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On the subj of reverb plugins there are some nice freebies out there. I'd recommend the following:

Variety of Sound Epic Plate 2   https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/epicplate-mkii-released/

Variety of Sound have recently released an ambience reverb called Clouds. I haven't tried it yet but VoS is a good developer so you might want to give it a go.

Klanghelm Tens Jr - cut-down version of the Tens spring reverb  https://klanghelm.com/contents/products/TENSjr

Sanford Reverb - good general purpose reverb and very controllable, Windows only.   https://www.lesliesanford.com/vst/plugins/

Reaper stock reverb Reaverbate is OK as a starting point but I like to use the stock reverb convolver Reaverb. This has its own editable reverb generator but - more usefully - it can load reverb impulses.

You probably already know this but there are a number of free reverb impulse libraries out there including natural spaces like caves, rooms, concert halls and samples of vintage reverb units. These impulses can be loaded into Reaverb

There's a particularly nice selection of edited Lexicon 480L reverb sounds at  https://www.housecallfm.com/download-gns-personal-lexicon-480l  There are also some well-regarded Bricasti impulses out there but I've not used them.

Download the impulses into their own directory, insert Reaverb on the track (or a send) then browse to the directory and load a reverb impulse.

Kenny Gioia explains better in this video 

PlugIn Alliance sale of selected Brainworx plugins including their Ampeg amp / cab sims.

Including B15-N, SVT3-Pro, SVTVR, SVT VR Classic and V4B. $19.99 (plus UK VAT) each, down from (typically) $149.99

Also reductions on lots of channel strips, guitar amp sims, EQ's, reverbs, etc.

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products.html

A very fine selection of end-of-year covers. Best wishes to all participants, espec those kind souls who keep the Composition Challenge on the road.

https://www.voosteq.com/model-n-channel/ 

New Neve Channel strip by VoosteQ, choice of pre-amp, comp, eq and 1073 console types. Lots of features.

Limited-time intro offer $19.99 (£16.60 at current rate of exchange).

Works with Apple and Windows. Check for DAW compatibility. (I took a flyer and it works fine so far with Reaper).

14-day free trial, no restrictions.

Nice sound, flexible, slightly arty UI.

What ho! It's an old Joe Jackson song that's got nowt to do with Christmas and featuring Mr Gordon Gecko.

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6 hours ago, Kiwi said:

You're back?

In one sense, no, and in another sense I've never gone away.

On 17/10/2022 at 22:33, Steve Browning said:

I'm not an expert, but doesn't the binding make it a Custom?

On 17/10/2022 at 23:25, MoonBassAlpha said:

Aren't the Custom ones with the neck humbucker and hideous huge scratchplate? I  also am no expert!

You're both right.

The double-bound but otherwise normal Tele (1959-1972) was sold as a Custom Telecaster. That's the one for sale here and a lovely example it is too. The one with the so-called 'Wide Range Humbucker' was the Telecaster Custom (1972-1981). 

Done.

Hi Barrister and welcome to the forum 

I was instantly reminded of Mr Robyn Hitchcock's song Brenda's Iron Sledge which contains the immortal lines:

The grasshoppers curl up and burst
And Brenda shovels on the wurst
All aboard, Brenda's iron sledge
Please don't call me Reg, it's not my name

17 hours ago, lurksalot said:

My policy is to listen to the others after mine is just about done

Same here.

Though I nearly came badly unstuck one time when I briefly considered recording something carried by an acoustic guitar in drop D.

After a bit of thought I switched to a solo piano, posted it and then heard someone else's (much better executed) song carried by... er...  an acoustic guitar in drop D 

Great song and a well-deserved win👍

Nice one, Doc!

6 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

the neck has a weird "kink from the neck joint

Congratulations, Dave; you are the proud owner of a neck with a 'ski jump'.

image from https://hazeguitars.com/blog/neck-shimming-and-ski-jumps-the-latest-research

Opinion is divided about the cause of ski jumps; some say it's caused by shimming. Others disagree and as one might expect there's a 19-page thread on Talkbass about it.

The solutions include (i) progressively reducing the fret height or if it's really bad (ii) pop the frets, plane the board level and put in new frets.

Or crank the action skywards and put up with it, ache-y hand and all.
 

Quick PS:

This month I decided not to use MT Power Drum Kit and instead deployed Monster Drums, a freebie by Indonesian developer Agius Hardiman.

The nice thing about Monster Drums is that it's a sort of wrapper for a range of 20+ different sampled kits for use with different genres including pop, metal, reggae, East Asian trad and pop.

Includes Linn and Cajon kits. Sounds can be routed to individual or grouped channels. The kit packs are fairly small, mostly less than 100mb so no round robins or (afaics) velocity specific samples. Works OK, though and fairly light on CPU.

It's just gone up to V2 (64bit only) but I think the 32bit version may still be lurking somewhere.

The only annoying thing is that the developers page takes a while to load, otherwise the package is an easy install.

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I suppose one's visual performance is dependent on genre, context and what the front-man wants:

* Hurtling around the stage and jumping off the drum riser would (mostly) be wrong for folk, jazz, acoustic but right for some genres.

* What might look good on a big stage might look silly in a pub. And vice-versa.

* If one positioned oneself behind James Brown or Adele and proceeded to pull bass faces and whirl like a dervish one would probably be fired on the spot.

2 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

I hope she'd numbed the area beforehand with a nidl?

Indeed she had numbed the area.

What I actually said was: 'Orry, uh ozzen't een uh once, ick uss ack orr unn eason uhn uh-other uh all-ays uh-ounced ick uh Erman ay'.

I suppose it might have been funnier if I'd related my response verbatim but after mature consideration I opted for clarity over cheap humour.

Won't be doing that again.

2 hours ago, Rich said:

I used to have a German colleague, the first time I told him I was going shopping at Lidl (which I pronounced 'Liddle') he said "what's that?". I explained and he said "ah, you mean Leedle".

True story, the first time I went into a Lidl it was years ago in Germany and that's where I first heard the name spoken out loud, so I've always pronounced it 'Leedle'.

I was down the dentists' recently and mentioned Lidl and the lady dentist said 'Lidl?' I haven't heard of them... ah, you mean Liddle?'

'Sorry,' I said. 'I wasn't being a ponce, it's just that for one reason and another I've always pronounced it the German way'.

'German?' says she. 'I thought they were Swedish' and stuck a drill in my mouth.

7 hours ago, Sibob said:

SOOO many people playing and listening to rock

In 2021 the Billboard Top 200 Albums of The Year contained not one new rock album. The 'youngest' rock artists in the Billboard 2021 chart were the Foos (based on sales of their old stuff) whose new album sold a miserable 70,000 units in its debut week but didn't even make it into the year's chart.

The top 10 Billboard rock artists of 2021 included The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, AC DC, Nirvana, Queen, Metallica and Pink Floyd.

Lots of people listening to rock. Not so many people listening to new rock.

I suppose these things might go in cycles. The whole vintage electric guitar market sprang out of rock about fifty years ago and while rock continued to pertain, so did the interest in vintage gear. Indeed, Rock had a good run from 1956-2000(-ish) and the relative longevity and wealth of its fans has kept the vintage market alive.

However much we'd like to believe otherwise, Rock is now no longer mainstream. In the next 20 years Rock will become (if it hasn't already) a minority interest sub-genre of popular music like Jazz and Folk. If hardly anyone's playing Rock, where's the value in a '73 Strat?

Hopefully Rock will not become as obscure a sub-genre as rag-time*. It might even come back one day but then I'm still waiting for the music hall revival. Where have you gone, Harry Lauder, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

So, yeah, collapse in market values inbound except for the choicest of pieces with some sort of interesting provenance. Different for acoustic guitars, perhaps, less genre-tainted.

On the other hand, there's still interest in making music. Strong market in vintage studio gear; interesting examples of, say, old optical compressors, much rarer than mass-produced guitars.

* Nothing wrong with rag-time. It just doesn't sell much these days.
 

Two ways of doing this:

1. Make something up at random and stick with it
    
2. Rack your (collective) brains for months over long-lists, short-lists, genre compatibility, search the web to see if it's already being used by someone in Toronto or Guadeloupe, test it on friends, ask people on the internet, try it out using different fonts, shape it into a logo then give up and go with approach #1

Hi BahHumbug and welcome to the forum 

FWIW, Eurovision is run by the European Broadcasting Union, a group of public service broadcasters (no commercial riff-raff, thank you) comprising 55 full member countries in (or adjacent to) Europe. The non-European full members include Eurasian nations such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia and a substantial group of countries clustered around the Mediterranean e.g., Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, Libya and others.

There are a further 20 associate member countries including Australia (who take part in the Song Contest), China, Japan and the USA.

All told, that's 75 member countries, approximately 4 in 10 of all the nations in the world. Frankly, I don't know why they don't go the whole hog, sign every country up as a full member and call it the World Broadcasting Union. Mind you, if the South Koreans were involved they'd probably win every year, the K-Pop hit machine being what it is.

It should be noted that the EBU hasn't just promoted the Song Contest; for years it proudly mounted that cultural gem Jeux Sans Frontieres while experimenting with short-lived initiatives such as the Eurovision Dance Contest wherein nations competed to be the best ballroom dancers.

The Eurovision Dance Contest only took place in 2007 and 2008 (both times in the UK) and was then 'postponed' due to lack of interest external circumstances.
 

Set neck, actives. Yours for £166 new, 30 day return / refund if you don't like it.

Harley Benton killing it.
 

21 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

I'd like to see it hosted in physically in the UK, but nominally by Ukraine... with Ukrainian presenters or whatever it is the host country does.

Totally this ↑

UK supplies venue, logistic and technical support then stands back.

Creative decisions, sequencing, hosts, visual theme, direction on the night, etc should be down to the Ukrainians and not a Brit in sight.