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On the subject of pubs opening and how to enforce social distancing. This is how we roll in Cornwall 😂. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-pub-installs-electric-fence-4320031

The Ignition series is fully hollow and reasonably audible unplugged. I play along with music quietly with my Club. One of the main reasons I bought the Ignition over the Contempary, pleasantly it was half the price too. I'm sure I read that the Ignition pickups were more traditionally voiced where as the Contempary were more, well contempary, but I could be wrong.

Yes Hi NRG was more camp than a row of tents but this was an absolute floor filler in the 80s club we used to go to.

The HD 500 looks virtually the same as the X3 I'm using. Same size screen and layout so no gain there. The sounds might be improved but they'd have to be a massive improvement to make the investment worthwhile. It was the wireless programming that grabbed me. I've found these things need programming whilst playing with the band, you can fiddle around all you like at home but it won't sound the same at volume with a band. A tablet sat on top of my amp and adjusting on the fly seems great. Nevermind, I'll stick with what I've got. 👍

Can we you can do the programming with the app via Bluetooth with that one? That's the bit that got me interested. Programming on the unit is fiddly with the tiny screens and hunched on the floor but it really needs programming at gig volume, not with headphones at home. Using a wireless tablet seems like a great solution.

Ignore me 😁. I've just looked into it a bit and it doesn't included the bass amps or anything bass specific, purely aimed at guitarists, unlike most Line6 stuff. While this wouldn't be a deal breaker, it doesn't do dual channel which is a deal breaker. I love the fact you can have a punchy clean channel running alongside an affected channel on the X3, it really helps keeping things cutting through, especially with overdrive/distortion. Oh well nevermind.

I've been using the Line6 X3 Live pedal for years now and in all honesty I'm happy with what I'm getting from it. But I've seen a Firehawk FX pedal for sale locally and just wondered if it's an improvement on what I've got now. On the face of it it looks to be roughly the same, just with more shiny lights but a smaller screen. I don't connect to a computer so I'm not worried about that side of things but I see the Firehawk is Bluetooth so possibly remote programming on my tablet might be available, which could be cool as saves kneeling down to do it. I run my Variax through the X3 and the Firehawk has a Variax socket so that's good. The main thing really is whether there is any improvement in the modeling, or is it basically the same 'engine' as the X3 uses but in a prettier package? Also is £180 about the right price? Just for reference in case there are different sizes.

It's looking great.👍 Oh the irony of a speed awareness course on zoom. 😆

I'd never really paid any attention to them but have just watched a couple of YouTube vids on them and like the idea. I might give one a go. 🙂

I always use a laminate saw rather than a 'normal' handsaw. They seem to stay sharper for longer and give a cleaner cut. I like the idea of the double sided Japanese Saws. But after last years mishap maybe I should stay away altogether.

@akabane replied as I was typing and has pretty much echoed my thoughts, so saved me typing any more. 👍

Hopefully it's nice and cheap. Looks like a fun little bass. 👍

Play them a tune on it badly and explain that the notes are all in the wrong places. Should get you a decent discount.

Very much this. I wanted that sound but really, really didn't want the Beatles link, so much so that I got a black club as the sunburst, as great as it looks, still looked too Beatlesy. I think the ignition is fully hollow and the contemporary has a centre block, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I don't really ever post anything, maybe twice a year, three if I'm feeling particularly sociable 😁.

I don't use my real name on Facebook. I had no interest in using fb but had to join up years ago for band stuff, I made up a nickname and used that. No problems yet.

I have a 90s reissue longhorn. They had two circular top knobs as opposed to the pointer ones on yours. Mine do just pull off but they are tight. I use a spoon as a lever, slide the bowl end of a pudding spoon under the edge of the knob and gently push down on the handle, do one little push then rotate the knob bit and repeat. It should lift the knob off. If Danelectro still use the same pots then the shafts are odd sizes, the lower knob fits into two keyways like the big old radio knobs and the shaft for the top ones is 4 or 5mm rather than the usual 6. A new loom from @KiOgonwould enable you to use more conventional knobs, and if you do go for a new loom it would definitely be worth considering incorporating a series/parallel switch in it. In series the two pickups act like a spaced out humbucker and give it some serious punch. I've heard about this issue with the tone and volume knobs both turning together but it doesn't happen on mine, which makes wonder if it's something as simple as the top knob being pushed on too far and it's contacting the lower one, the added leverage from having the later pointer style would likely exacerbate this as any slight rocking as the knob turned would 'grab' the lower knob.

He makes it look so effortless, amazing. 👍 It reminds me a little of Adam Ben Ezra, except he doesn't need anyone else lending a hand on percussion.

Here's another System Of A Down song that's in many different signatures, and in all honesty it keeps changing so quickly I don't know what the hell is going on. They use odd timings quite a lot and is possible due to their Armenian heritage, I don't know but I can imagine traditional Armenian music using odd timings. Spoonman by Soundgarden is 7/4 in the verses. And of there's Led Zeps Kashmir, polyrhythm with 4/4 drums but most of the rest in 3/4,but the drums are boring as hell so maybe go with Blackdog instead, 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4.

I can't really hear that bass drum polyrhythm here 😉.

He may be using one of these.

YouTube is my go to practice site. The only problem is is that I inevitably go down the rabbit hole of following all the suggestions. Next rehearsal I hear, "Did you learn so & so?" "No, but I have learn to play six completly unrelated songs!"

In loving the look of this, just classic good looks.👍

You know, I did think of that half way through but couldn't be bothered to go back and change it. Yet here I am, spending even longer explaining why I didn't change it than it would have taken to change it. Beside I couldn't get the canaries on the plane as they just looked at me incredulously whilst shrugging their wings, but the rats were more than happy to oblige. 😉

Without turning it political, as any party would do the same, I feel the whole pubs opening, air travel kind of stuff is just sending the lab rats out there to test the water. If the rats don't die maybe we can all do likewise. If the rats do die then it's a good job we all stayed well away. We have an abundance of lab rats and if a couple of cage fulls die then it's not the end of the world, could even be good as we have to many. If the rats spread the virus to a couple of innocents that subsequently die then that's a risk we're happy to take. Obviously no party could actually say this though.