Painy

The Aguilar AG700 is a little under half a the price (not to mention about a tenth of the weight) of the DB751 if that helps at all.

I happily pay for their full service. I have a couple of hundred albums at least downloaded onto my phone that I can listen to whether I have an internet connection or not (I live out in the sticks so 'not' is the default setting unless I'm actually at home) and without adds. Any one of those albums might have cost me the monthly fee to buy on CD. Plus if I pay then I can live in hope that at least there's a little more that could go to the artist (probably not the case I know but you gotta have hope). As for limited selection the choice of music is infinitely more substantial than any high street store could have even dreamt of stocking back in the days of Our Price and Andy's Records. It's all relative innit.

It's definitely different to Mudvayne (I remember freaking out the first time I heard his playing on Dig) but I really like the kind of 'jazz but heavier' aspect of this.

I'm a big fan of Ryan Martinie's playing and love his tone but only stumbled across this last night while browsing Youtube. Downloaded the whole album last night and been listening to it today. Not sure if you'd call it prog-jazz-metal-fusion or what but whatever it is I really like it!

This is, I think, pretty special!

Well I think you were very lucky to have gotten away with that! If I was the proprietor of a musical instrument retail establishment there is no way I would have tolerated morris dancing on the premises I can tell you!

448 mm long , 90mm deep , 55mm high ( at the highest point ) Apparently it's pretty much how Ritchie Kotzen originally came up with the idea. He built his main existing pedals into a single, crude enclosure that was easier to take onto a flight with him.

I was toying with the idea of re-housing my BDI21 in a more sturdy case when I spotted this on eBay and it got me thinking. If I was to build my own Flyrig in one of these by re-housing existing pedals into it what would it look like? I reckon I'd have my snark pedal tuner at the front, then a Spectracomp (tiny and versatile), my MXR M80 for the Pre-amp section with a bit of grit, my EBS Octabass and then finally my Joyo Roll boost at the end for a simple Clean volume boost. I've not bothered to work out if they would all fit properly as it's only for a bit of fun but what (commercially available) pedals would you put in yours?

Looks to me like a supreme level of skilled craftsmanship and incredible attention to detail was needed to create that instrument. Shame really then that to me it also looks bleedin orrible! A bit like if you'd gotten Leonardo Davinci to paint you a picture of a Ann Widdecombe in a string bikini.

The very lovely Yolanda Charles. Pete Vuckovic (3 Colours Red) Mark Hoppus. Peter Steele. This chap is also a fairly decent bass player too by all accounts:

Just received the Hookers Green Bass Machine which I bought from Bas. Very cool little pedal and Bas was genuinely an absolute pleasure to deal with throughout. Thanks buddy!

This though I just don't understand at all.

The headstock shape is generally a big part of what identifies the brand (it's where the logo is normally located too) so needs to be as individual as possible (assuming it's not actually trying to look as much as possible like another brand without actually getting sued for it). There are only so many shapes that are practical in terms of holding the tuners in a suitable position before you have to start adding weird sticky-out bits purely in order to be different.

I don't have the necessary culinary skill to produce Michelin star worthy snail porridge. With enough proper training and enough practice it's conceivable though that I could produce it to that standard eventually. However the thought of eating snail porridge actually makes me feel a bit nauseous regardless of the amount of skill that making it would demonstrate so I don't think I'll bother. In fact I think the time would probably be much better spent getting the hang of cooking a wide variety of simpler but also more palatable and nutritionally balanced meals. Bobby Vega on the other hand is awesome AND musical!

If only it were that it's far away but you can see how tiny it is from the curly lead plugged into it. This guy really is rocking out and head banging in his leather trousers while playing through an amp the size of a box of Swan Vestas.

I got one off here a couple of weeks ago and I've been really impressed too. I'm actually thinking of getting a couple more and running all 3 alongside each other on my board. I use 3 different basses at gigs so I would be able to set the eq and volume for each bass for when I'm switching between them. Kinda like a poor man's Programmable Bass Driver.

Yeah I do worry if it might be a step too far. On the other hand I do like the idea of spending a couple of pounds extra on a set of flats to begin with but then making them a family heirloom to be passed down to future generations .

That would be great if you can. Thanks Dave

I'm just wondering if anyone here uses flats on a Thunderbird? It's actually a 2013 Gibson EB5 that I'm thinking of putting flats on but it sounds very much like a T-Bird which I figured are a bit more commonplace so thought I'd be more likely to get a response. Basically my sound is normally very bright and aggressive (fresh Dunlop Steel Superbrights on a precision and a jazz) but I got this because I wanted a contrasting sound and it is naturally much darker. I put my normal Superbrights on it initially but the bass doesn't really seem to produce the zingy highs anyway so I'm wondering if I should just embrace the dark side altogether with this bass and chuck some flats on it so I get a more complete contrast with my other basses. I just wondered how other people had got on if they'd tried it?

You'd think the ready supply of Werther's Originals would have been incentive enough for them to keep him on. Kids these days don't know they're born!

As much as I really want to get one of these eventually, I'm not likely to have the funds available in the immediate future (and next months pedal expenditure is already allocated to @Al Krow ). I think I'm more likely to be looking for a used one in the Marketplace around May time once one of you lot has decided they don't like it after all .

After 7 months of searching for a new singer (and finding one singer that turned out to be something of a red herring along the way) we finally found someone a couple of weeks ago and I've just arrived home from his first gig. Bit of a thrown together set with basically whatever songs of ours he already knew, a few that he'd learnt and then a few that we learnt that he's done before and we'd only had one rehearsal but it was actually a pretty good gig with only a couple of very minor mistakes. Really looking forward to sorting out a proper set now that we've got that first gig under our belts.

If the amount of water spilt onto the bathroom floor whilst bathing is an accurate depiction of weight then my kids must each be somewhere around the weight of an adult humpback whale.