TRS jack input one side and 2x mono outputs the other). One of the downsides of using stereo is that you need stereo effects to use it or you route the pickups via separate Fx paths (that's what Chris Squire used stereo for), so it adds complexity to a pedalboard. Oftentimes, though, I just use the mono output to avoid the faff.

Tonight, but an early evening slot of 6.30 to 8.30, the first proper paid gig for my acoustic project called The Desperate Cowboys. A good Friday night after-work crowd singing along to our covers. Taylor Mini Bass through a Trace Elliott Elf and Barefaced one-10. Now that we know we have a working set of around 30 songs we’ll be striking out into the local micro-pubs and cafes in the new year. That’s where the action seems to be now.

Two requests I’d like to make if this were to become a reality: it’d be nice to be able to optionally have the cab sim on the 1/4” output. Similarly it would be nice to be able to optionally disable cab sim on the XLR output altogether.