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Either the Mark Bass Vintage Preamp pedal or the Fairfield The Accountant compressor. Both very good. For guitar use I got one of the UA Tape Delay pedals when they had their big price drop. That's really nice for old dirty delay stuff.

This. For my last gig I actually managed to get everything I needed onto a Nano board but generally I prefer to have duplicates when I can afford it. I don't swap pedals of a particular type very often - at least not for gigging. Sometimes a cheaper but 'nearly there' version of a pedal will do for the board I will use less. But there are some things that I just get annoyed with if they are not identical. Particularly compressors! I do always try to take the smallest board possible as I just don't like carrying heavy stuff.

Fixed it!

To quote Zakk Wylde: "If someone tells you to play something you don't believe in. Tell them to go f*cking die" Bit harsh to be fair, and ignores the concept of being paid enough, but not necessarily the wrong mindset either!

I’ve got a Lionel, but I’ve never played the full scale VS4 so I don’t know if the body is a different size, but the Lionel is a lot smaller than a usual Fender precision. The 34 scale TT4 (jazz) is definitely smaller than a Fender Jazz as well. I’d really like a VS4 so if I ever find enough money maybe I’ll find out!

The restoration of this little bass is nearly complete when I got it the action was really high and couldn’t be lowered much. The neck angle was slightly off. Investigation showed that the pocket was pretty much straight ok but the neck and pocket weren’t quite tight even though it felt solid. The body didn’t just have holes for neck screws, the holes had a thread. So unless the neck was clamped tight into the body the neck plate wasn’t really doing its job. The nut was angled in its groove so slightly out of position too. The stock electronics are shite. The pots are on/off and the poles on the underpowered pickup stick out so far that string contact is inevitable. They went in the bin. Now it has an EMG PX. The X series P is way better than the original EMG P. The action is now very low and it sounds ace. There’s a bit of neck dive that will be solved with some Hipshot Ultralite tuners when I can find a shop with some in stock, or someone responds to my Wanted post. I now have a pair of these. The other has an Aguilar 60s pickup and La Bella DT Flats. The new one currently has Elixir nanowebs. I will be swapped them to some DR Hi Beams 50-110 for a bit more tension. It’s great fun to play!

The central part of the cone is really important. Different size, shape etc all affect dispersion. Different studio monitors and high end hifi have many different designs because of it. I suspect that the alu cones have a particular tone because of their rigidity rather than necessarily what they are made from.

I reckon the Ox was thinking about the laydeeez he had lined up for his hotel after the show. Wanted to save his energy...

Aren't the mods reactive rather than proactive? Or are they going to have to approve every post in advance now? I know you are in China and Ofcom wouldn't be able to enforce a fine against you personally but, but they still could order UK ISPs to block access to BC. And of any UK part owners of BC would carry the entire can - fines for regulatory breach are always 'joint and several' so if there's a massive fine and only 1 person in the jurisdiction, they get pursued for it all even if there are dozens or even hundreds of owners in other jurisdictions. I hope it works out. I love this place.

I remember a similar review of a Steve Vai gig - the reviewer said that the main problem was a lack of tension. Everyone in the room knows that Vai has the ability to play everything and make it look easy. The review wanted raw panic, like the player and the audience had no idea if it was going to work out well!

There's a lot to be said for a good EQ pedal with simple sliders for better visual clues. The Boss EQ-200 for example. Very easy to experiment when you can also see the EQ curve.

Mmm… I remember when Nadine Dorries asked Microsoft when they would stop using algorithms….

To prevent terrorism, child abuse and trafficking and violent porn etc None of which happen on the open web anyway.

Here's the risk assessment guidelines https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/risk-assessment-guidance-and-risk-profiles.pdf?v=388034 Age verification and thus ID verification would seem to be unavoidable. That would cost thousands to do and keep up with every year. Then if OffCom decide there will be reporting and auditing requirements, that will be worse. The entire thing is such crap. It's not just about a bunch of middle aged musos. Forum Communities have been built for vulnerable people - gay teenagers who cannot tell their parents, Somebody dating someone outside their religion etc etc. All amazing support groups for all types of people.

The draft looks like it will apply to any forum that gets a lot of traffic from the UK -so the hosting location might not matter. While the govt might not be able to enforce against a foreign hosted site they can order UK ISP's to block access completely.

There's a dedicated guitar / amp courier now called Overland Express. I have never used them but they are popular over at thefretboard.co.uk and I think the company owner posts over there too.

The model I was looking at at 40g was the GB350 and they are 3/8 inch rather than 1/2. They don't do a 1/2 inch version, and the other direct replacement models are much heavier.

I was going to say that if forums all die out then at least the drummer forums will go as well. Every cloud... Then I remembered they can't read, let alone code! This law won't affect their cave wall scratchings.

From that vid he seems to be a bit of a clone of his mentor.

Now that I've listened to it... It's quite a generic theatre pit / west end musical type tone. The Ian King Theatre Rig Rundown video has a very similar tone. Andrew Gouche has a very similar tone. So that's 3 players getting a similar tone with 3 different amps - GK, Mark Bass, EBS. It's a tone that compliments busy arrangements with lots of other instruments and singers as it sort of pokes through without getting in the way. J or modern J type bass. Probably blended towards the bridge pickup just a little. Not much treble, and actually not much super low. Sounds like a bit of a bump at 100hz or so to make it sound full without annoying boom and flub. He's got several social media accounts - you could send him a message and ask.

Quite - and these days a huge amount of school work relies on phones and tablets for internet access so that won't happen. Amusingly, the EU has planned regs to stop this sort of draconian over-reaction.

More google shows him also using MTD basses (possibly borrowed from Andrew Gouche, his mentor) and a Bossa UJB5 (Japanese brand I had never heard of).

He is Matthew Ramsey - it says so in the video information! Google says he's a GK endorser. On the GK site the white J type bass he is playing is a Sire. https://www.gallien-krueger.com/matt-ramsey Also the main guy looks really constipated at about 25 seconds in.

The bit on fines makes it clear that fine levels for non-compliance are not linked to site revenue. Limited Company status doesn't usually protect from regulatory compliance failure. Even Mumsnet are taking this seriously and they have about £6M in the bank.

As Lee (Digitalscream) says in that thread - he wrote to his MP about it (different to the current one) and the MP basically said that if thefretboard didn't want to comply clearly they are doing something illegal!! As for Labour being of assistance - their position in the debates was that the Act didn't go far enough...