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Oh, that's good!

Piers Morgan howling about Greg's doing vegan sausage rolls... I dunno, maybe the band in question had been being Richards for a while and this was the last straw. Bit like the news stories around the last time we were blowing up bits of the middle east that were all 'muslims complaining about the English flag!!' And it turned out it was so much the flag as it was the constant abuse and harassment by the flag's owners... And yay, there's nearly enough of Us to do my idea of an all-trans Ramones tribute band called 'The Tramones'!

Anyone watch last night's Last Leg? They had a 'party band' on as they'd been planning a sort of leaving do for something or other... Had to laugh though, the guitarist had 2 kempers and a pedal board the size of Heathrow airport. The bassist had a p-bass and a di box...

Well, actually... Micky J used to sing all the parts acapella in demo versions because he didn't play any instruments:

HAHa! I know... I have literally spent whole days on TV tropes..

Anyone else feel a bit... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RightBehindMe

I think he needs a longer strap...

www.youtube.com/funnysongsorelse

Ish.. Duo with guitar and singing and backing tracks, but mostly video recorded live. Plus a lot of general mucking about in my living room.. I've made some nice guitar patches too, generally using the Bassman and a 4x12 cab with the SM57 turned up. It takes a bit of imaginative drive pedal layering but it works...

I'd be gouging out my eardrums..

That's pretty cool! What's the pre-amp you're using? I'm just about getting to grips with my B3n after about a year...

Slightly sneaking in under the 25 years, i love Metallica S&M, the orchestra just adds an epicness. I know lots of 'fans' hate it, but they probably also downloaded it off Napster so can bum off. I watch a lot of live stuff on youtube now - Muse live at 2018 Rock in Rio is pretty awesome... See also St Vincent - still super slick but i like there being extra band members and dressing up. What's the point of being in a band if you don't get to dress up?!

Latest iteration... For those 'don't know if i want to use the B3n' moments, plus OCDily flipping back and forth between amps - The A/B/Y pedal goes into the B3n input and the AUX, so the B3N is effectively bypassed And its also a sneaky way of getting a clean blend if i switch to Y mode...

One of the things I find the most interesting on this thread is the extra pedals people choose to use with multi-effects....

A self powered PA speaker, set flat.

I'm probably more likely to use mine live than drag an amp actually..! Just going from the fact that pretty much every gig i've been to, i've had to suggest that the person standing in front of me shuts the funk up so i can hear the actual band... Even when its bastardingly loud! Clearly audiences don't give a toss and go to gigs for somewhere to yak loudly about football or how many times they've seen the band before (and talked all the way through presumably)...!

So i'm A/Bing my Zoom B3n and my little Warwick Blue Cab 15.1 trying to work out exactly what it is i like about the Warwick. I have a hunch its the speaker as the DI out the back doesn't have the same thud to it. So i start with cabinet emulations by themselves and pretty much immediately find that the SVT8x10 emulation sounds super close to the Warwick. Chuck in a bit of no-messing about compression and that's effectively the tone i like. So basically Warwick managed to tune a 8" speaker to have similar enough tonal characteristics to an 8x10 that a cab sim sounds virtually* the same**. I don't know what's more impressive, that they managed to get that amount of thud into a little box with titchy speaker, or that the Zoom is able to fake it! I will also need to have a conversation with myself that goes something like: 'That does not mean you need an ampeg stack. You can't afford it and the nice goddy lady who lives upstairs currently says hello to you, which she will be less likely to do if she's being vibrated around her flat.' *ahaha! See what i did there! **subject to my crappy ears

Even with USB C which is supposedly symmetrical!!

Found this lot recently - not normally into shouting but its sort of post-grunge punky shouting so i'll let it pass...

How many different noises do you want to make? My main reason for using my zoom less is that it just does too much..! Oh yeah, top tip for bypass! Get a Y-switcher pedal thingy and a patch lead with a small jack at one end. Stick it in the 'aux' input on the zoom and you're sorted... I haven't tried that yet...

How much for a P/J with a switch?! https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2019/02/16/fender-revamps-the-duff-mckagan-deluxe-precision-bass/

I noticed the other day that the common denominator for me is massive string sections! So, Chic and pretty much any classic disco, Pet Shop Boys, Nightwish and other symphonic metal type things (although i find her out of Within Temptation a bit whiny). And probably one of my favourite albums ever is Metallica S&M...

Fortunately there are 150 patch slots..! I've got a bunch of patches set up that are variants on the same thing but with the thing that would be switched off, not there on one patch and there on the next. It takes a bit of brain retraining not to treat it as a pedalboard..! Where i do have different sounds for the same songs i just put them next to each other! Oddly i'm now mostly using mine for guitar now..!

That band everyone else likes but me, nicked everything they ever did... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-5-boldest-rip-offs-54145/

Ok, i know its about pick playing, but interesting perspective on this vid from an ex-ramone... I wear low, and oh yeah, ride a bike! Ok, i have sort of given up my bike commute because of rain and laziness, but where i live its dead hilly, so any ride tends to involve a lot of braking - with flat bars and mtb levers, which is a super good hand strength work out...