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Partly radio - John Peel and various Radio 1 shows like One in the Jungle and Essential Mix. And record shops with listening decks , places like Blackmarket records took a lot of my time and money!

Cheapest I can see them is £179 for the RE-2 (available now) £305 for the RE-202 (available June). I think I'll wait to get the RE-202 once it's available but that price is starting to tread into decent multi-fx territory which makes it a bit more difficult to justify (although I never could get my Stomp to sound as good as my old RE-20).

Agreed. Plus, cost (even the cheapest option of a DMC micro is £149, and it only offers Preset scrolling - no additional parameter adjusting controls) and the hassles of setup. Lots of C4 forum threads have posts about people faffing to set up external equipment, I expect it's a reason quite a lot of C4's come along reasonably cheap second hand. It makes things like the Future Impact or SY-200 more viable. Source Audio know its an issue for people, they said themselves on Talkbass it has outgrown the hardware and there will be a larger version.

Listening to DJ Yoda reminds me of that Bionic Santa record, not as bad but that humourous cut n paste DJ style gets right on my t1ts.

It's wellworth a visit, I'll be heading back for sure. Doors open at 8.30 and it's about 10 before the band start and it gradually picks up.

If anyone happens to be looking for live Reggae in London on Thursday's then the Troy bar in Hoxton is excellent. £3 entry, Caribbean food, great house band (anyone happen to know who they are?) and open mic for vocalists - but not karaoke style, all are really high quality. The only downside is needing to work on Friday as the night gradually gets better so you end up leaving at 1pm whether you planned to or not!

Frank bought a pedal from me and all was good. Nice one!

Mucking about with C4 + DMC micro persuaded me that I'm gonna wait for source audio to put in one pedal.

Is anyone here successfully using a new (S22) Samsung Bluetooth with the Waza? It worked with my old note 9 but with the S22 I'm having issues: it connects to the app and sends & receives the signal (e.g. use as tuner and adjust fx) but playing music doesn't send as that part of the phone is set so it's not paired as need to have that un paired then pair via the app rather than usual Bluetooth pairing method. If I try pairing via the app and then the usual route it says you need to use the app for this Waza device.

I think I'll go for it, exchanging the Pod Go for a Bassrig sort of masks the cost, the trouble is that I'll need a compressor and I'll probably faily quickly justify to myself that it 'needs' to be a Cali 76, and if I'm spending that much then I might as well get the matching colour (which I'll immediately feel like a mug for paying £30 more for)....before I know it I'll have spent £680 on two pedals! What I'd hope though is that they are two very good pedals and if I ever tire of them they'll hold their value well (Cali 76 seem to rarely hang about 2nd hand at £220), so most of the £680 is an investment and pretty much a refundable deposit. Justified!

Where my bank balance is concerned Basschat and Talkbass are the axis of evil! I'm seriously considering returning my recently aquired Pod Go Wireless in exchange for a Bassrig Black Panel. Same sort of cost but one has wireless, 220+ effects, FX loop, expression pedal, tuner etc. etc. and the other sounds better at it's one specific thing - but 90% of the time I want that one specific thing.

I'd guess P Bass with tone up, played with a plectrum, fresh steel strings with a low enough action that they get a bit buzzy, then some sort of overdrive then EQ'd with high-mids and treble turned up.

Just as long as they avoid the Fuzzrocious BDPG.

No, but i'm gutted I'm not as there's a lot there I'd want to see. Particularly Truckfighters, Lowrider, Orange Goblin, Earthless, Bongzilla, Electric Wizard, Conan.

As far as I know you need to use the app.

I guess it's a timeless discussion! You don't need to be the best to have fun and make music that others enjoy listening to. People don't stop playing Sunday leage football and trying to win when they realise they aren't ever going to be on the National team that'll win the world cup. It's easy to watch videos of the top 0.001% and compare to them and get disheartened. And there's the youtube players that play some amazing intricate show-stopping piece at home, then you realise they might've spent months and 100s of takes to record that quick 2 minute show-off routine and it doesn't necesserily translate to a live performance. It's good to remember that Punk happened for a reason, amazing virtuoso musicianship isn't everyone's cuppa.

It seemed limited on controls (I wanted something that works for slap, and Dub, and synth, so needed quite a lot of control), but I think the minimal type compressors can work well if they happen to fit the type of compression you want.

A new one from Billy Nomates

I owned the Pigtronix Philosopher Bass which is a bit of an odd one as I thought it worked best at adding sustain and distortion. For those specific things it's good, not so good at the things most Bass players want from compression for though. I haven't used these but was looking into having a board of just mini pedals a while back and was considering the ones you mention and: Becos Compiq mini Aguilar DB 599 Fairfield Circuitry The Accountant But as @Bigwan says, compact size (instead of mini) with top mounted jacks (e.g. Empress, Cali 76, Ego, The Warden) seems a better compressor pedal size to me as they don't take up much more pedalboard room, especially when next to other top-mounted pedals. They don't tip over as easily, have more room for the footswitch (e.g. the Becos mini looks like you'd step on switches and a delicate micro dial when you step on the footswitch) and more room for additional and easily visable dials and things like metering.....so I gave up on the mini pedalboard thing, especially for compressors.

Sold Alain a pedal and it all went well - thanks!

Classic riddim! If you want to get nerdy about it (I do!) then riddimguide.com is a good resource. Cuss cuss riddim has apparently been used at least 181 times https://www.riddimguide.com/tunes?q=Cuss+cuss&c=