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I think the big question is 'how much do you want to spend?'. Also, '6 or more' is a bit vague, do you mean 2 more or 22 more? And to be a little more helpful, I used the Mackie Onyx 1640i for a long time, might be more than you need, might be less, they do versions from 8 to 24 tracks IIRC. Not top end by any means, but decent preamps.

Now I'm significantly less of an expert than most, on which basis I'm pretty sure I've done this accidentally a few times and not noticed a whole lot of difference. I might be talking out of my derrière however

That's the most likely explanation

Can't disagree with that Andy

Lightly relic’d Lake Placid Blue with matching headstock

The answer to that question is "Yes, it was very mean of me". What an absolute breath of fresh air he is compared to the YouTube norms when it comes to instruments and/or technique

You can get stacked mini pots, John would be the expert on whether they are of equal quality and/or aesthetics, i.e., they might not be able to accommodate the classic '62 Fender knobs). I'm about to do the same, have a relic'd pink Jazz body and a Squier neck that are destined to be a poor man's Flea Bass

I had exactly the same problem with a P/J recently. Perhaps check with John as to whether he can make you a unit with mini pots?

I suspect that he's both

According to Wikipedia, his father - who taught him his musical style - was an Italian Disco Accordionist. Read into that what you will, although having watched the above videos, it does perhaps explain a few things? Either way, he seems like a lovely guy and the sort of chap one could have a few very enjoyable beers with whilst talking music and life. Is it mean of me to suggest that he could do with some lines on the neck of that 'ray

Chris bought my Beat Buddy, nice and easy transaction coupled with good comms and patience when delivery took a little longer than anticipated. A pleasure to deal with

Mike bought my PJB Bighead, and not only did he pay immediately, he was a complete gent in terms of comms and patience whilst he waited what ended up being quite a long time for it to be delivered. As above, nice guy to deal with

Lovely preamp

Congrats Andy, great photos. My eldest daughter, also Ella, turned nine 4 weeks ago. Yesterday her godfather (and our vocalist) came down from the Lakes and we played her and her little sister the two songs we wrote and recorded (Line in the Sand and Just Like You) to celebrate the birth of each (Ella did a guest, albeit unplanned BV on hers). I'd forgotten how good the songs were and how powerful were/are my emotions about my daughters. Over a beer or two afterwards, myself and singist agreed that songwriting is so much easier when you have something of emotional meaning to say, if I could gather the energy for another seven kids I could probably pull together a half decent album

It's really sad that the cost of moving pianos makes them uneconomic either to sell or buy these days, my eldest daughter would love one but it appears you have to spend a small fortune to get anything vaguely decent moved, and if these guys can drop one, anyone can https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/11/americas/piano-fazioli-smashed-movers-intl-scli/index.html

Many thanks BRX, that's really helpful. I'm 99% there with the DrumBrute https://www.arturia.com/drumbrute/overview, which seems to be a great price for a unit that consistently appears in Top-10 lists, and which has an interface that my 80's formatted brain will get on with (I spent a lot of the '80s playing with a Roland 606, and then - appalling I know - added the 303 when I moved from bass to sax for a few years). Any thoughts you have on the DrumBrute would be most welcome. Thanks again, really useful advice

Well put

Some of Fender's relicing is truly awful

I wonder if this thread had anything to do with it? The guy from Mesa really engaged, but he really wasn't able to address the core questions re price, and I strongly suspect not many sold (if only on the basis that BC is a good barometer and if enough people on BC buy a new to market item there tends to be a flurry of them for same used a few months later)? Good news either way. Or would be if I had any money. Hope the isn't a disaster for Westside, the guys there were very good, and I guess if Mesa's policy was to work through a local agent in each territory, the pricing issue wasn't really their fault?

I think you're suggesting a) that pop is a lower form of music than the music these guys are playing and b) that these guys are capable of writing music that could be sufficiently successful to be termed pop. Great technical ability doesn't always, even often, make for great music, and certainly doesn't always come with great creativity.

Very nicely put, I have to say I feel like I'm slowing down to look at a car crash on the other carriageway

Not really, frankly its the biggest waste of time thread we've had on here for a while (and there's some pretty stiff opposition recently), quite why you're bothering is beyond me. As you objected to my lockdown fever comment, I'll put it down to post-lockdown fever, which is proving itself far more problematic

I appear to have reposted my own post?

Ah, but there's a rarely invoked BC directive that at least one contentious yet ultimately pointless thread about bass guitars must be live at any one point in time. It must also be lead by a sufficiently persistent (i.e., 24/7) OP to ensure that eventually the vast majority of members, irrespective of their current professional, family or musical priorities - and even their current sanity - are either drawn in and post in the thread itself, or at least read and reread the thread in question, often in complete disbelief, in an attempt to understand why it is constantly at the top of the 'new content' list. You'll notice than when the thread is closed, as it always is, the OP often disappears, only to resurface under a new username a few months later to debate another pointless issue; in this content there's a rolling cast list of six such protagonists as far as I'm aware, just to keep the threads going, they need recovery between each as the result of the sheer effort required to antagonise so many members. Gianni has however made the critical error of returning to the scene of his earlier crime, he will disappear for good this time

No, that's wrong Andy