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Agreed, I hate the furry feel of Pau Ferro, I would never choose it over rosewood or maple.

It has be tied to an individual unless the band is its own legal entity (ie a limited company etc). But it can be a business account that is “person name trading as band name”.

In the last 3/4 years. I’ve opened a couple of accounts with different app-based banks, it couldn’t have been simpler or more streamlined.

Digital/online/app-based/mobile/challenger banks, I don’t think anyone has settled on exactly which of these. You do obviously still have to go through an ID process though, although it’s fairly easy, I think I opened the band account with my driving licence and a video statement.

If you don’t want it going through your personal account, set up a separate account for the band with someone like Starling and make all payments in/out of that. 10 minute job to get one up and running.

Precisely what my pub band does, a couple of us are full time musicians, and the others have higher earning jobs, so we don’t split band income equally. It kind of has to be like that otherwise I could’t commit to tying up dates where I could be earning way more gigging with the function band. But does rely on being good mates / trusting each other to make that work.

Yeah I think you find yourself in a tricky middle ground; standard pub rock covers you can probably find someone easily enough, but anything else means more prep work/time for the dep which then pushes the financial demands higher. Which is much the same as my “for fun” band, our set is too niche to have someone just walk in and play it, and we are too cheap to be able to pay someone for the time to learn it! 😅

There’s no harm in trying! I suppose another question is even if the budget is there can you actually find a good dep (or two!) any easier than you can find a good permanent guitarist?

I get the situation and economics of it, I’m just saying I think you’ll find it difficult. I have a foot in both worlds, I’m in a busy professional function band, and a pub band with old mates. For the function band, getting good deps is no issue because the budget is there, for the pub band unavailability means a cancelled gig.

Deps are common place in the function world but you’re looking at players used to individual fees of £200-300 (or more). I don’t know any decent players who would look at a 30 song set for £80 as a one-off, I certainly wouldn’t. But for a friend where there is potential for repeat local work etc you might have a chance of attracting someone.

It’s certainly true that a valve amp of a quoted wattage will sound significantly louder than the equivalent solid state amp of the same quoted wattage.

I worked as a Fender dealer for a time, Burgundy Mist and Penny are not very similar at all other than both being metallic colours. As others have said Penny is a copper colour.

https://aguilaramp.com/blogs/news/introducing-the-new-tone-hammer-and-ag-series-amplifiers I suppose it sort of alludes to IRs, without actually mentioning them. 😅

Weird, the press release I read made no mention of that at all!? But you are indeed right, on the product page it says exactly that.

The heads have just had a facelift (for the worse in my eyes), don’t think much different internally, so probably same happening for the pedal?

Been using my Capo for almost 2 years, wouldn’t gig without it. Whether you want to wait 20 weeks for one depends on your patience! 😀 The Noble has gone up the last couple of years but not gone up by 1k, it’s 1279USD currently, it was definitely never 279USD sadly.

Gear 4 Music pelican case rip off, been using it for a couple of years, safe as anything. https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Heavy-Duty-Case-with-Pick-Foam-by-Gear4music-388-x-268-x-156mm/1ZC0?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=order-dispatch&utm_source=txn-email&utm_content=ord-line

Stomp doesn’t have XLR but the output can be run balanced, so a basic 1/4” to XLR adapter gets you FOH ready; personally I carry one of these cables as a backup but normally run on to a separate preamp/DI. I run my bass and synth through the Stomp.

Sandbergs might look more battered but they do attempt to make it look realistic, these just look someone was clumsy with an electric sander.

That site is indeed really useful, I used it a lot when I was trying to figure out the age of my own early 70s Jazz. It’s clearly not an exact science, mine has pots from late 73, is 4 bolt, with a case that came in in 74, long G bridge screw, I’ve just settled on somewhere around 73/74. 😅 The date that site gives for 3 bolts on a jazz is late 73.

There are early examples pre-74 with 3 bolt, and late examples post-74 with 4 bolt, but 74 was still the year when the majority became 3 bolt was it not?

71 it started being introduced on guitars, 74 was the main transition year from 4 to 3 for a Jazz.

Bought an OC2 from Ben, pleasure to deal with, item as described and posted quickly and well packaged. Thanks dude!

I’ve owned a few Calis, never had a whine. A bit of hiss/white noise for sure but not a whine.