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Once upon a time it meant you were hanged. It's a bit more lenient now. If he commits another offence before the suspended sentence has expired, any offence, the suspended sentence can be activated and he gets banged up.

Years ago, I was doing some recording straight into the studio desk. My Antoniotsai active bass was picking up lots of interference and the engineer offered the use of a Precision that could have been used at Agincourt, the neck was so bowed (and it had one string too few). Fortunately I also had a passive Peavey Zephyr with me and that proved interference-proof. When I thought about it afterwards, it did occur to me that I could just have gone into the studio away from the racks and racks of electronic gear and used a DI box.

Thinking of cricket bats, there's also the Westone Quantum and the non-cricket-bat small-bodied headless Ibanez Axstar, although both are now obsolete and priced accordingly.

Best (so far) - Barcus 6-string fretless. very nice to play and a good sound, and I don't have to look at the singlecut while I'm playing it.

https://www.thomann.co.uk/allparts_knob_puller_tool.htm If you haven't got a really big knob, or one with a flange, it doesn't work.

Bevel 42

No problems with any orders, although my knob puller wasn't very good.

Hohner B2 (B2A for active) or Steinberger Spirit XT2.

I remember them coming out but I don't think I played one - it was a long time ago though. I did think it would be rather susceptible to fretboard wear though.

Something to be aware of is that you need a USB power supply plugged into the other USB-C socket on the Chocolate Plus - it won't work as a USB host with just the internal battery.

Nice!

Just as well you're not a Trace Elliott fan.

"An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it." - Samuel Butler, author of "Erewhon".

Do you need to have the dirty sound at the same time as the clean sound, or could you use a reamp box to take the original recording and run it through the amp?

It's not going to be a reprise of the "Would you be in a band with a bigot?" thread is it?

That's obviously true. After all, who could possibly say that the apartheid regime in South Africa was racist?

You were the one who had a dig at Guardian readers while ignoring the unpleasantness of Daily Mail readers. I did not imply that you endorsed the opinions of others at all. Still, if you want to imagine that I did, go ahead. I shall give your further contributions the attention that they deserve.

I wouldn't describe it as woke either, the exact opposite in fact. I'm totally woke and I use the appropriate pronouns (ie the ones they want used) for my trans friends, relatives, and bandmates (of which I have at least one of each).

Good to know that you're comfortable with bandmates who are racist or any of the other forms of bigotry which the Grauniad disapproves of. Presumably you would be unhappy with Grauniad-reading bandmates though.

Another version of this is to imagine everyone in the audience naked. Be very cautious with this method, it may lead to severe trauma.

The earlier Tecamp Puma 900 is more powerful than the T300 (current equivalent is the Eich T900 but that may have a fan, later Tecamps did, but they were very quiet).

We use Alto TS408s.

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Yes. I got asked to dep for and rejoin a band a little while ago, but in the time between them ditching me in favour of a mate of the BL's and the request to rejoin (several years), it had become pretty bloody obvious that they were racists of various levels and I politely refused. On a broader front about racism, our elderly next door neighbour died yesterday of cancer. If she hadn't kept refusing to see her GP for years because she was foreign, and refusing well woman clinics because of seeing a foreign doctor, it would almost certainly have been diagnosed sooner.

A bit of an oddity this. There's a couple of open mic nights local to me, and I've accompanied [1] a teenage female vocalist and a teenage female guitarist, and they recruited a (teenage female) drummer and formed a band. They had got a (teenage female) bassist too but that didn't work out. They still wanted to rehearse so got in touch with me and I said yes. Went over the songs they wanted to do, enough to be able to play them (not learnt them, can play them using my notes). Got there and the drummer was there, vocalist came soon afterwards, then the guitarist some time later. Drummer's mum was there, guitarist's dad and gran (I think her mum would have been there but she's got a broken foot), and both the vocalist's parents. Cue faffing around with PA and guitar amp and pedalboard by parents, pedalboard playing up, deciding it was the daisy chain off the power supply causing it, and then rehearsing some songs. After this, the parents rather took over and started working out a set list for 45 minutes, on the premise that they would play festivals - I'm not really a festival goer but I've always assumed that bands playing festivals, other than the tribute band festivals, would be playing originals in the main. I think this may be because various members of Jayler play at the open mic nights and Jayler are on the festival circuit, but they do original songs. Guitarist's dad was talking about charging for entry somewhere, but this would be for a 45 minute set of covers which I don't think would be a sufficient attraction, even with four attractive female teenagers (assuming it wouldn't be three attractive female teenagers and one handsome male pensioner). They are all very talented - the bassist that they had in was very good but for some reason (that I almost found out) it didn't work out. I've said I'm OK to help them with future rehearsals until they're sorted with a bassist. [1] My solicitors have advised against me saying "played with"