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[quote name='Rich' post='244562' date='Jul 21 2008, 04:48 PM']At this exact precise moment, it's 'Operation:mindcrime' by Queensryche.[/quote] 4 completely wicked riffs entered my head within seconds of reading this post. Operation Mindcrime was one of the first metal albums I purchased. I like to think I started in style. What am I listening to, Fireproven by Scarve from the album Irradiant. Unbe-F*cking-lievable French Death Metal band. The singer on this album joined the mighty Mnemic.

Have you heard the latest Planet X album Quantum? Some fantastic playing by Allan Holdsworth and Jimmy Johnson.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='244021' date='Jul 20 2008, 08:09 PM']Are there some serious reliability issues with these then?[/quote] Don't know about the footswitch, but the input and output jacks are direct PCB mounted flush to the edge of the metal casing,which is a recipe for disaster.

SWR baby blue, Workingmans 10 or 12 or LA series 10 or 12 would suit you perfectly. I saw a Workingmans 15 on Gumtree for £100 recently. It was quite an old ad and I doubt it hung around long at that price.

I give around £40 a month to charities, not to mention a significant amount of my time as chairman for a local children's charity. I get accosted at least twice a week by armies of chuggers in the high street outside my work. You have my utmost respect for your efforts with this charity raffle, but you need to accept that not all fundraising activities are successful. A word of advice for the future. Fundraising activities need to be eye-catching. Every charity does raffles.

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Tech Soundsystems Performers crop up on ebay from time to time as old stock waiting to be cleared. I love the sound of my Tech head. My onlyword of warning concerns the onboard compressoronmy TVM350 and TVM600. It has a fundamental design fault and simply doesn't work properly - it just introduces a nasty distortion and lossof volume. I had a go on MacDaddy's TVM600 combo and it suffered from the same problem. With the compressor turned off it sounds fantastic.

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[quote name='alexclaber' post='211213' date='Jun 2 2008, 04:52 PM']Does anyone else feel that most problems in bands seem to be tied into rehearsing? Either too many rehearsals or too many band members being ill prepared for them! Alex[/quote] That's part of the reason I quit my last band. Rehearsals two nights a week - 9 hours in total, plus 30-40 mins driving each way. Rehearsing is all good and well, but too many "musicians" treat them as a substitute for practicing. I've lost count of the number of bands I've been in where guitarists (because it's always guitarists) have quite clearly not even taken their instrument out of its case in between rehearsals. I remember on one occasion cuttting a rehearsal short by 10 minutes because a guitarists broke a string 2 songs before the end of the set. I remarked to our drummer on ther phone a couple of days later that I was willing his guitar would still have a broken string when he took it out of the case at the next rehearsal. I wasn't to be proved wrong.

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[quote name='bass_ferret' post='207993' date='May 28 2008, 12:59 PM']Its not unusual. Lots of 4x15 cabs were made in the 60's and 70's. Thin stringers used 4x12's, bass players used 4x15's.[/quote] I remember an interview with Roger Glover where he talked about the Deep Purple Days. He and Ritchie Blackmore both had a set of Moog Taurus pedals hooked up to 4 x 15s and would have volume battles onstage. No wonder they were in the Guinness book of records or something for loudest ever gig. However, that's an award I thinkManowar snatched from them.

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I much preferred the uber heavy bass tone on Sevas Tra. I used to really like the band and Otep Shamaya is a great front woman -equal parts scary and gorgeous- but they don;t seem to have progressed one bit since 2002 when their debut album came out. This is more like it [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epEAyyzyyA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epEAyyzyyA...feature=related[/url]

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