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Love having the chrome on my Precision. The bridge ashtray is functional as it's got a foam mute underneath. The pickup one just looks nice! The pickup cover took a little bit of getting used to, as I was in the habit of using the pickup edge as a thumb rest.

That's how it starts...

Vulfpeck minus the cheesy keys and vox? Yes please!

If you're prepared to tread carefully, a pad controller might do the job. A second-hand Akai MPX8 will only set you back about £45.

Brilliant bit of swiss-army-knife kit. I used the drum loops to keep my band rehearsing while we were between drummers. I get a decent life out of mine with rechargable batteries*, and it also works fine on a generic USB mains adaptor - either one from my phone or my Kindle. I have the B1Xon version, but I honestly don't get much use out of the expression pedal. It's super useful on the guitar version though (G1Xon). * The same cannot be said for the MS-60B, which eats rechargeables like popcorn.

Yes, the MXR M-108 is known to be noisy - that's why it was discontinued, and replaced by the M-108S: https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/m108s-7-10137-09564-9.do

I'm not a fan of mismatching woods on the fretboard and headstock, unless the headstock matches the body. Give me a maple/maple neck or a painted headstock any day.

If it's essentially a cab + power amp combo and priced competitively, it could be a quite a nice little unit for use with all kinds of pre-amps. Not listing the weights makes me extremely suspicious. edit: £379. Nope!

Wow, this thread really kicked off! No, I'm not offended by it. It's a song about a fictional character, who, on closer examination of the lyrics, turns out to be a racist. It's mentioned in passing, not central to his persona. As many others have already said, it doesn't sound like The Who meant it to be a statement. I'd feel differently if there was a racial slur, or "burn down the mosques" or something, but I don't know why. What's special about songs? A book like To Kill A Mockingbird is chock full of spicy racism, but I would never for a moment suggest it should be changed. The power of the spoken word perhaps? Anyway, it was an interesting question and it made me think, so thanks for that. Not having been a victim of racism, my opinions about this are pretty irrelevant

I'm not qualified to speculate on the offensiveness of the line in question, but as someone who likes the song I can safely say: If I heard a band play it and change that line, I would be fine with that. It would not affect my opinion of them one bit.

It's so annoying! There's an option right at the bottom of the page to change your region, but it tends to work for a few pages and then "forget" and dump you back to the UK site.

Tort on black is lovely, so long as it leans more towards brown than red. But black/black/maple is a classic too. White on black is a bit basic, like a starter bass.

As above, 560mm for the box itself. Add the metal corners and their screwheads and it's ~570mm.

Source Audio Programmable EQ is probably worth a look: https://www.sourceaudio.net/programmable-eq.html

How long it takes to be able to gig is simple - as long as it takes you to learn the 30 / 45 / 90 minutes of material you need. How long it takes to get your first gig depends on whether you have someone in the band who's prepared to do the work of contacting venues and promoters, and whether they have the experience and contacts to do it well. If you get your whole setlist together without figuring out who's doing the booking, there's a high chance of fizzle-out...

I'm a big fan of Dunlop Max-Grip picks for both bass and guitar - they've got a raised criss-cross pattern that's super grippy and stops them slipping or twiddling around in use. https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/products/guitar+picks/max-grip.do

Oh hey, cool! I was at that gig Really, really entertaining stuff, regardless of how much of it is sequenced. The massive acid house flag was being passed around the audience the whole time - it's amazing that no-one hit the disco ball in the middle of the ceiling with it.

For me, the worst of the worst is 1980s synth horns

I do: G --------- D ---0----- A -2------- E -----0-0- And then I also like to add in an extra E an octave up (D string, 2nd fret) to match the guitar stab.

Note that it needs a 15V power supply (included) rather than the usual 9V.

You might be able to get around that by putting an A/B pedal in the effects loop, e.g. FX out -> A -> FX in Synth -> B -> FX in

It's unfortunate, because for me that's the point where it all starts to go downhill. They did a lot of important, groundbreaking stuff in the last part of their career, but the ratio started to skew towards "interesting studio experiments" and away from "actual good songs"

If you missed the Digitech Trio, Gear4Music now has them back in stock @ £49.99 (they're also reduced at PMT and Andertons, but not by as much)