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  1. Bought a Stanley Clarke CD from Mick - great communication, and arrived quickly fine. And it's a great CD too!
  2. Let’s hope no hide glue or bone was used in the construction of his guitar!
  3. I did wonder how they could actually coordinate rehearsals, as no-one will want to be tracked by 'the man' by using their phones, and presumably using powered speakers is out as a result of the effects of electromagnetic fields... I think the prospects of "a gig" would seem pretty remote!
  4. I found mine is very sensitive to any noise in the signal chain; I mean, I know how a compressor works and it is certainly way better than the TC Electronic one it replaced, but I was using more gain owing to a change in preamp pedal (it only has ‘cut’ eq, no boost) and over 12 o’clock on the Keeley gain it really magnified a *very* slight hiss. Took me ages to figure out what it was, too 🙄
  5. From the manual: "4.4 Strobe mode In Strobe mode, the difference between the correct (target) frequency and the actual detected frequency is displayed by twoi ndicators simultaneously: 1. Red LEDs to the left (pitch too low)or tot he right (pitch to high)of the center LED column 2. Rotating segments in the display. The closer the detected frequency is to the target frequency, the slower the rotation. Tune the string until the rotating pattern has come to a stop and only the middle column of green LED lights up." You did read the manual, right? 😉
  6. I see quite a few venue cancellations on the various FB pages - Somerset musicians, Bath musicians, Bristol musicians etc - you get the idea! Definitely saw at least one today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bristolmusic/posts/7337323739640067/
  7. Thankfully managed to get my hands on an Xvive U4 wireless IEM from a friend which seems to be doing the job!
  8. Totally random question - I’m doing a musical and the band can’t hear the cast vocals. The venue doesn’t appear to have any wired in throughputs from the tech booth to backstage and it’s too far for cables (and for a few nights). The digital desk has a load of unused aux outs and I presume we could get a feed of vocals out if needed. One idea was to use a wireless IEM system to get the aux out to a monitor backstage at v low volume, but we have no budget and I don’t have a system. I was wondering whether I could use my wireless bass system to send the signal instead. Is there any reason not to use it (range notwithstanding)? I mean frequency wise etc. Assume I have all the right cables to convert jacks to XLRs etc.
  9. Sorry, that was directed at Owen - I misread his first post and thought he said he was using compression, but he said he's going to experiment with some compression.
  10. Thirded. Could it be your compression is too heavy and it’s squashing the arco much more than the pizz?
  11. Thanks. Worth knowing a dedicated spray place could add a tinted poly. I suspect it's a 2K as the previous owner told me it was clear coated by a car spray place. Some good advice there, thanks v much.
  12. Thanks - I only ask about the Osmo as I have some knocking around that would give the perfect tint. Sounds like you’ve prevented a very messy mistake though, thank you!
  13. So, say someone has just acquired something that had been professionally finished in a polyurethane clear coat which didn't match something else which has aged due to a nitrocellulose clear coat. Short of stripping off the poly in its entirety, tinting and then refinishing (either in poly or nitro) is there any way of 'tinting' the poly finish? For example, is it possible to shoot a tinted poly clear coat on top? (I know poly coats stay separate when cured, unlike nitro ones which 'blend' into one another). Does such a product exist? I know you can get tinted nitro clear coat for 'aging' guitars - is there a poly equivalent? Could I just spray tinted nitro on top of the poly (taking all necessary safety precautions of course)? Could I just wipe on something like a tinted Osmo oil? Would that cure on top of poly?
  14. Rehearsals sound like they'd be a laugh...
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