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I went onto the McMillen website for the first time in ages yesterday, and found that there's now an updated 12 Step, the 12 Step2 (as opposed to the 12 Step V2), and an updated editor which caters for both the 12 Step and the 12 Step2, and new firmware, and a new manual. The editor proved a PITA when I installed it on my laptop as it started up well down and to the right on my 1920 x 1080 display. This was extra special PITA as the first run pops up a window which I couldn't read properly (it's about getting your settings from a previous installation) and I had to blindly press Enter, which resulted in not getting the previous settings loaded. With the window positioned fully to the left and top, it was still too tall to see all of it, with no scroll bars and no resizing, so the programmers (for want of a better term) really don't have a f*cking clue. Anyroadup, I did load up the new firmware, and copied my settings across (go into the presets directory in the old installation and copy 12Step.json into C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\KeithMcMillenInstruments\12 Step Editor). And I've just had a bit of a play on my desktop and it's OK. The "keyboard" display for note selection is still absolutely horrible, it takes me about a minute per note to set note values using it. So: probably worth getting the new editor for the firmware update, but keep the old installation until you're sure you'll be able to use the new one. McMillen are rebranding as Muse Kinetics following the unfortunate demise of Keith McMillen - new website is https://www.musekinetics.com/. Whether they'll employ better coders than the monkeys who came up with the 12 Step editor remains to be seen.

Still in!

Just read a review of the Epiphone E1 Thunderbird and it seemed rather redolent of the sort of phraseology that AI comes up with. https://www.guitarlizard.com/epiphone-thunderbird-e1-review/ This type of AI is excellent for beginner and experienced user alike, making the generation of text rapid and accurate. The rapid and accurate generation of text is easily accomplished by this type of AI, which is usable by both beginners and experienced users.

I don't see why using a WL-20L would buzz with an active bass - the cable tone simulation seems unlikely. Did you try it with more than one active bass? And did you try a WL-20L with the active bass?

https://reverb.com/uk/item/81777867-gallien-krueger-mb200b-112-combo-1988-black Although there is an intermittent fault on it which you'd need to check out.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/81777867-gallien-krueger-mb200b-112-combo-1988-black

I put the parameters in myself, got a whinge (well, several whinges) about inconsistency. If anyone would like to try them and check if there's anything obvious wrong, they're attached. They seem to produce a reasonable curve with the cab given as 10.5l and tuned to somewhere round 90Hz (92 seems quite good). Faital 6FE200.wdr

Running back over this thread, I forgot to say at the time that I normally use an MS-60B with low bass rolled off in an EQ section but I'd just unplugged it and plugged their bass in. That's another thing to remember for the future.

The Faital is a tenner cheaper than the Fane too. I'm tempted to get one and knock up another cab, and do a better job of it than the first one.

GK MB160 or 200MB combo. Small, light, can keep up easily with a well-controlled drummer.

If you have an X-Air mixer with enough Aux outs for every member of the band using IEMs, they can all control their own monitor mixes, so they're in the same universe as each other but with differing mixes.

I'm quite tempted, my Gorilla stands are fine but weigh in at about 11kg and I keep my mic stand in the same bag so it's over my 10kg per item limit. And it's a more packing/unpacking friendly bag than my current one.

A question for the court. With the intention of building a 3-band preamp for one of my basses, I bought the components and PCB last year. The PCB (actually a batch of 3) was from OSH Park, and it was marked as dispatched on December 3rd with a quoted typical delivery time of 21 days. However, there's been no sign of it and the tracking says that the postal service is still waiting for it. If it doesn't arrive in a couple of weeks, would reordering the PCB be permissible?

And whether she/he has a sister/brother.

We recently gave "Whole lotta Rosie" a shot, a semitone down. It was an absolute pig to finger so I put a capo on the 4th fret and played it one string down.

Could be the difference between a Jiffy bag and an envelope with two wrappings of parcel tape.

Very Torzal Twisty.

I was going to ask about that, nice idea. Lovely build.

Looks terrible with that huge hole where a pickup should be, and those horrible plugs where knobs should be. Still, you like it, so that's all that matters.

We're not the bloody Masons, you know.

That is rather the point, fellow MENSA member. Basses with headstocks are naturally inclined to have shit balance. Reducing the weight at the headstock reduces the tendency to neck-dive.

I now have a Behringer P2 and somewhere I also have a Lekato MS-1. I'd like to have a play with wireless IEMs. No problem driving them (I have an XR-18 which is currently driving two monitors so there's a further four AUX outs). However, the XR-18 is currently only getting the vocals. No problem also sticking the bass through one channel and routing it to AUX only, but relying on vocal mic spill for the two guitars and drums doesn't seem ideal. I have quite enough to do with the vocals, buggered if I'm putting mics on the drums and guitars too, but I wondered if an ambient mic sent just to the AUX would work, and what would be a good mic to use costing less than £40. Any suggestions?

I tried out a selection a few years ago, although I was aiming at low budget I tried out a few up to £500. I finished up with a Crafter electro-acoustic dreadnought with cutaway which cost £175, it was superior to the more expensive instruments.

You're fixing a hole where the water gets in And stops your mind from wandering Simultaneously the least and most appropriate song, as it's about the water getting in, but in the original lyrics it's from a direction 180 degrees away from your current situation. Alternatively, Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel.

I prefer unlined - currently have four fretlesses, one lined, two unlined, one defret which doesn't have visible lines. Had to have the dots moved on the lined one so they're on the lines, I think I'll either just have to cope with the defret as it is or do what my Ibanez SRF705 has, teeny little fret markers on the edge of the fretboard. Incidentally, I have occasionally played a bass which was a fretless but was then fretted and the dots at the fret positions are really confusing, silly as it may seem.