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Their first two records are stunning, Leviathan is easily in my top five albums.

A busker in Crawley doing a pretty good Wonderwall......actually he's just segued into Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day, that works quite well - might steal it for our band 😁

In the hour and twenty minutes since buying it, I've had five emails and a text message from GAK......I think this might be communication overkill

Cheers guys, it'll be an always on effect for me, so a volume jump won't be an issue. I've just pulled the trigger on a Spectracomp, I should have it Monday 😀

My birthday too - many happy returns

I think - it's hard to keep track - that the Xotic, Fodera Emperor and Roscoe were my favourites

I've got Dean Markley strings on my Yamaha at the moment, I've not seen tapered strings before and was surprised how much they reduced to

I completely agree, but he's happier and his stress levels are lower, so I'm going to take that as a win.

I'm using a P2, I've just checked the internal switch and it was set to stereo, so I've moved that over to mono. Our singer couldn't get a stable connection to his phone when using the X-Air, he realised that his Ipad was too old so wasn't running the software properly so was really laggy. He swapped to the mobile apps, but it looks like the mobile apps on Apple are much more limited compared to the Android version - presumably there's only one Android app. Even then, whilst stood next to it he couldn't get a stable connection - I expect an external router would help, I've suggested it a couple of times, but he's definitely happier back in his comfort zone using an analogue mixer.

Our singer finally lost patience with his Behringer X-Air last night and swapped back to an analogue mixer, this one has jack sends for the monitors/aux outs and I only had the left channel working on my IEM - is there a way of fixing that? I'd be happy with a mono source, just want it in both ears

First time at new venue last night, it's been about three weeks since we last played and it showed - a little rough around the edges in the first set, but overall went well - had a few people come up at the end and say how much they enjoyed it. Our singer finally lost patience with his Behringer X-Air and swapped back to an analogue mixer, he did seem much happier with that, but it lead to me only having the left channel working on my IEM, will have to see if I can sort that out.

Martino Garattoni of Ne Obliviscaris after he'd just finished their set at last year's Damnation Festival.

Looking at the Spectradrive, it looks good, but not really what I'm after as I'm already running a EBS Microbass II straight to the PA for my core tone. I really enjoyed your review of the Spectracomp, which is one of the things nudging me down that route, I like the idea of more control than a single knob but I'd definetly want a bass friendly setting, it was interesting that most of the artists on the TC page and reviewers on the Andertons page were guitarists

I've not seen the Hypergravity before - is it essentially a Spectracomp with more knobs?

I'm planning on getting a compressor pedal, and the two in the running are a (new) TC Spectracomp or a (used) EBS Multicomp. I used to have a Multicomp, so familiar with that pedal, which is a great piece of kit, but I'm leaning towards the Spectracomp as it's nice to try new things and the TC has three bands of compression to the EBS's two. Anyone have experience of both of these before I pull the trigger?

Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

I was surprised by the results, I voted steels, but I thought Nickel would be more popular.

Back in my death metal days, the guitarists were in drop B, but I played in B standard, as drop tunings mess with my head. It meant for some interesting playing on my left hand at times, but I made it work.

Just saw this on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/298259546971359/permalink/1488939261236709/?sale_post_id=1488939261236709

I've been looking for this clip on YouTube for ages - 11 top flight bassists with Stanley Clarke on stage each doing a solo over School Days. For my money, Flea plays the best by far Don't watch their hands too closely, the audio is annoyingly out of synch with the video

I'd absolutely agree with that, his playing on that record is superb - really creative, proggy playing without all the RHCP slap stuff

I'm listening to Ten Spot on Bandcamp now, as DC, post-hardcore and clever use of time signatures sounds ticks a lot of boxes for me

I used to have a Mayones Be4 which is essentially what you have here, mine was fretted, had EMG single coils and an Aguilar OBP3 in it, as I specced those but otherwise very similar; I expect you have a very nice bass there. Also, mine also had a contour cut away on the back at the neck joint, but I can't see any other differences

Oh man 😥

I was about to post that 😀 love this series of videos