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I'm typing this from the Balmoral Hotel. For anyone coming up from a southerly direction along the M6/M74, I should warn you that there are quite a lot of roadworks. For some reason, someone was letting off fireworks a bit earlier, and at 9:20 a pair of local lovers could be heard under our window screaming romantically at each other such endearments as "what the f*** are you going on about" and "why don't you just f*** off". Had haggis, neeps and tatties a little earlier and it was jolly nice. That's a lovely giant wicker man they've got in the back garden of the hotel.

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1389736926' post='2337446'] I've recently inherited the two that my father owned. The oldest he acquired during WWII in exchange for a Luger pistol. [/quote] With slightly more imaginative use of the Luger pistol, he could have had it for free.

It also looks like the neck has no taper to it.

Sennheiser HD419.

If you compare the specs of the MiBass 550 and the Superfly, the MiBass says it's 550W output while the Superfly says it's 2 x 250W. I think it's reasonable to deduce that the MiBass has a single power module.

[quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1389273210' post='2332169'] G30 Update - The crap little plastic bit which holds the metal clip onto the transmitter broke off, i now have to attach the transmitter to the strap using tape at the start of each gig. Less than ideal. These G30s are capable, but not really cut out for a hard life of gigging, I suppose that's the point of the G50 and G90 units. [/quote] My G50 transmitter got pulled off my strap at a recent gig and hit the floor, and the battery door broke into its component parts. I'm waiting for Line6 UK to come back to me on the availability of a replacement (I know you can get them but the only websites with them are in the US and don't ship internationally). Although the door is metal, the latch and slidey bit is plastic, and two tiny screws hold the inner bit to the outer bit and break the plastic bosses that they screw into.

You need to start off by working out which of the assorted types of multiFX would suit you best. Basically, there's three and a half types. First is the type where patch selection is simply by going up or down the list of patches. OK if you use the same sound all the way through a song, less so if you're changing sounds in a song. Examples are the Zoom B1 and Digitech BP200. Second is the type where you select patches by selecting a bank initially, then select from the patches in that bank by pressing one of several footswitches. Makes it easier to select a patch at any time. Tend to be fairly rigid in the signal chain, ie. you'll get a chain which roughly speaking contains a preamp, distortion, reverb, and modulation. Examples are the Korg AX3000B and Boss GT10B. Third is the stompbox emulator. That emulates a series of stompboxes. If you are looking to replace a series of stompboxes which you don't change the settings on much but do switch the individual stompboxes on and off, it's probably the best solution. Means you can have (eg.) a flanger, chorus, and, er, another chorus, or a number of distortions all in a single signal chain. That's the Zoom B3. I think there's some multieffects of the second type that will work in stompbox mode too. Number three and a half is the Zoom MS30B, which works as a chain of stompboxes. You can opt to have it cycle through a series of patches as per type 1, or have three of the stompboxes in the chain set to on or off and then switch the fourth stompbox by means of the footswitch.

Has there been any progress? It all seems to have gone a little quiet...

I've got a Puma 900. For smaller gigs I use it with a TC RS112, which is a 200W cab. I just don't turn it up a long way. For the bigger gigs I've got a Tech Soundsystems 4x10 which will handle 1200W.

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1394016156' post='2386866'] The strings on the six string are upside down 'cause there's no room between the two necks to fit a hand without having it stuck there permanently. That's bloody fantastic that is - presumably the creative genius behind the thing only realised this small problem once the hacking about had begun. [/quote] Or you could be charitable and assume that the genius in question was attempting to make a tapping instrument. I can't think why Messrs. Chapman, Warr, and, er, Mobius haven't yet come up with an entirely fretless tapping instrument - the half-fretless Chapman Stick just shows a lack of commitment.

Just the thing for playing "Sultanas of Swing" on then.

I think it would have looked better with the extra P pickup in place than with that nasty pickguard.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1393802129' post='2384578'] ....and the second thread on the same thing. [/quote] Which just shows how successful it is. I can only hope that BC's favourite master guitar improver extraordinaire doesn't get the same idea. Oh damn, now I need the mind bleach.

TBH you're spoilt for choice these days - I'm presuming you've got certain restrictions on your budget so new GK Neo, Genz Benz Focus, or secondhand Tech Soundsystems, Tecamp, TC Electronic RS, as well as everything else mentioned so far.

It's the fourth time that Strat has been up, and each time she's been wearing less clothes... Oh, and it's been cheaper too.

Not entirely taken by the body shape and the edges. Whoever specced it did forget the piezo bridge saddles, which would, of course, have given scope for the MIDI someone mentioned via a Hexpander, and, even worse, it's got a head! Oh, and there are 11 less neck bolts than on a Ritter.

You mean it's not birsdeye maple?

It's an opinion. It seems quite permissible to express entirely positive opinions, but as soon as one expresses a mixed opinion, one gets criticised for it. What f***ing hypocrites.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1393772170' post='2384156'] You may be labouring under the mistaken belief (I think a lot of musicians do) that it's all about the music. It isn't. A significant factor is the delivery. You may also, perhaps, want to consider that people have different tastes and feelings from each other, and that your dire bland bilge may actually resonate significantly with others. [/quote] Of course I understand that people have different tastes and feelings. You may have noticed that I don't say which songs I consider dire bland bilge, and that's because some songs that I like and don't consider to be dire bland bilge, others have criticised as being exactly that. Would you say that in your opinion 0% of Prince songs are dire bland bilge? If not, then you feel exactly the same way about his material as I do, though a Venn diagram of your dire balnd bilge and mine might not overlap.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1393680093' post='2383269'] One hears this mantra over and over again concerning Prince... almost like the star-struck fans have learned it off by heart or something. [/quote] Some of it is very good. Some of it is dire bland bilge. I also don't understand the uncritical adulation.

Combination of Dr.Dave and TimR. Some warmth to stabilise the temperature plaus a dehumidifier to get shot of excess moisture. What you have at the moment is oscillation between warmth (at least to a degree) causing evaporation and higher humidity, which then condenses out when the temperature drops.

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1390128923' post='2341653'] As you guys all know, I've been mooching around in search for a small, light and decent sounding combo that could cope with pub gigs on it's own, no PA support, for about a million years now, or what seems like it. And I figured there must be others in the same position. [/quote] How loud is the band that you're competing against? I used a GK 200MB (predecessor to the MB150) happily with a club band for years, but it wouldn't have kept up with a full-on rock band. And how desperately do you want a combo? Not excluding separates would give you hugely more options, eg. Genz Benz Focus or GK Neo cabs which are cheap and light combined with one of the many micro heads around these days.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1393509626' post='2381179'] Seriously though, all the fuss made about £50 notes is basically to discredit cash. The government are desperate to get rid of cash entirely so they can 100% keep tabs on what everyone's buying and where. [/quote] Aha, so it's the government who's producing the fake £50s then? Damn clever, they get to spend loadsamoney without it costing them anything, and then they use it as an excuse to get rid of cash.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1393447401' post='2380521'] How does one company end up with twenty five damaged acoustic basses in such a short period of time? [/quote] Gets them delivered by ParcelFarce. They started out with 75 undamaged ones.

I put the volume up most of the way, leave a bit of headroom, so I can adjust either up or down on the bass as necessary. I used to put the volume all the way up but that meant that if the general volume was increasing, I had to go to the amp and turn it up.