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[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1509966855' post='3402872']... You are telling me someone is going to spend £7k and then gig that unreliable effects unit? They're £140 new for the vintage 70s one. The latest model is under £80. [/quote] That's what [i]you [/i]would choose to do, it would seem, but whoever buys this sort of stuff may well have a different [i]modus operandi[/i], and do things very differently. I doubt that the concept of '£80' comes into their equations. What would [i]I [/i]choose to do.? I'd economise even the £80..! There, you see..? Another way of thinking. Folks can be very different; of that I'm pretty sure.

[quote name='Ajoten' timestamp='1509965165' post='3402853']...I was wondering if cutting/filing down the notches c. 1cm be worth a pop (and more commensurate with its value)... [/quote] If you're a reasonable 'handicraft' type, with decent, ordinary tools, there are adjuster wheels that cost as little as $25 which might be worth trying out..? I see new, fixed bridges at around $40 or so, and even adjustables at around $50. Taking all the precautions required (keeping compression on the soundpost etc...), maybe have a go at learning how to go about improving it yourself..? Disclaimer: I'm a drummer, so what would I know...

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1509920495' post='3402671'] Wish we were closer but daft trying to organise getting these (ours are cloth and tired). [/quote] [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1509922043' post='3402686'] If you can find someone driving from London to the frozen North ... in a van. Believe me, I'd far rather give 'em to you than bin them. [/quote] Or at least find someone local to Jack that could store 'em until they could be carted 'oop North'..? I, too, dislike waste of the sort if it can be avoided.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1509880827' post='3402241'] A lesson in proof reading....title amended. [/quote] ... to read 'Beef Stock and Tuna'..! (Note to self: must fix that rendezvous with my oculist for soon...)

Good afternoon, Alvaro, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1509871772' post='3402150'] This is my problem with the Beatles, or at least with those who say this sort of thing... [/quote] Darned right, Lenny, but adulators gotta adulate, y'know. A list of 'influences', and their (relative...) 'importance' could be very long indeed, and if charted would look more like a bowl of spaghetti than a pyramid; probably quite different if set out by each of us, too. Still, it amuses some, and keeps 'em off the streets, so little harm in the exercise. How does the song go..? 'Let the children play'..?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1509865319' post='3402109']...this amazing new course we're ... [/quote] No, please continue; you had me enthralled... In trolled..? Enrolled..? Ah, whatever, man...

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1509829212' post='3402008']...When does their autumn start? [/quote] Which year..?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1509824438' post='3401943'] I would love to be at the table... [/quote] [Hannibal Lecter] 'As the main course..?' [/Hannibal Lecter] ..

Good afternoon, Kriss (and Krissesse...)... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you both here, and lots to learn and share.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1509736506' post='3401346']...we never have a great grasp of today or the future if we dismiss the past... [/quote] No-one is dismissing the past, either, but if it's not Sheeran, it'll be another, in the future. It's not over; it goes on ([size=4]and on,[/size] [size=3]and on,[/size] [size=2]and on,[/size] [size=1]and on[/size]...), at least for most of us.

Indeed. (Well, not exactly 'nobody'; there are those that love to delve. Most folks are looking to today and the future most of the time, though, and the 'historic' element of all that stuff is, in all proportion, only relevant to a very few ...)

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1509730962' post='3401291']... I tend to double mic the snare and sometimes the kick, then one mic each Tom and hi hat, 2 overheads and possibly a room mic for character. That's what works best for my studio. Generally 10 channels... [/quote] From the original post... [quote name='fiatcoupe432' timestamp='1509614176' post='3400238'] Hi guys we are about to start record one album and we are trying to do most of the work o...Before, we recorded using as many mics possible but we were never really happy with the drums sound... [/quote] Just sayin'. Having listened again to the track referenced in the OP, I'd say the drummer's using brushes; that makes an enormous difference to the snare (and the rest, but mostly the snare...). I don't think that that drum track was done using close micing (certainly not close micing alone...); it should be perfectly possible to get that 'feel' with four mics, as detailed in posts above. Just my tuppence-worth.

Good evening, [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Ian[/font][/color], and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.