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Can my musical super power be being in two places at once? On stage and sorting the sound on the desk? If it has to be musical I'd love the timbre of Martyn Wyndham Read, what a voice, what a range.

I think room resonance works with certain cabs. Room 3 at Magnet got a huge boom out of my Barefaced Compact (E flat). In desperation I patched the amp into a Peavey 8x10 that had been left there and the boom went.

I seem to get 3 and a half years out of the driver before it goes harsh, raspy and lacking in volume.

Mine has a very metallic tone but Barefaced's site does describe it as growly so I expect this is part of the design. Amp sounds fine in other cabs. Think a new cab is over due.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1471944559' post='3117100'] I've been pondering this the last couple of days, mainly after seeing the amazing athletes in the olympics. If you jog in the evening after work, and do the occasional fun run does that make you an athlete ? If you play football on a Sunday morning, does that make you a footballer ? I'd say no, so at what point does what you do as a hobby, even a serious one, enable you to elevate what you do to a level comparable with someone who's been trained and educated, and has a very large skills portfolio ? I still maintain though, that if you play music, then you're a musician. [/quote] In some running circles it's claimed you are a runner once you go over 10 miles as a training run. Is there a musician equivalent? 3 hour set? Nailing Rhythm Stick?

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1466964350' post='3080077'] Clearing up the mess left behind? [/quote] Some people actually get a free ticket by agreeing to be a litter picker on the Monday but you have to put up a £230 deposit, you'll get it back but only after you do your stint with the bin bags.

Last Shadow Puppets did an astonishingly good cover of Bowie's Moonage Daydream with a glorious wall of guitar noise at the end 😀🎸

These devices are usually installed by pubs as a way of countering noise complaints. A tech bolt-on to keeping their license. I hate them with a passion.

There's an override switch that stops the power cut mode. Your venue must have left this on.

You're right, I didn't know much about amps when I bought mine and the preamp/DI compensates for this. Somehow the cheap BDI21 comes up with the 'heft' that my SWR's bass and treble controls can't. I also notice that a lot of new amps are fairly basic in the EQ department and you have to start looking at the more premium brands to get bass/low mids/high mids/treble or sweepable mid 'sweet spot' controls (if I'm wrong, let me know where the bargains are).

Eastwood specialise in recreating the forgotten, quirky brands of the 60s/70s. They always get the look but often change materials, so come up with a unique instrument that's quirky in it's own way. Great swap 👍😀

Sorry chaps won't be able to attend now, gig in Wigan.

The crucial 3 albums; Skylarking Apple Venus Nonsuch Followed by; Wasp Star English Settlement Oranges and Lemons Such a good group, I even have a soft spot for Mummer 😀

Sparks are one of those bands that attract rumours and don't do anything to dispel them. I suspect that they were attracted to synth pop by because they were tired of maintaining a band. In fact I remember a rumour that the next album 'Terminal Jive' is essentially a Russell Mael solo album. Despite Ron being credited and on the cover he had nothing to do with that album; at least that was the word on the grapevine a decade or so ago...

Great post, I immediately had to share it with all my SteamPunk friends 🤖

Sounds suspect. When they went disco it was the full deal with Giorgio Moroder producing the whole 'No1 Song In Heaven' album with synths throughout. Sounded stunning back in the day.

I once knew a player who had the same P bass since the 70s and played a gig nearly every week. It was OK but not a remarkable bass when I tried it. Also there was a large crack in the paint running roughly along the joint of the top part of a 3 piece body. The old Fender quality control thing again but he loved it, perfect marriage of musician and instrument.

We'll miss you MR (particularly the lift, I'll have to navigate that Leicester junction myself 😜). I'll bring along the usual single cuts!

I suspect it's not the wood but all the little tweaks a bass gets as it gets older; truss rod adjusted, saddle height set, pickup height, frets levelled etc.

My rig is named 'Mon Mome' after the race horse that won me the money to buy it. It means 'My Baby' in French.

Is the truss rod OK? Wondering if it's slack but not showing up in the action. Not sure that makes any sense but necks can be weird. 🤔

Great night at the Poppy and Pint. We had two set lists as our female singer almost couldn't make it but she beat throat lurgi and family illness to make the gig, superb trooper. The place got so hot they had to put the air conditioning on for the first time since the summer. 😀

Little Green Bag

He's finally got to Hammersmith and can sleep now

[url="http://www.photoluminati.com/ruthsummerfestival/e4b90e96a"][/url] Here's mine and yes it's heavy but it balances fine and my back is OK. The neck is slim but stiff, that may come from being 5 piece but it's way superior to a typical single piece of maple, Fender necks always feel unresponsive, spongey even in comparison. You can get a nice 'double bass-ish' thunk out of it. That may be the inch of walnut, I have another in maple which is more 'pop'.