NancyJohnson

As this thread took a little modelling amp swerve, I'll just throw in my 2 cents. I don't play much guitar, but I do own a combo - a Line 6 Spider IV - that I use for home recording; to my ears it sounds fine for demos...DI'd or cranked on the landing with a microphone in front of it. Whilst yes, I know that Line 6 stuff is sneered at and that this probably hasn't been withing a mile of a valve, a guitarist who's used it for recording at mine just loves the thing and compares it favourably with this Orange head and 4x12 and doesn't have an issue getting usable tones out of it. Moving along, small valve amps. I'm watching a small valve combo on eBay at the moment (no, I'm not saying what), that ticks all my boxes. It's a bit of a one trick pony, visually it's a bit retro, but I'll see where the auction goes over the next few days.

They (to date) have done six or seven albums, there was a bit of a hiatus period while they all seemed to be doing other work. Sadly, much a case of diminishing returns though; first album was brilliant pop/punk, the second had a couple of terrible tracks, and so on.

American Hi-Fi, first album. I think this was one of the first albums I downloaded on Napster (don't get your panties in a twist, I've bought it). It's a very strong debut...haven't listened to it in yonks.

Please tell me it wasn't being sold by the purveyor of instruments for people with big hands.

Some bloke called Thomas. Think his surname was Cook, or something.

Just concerning his feedback, as eBay buyers are now anonymous, what's to say the guy isn't getting his missus to buy his stuff and put positive feedback up? Also I'm uncertain whether there's any speedy way to ascertain whether he's relisted previously sold stuff, if at all.

Holiday for two in Crete.

I think the Lull JAXT4 is the closest I'm going to get. At a push (and for want of mixing things up), I do love the out-of-the-box tone a 4003 gives you, so maybe a JAXT4 with the guts of a Rickenbacker.

I find his written texts hard to work through. Does anyone remember the old Babel Fish translator site? You could type something in there and it would translate it from English back into English, via simplified Chinese, Esperanto and Navajo.

I saw it on eBay a while back!

I owned a Geddy Lee Jazz. It was OK, although I was probably more enamoured with the way it looked, although profess a little disappointment that the fingerboard blocks were painted on. Gone! A Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string. Difficulty getting a decent tone from it really. Didn't fit with anything I did. Gone! [Edit] God, yes. Lakland DJ5. I forgot this one. One of my Lulls is a Jeff Ament/Pearl Jam model, a JAXT4. I just adore the oversized body, the neck profile and the tone. I suppose I also love it from the perspective that it's not been produced in big numbers either, I think Lull had made about a dozen tops when I got mine.

Time for a bit of experimentation.

I came to the XTC party very late in the scheme of things, perhaps six or seven years ago; it's been a joy just immersing myself in the catalogue and hearing how they evolved as a band. It saddens me that I wasn't really part of the journey at the time. Mayor of Simpleton is a FANTASTIC track and Colin's bass work is off the scale. It's nice to see Tim Smith here too; Jellyfish aside, he was also in The Umajets who made two great Jellyfish/XTC-esque albums.

Christ, that's £35.00 on Amazon. Blimus.

I just feel for these poor instruments.

If the guy is doing this, the VERY least he could do would be to apply a decent waterslide logo rather than freehanding it with a Sharpie and a green biro.

I bought a minty Euro LT a few weeks back, I've not had a look inside the control cavity but I do profess to enjoying the odd tweak tonally. There wasn't any fly sheet with it covering adjustments to the active circuit. Concerning there being a trim pot, care to elaborate when you have a play around?

Nah, I'm good...I lasted maybe 20 seconds. I just suppose that when Killers came out (1980/81?), I was probably spending more time listening to Japan and a clutch of more American orientated rock (Van Halen, Joe Perry Project/earlier Aerosmith, Journey, Styx). Mr Harris seems a nice enough bloke, I have no issue with him whatsoever, but I never connected with Iron Maiden at all. He's not someone who I would have put high on the list of having his own signature pedal either to be honest.

I couldn't tell you what Steve Harris actually sounds like to be honest. Geddy, yes. dUg, yes. Sheehan, Burnel, Karn, Claypool, Lemmy, all yes. But Harris? No. Even with a gun to my head, I could probably only blurt out two or three Iron Maiden songs. Message ends.

Good grief, have some perspective. It's a kettle lead; try it once, if it doesn't work, or solve the issue, throw it away. I'm not advocating openibg the amp and rewiring it. Lest we forget, most of Europe operate electrical systems on a non-earth, two core cable systems.

It's funny, but doesn't pretty much everyone here feel that Skank embodies their inner-author and that his responses are generally on point and written how we'd all want to write? Clearly P-dawg is also a vampire. 2.00am? Go to bed, man!