Woodinblack

It certainly would be eaiser, but there is a limit to how much you can change your physical makeup. Your singer might be able to sing many songs without effort but could he do Soprano stuff and deep bass fine? That is why in a choir you have different groups for the ranges.

All keyboards are easy to change the key on, but strangely our keyboard player won't change the key on the keyboard, but if you give him a couple of minutes he will just play it in the new key and doesn't complain, which is quite impressive. We change the key to what the singer can sing (or I or the drummer sing it), screaching out of your range is not a good sound. I never found changing key on the bass as much of an issue, not on a 5 string at least (otherwise it makes e flat tricky!) untless it is a really fast thing that relies on open strings, or odd tunings, like some Queens of the stoneage or royal blood when they are in Drop C or something.

We have gone through long periods of not adding new songs, which is a bit dull, but in general we add a new song every so often and songs get dropped if we either don't like playing them or they don't go down well. We probably have enough songs for 4-5 hours and generally play just under 3, so we can chop stuff around depending on the type of crowd we are expecting. We have a new keyboard player recently so we have gone through adding quite a few new songs, but on the occasion we play without him we have ones that don't need keys. However, some of our songs are the ones that we have had for the last 7 years!

Yes, to me it makes it a chocolate teapot, but we all have different ideas on these things. Always wanted one as a kid, and loved one when I played on years ago but I guess I don't play 4 string either so unlikely that I would ever get one, but handy to know the reissues aren't the same as the proper ones.

I had a notification that mine was going to turn up on saturday, so there is the weekend sorted

Presumably if the string spacing has changed from 15 to 19, they wouldn't be any use for the old ones.

Clearly he had them, but I would associate Gary Moore with the Peter Green Les Paul, and his earlier rock work with the Hamers. Joe walsh always seemed like a les paul player mainly too.

I wouldn't have also associated either Joe Walsh or Gary Moore with a strat either.

I would call that way less playable. Why would you call something a reissue if it was so fundamentally different?

Oh thats nice - I don't think that Ibanez bother with many of the prestiges outside Japan, but that is a really nice one, would like a fan fret prestige.

Its because we always messed it up going into the change, but the main riff you can just keep it going, and all the people had done really well with costumes, so we played that as each one came foreward, walked around a bit and went back and the people judged. Its one of those riffs that ones it is locked in you don't have to think about it at all.

That was one of our standards for a while, even not in haloween, but it always got messed up on some of the changes. However, we did a few times when we just did the rif during a fancy dress parade for 15 minutes and that was ok!

Mine isn't here yet! Hmm.. will check in case it has turned up and I wasn't informed!

would be nice they were all the same size!

Is what I was saying - SPST isn't a size, 10mm or 8.5mm is a size, all pole configurations come in all sizes, my SPST switches are the only ones that fit mooer caps!

Weird they mention them by type rather than size. 10mm and 8,5 seem fine, although I would say my SPST tap switches in my page turners are the big ones that the mooer caps fit!

Doesn't matter what the switch type is, but there are two different size tops. I have some of the mooer ones, which fit my page turner, but not my tc effects, as they are smaller. Shame they dont say what size they are

Should have gone back down to cash converters to get it back!

As previously mentioned, a pickup can't be dirty as such, it can just be coloured in sound. EMGs are very clean and hifi because they aren't wound that much and the magnets aren't strong, so they don't intefere with the string much or the signal. As a result they are very weak, but that is ok as they have preamps in the pickup to boost that weak signal. So they sound strong and hifi. At the other end of the scale, you get like the dimarzio super distortions, were designed to have such a high output that they distort your gain circuit and thus come up wtih a dirty sound - its the amp that makes the dirt there. As a result of a lot of winding and a strong magnetic field the eq is very coloured, so they sound quite distinctive Pickups do sound inherently different to each other. The eq curve, level and impedance of a pickup depends on its magnetic strength, the size and amount of wiring and the style of wiring, so plugged into a non ideal amplifier, as they all all, they will sound different. Obviously any EQ that a pickup has, you could correct for afterwards so it is possible to make them sound similar (for a single coil) although for multicoils on the same string (humbucker or two pickups at the same time) probably never the same.

Wise is just like transferring money, there is no sting there, other than how you make the payment - if you pay in canadian dollars there is nothing for him to lose, unless his bank take a charge for money.

They were both the same RMS sustained wattage, however, no bass amp runs like that as a bass doesn't produce a sustained signal. The 750 has a bigger power supply so can supply more instantaneous current than the 450 and a higher voltage, so has more transient power.

I have tried one, wanted to buy one but the price went up so I didn't get round to it, although that was a 5. Would still like one.

Looks actually a lot like the prestige ones

I was refering to Adrian Maruszczyk - are you refering to Jon Shuker?

His responses lose something in translation, he often comes across as being very short with people but he is actually fine