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Blues for Los Angeles - Bill Frisell

Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent - Gwen Guthrie

Confusion - ELO

This Town - Marillion

Ibanez have added a couple of less expensive models to the range, the EHB600 and 605. Standard scale only so far, no multi- or short-scale. There’s also a champagne burst finish not shown in the video. G4M has them listed at £729 and £799 respectively. The most interesting part to me would be the pickups, a type I haven’t seen before called α1. They’ll be cheap, but I don’t mind that if they’re good.

Would I Lie To You? - Eurythmics

When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

It’s All Gone - Chris Rea

One Of Us - ABBA

Holloway Girl - Marillion

Shock To The System - Yes

Electricity - OMD

I meant the f-hole shape specifically, not the general idea of a long & thin soundhole. I have one of these guitars and it’s no problem. but this gives me the willies:

I do not like to see f-holes. They just bug me. They are just about acceptable in their original context: violin, viola, cello and double bass - though I don’t think they look right on the double bass. Put them on any other instrument and I am out. Yes, I’m looking at you, Ampeg and Paul Gilbert.

and the MD-200.

Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Steven’s

Elbow the Letter - R.E.M.

Spanish Fly - Eddie Van Halen

22 Acacia Avenue - Iron Maiden

Ruff Boy - ZZ Top

So What? - Miles Davis

My Little Board seems stable as a straightforward bass board - except I switched out the Mosky Silver Horse for myT-Rex Diva Drive - so I'm playing around with my Big Board: In signal chain order: Landlord Cheeky Pint compressor. It's OK, but clips if I push it hard, and running it at 12V doesn't help, but then I don't need a lot for this application. So it's set fairly mild, as a buffer/boost. Mosky Silver Horse: mild drive / mid boost MXR Bass Octave Deluxe Tone City Matcha Cream fuzz. The last three are old standbys by now Lead Foot volume pedal (at right). IK ToneX One That is enough to gig with, but I'm also setting this up to connect to my iPad, through the ToneX One's USB-C interface. I can run the ToneX One with or without direct monitoring: if without, the signal must go through the iPad, which is risky if anything happens to that connection, so I'll probably run it with direct monitoring on. That means that the ToneX will always be responsible for my base tone, even if the iPad connection fails, which is fine. You can use an iPhone too, though mine is pretty old and needs the "Camera Connection Kit" to do anything over USB. So the iPad can be treated as a mixer send bus, running in parallel, and I won't use it for preamps or processors that should be inline only. I could run in to phase problems if I did. Instead, I'm trying out various modulations, delays, reverbs etc. I'm using the AUM app, which can chain multiple effects plugins, though I might try Audiobus too. To control AUM I have the new switcher at the bottom, a M-VAVE Chocolate, with four controls and the Akai expression pedal attached through it on the left. So far it's worked great over Bluetooth, though cable connection is also an option. I've tried an effects chain where I can bypass individual effects with the footswitch or control e.g. the rotary speaker speed in Eventide Rotary with the expression pedal. I'm also trying my version of Frippertronics using the Gauss Field Looper plugin,with the switches controlling recording / overdubbing and the expression pedal controlling the speed of the "tape" loop. If anything, I have too many options to play with.

King For A Day - XTC

Cold Fire - Rush

The Weight - The Band