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NancyJohnson

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  1. I ran racks for a few years back when I was carrying around preposterous amounts of kit. I loved how self-contained it was; in the main it was a 4U set up, Korg Tuner (1U), Sansamps (various 1U) and a Matrix 2U poweramp (which I'd use in stereo or bridged depending on the application). Around the back I had a 1U PSU to power everything and I had my wireless unit plugged in. Just adored how tidy it was at the back; sound guys would delight that there was a short XLR extension, so it was easy to jack into FoH. Loved the storage additional space for Speakons. Once you put the lids on, nothing moved. Ultimately, the weight/portability of the thing was it's downfall, especially considering I'd be taking any combination of 1x15, 4x10 and 2x10 as well. Shocking that my current small/modest set up (Darkglass AO900, plus a pair of 1x12s) arguably goes louder. [Edit]. Weirdly, Facebook threw up a couple of photos today. This was the RBI set up. God, I loved this. Tidy.
  2. I've been using a Palmer DI box. This just DIs into whatever I'm recording on and allows an additional out to an amp/stomp. Can't get much more transparent.
  3. I've heard it's merciless. Chortle.
  4. I've owned a Geddy Lee and my Jeff Ament Lull. To be honest the Ged was no better or worse than any other Jazz - Fender or otherwise - that I've played to be honest. The Jeff Ament is a little different in that respect; when I saw it for the first time, I had no idea it was a signature model, it was more like, 'Wooah, that's what I've been looking for for the last 40 years.' It's a custom instrument; while the design-specs lean heavy on a Thunderbird, it's wholly different to the model it owes it's legacy to.
  5. I always felt I'd like a Korina Explorer. Never had the confidence to pull the trigger on an AliExpress one. Don't need any more basses. Oddly, despite it being. Chibson, I'd still like a G***** name on the headstock. Maybe. Later this year, perhaps. No idea of how to go around doing this, best sellers etc.
  6. If it does what you want, then surely you can use it however you want.
  7. There was a story about him working with Ronan Keating and taking a (fake) call from the US advising him of a death in the family, or something, just so he could abandon the session because he hated it so much.
  8. My first bit of outboard processing was a Bass POD and despite the naysayers, I still have a soft spot for Line6 kit. There's something about the (Get Offset) type of You Tube review posts that probably do more damage than good for a product like this; while the editing is generally OK, the whole apologetic approach to the way it works (pressing the buttons/rotating the knobs), her playing in general, along with the audio quality makes it unwatchable beyond a minute or two.
  9. You are Simon Gallup and I claim my prize. 😆
  10. I was a huge fan of the New Radicals album, although Gregg Alexander always came across as being a bit of an ungrateful knob. Interesting piece about Murder On The Dancefloor in The Grauniad today, I had no idea he co-wrote it. Interestingly there's a 40 second clip of his demo of it; the song is immediately recognisable, but it's also (obviously) like listening to New Radicals putting their spin on it. Shame they only did one album. #2 could have been an absolute belter had Alexander not given the material intended to other artistes. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/04/hear-gregg-alexander-original-demo-of-murder-on-the-dancefloor-sophie-ellis-bextor
  11. I'm sorry (and very tired), but while the whole post is peppered with what my late mother would describe as 'sloppy visual abbreviastic embellishments' (she was an English teacher), I'm with @Gasman here; the ol' Apostrophe Police meme needs to drive to the scrapyard! I can live with misuse of apostrophes (or to use the collective term, the Greengrocer's Apostrophe), but life really is too short to worry anymore. Just chuckle away and silently correct it. As you were. Let's find this chap a flight case.
  12. I've been ripping and listening to Nine Inch Nails most of the day. Three or four songs from each album. In the main, fantastic stuff. I've also been sent an MP3 of an EP by Milano pop/punkers Panamas for review. I'm on my third listen at the moment; bejeeeesus, it's absolutely stellar. Imagine The Ramones meets The Strokes meets The Hives. 10/10.
  13. I've seen guys with huge floor boards covered in stomps who gradually just stopped using everything. Over the years I've gone through a POD or two, a brace of Tech21 kit and one of those TC Electronic Tone Print amps (great concept, not enough patches, so off it went). Always used a poweramp or into the effects return on heads.
  14. I think this mirrors many general situation. When our mortgage got paid - and after an awful long time playing a (frankly awful) late 70s Precision - floodgates opened and I just bought any Gibson Thunderbird I fancied. Wife understood, but if asked couldn't specifically quantify why her husband kept buying basses or what he actually owned at any single moment. I mean she knows the manufacturers, Hamer, Lull, Spector...those names roll off the tongue. Her oft-used quote is, 'Always trade up,' which is something I've consistently tried to do.
  15. It's odd how you get thinking about auditions. I'd completely forgot about this east European guitarist we tried out; he was younger than us and was temping in the warehouse where I worked. We decided to not go the route of booking a room, so we tried him out in the extension of my house; stripped down session. He arrived on foot just carrying a guitar (no bag) and a little practice amp. He'd clearly made zero effort to learn any of the material I'd given him and I believe his expectation was that we'd become his backing band. He was also a terrible player and quite terrifying in equal parts. You remember Alexei Sayle's character in The Young Ones? That's what he sounded like when he talked and well, that started the drummer laughing. Every statement ended in 'yes'. He'd go, 'We do one of mine songs now, it's about the Russian Mafia in Stalingrad, yes?' and he'd play a breakneck fast two chord thing with him shouting out sweary vocals about gang members killing each other and disposing of the bodies in furnaces. That was one of the more happy songs. Drummer is laughing. Singer is laughing. I'm trying not to laugh and offer encouragement. He knows exactly where I live. I'm trying to formulate an exit strategy. We stop for coffee. He asks whether I have anything stronger. I watched him down about 1/4 pint of bourbon like it was orange squash on a hot day and then ask if we have vodka. Before long, it was thankfully over. He's going, 'This was great. We must do this again soon, yes? You on the drums, play faster next time, yes?'. Drummer says he's going to be working away for a bit (phew), but singer does not play along however and says it was great and we should do it again soon. B*stard. Thankfully the guy got fired and I never saw him again.
  16. You're just down the road from me and @cetera. Julien Mullen in Reading was always my go to guy for anything I couldn't sort out myself. His website hasn't been updated in yonks, you could try the mobile #. http://www.julianmullenguitars.co.uk/Contact.htm
  17. If I could have a pahnd for every time I've seen people mention neck dive, eh? With the dozen or so Gibson models I went through, dive was negligible (I mean, much as I joked about it, it was there a little, but wasn't a dealbreaker) and it's non-existent on my Lull, Hamer or Spector. Grippier strap and I tend to play with my left hand on the neck. Not in the market for one of these, but I'd be in the market for a TBII should Gibson pull their finger out and reissue those.
  18. Nothing against these per se; I played Gary's for a bit and it was fine, but always felt the geometry on the Epiphones was out compared with the original. I know many will see this as nitpicking, but if you're going to make/reproduce/copy a faithful replica, then then should be doing that (much like they're trying to do with all the Les Pauls, Explorers, Vs and SGs). About the only area where the body looks correct is the forearm bout. The other three corners are skewed; the lower horn has always been short/stubby and the upper neck joint and control corner, smoothed out/rounded.
  19. The sound would just randomly start and not stop until I tapped the mid-pot with a finger or messed with it somehow. John let me know how to take the pot out of the circuit (so I could at least start playing it again without fear) and I returned the pot and cable to him. He returned it a few days later (uncertain if it is/was the same pot), but he included a new wire/ribbon saying these were more stable than the old ones, so I suspect the problem was was with that. Anyhow, reinstalled everything and it's been 100%. Give him a shout!
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