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  1. Kiwi
    Yes!! Sky would have had lost Francis Monkman by then I guess.
  2. Kiwi
    @Quatschmacher message sent - 6 points covered.
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    First concert - Too embarrassing to mention but a well known singer songwriter on a Greedy Bastard tour. Last concert - Monty Python @O2 (does that count as a concert?) Best concert - Prince Aftershow party, 2007 with Beverley Knight Worst concert - A well known singer songwriter on a Greedy Bastard tour Loudest concert - My cousin in law's wedding. I had to leave even with noise cancelling earphones in. Seen the most - Prince Most surprising - Herbie Flowers and Richard Durrant @ London Ukelele Society, Herbie bought me a pint and we had a chat, I got to play his bass. Also honourable mention for Driving Me Crazy a house music/jazz band doing a Masters At Work/Louis Benedetti thing. I saw them twice in Islington before they disbanded and they blew me away. The drummer was a beast and never strayed from the pocket. Dave Troke was on bass. They never got the recognition they deserved. Next concert - Out here? HAHAHAHAHA! I'd have to go to Hong Kong. Wish I'd seen - Pink Floyd during their quadrophonic years, U2 Joshua Tree tour, Level 42 at Wembley 1986, Led Zeppelin @ O2, Prince Y2K celebration, Princes Trust Rock Galas from 1986-1990, Chic PS: Just found a bit of Drivin Me Crazy on Youtube but the mix really sucks:
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    I'll pass that along. No doubt it will cause some amusement.
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    Re MIDI, I'm not interested in forking out extra dosh for functionality that comes as basic on other pedals though. I really don't understand why they expect customers to compromise this much. For tap tempo, I could set up another pedal like the Adrenalinn as the clock source but it takes a second/couple of beats to sync. Sustain stage control is a good one, it would dispense with the need for the modded Freeze pedal completely.
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    MIDI Controller being footpedals or bass with pitch to MIDI? I don't have a MIDI controller with me at the moment, it's back in the UK. In any case, the lag of pitch to MIDI makes it impossible to sit in the pocket. A fallback solution is Industrial Radio's bass controller but I wanted to keep things as analogue as possible and to know what was happening where without the inconvenience of hunting through a load of advanced settings or learning to use new software. I also didn't want to rely on something as fragile as a laptop on stage or on software based solutions which have inbuilt obsolescence.
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    Think I'm going to badger them about a bit more than that: 1) ADSR options 2) Envelope filter applied to individual steps 3) UI of the editing software - returns the user to the top level rather than where they left off after downloading/installing a patch. 4) Impact of form factor on connectivity + accessibility (ie. tap tempo button, patch change buttons and lack of MIDI ports)
  8. Kiwi
    OK so another update. 1) Mimmotronics sent the modded pedal through but the EHX Freeze no longer freezes. Noone knows why but Mimmo has offered a repair at no cost to me. Now just have to wait until CNY is over before the post service is working again. Sigh. 2) Now that the family is housebound, I had a play around in depth with the editing options on the C4 and discovered that it may suffer from the same issue that the Moment Machine had. Two adjacent steps at the same pitch merge into each other and become one step of double length. I'm hoping ( @Quatschmacher) that there are some settings around envelopes that I've missed where I can assign an envelope to steps rather than to the whole sequence. Also, while I was trying to replicate some Stock Aitken Waterman basslines, I was starting to find the ADSR options a little limiting on the C4. It seems I can only choose from presets rather than set the curve. It makes dialing in some SAW sounds impossible as they used ADSR to fine tune filter responses.
  9. Kiwi
    Ha hah! They're great instruments, highly underrated and very smooth sounding. They do a very, very convincing LP sound with a nice set of PAFs in. Whole Lotta Love is an absolute hoot to play. I guess you could even throw a set of SD P Rails in and have everything. I used to have three but one was a little brighter than the others so I sold it. The only thing that might top them for me would be a PRS Custom 22, but at nearly three times the price it would be hard to justify and possibly wouldn't sound as close.
  10. Kiwi
    I've plugged my Yammies and Strats into my GB Shuttle 6 into fEARful 2x10 cabs and it sounded quite nice for cleans - almost JC120 but extra hi-fi. It was a little harsh for distortion though. I run a fairly clean and neutral bass rig.
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    The tele tends to be fat and sweet with both pickups on and it carries a nice bite. Prince used one as a main guitar for this reason. But the strat gets a look in as well, with Nile Rodgers and pretty much anyone playing in the 4th position (Cory Wong, I'm looking at you). BUT...don't write the LP off. I'm not a fan of the LP body shape so I have a couple of Yammie MSG's instead and in one I replaced the stock pickups with jazzier/archtop type PAF by Aaron Armstrong. So on the neck pickup I can get some mellow stuff and on the bridge pickup I can still get some decent chunk with distortion on. For clean LP - Long Train Running, Play That Funky Music, most of the Brothers Johnson stuff, Brick House, a lot of Bobby Womack stuff, Tower of Power stuff, one of James Brown's guitarists used an LP...even the intro to the Theme from Shaft. You could even swap out the humbuckers for P90's for a fat sound with more single coil bite and be set up for the solo to Another Brick In The Wall (Gilmour played it on a LP with P90's)
  12. Kiwi
    Your band does the choon justice.
  13. Kiwi
    The Birdy Song.
  14. Kiwi
    Town Like Alice - Jam Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon Let Me Entertain You (if there are keyboards) - Robbie Williams Crocodile Rock - Elton John Brass In T'Pocket - Pretenders Anything sung by the Blues Brothers
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    It kind of does depend on the audience but the middle ground is probably pop hits from the last 10 years plus some blue chip funk standards or blues brothers tracks that mum and dad will recognise.
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    Spector is selling to Korg. Sadowsky is licensing construction to Warwick (possible future buyout?) Smith has licensed construction to Brubaker. Pedulla has recently retired. Amptweaker is being sold to Alpha Distribution due to James Browns ill health. Anything else happening that hasn't been covered above?!
  18. Kiwi
    Or Shuker, the finish is basically a rock hard polyeurathane.
  19. Kiwi
    All I can say, as an former owner of three Celinders, is thank goodness it isn't a 5 stringer.
  20. Kiwi
    Ibanez have consistently put together great designs and well specified instruments on paper. But I've tended to be a bit disappointed by how the through-necked Soundgear range sounded.
  21. Kiwi
    Yeah I meant setting up the sensors on the bass.
  22. Kiwi
    John is one of the best in the biz and he has a background in electrical engineering. I just hope IR are willing to part with the information needed to set the bass up properly. If they are, he'll figure out how it all works I'm sure.
  23. Kiwi
    Well done, how are you going to manage the setting up of the bass to cater for your own technique and preferences?
  24. Kiwi
    I had a gig at the Cafe de Paris one time and miraculously found a parking spot on Lisle Street close to the Hippodrome. Came back after the gig and found my car had been broken into. All the scrotes took was my GPS suction cup stand - they'd tried to jimmy out the radio but unsuccessfully. I took the detachable head with me when locking up. The screwdriver scratches in the dash were permanent though. The car was otherwise undamaged as they got access by popping the driver's side window out of the frame and when I filed the police report, I discovered the parking bay was in a CCTV blindspot, suggesting the thieves knew exactly what they were doing.
  25. Kiwi
    I'm really fond of my Series 1. Really wish it was a 5 string but the only one I'm aware of with the same spec as mine is Jimmy Haslips. His sounds phenomenal.
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