mcnach

Well, I bought the Radar. Let's see how it works. The thing is... the more I look at the Nux, the more I like it: it may be simpler, but all controls are there on display easily. On the Mooer, I suspect I'd find one model I like enough, tweak it a bit, and pretty much use just that. I'm not a big knob-tweaker :p

He's using two guitars because one has a kill-switch, which he needs, but the other works better for a number of songs. I think this can be addressed by grouping the songs intelligently. The tuning... it's only between standard and drop-D. Should not take long at all. Could even use a Hipshot d-tuner thingy (I have those on a coulpe of basses): instant retuning. FRontman being shy... that's a problem.

Torpedo CAB does a lot more, to be fair. But the Radar does the bits I need it to do. I actually wish it were bigger with a larger screen and a couple more buttons. The NUX Solid Studio looks interesting too:

Tuesday, first gig with a new project. Just a small gig to try things. We booked the place (cheap on a Tuesday), invited another band to support us, and made it free entry (so nobody gets paid this time, it was purely an exercise to test the water... not my idea, but I went along with it). It was surprisingly well attended for a Tuesday. Nice atmosphere, a few random passers by came in when they saw the posters / heard the music outside... All good. However... to my surprise, our main singer is not a good frontman. This was not apparent during practices. He's pretty outgoing and I thought he'd be good. But he said nothing between songs, kept looking away... and in some circumstances it would not be too bad, however... guitarist... was pretty much retuning after every song and changing guitars frequently. Way too much silence, waiting... Ugh. I need to address this in a way that doesn't hurt people. Guitarist is a little tricky... We can streamline the set by grouping songs in a way that minimises guitar changes and retuning... but I still think he does more of it than needed. And retuning, it's only drop-D! But it still takes him far too long, and checks every string... whether that is because his guitars go out of tune (which can be addressed) or because he just feels he must (OCD is harder to address)... we will see. Why can't life be easier?

12V and large current draw... so I'd definitely use the (included) power supply. The supply is bigger than the pedal! As a person who detests scrolling through menus (the Zoom MS-60B was great, but I hated navigating through all the options), hooking it up to the PC looks very appealing, as I'd use this primarily for recording/silent practice.

True! I just noticed the balanced option if using a TRS cable. I think I'm getting one and see... I use an OmniCabSim live, as for one of the bands I use a lot of different overdrives and DI just does not sound right, too brittle, but it lives in my board. A little thing like this could be pretty useful to have on my desk for quick recording of bass and guitar... The Mooer TresCab also looks interesting. More limited (no balanced output and of course no IR stuff) but all the basic controls are there, without using menus and lots of scrolling and clicking buttons (or... button!)... although it appears it may not be as good. Hmmm.

The Ray Foster character may be fictitious... but it's clearly based on (loosely) on Norman Sheffield. "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)", the first track on "A night at the Opera" was composed with him in mind, which fits. And he looked like this:

Ok, not exactly the same thing but... that little Mooer packs a very interesting set of features nonetheless for just around £100. It's primarily a cab simulator pedal, which should be great for recording (probably live too?). It contains tube power amp simulations, speaker cab models (both guitar and bass), and EQ. All very tweakable: type of valves, type of cabinet, microphone model, placement, distance from speaker... the EQ section can be either graphic (6 band, I think, where the centre frequencies are user-defined) or parametric, and it has an adjustable HPF *and* LPF (although the LPF only goes as low as 3000Hz, I think). With a standard size output socket and a little headphone output as well. 36 user presets. In addition, you can load custom IRs... Has anybody got experience with this?

Keeps coming up on Facebook. Keep reporting it as a scam... Of course, someone will fall for it I hope there's a hell where these people (scammers) end up, being forced to watch the X-factor constantly for all eternity

I was not sure about it when I went to watch it, but reasoned "well, I can always just close my eyes and listen to the music and nothing else" Of course, you need to like Queen for that. I've watched it twice now (Unlimited Cineworld card, accompanying different people)... still enjoyable. But I'm getting to the point where I need a break from certain songs

With regards to active/passive controls, a while ago I came to the realisation that what I'd really want is a passive tone control coupled to an active mids control with adjustable frequency centre, something like the John East module which covers 100Hz - 1000Hz (or 200Hz - 2000Hz, as it's got a switch for both ranges). I don't need a bass control, really. Treble? A passive control is sweeter, for my taste. What I want is to control what happens in the middle, and with a wide range like that, I can get punchy low mids, or hollow tones, or beautiful deep bass tones... For me the on-board EQ on active basses is merely to fine tune my sound and make some small adjustments for specific songs, but the basic sound comes from the amplifier's EQ. The small adjustments I want are all in the mid range or something that a passive treble cut is better suited for.

Top loading bridge too. Passive tone control, whether there is an active EQ on top of that or not.

I don't like locking jack sockets. If something catches the cable and pulls hard, I'd rather it comes off than breaking the cable, or the socket, or both. I had one in a Cort GB74 and hated it as I always forgot it was locking. Battery compartments, yes, the flip style ones... but with proper connectors that clamp to the terminals and not the flimsy bent metal contacts my Stingray has... eventually they stop working well and cause problems. Easy fix to bend them back, but it's just temporary. Truss rod wheel if the adjustment is at the body end, EBMM style. Saddles with adjustable spacing. Adjustable nut height, like Warwick do.

Yup. Too many of those. Delusional fools. Earlier in the year a couple of guys from one of my bands and I were trying to put a new project together. We found this guitarist... oh god, it was painful. All he could do was bluesy licks and not very well. Horrible tone, horrible control. He really wanted to be the 'star' and when we moved away from the songs we had agreed on and thought we'd jam a bit to see how we play together, all he wanted was solo. Painful. When our drummer contacted him the next day to say thanks but we didn't think he was what we were looking for, he had a real meltdown and started posting to the group chat we had set up, accusing us of being threatened by a superior player and this and that, and how we clearly have no experience and we'll never play in front of an audience (? we have been, regularly, for years, in multiple bands... he knew that!). It was pretty amazing. Ended up blocking him in all social media.

I'm not sure anyone is really 'impressed' at fingers vs pick or viceversa. A certain (small) proportion of the audience may be impressionable and admire a little bit of slap even when it's not done very well. But pick or fingers? I can't imagine anybody really cares or even notices. And why should they? edit: whoa, watch out for zombies!

There's suggestions that a lot of the 'new' TC pedals are rehoused Behringer ones.

Oh, I'd be interested to see how you like it when you build it!

The 18" is likely louder because it's bigger but the whole frequency thing depends on the box too, and 15" = better lows is just BS. There are 15" cabs that are bass-central and others very middy... and you won't say an 810 lacks lows, right? If you get another identical 210, you won't have to consider how the different speakers interact dur to having different responses... you'll get the same but louder and with better low end... and both cabs will receive the same amount of power. edit: I didn't realise this thread had ran for days already... sorry for the useless reiteration

That's what would make me uncomfortable about the movie if it went too much into his personal life: the fact that they kept a lot of it under wraps while it was going on means that he/they did not particularly want to make it all public. So out of respect I'd rather it stays that way. I didn't realise Freddie knew about his illness so early on (1985). I always had thought that he found out much later, closer to his death. I like how the band kept things private, and despite the obvious falling out when he went solo, they still respected each other. I think that's something that says a lot about them as human beings, and it would be wrong to break it now in order to make a movie a little more... 'sensational'. In my opinion, of course.

The bass on the Buggles version stands out to me. Great sound too.

"people" want dirt... so those "people" are disappointed (people with quotation marks to indicate that's people as defined by certain press)

I think it was pretty well balanced. It more than hinted at certain other aspects of his life that tabloids would love to write about but were unnecessary to expand on in the film, in my opinion.

"fire the drummer"

I can't say I've noticed that effect, not even with the Isolates (which isolate a LOT and leave pretty much just bone conduction as the main way to get sounds to you, although the foam does allow for some extra treble in)... but all my shoes/boots are pretty flexible and I don't have a heavy stomping gait (I'm pretty light at 70Kg too)... I can't imagine anything 'wrong' with the plugs could produce that effect... but if my sinuses were blocked I imagine I'd 'hear' a lot more my 'internal head' noises, and maybe that can include vibrations from walking? I do not know.

This. In my case Award Session (Cleartone) first because I knew Steward first... but I've bought from both. Not terribly often, as their stuff is good and lasts a long time