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BigRedX

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  1. Who did you email? Hercules or their UK distributor Strings & Things? Strings and Things replaced all 5 of my Hercules stands that had developed the sticky plastic syndrome.
  2. Is this for recording? If so I wouldn't bother with an amp at all. A good pre-amp or channel strip, or even plug-in will be far more versatile.
  3. And with exactly the same fault on the same model of Ashdown amp that I have owned from new, I was asked for an unfeasible amount of money just for Ashdown to have a look at it whilst simultaneously telling me that it was essentially unrepairable. Eventually the amp was sold for a tiny fraction of what I paid for it on eBay . When I brought up the matter with their representative who used to post here they were rude and sarcastic to me. I will never own or knowing use an Ashdown product ever again and AFAIAC the company can do one.
  4. You are quite right. So did the Carlsbro Cab that I bought in 1990.
  5. That's because it's a more accurate representation in looks, build and sound to the original 60s Thunderbird then anything produced since the 80s with a Gibson Logo on.
  6. Never heard of Tagima, but MiJ Tokais are well worth tracking down. As has been said the original 80s instruments were probably better than those they were copying, and their original range of Talbo aluminium bodied instruments were great too. However since then they have diversified in price point and manufacturing location, and unfortunately most of the instruments that don't come from Japan are not so accurate or well made, which IMO does a huge disservice to the Tokai name. I've owned two early 2000's Tokais, a Talbo Bass and a Talbo Jr travel guitar and both were excellent. However I wouldn't buy any Tokai not made in Japan without trying it first.
  7. Anyone have any more information about the Circle Guitar, other than what's on the web site and accompanying video? Interesting concept, and from what little I've seen I think it's one of those instruments that needs to be tried before being dismissed or praised. Only thing I've seen so far that would tend to put me off is that the control connection for the guitar appears to be a cat5 cable. Not the most gig-worthy of connections. Also looks as though Manson Guitars are involved - hopefully they will do something about the rather ugly shape before it goes into production.
  8. Joe Dart plays in a band called Vulfpeck whose most interesting album is "Sleepify"....
  9. BigRedX

    Evri

    The only people using Evri (and similar low-budget delivery services) are those selling high volumes of low-cost items where it doesn't matter if a proportion of them don't reach the intended recipient. Everyone else should be avoiding them not matter how "cost-effective" they appear to be. Hint: they're not.
  10. And anything on the PWL label... You don't much more mainstream than that!
  11. In the late 70s when the "Indie Charts" started it used to mean any record that wasn't distributed by a major record label. So bands on Rough Trade, Factory Records, 4AD (who were part of Beggars Banquet, but unlike the parent label had independent distribution), and of course that bastion of the "Indie Sound" PWL. So right from the beginning it's been meaningless. A bit like "Alt Rock" which has pretty much been mainstream rock since the mid-90s.
  12. Gold hardware, but not the pickup cover and knobs. Do they think we're blind?
  13. Only 3 months after the gig, but this photo was published as a double-page spread in a local paper/magazine headlining an article about the Beeston Oxjam Festival we played, and I thought it was worth sharing.
  14. Intersting. I tend to set all signatures longer than a couple of lines to ignore, and haven't noticed this particular one. So... 1. I simply don't come across this particular mod in the threads I frequent, so I haven't noticed it. 2. I set their signature to ignore on a previous version of the forum that allowed it. 3. I set their signature to ignore before they became a mod. This last one raises an interesting conundrum, since the moderators change from time to time what happens to someone who becomes a moderator who was previously set to ignore? If the signature is truly excessive maybe you should name and shame.
  15. I don't think I've ever paid as much as £50+ to go and see a gig
  16. Spotify pay out plenty. It's just that the record companies take the main share of this. I look at my individual streaming payments and then compare them with artists who claim that their share of streaming royalties are next to nothing, and think that something must be wrong because if I was getting those kinds of streaming numbers I'd be doing very nicely thank you.
  17. I've not noticed reduction in audience numbers. In fact over the last 15 years the gigs I've been doing have been far better attended that most of the ones I did in the 80s and 90s. IMO a lot of the problem at "grass-roots" level is that many of the bands while being more musically accomplished than those in the past aren't actually entertaining enough for people to make the effort to go and see them play live.
  18. I think you'll be surprised by exactly how much drive/dirt there is on what sounds like clean bass in the mix. Have a look and see if any tracks by the above have been posted as isolated bass tracks on YouTube. Then you'll get a much better idea of the sound you are aiming for.
  19. Maybe its different in originals bands (which is what I've mostly been in over the past 50 years) in that the musicians involved tend to be interested in the same kinds of music and those whose influences are wildly different don't tend to last long enough in the band, so it's rarely a discussion I have ever had. Also my influences tend to be bands, and songwriters/composers rather than musicians. On the whole I find individual musicians rather uninteresting.There are two exceptions to this and one is very obvious to anyone who has heard me play recently.
  20. Have you tried contacting Hipshot directly and seeing what they say?
  21. AFAICS any MIDI capability is MIDI over USB, which will require a host device to work rather than traditional MIDI via 5-pin DIN sockets which is a peer-to-peer protocol. That means you can plug the EWI into your computer and use it to play a plug-in instrument via your DAW. If you want to use it to play sounds from keyboard or other device that has MIDI DIN sockets you'll need a MIDI host box to go between the two. There are cheap host boxes, but all the decent ones cost at least as much as the EWI.
  22. Thanks. Unfortunately after all that the article is big on attention grabbing headlines and light on actual information.
  23. Can you save this as a link to the web page it came from?
  24. Are you going to be able to program this set up to do "scatter winding"?
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