Frank Blank

Their last great album imho, mind you they made some fine music in their and were consistently good live.

Thank you Sir! Looks even more like I might be able to satisfy my yearning, now I need to find one to try out...

I have, bass > Stomp > QSC K12.2. ...you are welcome to try mine out if you like.

Could I swap that coffee for a compression lesson? (That doesn’t sound right...)

No, quite, it’s been a WAL or a Stingray every time I’ve seem them (and that’s too many times). Mind you, a lot of players used odd guitars/basses when they were miming on TV. There is hope, Eastwood make a copy of the AEB, an EEB... https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/eeb-1 ...not that I know a lot about the company.

Ah, yes, having googled it I think you are right, however, as only twenty were made I don’t think I’ll bother trying to source one!

Could anyone tell me the make/model of the bass Mr Severin is playing on TOTP? ...love this track.

First Aid Kit and The Staves, both superb imho. Who doesn’t dig consanguineous harmonies? Talking of which...

London Calling - The Clash Pop Muzik- M Peaches - The Stranglers

...or buy second hand from Basschat where you’ll get more bang for your buck and can discuss any purchase with the BC hive mind. Oh and welcome.

Absolutely!

I swear by the ‘silent’ Neutriks now, I was constantly forgetting to turn the volume down before unplugging and getting that awful thump, not any more! Found my brand.

Cheers Sir, I did exactly this (a very easy process in HX Edit too) which has, as you suggested, halved my patches down to, ahem, two! Cheers again.

Morning and welcome!

Hello!

Just furnished Lawrence with a couple of leads, great comms, pleasure to deal with, a gentleman of the highest order. Cheers.

Pukka, hopefully @TheGreek will accept my offer of a lift and that almost gets us up to double figures!

I’ve no problem giving you a lift Sir, I always feel a bit daft travelling to one of these with a spare seat.

Welcome!

I was wondering about this very thing. While I am working on tones for various songs within their own individual patches eventually I am going to end up with certain blocks that are common denominators so to speak (the EQ and comp) and then other variations that modify the tone further. I doubt I’ll have that many (fat chance) but if I do manage to keep it relatively simple your suggestion sounds just the ticket, I shall experiment in this vein this afternoon. Thanks dude!

Welcome Sir.

Yessir. I was starting to wonder about the QSC simply because I couldn’t get the volume out of it, (not that I need it particularly in an acoustic duo) but I was beginning to wonder if it could be a contender in a full band scenario but after a tweak of input/output options between Stomp and QSC I’ve found the ‘earthquake if needed‘ option. As for the Stomp I’m completely converted to it. It took a little time to get ‘clean’ tones, by that I mean tones with just EQ and compression blocks that sound as close to each guitar going straight into the QSC as possible. Then (much like I did with the Fishman) using those blocks for very small tweaks to EQ and a touch of compression but then you have this infinite palette of effects and tone manipulation to refine with. I freely admit I was overwhelmed at first by the sheer amount of options along with my very, very scant technical know how but in the end, especially with HX Edit, you can just tinker ad infinitum until you are happy. I’d look at the screen and think ‘I have no idea what this means, best not touch it’ but then (as the vicar said to the actress) why not touch it and see what happens! So far I have two patches for each guitar, a ‘clean’ patch, as I said before, just lightly tweaked EQ and compression, I also have a patch for each guitar that is the ‘clean’ patch with a very short reverb added, already these four cater for our entire set but I think, with more experimentation, I will eventually have a patch per song. In one way the fact that we play acoustic guitars may sound limiting but having to make really tiny adjustments within quite a narrow sonic range is teaching me a lot so when I eventually join Hawkwind I will know how to dial up ‘spaceship over Stonehenge whilst being chased by the Windsor Chapter at 3am’ mode in seconds.