Killerfridge

There were a few things, and I'm not sure how much of it was the venues fault, and how much of it was the artist I was playing for: there was almost no push from the organiser (the venue), so the sum total of audience members consisted of the four bands; it was freezing cold; whilst the stage sound was great, the lack of audience (and the roof being the underside of a multistory carpark) made for 'interesting' acoustics; they wouldn't tell us the order of the bands in advance (I believe because they feared there would be no-one there if everyone just turned up for their slot). Everything else was pretty minor, like the venue looking closed from the outside so noone would even consider going in if they didn't already know of the event!

Christ, I hope you have a better session there than we did, one of the worst gigs of my life was at the AC!

I think I have an IR for either one of those Hartkes lying around somewhere...

I've only ever heard great things about these

Yeah the one thing I've not been 100% happy with were the compressors, but that was easy enough to fix on the pedal board The more you play with it, the more little tricks you'll find, I'm still finding new things with mine a year later (and with the new update bringing side chaining, I'm sure I'll find more)

I think the likelihood is "never". The problem is you would need to do a capture, change the controls, do a capture, change the controls etc. This would take an insane amount of time (assume 4 controls on an amp - gain, bass, mid, treble. In a really simple world each control can have 10 positions, and a capture takes 3 minutes. It would take 3 x 10^4 minutes to get a capture of every position, i.e. 500 hours. And those 500 hours would need to be man hours, as you would need to be there to change the controls every 3 minutes)

I'm not sure where you've been reading this - you are correct in that it captures a single setting (i.e. a snapshot of how your current device is setup), but you don't do anything in the capture process - creating a capture involves routing the pedal/amp/device into the QC and letting the QC do the capturing. It will then play a load noises/whistles at a range of different volumes/pitches/intensities through the device and listen to how the device reacts After the capture process is complete (a couple of minutes) you can then A/B the capture against the device (I'm guessing that's whatever you've read is referring to) to make sure it reacts the same way/sounds the same. Instantly, exactly the same as if you were turning a pedal on/off Easy answer to that one - the "modelled" amps in the device (the SVT/B15/GK800RB/Mesa 400 and a couple of others that slip my mind) are exactly that. You have the same controls for these models as you do the original amp, because as far as I understand they have just been captured at every possible position

Nothing super crazy, but I wanted to add a dedicated compressor to my Quad Cortex setup. After a lot of hunting and review reading, I narrowed it down to the Empress MK2 Bass, and the Cali76 MK2. The winner was...the Source Audio Atlas! I adore how much control I have in the Neuro app, and the ability to do silly routing options (such as running it as a 1176 at the start of my signal chain, and also an LA2A at the end) blows my mind. Great pedal, well worth the money.

I'm super interested in this one, but the attack times feel really slow (at least, coming from all the 1176 style compressors with <2ms attack as "slow")

I get why they did it (can sims are most apparent/useful for distorted playing, and given most people aren't listening on high quality devices, it's a good way of highlighting the differences), it just doesn't do it for me either

Looks like the acquisition by Korg has lead to somewhat of a "Darkglass" crossover in their new range: The main new thing on them is the built in cab sims of the classic Aguilar SL and DB cabinets

Just to check though (as I know US sites can sometimes be a bit fiddly with their prices) - is that $500 including sales tax? *EDIT* I just checked sales tax rates, and most states aren't above 7%, so post tax it would be arount $535, so not hugely different

I have (what was) Woodinblack's RST and I can confirm it is crazy light with no dive; its party trick is handing it to people and seeing their face when they realise just how light it is.

Looking at their site, something tells me they don't!

If I believed I could sell it at a moments notice, I would be down there today. But despite the crazy prices in the market, I don't know if they ever actually sell!

Man, weird to see my own reply being the first response on this dead thread (as someone who's not exactly the most prolific of posters)

Nah, you want the original: https://reverb.com/uk/item/75888548-carlo-robelli-swd-joe-dart-bass

Love or hate their music, Jack Stratton really has figured out marketing to musicians

It's cheap, but comes out at £500+ after shipping and tax

Yeah not quite as much of a bargain as I first thought. Still, I think probably a fair price given the name attached

£326 is an absolute bargain

I can already hear the gospel fills

Hmm, now I don't feel so confident saying that the PMT video was entirely the fault of Dagan. It sounds better here, but still has the "I'm playing through my friends broken Carlsbro amp" sound. **edit** I take that back, I've just had a watch again of the Ashdown video and I don't think it sounds bad, just not my go-to drive/overdrive sound **edit** Maybe it's simply not my sort of drive.