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I've replaced broken strings a few times mid-set. I guess if it was a really important gig I'd take a backup bass, but yeh, I'd have it on stage where I could get it quickly, rather than back stage or in the car!

[quote name='Tony p' timestamp='1471343369' post='3112254'] what band are you in if you don't mind me asking, we (folkthesystem) played on the sunday eve at farmer phils oo, wicked festival but i'd drawn the short straw and had to drive home after the leylines set. [/quote] Headsticks, we were first on so not the fullest crowd!!

I have one that looks the same as the one here [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/v26tribalblue.html"]http://www.rondomusic.com/v26tribalblue.html[/url] It's at least 15 years old though, maybe older, a different colour, and passive. I really like it and still play it occasionally, although I do own a couple of more expensive and nicer 6 strings.

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1470954155' post='3109662'] Brilliant - John Coughlan on drums and Sean Lock on guitar. Nice to see an 'all star' band! [/quote] HAHA! Excellent. I had to look up John Coughlan. I don't think I'm quite that good looking, but thanks

Farmer Phil's festival yesterday. A bit of an odd one but good fun. Quite reassuring to know I can nail a gig while still recovering from the night before

Who is it who books the bands? I have nothing to do with that side of it Anyway, here's one of our songs from the set http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyU1q3jBsmU&feature=youtu.be

I bought a Brice 6 string bass from an ebay shop in the states about 15 years ago. It was my main bass for a couple of years until I could afford nicer basses. I have 2 more very nice 6 strings now, but I have to say, the Brice is still fantastic, even the low B. I think I paid about £150!!

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1470832806' post='3108783'] WMD protostar. Also has a CV out for envelope that I use to control my phaser (Chase Bliss Wombtone). [/quote] wow, that's very cool! I'll put it on the list

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1470820447' post='3108663'] But I assumed our man was asking which pedal it was, not what an LFO is? [/quote] Indeed!

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1470761876' post='3108275'] I have an envelope filter with an LFO (for autowah) and an expression input. Best of all worlds. [/quote] What's that?

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1470755238' post='3108200'] ...So why jump to conclusions ? [/quote] To justify our jealousy of course!

Surely anyone who's been playing for that long would be able to do something more impressive, and yet he doesn't. Isn't that remarkable restraint? Purely playing for the song and never once indulging yourself? Pretty impressive if you ask me ...although obviously he could be sh*te and playing at the top of his ability, we wouldn't know

I'm sure it is but to replicate what an envelope follower does with your foot on a wah would be extremely difficult

no, I agree that 600ma is total overkill for a tuner, it's just that "power supply (600ma or greater)" implied I'd need 600ma. I couldn't find the section with current consumption. I need to work on my skim reading skills!

I see, I was a bit confused, I thought it'd have one output but I just looked it up. Cool! I've never gone down the isolated route. I was once told that for minimum noise you need a shared ground, and I figured you get that with a daisy chain. I'll have to check out the gig rig stuff when I'm next suffering noise problems

I do it but at venues with decent in-house PA and monitors. Some places don't think their monitors will cope and for them I take a combo

as above, I use both, they're totally different really

just bought a PSU from Dan, couldn't have gone better, cheers!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1470744806' post='3108068'] Indeed. I just checked and the manual clearly states "maximum 30mA" [url="http://www.korg.com/us/support/download/manual/0/259/1825/"]http://www.korg.com/...ual/0/259/1825/[/url] [/quote] weird! I don't know where it says that but this is from the same manual:

It always seems a bit random to me. I always daisy chained my DD-20 with a load of analogue dirt pedals and it was fine. I switched one of the dirt pedals for a Stone Deaf PDF-1 and suddenly I'm getting a weird beeping noise in time with the L.E.Ds on the DD-20!! Put the PDF-1 on another supply and it's fine. Weird!

It's how you read it isn't it? If I read someone taking the piss out of Clayton's simple style, I'll laugh and take it as a joke. If someone else reads it they might think "this guy HATES Adam Clayton! How awful!!"

I guess so? To be honest I'd not heard of the festival until my band fell into the punk scene. I've never really been into punk much. Anyway, everyone else in the band was very excited and it did seem like a pretty big deal when we were there. Also, the day after, a bandmate from another band felt the need to tell me that he'd played there years ago, and been asked back, but turned them down as they'd seen to many right-wing/fascist types there. I didn't see anything like that so I think either the festival has changed somewhat since he played, or he was just a bit jealous.

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1470675051' post='3107558'] 600ma isn't over the top for a digital pedal. I would suggest getting a 1spot, a gigrig isolator, and a daisy chain. Use the daisy chain to connect the isolator and the korg, then plug the rest into the isolator. That way you have alot of room for expansion. [/quote] What's the point of the isolator there? Also, wouldn't you have a load of spare plugs on the daisy chain? I hate that and always have to tape them up out of the way

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1470731137' post='3107906'] how much do the minor bands get for playing these days? when I played there in 2008 we got wristbands for the whole weekend, I've heard now you only get one for the day you're playing [/quote] Yes, that was the case for me anyway, I guess it depends what stage you're on? You could buy a wristband for all 4 days for £50 which seemed like pretty good value. Unfortunately I had sessions in the studio so couldn't take advantage

[quote name='davelliott' timestamp='1470670866' post='3107519'] Hey Chaddatom, you're band's just been mentioned on 6Music (Steve Lamacq)! Complimentary message by a listener. Nice one :-) [/quote] Yeh, someone mentioned that last night - pretty cool! [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1470684882' post='3107674'] Went great thanks, a virtually packed Arena stage at 1pm on a Thursday, major merch sales - which will pay for our German tour in September - and another snippet which I can`t divulge yet due to details etc still to be worked on/finalised. Caught a bit of your set yesterday, some pretty cool sounds there, a pretty good blend of two styles I thought. [/quote] Sounds ace! I'm jealous of the tour I don't really understand why we're embedded in the punk scene, I always thought we were just playing angry folk, but it works anyway, and everyone seems really nice