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LiamPodmore

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  1. My next gig is Punk Rock Factory in a few weeks to kick off a fairly busy month of 5 gigs. Pop punk versions of Disney tunes with a beer or two sounds like a good friday night to me.

     

    The rest of the month consist of Poets Of The Fall, Enter Shikari in Athens, Hot Milk and Against The Current, followed up with As December Falls in early December to round out the year.

  2. I started on Rotosound from 2007-2009ish, then for a change i switched over to EB Slinkies. Those were the choice for two years but i was killing them very quickly with gigs (my record being 40 minutes) so i gave Elixirs a try. Have only used either nickel or steel nanoweb's since then, other than very recently i've put a set of D'Addario XT's on one bass to try them out. 

     

    Always 45-105 with either a 130 or 135 B string for the 5.

  3. 3 hours ago, dudewheresmybass said:

    I've used the MXR M80 for close to 20 years without a hitch

     

    I really enjoyed my M80. Gigged with it for a good few years.

     

    If you're willing to splash a bit more cash, a HX Stomp is hard to beat for the versatility.

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  4. On 30/06/2022 at 10:10, sykilz said:

    Tremonti at Shepherds Bush Empire.

    The band were excellent, top notch, and the sound was LOUD. The guitars and vocals (for me) were all good, the bass was it's usual mess for a hard rock band, and the drums struggled to be clear against the wall of guitar, but maybe it's where I was standing.
    And ( maybe I'm just getting too old for this type of gig, or covid has reset my preferences) my god there were some people in there, never seen it so full, it was actually uncomfortable, even at the back where the main bar is. I did find a bit of space near a side bar eventually.

     

    I saw Tremonti in Manchester and it was the same problems. Loud even with my earplugs in, though the bass wasn't too bad. It was one of the most rammed gigs i have ever been to, and incredibly hot with it being mid 20's that day. They always put on a hell of a show though. 

  5. On 29/06/2022 at 19:57, stewblack said:

    I would keep the second knobs (from the left) at 12 o clock. Then pick a sound to play with with the far right knob (the Farage as I call it). Now work through the Variations knob until you find something you might be able to work with. Then start playing with the tone / rate controls to explore all the possibilities of that sound (also mixing it with your clean tone).

     

    Cheers for that. That's how i spent the first few hours just messing around. There's some mental noises comes from this thing.

     

     

    On 30/06/2022 at 02:54, Higgie said:

    Nice! I notice you've assigned one of the Stomp's switches to the loop that the SY-1 is in. Personally, I'd leave the loop on all the time, and turn the SY-1 on and off with it's own switch, thereby freeing up one of the Stomp's switches.

     

    I mostly use snapshots anyway so i'm not overly limited on switches luckily. The two controllers on the bottom do all of my switching so it's nice and easy.

  6. I've had good luck with the Behringer BDI-21 sansamp clone, and the MXR M80. If you can scrape an extra few quid together it might be worth looking at a HX Stomp for a lot more versatility.

  7. 27 minutes ago, dand666 said:

    Sorry to bring this thread up, thought it'll be better than starting a new one!

     

    Ideally would like a PSU to sit under my nano also. At least 1 18V needed.

     

    The Cioks still the way to go? I'm only powering 3 pedals and one is 18V and the cali76 also can be 18V if I wanted. Any recommendations ?

    I think the Truetone CS6 can do 18v with one of their adapter cables.

  8. 3 hours ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

    I was at an Anthrax gig some years ago. They hadn’t toured for a while and everybody was really amped up to see them again. There was a big pit for the duration of the set, it didn’t stop the entire time. I was right behind the row of those standing on the edge of the pit, which of course is like the wall you bounce off when you come flying out and go back in again. Some big guy was standing in front of me with a girl, looked like they were on a date. Every time someone came hurtling out of the pit and made contact with them, he got really agitated and began getting aggressive with people allegedly “bumping into his girlfriend”.

    What an idiot, what do you expect if that’s where you going to stand? If you don't want to get bumped then you move back and blend into the crowd a little.

    One unlucky guy ended up flying into him twice and the second time it happened, the guy grabbed him and threatened to punch his lights out if he crashed into him again. Like, how do you have any control over where the pit takes you. There was no point trying to intervene, there was no way to communicate with the sound so loud. The gig finally ended when some mosher came sliding across the floor at speed and his boot made contact with the girls ankle. I watched it happen - she hesitated and then dropped to the ground in a heap sobbing like she had suffered a footballing injury.

    Fair to say that pair had an awful night out, whilst the other 1000 people at the show had a cracking time. Including me and my mate standing behind them, rolling our eyes.

    I remember seeing something similar at a gig a few years back. Someone kicked off when they decided to walk through the middle of the pit, and subsequently lost both of their pints. After a bit of back and forth between said knob and the guy who'd hit him, someone else came out of nowhere, did a lovely ankle sweep takedown, told him not so nicely to remove himself from the vicinity and then disappeared silently back into the crowd.

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  9. On 23/03/2021 at 14:09, bassmansam said:

    Cosmic Ears sound like a solid UK based company. Anyone have experience with them?

    CE6B model in particular which are £600.

    https://www.cosmicears.com/products/starburst/sb-ce6b/

      • FREQUENCY
        18Hz-18kHz
      • IMPEDANCE
        14 Ohms at 1kHz
      • SENSITIVITY
        1 mW @ 1 Khz = 123 dB SPL
      • ISOLATION
        -26 dB
      • DRIVERS
        6 balanced armatures per side
        2 – low, 2 – mid, 2 – high
      • CROSSOVER
        Cosmic Ears 3 way custom designed

    Never used them myself but a couple of my mates have had CE6's for about 4-5 years now and never had any complaints whatsoever, and they're both audio engineers.

  10. On 01/07/2020 at 18:40, Dan Dare said:

    What also puts me off so-called signature models is that they are the same as standard models, but with an inflated price tag and a few badges, etc.

    It is quite good to see one of the rare signature models that isn't like this. Some go wild. The ESP Ben Weinman is one that springs to mind. Different pickups, Evertune bridge, option of an internal wireless system, and it might have even been a shape he created if my memory serves me correctly.

    The other one being the PRS SE Zach Myers, because for a while you couldn't get a PRS hollowbody for under 2 grand other than that.

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