Woodinblack

Oh sorry, I always get the name wrong, an X-Touch https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0B1X I had been waiting for one to appear on the behringer outlet for a while as I decided that to do the mixing live, and unlike you lucky people with someone out the front to do it, this is just me, I wanted the actual sliders on top of my amp, so when I am busy playing I don't have to try and grab a virtual slider. So now the X18 is on the floor where everyone plugs in, I still have the XAir app on my iPad (never really got on with mixing station), and also the X-Touch wirelessly connecting sitting on top of my amp.

The increase in price is purely down to the markup at the bottom. So you have a squier which costs £50 in parts at pure cost level, once you add labour and markup you end up at £300, whereas the american professional you use £120 of parts, and by the time you have more labour and markup it ends up in the £1000s. The main difference in the American vs Mexican vs Indonesians is the cost of the premises and the workforce. Very small price differences in the parts make quite huge differences by the time it is hanging in the shop

Is there any reason why the aesthetic isn't important? Or maybe there is something. I love the look of maple, but looking around me, I haven't got one maple fingerboarded instrument. I have had several but haven't kept them for reasons that probably aren't anything to do with the fingerboard (or maybe they are but I don't notice?)

No experience of that, but do you mean the XAir software or the third party mixer amp? People always seem to complain about the XAir software and recommend mixing station, although I quite like XAir. I do have mixing station on my phone as it is a handy backup. I just got a X-Control for my X18, so looking forward greatly to the next gig to see how that goes,.

Donnar have been advertising heavily on facebook. They have a buy 2, get one free offer at the moment they are pushing. I have a donnar ABY switch, which works fine (although I can't think of any way an ABY switch could not work), and their effects are cheap. I was getting fairly tempted and even considering getting the effects to replace my line6 effects to see if I could have a smaller board.

When I am doing a practice I often dont' bother to take the pedalboard, because the sound isn't so important. Plus the ABM600 has EQ / overdrive / octave / Compressor, not that I use the last two in any meaningful way. Live I am in a cover band so yes, pedalboard, overdrive, chorus, octave (up), echo, sample playback and synth. Though not at the same time!

I would say 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The end position is convenient for going along the strap, but a lot of people have trouble with it pulling out, so would presumably prefer it there.

I agree - in one of my own gig the drummers dad complained that the drums and bass were too loud. He clearly didn't realise that if we turned it down he would have had to listen to the guitar! I would say to that that he is not wasting the audiences time, in this case it is the audience wasting their own time. And noone really has the right to tell someone not to waste their own time, even the person wasting it. Indeed - I liked doing the slap part at the end of 'Run' by snow patrol!

Drum solos are good, gives you the oportunity to have a pee and get to the bar

I had one until recently, I liked it, even with the stock pickups, although I can see why people think they were a bit weak, although not noisy. I tried it with black beuties too, although I didn't like the feel of the strings, but the colour was great! Great neck on them and would have used it a lot more if it had just had another string!

Ian bought my Future Impact, super fast payment and transaction really smooth from start to finish, thanks and have fun with it!

Amazon don't care about other people, and any change that is done won't help them (in fact, almost certainly amazon will avoid that), this is purely pressure from Amazon to get Visa UK to give them a lower cut (which you can bet is already percentages lower than anyone elses), which presumably they will do, so Amazon will have yet one more advantage over everyone else.

Are the schallers any lighter?

Yes, the apple camera connection kit, which is just a USB to lighning connector.

Just the normal, check a different power lead, make sure it is in right, check the fuses etc. Sounds like something was loose until i ttried to get power. Did it click at all?

I had no issue with the video, I didn't see it. I was just commenting on the education system. If I had realised that putting this throw-away comment would be too upsetting for some people I would have also not bothered. I thought we had agreed to disagree. To some degree yes. I just think there is more to an education system than how the education of children turn out. It came from watching a program quite a while ago by a South Korean guy about their eduction when people were complaining that our system was too lax (which maybe it is, and maybe things have changed since, esp. with the lockdown), where a lot of south korean children were dealing with a lot of stress, with a risk of suicide due to the fierce competition of the schools, and how failing in school in SK, pretty well condemns your future in a way it probably doesn't here. Sorry for the diversion.

Or do it like this: http://dbinstrumentamp.com/products/4e-dual-axis-expression-pedal/

Oh no, I have had other ones (although I still have the 1994 one), its just all the others were refurbs. No, it took a lot of justifying, but then I pretty well live on my macbook pro, and the one it is replacing is 2013, so for a laptop I am expecting to use every day for the next 8 years, the costs are a bit easier to justify. Although the speed and slickness of it are impressive as expected, the thing that was really shockingly good was the sound - I have no idea how they make it sound so big.

I did the same and got a M1 Macbook Pro 16". First new macbook since 1994, very impressed!

Your kids not being driven to kill themselves because of the pressure of your education system. ok!

4th highest suicide rate in the world. I would say they are failing quite badly myself.

When Dusty Hill damaged his shoulder he just played a keyboard!

The future impact. Seems like if you want synth noises, and you had a 13 pin connector, the GR1000 would be a good way to go. Obviously not!

I was thinking with the FI connected.