MichaelDean

I stand corrected by my previous post. I've fancied a jazz bass recently. My first bass was a jazz bass copy, but it could literally be used as an anchor during a tropical storm so I don't regret moving it on. However, I've got a hankering for that familiar tone. I've tried out a couple of Player IIs and they were really nice to play and sounded good to my ear, plus not a bad weight for either of them. I wouldn't say no to a jazz in the Aquatone Blue or Olympic White. They both made me feel like the £749 street price was probably worth it. I have never played a Sire for a comparison though.

My neice got one of the new ones recently. It's really nice. Plays really well with a slim jazz neck profile. The out of the box setup was really good. Normal bridge, small tuners that seem to hold well and don't feel too cheap in use. The coral colour is very bright and no images that I've seen do it justice - almost fluorescent in person!

Here's "me" at the studio!

Well, I just had to look that up! https://metro.co.uk/2014/09/12/tesco-customer-orders-walnut-bread-receives-an-octopus-4866939/

I noticed that too. A bit annoying. Boss do make a MIDI enabled expression pedal (EV-1-WL), but it's a bit spendy at £140. I still can't get on with the Darkglass tone though. That fizzy top end and seemingly disconnected low just doesn't sound good to me.

I keep forgetting that I've got a cheap Chinese neck on a Variax that I've recently gutted after the electrics died. I had the neck fettled and fitted about 18 years ago. Some cheap necks are absolutely fine!

Pom Poko at Bristol Beacon on Thursday the 5th of May. They always put on a great show! Seem to be getting bigger and bigger venues too. Last time I saw them it was at Thekla.

I'm using it like a pedalboard into my head. I've got some extra dirt pedals in the effects loop too - some of the digital ones weren't quite doing it for me. I had a Zoom B3n before the GX which I added a load of the guitar stuff to. It wasn't a bad unit, but I wanted more footswitches and the inbuilt expression pedal. That's fun too. I've got it hooked up to delay times and feedback for some patches for general weird sounds between songs.

Yeah, I use a lot of reverb and delay with +/- 1 octave for good measure to make a big wall of bass for slower doomy bits in songs. I just found a use for a shimmer reverb for evil swells too. I've got a Boss GX-100 as the brains of my pedalboard. I like that it gives me lots of options to try different things as I think of them. Maybe try getting a used Zoom MS60b or something like that?

I'd also recommend Newtone strings. They'll make something up to order. They might cost a bit more, but the custom gauge strings on my Dingwall are still sounding good 8 months later.

Hah! I did a degree in Audio and Music Technology (BSc) at UWE. Lots of different aspects. Some plugin making and handling MIDI in code, a bit of acoustics, 3D game audio design, a bit of recording in the studio, a small amount of electonics. It was interesting, but perhaps not specific enough.

Well, all of this has turned to sh*t. In sorting the Megalith, I managed to cause an break in the ribbon connector. The next time I plugged it in after this picture, it didn't work except on the boosted channel. And I've destroyed the thing, probably overheating some components trying to get the fragments of wire out of the PCB holes. Might need to get another kit for this or just buy the Red Rocket version. It sounded soooo gooood! 😭 The Acapulco Gold doesn't have the massive amounts of gain that it should, but it makes a sound. Severly lacking low end too, even with a guitar. At least I know I can fix the junction box. I knew there was a reason why I stopped doing DIY pedals 🤦‍♂️

I'd wager there wouldn't be a standalone dedicated reverb pedal that would do this. It's quite a niche application. Could quite easily do it with a multi-fx with parallel processing though. Apply the eq and reverb to one path, then leave the rest un-effected and mix to taste.

Yes, it's sealed. I think I was going for like an SVT single enclosure thing. I think I did some modelling but it was 15 years ago. I didn't keep anything from uni other than this cab.

Well, Danny said he's actually not getting anything from that particular video. It's all going to Giacomo because Danny's used "his music" in numerous parts of the video.

Laney have removed their content of his as well. On Friday they released a custom colour for the Lionheart Fountry with Giacomo all over the marketing. All pulled. Yikes.

I've just got this back from my mum's house waaaaaaaaay too late. It's been in her understairs cupboard for about 15 years. I didn't do a dissertation as such. On our degree course, we did a final major project with quite a big project aspect to it and a smaller (but not insignificant) write up. I attempted to build a head a cab. The head never did work. Such is a lot of my struggles with electronics! The cab was hard to break though. I don't have any construction pics and can't remember if I put any dampening in it. The tweeter doesn't work either because I couldn't get the crossover to work. At least I managed to scrape a 2:1! It's loaded with two Celestion BN10-300X speakers, for an 8Ohm, 600W cab. Oh. And I couldn't get any tolex cheap enough and I didn't know about tuffcab, so it's covered in literal black carpet! The guys in Carpet Wright were a bit confused with why I wanted such a small amount of carpet! 😂 I have never really used it, but thought it was time to get it out of my mum's house. so I brought it home at the weekend. I've just had a quick try out this morning with my Terror Stamp and a guitar and a bass. It's quite clearly very bassy, but it doesn't sound terrible with either. Tempted to see if the Mrs will let me keep this and get rid of the Orange Crush 35R I've got as a practice thing. I'm also very tempted to use it as a bi-amping rig...

Big oooof from me! That's stunning.

You'll need to put a cable or something in the input of your ABM. Ashdown amps usually have a switching jack for the input that mutes the output. Something like a 3.5mm to 1/4” headphone adapter would do the job.

That's lovley that is!

Isn't that tomorrow night? I'm just listening to their new album at the moment. It's cool, should be a good show! I'm a bit sad I can't make it.

Reallly good practice last night. Got most of a new song arranged and found a use for shimmer reverb in a doom band. Less good was the guitarist (Adam), who usually picks up the guitarist/singer messaging at 5:20 wondering if someone else can pick him up when we're practicing at 6 and I've only got 20 minutes at home after doing the nursery run to burn my tongue on some dinner and then head out. Drummer didn't respond. So I had to go pick him up. Turns out Adam finished work at 3 yesterday. Had plenty of time. Bastard.

I've been using the Fat Tube bass preamp with no cab sim as an overdrive/fuzz with great success on my GX-100. I've also got some general EQ going on. Boosted around 1k for a bit of grind and cut some mids around 350Hz. Also worth a try...

I think you might be overestimating the number of young people watching TV in order to see the adverts. Over 50% of 16-24 year olds are barely watching any live TV *, so the adverts are aimed to an older demographic, with whom the songs will resonate. *https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/media-habits-adults/gen-z-swerves-traditional-broadcast-tv-as-less-than-half-tune-in-weekly/

You could also give the plugin a free trial to get a flavour for it. It's pretty close to the real thing and they've got IRs for all of the cabs. https://auroradsp.com/plugins/laney-digbeth-db500