MichaelDean

I got it back in around 2010/11 I think. £500 on eBay!

Here's my 76 Mustang. Lovely little bass. It's got an almost 40mm nut, so it's fairly chunky for a short scale. I've put Hipshot Ultralights on it because the original tuners were knackered, a stainless steel refret and it needed a refinish when I bought it, so I did a bad job of a white blonde nitro, complete with a black vinyl racing stripe decal and matching strap! All wear on the body is by me since refinishing it. It's been to Japan and back with me. I dont' have much call to use it right now, but I'm not sure I can part with it! It was my first Fender, and it just fits me. And here's me (when I still had hair) playing it on tour in Japan back in 2012.

They are certainly an acquired taste. Their office is just out of Bristol on the Bath Road. I've been tempted to pop in sometime but it never seems to be the right time.

Guyker told me that they will be coming out with some ½" lightweight tuners at some point this year. I've heard their hardware is pretty good.

On an Android, long press the number keys and it'll suggest fractions or superscript numbers.

Looks like there's a new software version 1.5 with more distortions. I really want to check one of these out. @LukeFRC a Valhalla plugin would be insane! I'd love something like that. A guitarist in an old band used to loop everything live and ran Valhalla. It was a huge swirling beast!

Playing in Newquay at Project 83 in a couple of weeks with our friends, Tüsk. Promises to be a fun night and free entry!

I've got tickets with my brother for next Friday. We watched the original so many times as teenagers. I can still quote most of the film.

Wow. That video was great. Makes me want to try and build a guitar tone in a multi fx with just drive -> EQ -> drive -> speaker as the signal chain.

Burny Thunderbird? Yes please!

Steve at Hawker Repairs has done some really good work for me before, including a really complicated repair on my Dingwall after the strap button screw sheared off insite the top horn. Give him a call and see what he says. https://www.facebook.com/hawkerrepairs/ But yes, if you're ok with soldering, it shouldn't be a big job. Take the switch out, and put a picture up here and someone will be able advise what you need to buy.

I was a big fan of my KZ ZX10s until I took a long break from them and I don't like them at all now. On a whim I bought these budget earbuds: QKZ ZXT. I'm pretty blown away for the price and as a single driver unit. The same foam tips that fit the KZ stuff for these. The highs aren't harsh, they still have replaceable cables, and they're under a tenner. They're not flat response, but they sound musical. I'd wager they'd be a good backup set of IEMs. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EvHNp8K

I think the pricing is at an odd point. Not enough to be premium, but too high to be budget. Just kinda sitting in no man's land.

I think it's really important to make sure that everything in the signal chain works with the band you're playing with. If it doesn't and you sound like mush, then it should be removed. We're all constantly thinking about how we sound in the band context and it shows from the comments we get after gigs.

I love the look of these. I'd want all of the frets though please.

I use a very mildly set one at the beginning of my signal chain on my GX-100 to provide a bit more note attack. You almost wouldn't know it was on until you turn it off. There are still plenty of dynamics to play with. After it I've got overdrive, fuzz, distortion, octaver, delay and reverb to play with. I tried it in a few different places before settling on the beginning of the chain, but that was where I preferred it. Don't be afraid to play around and twist the knobs to the extremes to find the limits of what it can do.

I'm 99% sure Lozz will be right, but @Bass Direct will be able to help. Probably when they get back after the bank holiday.

Good midweek gig at The Gryphon last night. After a late night two nights in a row (and the usual 5:45 alarm 😭) I'm knackered today! Too much headbanging as well, my neck is giving me some jip this morning. There were a few issues, the first band took a while getting off stage, which meant we were rushed and our guitarist couldn't work out why his amp was quiet. Turns out it had been switched to half power mode. Still, it went very well and there were lots of positive comments and we even sold a t-shirt. Very hot up in the small gig room there though. I think capacity is about 50 and we were almost at that, plus no air condidioning. My new digital only fuzz was working a treat tonight too. On my GX-100, I'm running a transparent overdrive into a bass fuzz and then a parallel signal with bass overdrive into the fuzz face model, both fuzzes with a bit of clean blend, boosting the lows on the fuzz face, reducing them on the bass fuzz. It has that high end chaotic movement to the sound that most digital fuzzes don't quite get. My rig was Dingwall Combustion -> GX-100 -> Laney Digbeth 500 -> Fender 610. WhatsApp Video 2025-08-21 at 09.36.02.mp4

I have done just that! From an old review of yours of the GB Modern, the EMGs sound a bit smoother to my ears compared to the Nordstrands. Might be the signal processing but they sound very nice.

Had a good practice last night. Just getting the set together for tonight's gig at the Gryphon with a couple of Canadian doom bands, Witchrot and Tumble. Tumble were caught up in a Canadian flight attendant strike and it was touch or go if they'd make it or not, so we prepped a short and a long set. I've also managed to make a parallel fuzz sound on my GX-100 inspired by the Mountain King Megalith that actually sounds as good as pedals and confirmed by the rest of the band, so I'm very happy with that and have taken the pedals out of the effects loop (after carefully backing up the patches of course!).

Well, try it both ways maybe? Try draining them entirely and charge the case, put them back in the case. If they charge without pressing the button and they only last a short time again, then it's an issue with them. If they don't charge then try pressing the button to see if they do charge.

Looks like it might be user error. The Amazon page says "You can start charging via pressing the charging control button,and it indicates the battery level of the charging case".

There was a plectrum thread on here a while ago and I bought a whole different bunch, just to end up right where I started. At least it wasn't a big outlay!

The only problem with tap to pay on a phone is when the bank arbitrarily decide they want the purchaser to put in their pin. I've been caught out by that once and we didn't have the actual reader with us. Thankfully they had cash.