JapanAxe

In my experience the worst culprit for taking punters away from the band is outdoor smoking areas - as well as patio heaters, some even have TV screens showing Sky Sports!

I've just bought a Zoom MS50G for home recording - £85 delivered from GAK. With the v3 software you can load further amp models from their website, and I have to say they sound great. A pair of alkaline AA batteries will keep it running for several hours.

If it's the one by the input, that just tells you when the gain of the first stage is becoming a bit hot. Turning the gain right up might generate some distortion, but you won't have 'cranked it up too much' unless you also turn up the master to the point that you are going to blow up your power transistors and/or your speaker(s).

If I've had a particularly sweaty gig, and if I remember, then I give my (flatwound) strings a quick wipe with a micro-fibre cloth. Taking strings off and submitting them to cleaning procedures of dubious value is just too much hassle.

Bought a Mustang wiring loom from John. Way better quality than the components in my MIJ Mustang. Unfortunately I managed to break a pot whilst trying different control knobs, so I bought another pot from John. Having undone and re-done all the solder joints to install it, I can confidently declare that John is a Ninja Jedi Master of soldering!

I use Touch OSC on my iPad to control Reaper. IIRC I am using the Logic template. It has The only downside is that you have to flip between screens to go from, say, volume fadres to pan settings.

Grolsch washers for me. I just leave the strap on the whole time.

Played a large hall with a traffic-light device and never set it off once! Peaks (on the vocals as far as I could tell) took it into the red, but never long enough for it to cut the power. Then again, we were playing both kinds of music - country AND western! Cheesy pic courtesy of Mrs Axe:

Bought a Pedaltrain Nano from Matty. It was dispatched within minutes of me paying for it and arrived in perfect nick. Cheers!

Another +1 for Reaper. I also still have Audacity but I can't remember why!

I recently upgraded to a Megger AVO210, mainly because I wanted to take bias voltage readings as accurately as possible on my Fender Deluxe clone build:

Is it possible to have a rack-mounted wah effect (say in a multi-fx) and run a single 3-conductor cable to a controller pedal out front?

Bought a tuner pedal from John, arrived well packed and in excellent nick

^^^ What is it?

I love all my basses. They get different amounts of play time at different times, depending on what I'm working on.

Blue that's 2 more pedals than I ever use, and that one is a tuner!

What BF cab is that? (Not to detract in any way from the awesomeness of the amp.)

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1490980980' post='3269620'] I always used a flanger for that and got the sound spot on. They're kind of the same aren't they? [/quote] Yes and no. They both feature multiple swept filter notches resulting from delaying the processed signal and mixing it with the original. However, in a flanger the delay time is the same for all frequencies, whereas in a phaser the delay time is frequency-dependent, so each frequency is delayed by a different amount. Hope that helps!