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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"

Headstock looks a bit different - the Vox is like the bastard offspring of a Buzzard and a Sire, the one in the original photo looks like a Fender headstock in a corset. Controls on the scratchplate look the same though.

You've had the last ones!

Apart from the maple fretboard, I think an SGC Nanyo SB300 would fit the bill unless the string spacing is rather narrower than I thought.

Do whatever you can to remove sources of anxiety other than the performance itself - so get clothes ready the night before, have a good night's sleep (if you can), and on the day make sure all the gear is working and set up how you want it well in advance of playing.

"You've got five seconds to look at this Warwick 6-string. Then draw it from memory."

Not really, just that as a bass becomes older it becomes A CLASSIC, in the period before it becomes L@@K, RARE.

There's always 5-strings in the marketplace for sale because people have decided that they don't get on with them. You could see if anyone has one you fancy that they haven't managed to shift for a while and see if they'd go with your idea of a long-term swap while their 5-string rises in value due to being a classic and because more people see the benefits of a 5-string.

We noticed that in a recent Youtube video of someone singing to backing tracks, the pool table wasn't there, and we were rather hoping it was gone forever as we're back there on the 10th of October. So it hasn't gone then. At the risk of triggering you, and for the benefit of the masses, this was it when we were there last. There's a door to the toilets just to the right but they can also be accessed via a little passageway so we just stick our gear in the way. There is a vast array of fans hanging off the wall so at least you keep cool. Don't forget, they've seen me gig there several times with different bands, so they might have assumed that all bassists have the same facial expressions as me.

Don't they have red crosses on them?

Although according to the article millions of fans know about it and it's all over Facebook and Instagram. You'd have thought that Google or Duckduckgo would give some results for a search...

Just odds and sods - a few Arduino and ESP32 projects, the odd preamp, and quite a few things that I've started and never got round to finishing (I suspect I suffer from terminal executive dysfunction). And some I've got round to getting the parts to do and then forgotten what it was I was going to do with them.

The high quality of modern instruments puts me off buying a vintage instrument.

My solution to connecting a wall wart to a pedalboard was to cable tie a DC extension lead to the jack-jack lead running from the pedalboard to the amp, both leads the same length, which at least meant there weren't multiple leads from the region of the amp to the pedalboard. The posher version had the leads inside a length of braided tubing. If you want to go down the mains lead route, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355321478106 looks like a good bet, again with a polarity reverser. Probably kettle lead type though it may be cloverleaf.