Woodinblack

17 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I can’t seem to find it on AppStore @EllaReidh

And a spammer isn't going to give you any useful info either, especially one I just kicked out.

For reference, anyone who resurects a year+ old topic, quotes a post and says 'thanks for the info', just expand the quote, you will find that they have put a load of links at the bottom that you dont' see as it is all collapsed.

Yeh, I would do a video, put it on an unlisted youtube link and send the link to the video by reverbs messaging system.

53 minutes ago, walshy said:

IHe’s easy enough to avoid if it’s not your bag 

If only that were true.

Genesis - Trick of the Tail

Like being 11 again!

22 minutes ago, Gasman said:

Following on from one of the other threads on this forum, the other band members would clearly like to have me back, and were thinking about hiding some gigs from my replacement so I could play them instead

I would hate to be in a band that did that. But as you have done 6 gigs in not much time, it doesn't seem his availability is that good, so maybe come to some arrangement about which gigs to do, as long as it is all up front.

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The lasers @Phil Starr  mentions are a great idea. A bit hit and miss about what you get, I have three and one is rather more powerful. I always aim them up at the ceiling. 

They are great - just fill the ceiling with little red and green patterns for a fiver - whats not to like

4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Click on the three dots to the right of a video title of his - choose "Don't recommend channel", job's a good 'un.

Sadly not, I did that on video one, it still pops up, turns up on other videos, turns up on facebook, even when you select 'don't show me content like this' his smug annoying face turns up on the next thing, and even when you think he has gone, someone else will post his inane dribblings about how someone else is the problem with the world.  

18 minutes ago, SimonK said:

I don't know if it is big brother influencing my youtube feed, but he seems to be everywhere in bass related content at the moment. I quite like the guy. 

You are right, he is everywhere, all over youtube and all over here. If I never saw a video with his face on it again it would still be too soon. While I find it hard to accept the idea of hating someone you don't know, he is someone who could change that feeling for me. Don't know what it is, just absolutely detest videos with the guy.

PM'd

32 minutes ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

How was my gig last night? I have no idea, I wasn’t there.

Sorry to hear that Greg - hope the next few months are as kind as they can be to you

8 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 I can understand that Peter Hook's playing (or that of any bass player) may not be to your taste, but to claim that you have never heard of them is just being ignorant. 

Why can you not believe that someone hasn't heard of someone? Even as a bass player I don't know the names of most groups that I didn't have much interest in, and some that I did. I have heard of him from being on here and people talking about him, but most people of most groups I don't know so it seems reasonably likely that the majority of people wouldn't have heard of the bass player in a group that had a few top ten hits and a handful of more top 40s. I mean showaddywaddy had twice as many hits (including a number one hit) and I have no idea what their bass player is. I could probably name about 4 or 5 bass players from 80s groups at most.

In the end that is why I didn't go for the keys, because I wanted the MPC stuff, but I have a lot of keyboards I can connect it to

19 minutes ago, shoulderpet said:

Hooky is my favourite bass player ever so I loved it, would have been bored to tears if it was a greatest basslines show

Maybe it was badly labeled then - I would watch a program called greatest basslines, but probably not something about peter hook. Still, put the series on record so I can skim over that.

On 15/11/2025 at 22:38, Steve Lawson said:

Absolutely. It's the *perfect* device for me, because after 20 odd years of pushing every effects unit I had to its limits, I finally found something that did all the things I previously couldn't, but having an Anagram-style interface that turned on and off would really help people get started with it 

I felt enthused enough to think about what I was doing. For regular gigging I had a series of patches with various distortions, flanger, and generators (I play background chords and other effects as well), and when playing I switched between them with a external midi controller (as it is unreliable switching patches on the dwarf). There is a huge gap between pedal switches, so your post made me think, why am I even switching patches when I could easily just switch effects on and off.

So now I have redone it all into one big more thought out patch, where I just turn on distortions or not (actually switch channels, I have several distortion sections from a mild overdrive to OTT and switch between them), and the synth parts I just switch the midi between the channels - at the moment the only problem is the footswitch switches between bank 1 and bank 2 and I have to remember which is which, for some reason you can't rename the output!

At the moment it isnt right, the mild distortion is too mild, the heavy distortion too heavy and the echo is way ott, but enough that I can gig it and after each gig I can modify it. 

Great advice, you do tend to go through life thinking that you would get round to all these things later, only for later to come and go a lot.

24 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

but put them near anything that was emitting RF etc and they would buzz. 

Oh could be my issue, both the ME90 and my main pedalboard have bluetooth on them.

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

Mine goes straight into pedal one on my pedalboard (Boss TU-2) without issue.  Just to throw a spanner in your spanner, or something

Yeh, it seems that most peoples do but I have tried several, and going into either the dwarf or the Boss ME90B, if I go straight from the dongle I can't use any drive as the noise will be terrible without the extension lead. If you don't have this issue, then it is good value.

Luckily the more epensive XVive A58 doesn't have this issue, so my problem is now solved!

34 minutes ago, Shanashian said:

Sounds like the Lekato units have really proven themselves — reliable, easy to use, and hassle-free. Now I’m tempted to grab a backup pair too!

Just to throw a spanner in your nice works, I have some of those too and have now upgraded as the noise they generated meant I had to use a separate cable to keep them away from my effects pedal. Not insurmountable, but in the end I had dto get something better

On 23/11/2025 at 22:15, Woodinblack said:

Well, I didn't sleep last night and felt terrible today, so that was fine as I had a gig in the afternoon at 2. I felt dizzy and sick. Easy setup but felt very cold and hot and generally unwell. 

And have been off work since, so today I did a covid test, and yep, lit up like a christmas tree!

Yeh, impressed but with the comment that you wouldn't want it as your only bass. For 3k. And he isn't sure who it is for, but it is certainly for someone.

2 hours ago, SumOne said:

Or another option is UHF, I might try some Lekato WS-70 UHF mentioned earlier in this thread. Usually UHF is an expensive option but those are £33. UHF has lower latency (<3ms) and better range but can colour the sound a bit - at least that was the complaint with some older ones, new ones seem to get generally good reviews though (although the Lekato also has a lot of 1 star reviews on Amazon for the sound quality). 

 

I have some - still have them in the bag as a backup, they do colour the sound a little but worse was the compression on them - if you use a compressor anyway you might not mind it (or you might like it for reasons that people use compressors) but it wasn't what I wanted.

I can't see any explanation of caremelised on Harley Benton's site, but the cheap ones appear caramelised, and the more expensive are roasted. In all the press about roasted neck instruments, they mention the neck has been roasted to give extra stability, in all the caramelised ones they just mention it is a nicer colour. If I was to buy an HB with what I see on the net, I would assume that caramelised was just like the presidential tribute spray tan version!

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

The spec says "Bolt-on neck: caramelised Canadian hard rock maple with Roseacer skunk stripe".

From the internet (so it must be true): 

For Harley Benton, caramelized and roasted are not the same thing. Caramelized is cheaper (its offered on €140 models like ST-62) and purely cosmetic. The wood is darkened/colored with some process that only effects the surface.

Roasted is more expensive (models start at €300) and improves stability. A roasted neck is roasted throughout, if you saw it in half it will be the same color throughout.

Well, I didn't sleep last night and felt terrible today, so that was fine as I had a gig in the afternoon at 2. I felt dizzy and sick. Easy setup but felt very cold and hot and generally unwell. Couldn't get warm in the first half which I think was me as the guitarist was complaining about being hot, but also hands were working like they were cold. We thought at the start it was goimg to be be poorly attended but it wasnt, it was pretty crowded. Second half I had put a fleece on so I was warmer and things were flowing better, but singing was an issue due to feeling sick. It all went well in the end and luckily it was an affternoon gig so we could leave at 4:30. Had a request at the end for surfing USA, but couldn't do that, I would have been sick. Luckily it wasn't very far and it was an easy breakdown and drive home. Came in, had some rice, laid down for 5 minutes, woke up at 10!

Glad I got through it!

I bought a boules mesh chair as I work from home and I wanted a decent chair (actually, my wife wanted to throw out my old chair as it was very grubby), and it was without doubt the worst chair I had ever sat on, no idea who it was moddled on but it was terrible. So we contacted them back, they sent a cushion, and that didn't cut it. So we wrote back and they said I could swap for a different chair, so I swapped for a Master chair, which was also on sale at the time and it is the most comfortable chair I have had. I never worked out how one company could produce two so totally different chairs! Anyway, that one is fantastic