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Smooth hound user here, great bit of kit. I get a good few hours battery life but always recharge before a gig just in case.

Love the Cure and this is one of the best I have heard them live.

^^^^ This, works for me 🙂

I quite enjoyed the Killers set.

Old days? Just printed out set lists for next Friday and checked stock of gaffer tape in kit bag...........

Good for him! Sadly I think the rest of the band just weren’t on it. They didn’t seem interested. I am not the biggest fan to be fair but have always liked them in a ‘ turn up the car radio’ sort of way so it was disappointing to see such a lacklustre performance. Tell him he is wasted on them 😉

He is the only good thing though, they are appalling otherwise. And he is hardly putting on a ‘show’. If that’s what it takes to make the big stage these days..........

Listen to Brutalism, read the lyrics, listen again, repeat. ‘Kin amazing album.

+1 they are one of my favourite bands

I have a cheap Ibby fretless with flats on and it makes the most fantastic mwaaahhh sounds. It was ok when I got it but a decent set up made the world of difference. It is set very low now which seems to help.

I was taught standard notation at school, if I am honest it bore no relation to music to me beyond plonking on a glockenspiel making a scale. I understand how it works and can translate from it but I certainly couldn’t play from the dots as I convert them to finger positions. I see tab as the middle ground - it’s what I do to notation to make it instantly playable. Maybe it’s just how my brain works.

Jean jacques-Burnel, the one, the only

Spectracomp - cheap, unobtrusive but gives that nice fatness

You can have a rough as a bears backside finish even with gloss, that is purely down to the effort put into the wood first. It is completely irrelevant to the finish. If a surface is rough it won’t suddenly be smooth if you varnish it. That is 100% not unfinished wood.

That doesn’t look unfinished, it’s just had a satin finish which retains more of a natural look.

Brilliant! Just wish I understood it all!

I presume the OP is referring to this site rather than a complete ban, similar to the one that exists on here for Ricks, genuine or otherwise.

I use a Dunlop headphone amp, it's the size of a pedal. It’s a bit crap if I am honest but works ok for what it is.

How long do you get out of them out of interest? Just a rough idea would be useful. I have wondered about trying them, I presently use Warwick reads and get about 2 months and they come in at less than a tenner. That’s playing approx an hour a day on average.

I always take one, I have a cheap hohner travel bass for if I fly, booked on a Baltic cruise this summer and will take the jazz with me. Partly for practice but mostly because it’s something I enjoy. Some people read a book, I play bass. I have a Dunlop pedal amp that works ok. I do get some funny looks though and was asked which of the bands I was in on the last cruise.

No mention of Lou Reed yet? I think the grunts on relax may have been the tipping point for the beeb. Seems incredibly tame now!

You know, the sort of things that make you smile or laugh. I love The IDLES and well done is one of my favourite songs. You have to love this- Why don’t you have a job? Even Tarquin has a job, Mary Berry has a job why don't you have a job? followed shortly by- Why don’t you like Reggae? Even Tarquin likes Reggae Mary Berry likes Reggae Why don’t you like Reggae? Also love these NiN classic lines- And the Devil wants to F**K me in the back of his car, nothing quite like the feel of something new.

Forget about what it sounds like when you are on your own. I can get the fattest most gorgeous sounds from my Thunderbird but the same settings give a boomy mush when I play with the rest of the band. By comparison my Jazz that sounds quite trebley on its own cuts through well. I use a bottom heavy Orange Terror 1000w amp and have to turn the bottom end of the eq down completely to get a decent sound from the Thunderbird.

At least it’s happy.

Crazy money, but they quite often come on at a stupid price ‘coz rare mate’, then gradually reduce over to time to around £50 or thereabouts.