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Do you play in those rooms often? We use one where the sound is terrible, I have got used to it now and we only use it when our normal one is busy.

Very good price, shame it’s a not a better colour 😞 or perhaps that’s a good thing as I would be a lot poorer if it was a lake placid blue one on offer!

Audio space and them crooked vultures for me as well, both firmly in the Meh camp.

Saw the Cult in Birmingham, Ian Astbury’s voice was stunning, the sound was perfect (something the O2 doesn’t always manage) and a great set including the first ever live version of Edie complete with a strings section. They were brilliant and a good pick me up as I was feeling terrible due to my arthritis flaring up (glad we had seats!). One of the support bands stood out too - The Last Internationale, superb live performance from them.

I tried some Phil Jones stuff and really liked it, but I don’t remember it as being particularly light, in fact I remember it as fairly hefty. Not TE heavy but a good weight all the same.

I think the new one is switchable like the old so you would get a full 500w, but I would check just to be sure. I got the 1000w second hand off here as it came up at sensible money, it rarely goes above about 4/10 in any place we have played. I cranked it up to about 8/10 just messing about when we did a small festival once and the drummer who was late could hear me the best part of a mile away! I changed the valves to give a little more clean head room and that is supposed to lower the overall output a little but I can’t say I have noticed. But wind it right down I can use it to practice in a semi detached without upsetting the neighbours. They aren’t versatile in the way some of the TC heads are as the tone is the tone is the tone so to speak, but you can get a fair bit of variance from the basic controls so as long as you are happy with that then they are great. I would highly recommend them.

Another vote for the supercompact, coupled with a midget it makes a very versatile setup, I use an orange terror 1000w amp which is probably overkill for anywhere I am likely to play but the whole rig can be carried by one person in one go.

I can read music but not fast enough to play by it, some techniques to speed that up would be very useful for many people I would think.

I believe in a thing called love - I despise the Darkness, it’s utter rubbish so imagine my ‘joy’ at it being asked for a mates wedding we are doing. Turns out it’s actually ok to play, has quite a nice feel to it (but two weeks yesterday will still be the one and only time I play it in front of anyone other than the band)

Could still be a duff string. Google dead strings and you find threads on here where people have had problems with new strings, I have only had it once thankfully but sounded just like you describe. It could be all sorts of things including the pick up, bridge etc etc but best to rule out the easy to fix/ cheap options first.

Have you tried a new string? Could just be a duff one. Otherwise worth checking how it sits over the saddle.

Ibanez Talman every time for me, and a shed load of cash to spare.

Just had our first rehearsal since June last night with one of my bands, oddly we seem much better now than when we rehearsed every week. Not sure how that works completely but partly it’s down to certain people being more prepared.

How did I forget Mustang Sally?, I change my three to be that x3, what a stinking pile of dogs eggs that song is

I don’t think anything on the list here counts as ‘modern pop music’, trust me FD if you think the stuff on here is bad, for the love of god never tune to radio 1

I can understand people not liking RHCP but bland? Cannot see that, they have such a range of styles in their music that you never know what coming next (which can be a good or bad thing). Nirvana- one of the best bands ever, but that’s just my opinion 🙂 if you had said jazz then I would have agreed........ horses for courses and all that I suppose.

Shotgun, just bugs me, 500 miles or whatever the proclaimers rubbish is called and play that funky music, that one after a band member tried to force it on the band, so it now it just irritates me when I hear it (and it was rubbish to start with).

I get earplugs moulded for work, we get new ones done every three years, apparently the ear canal does change shape over time so that could well be the issue. Or it could be the filters breaking down perhaps. Some have replaceable filters, others are fixed.

Got tickets for the Cult in Brum, can’t wait.

And remember that no one will notice if you do make the odd mistake, at least they won’t as long as you don’t make a ‘F’ed that one up’ face as I always used to do. Just smile and play on.

FTFY If there is a personal hell for me it will be endless shopping trips with jazz like this playing.

Digitech drop pedal, a tone down sounds fine, strings usual tension, job done. Much more than a tone and it starts to sound a bit odd.