Cliff Edge

12 hours ago, Spoombung said:

I've never played a real fender jazz either. Only cheap copies. Are they any good?

Some of them are. 

I have a ‘72 Jazz I bought in ‘82 but in the intervening years I’ve had to change a few bits that stopped working properly or not at all, so not really 100% original now. But still plays well, and sounds good with a pair of custom shop ‘70’s pickups, but I prefer playing my Stingray. 

3 hours ago, Aalin said:

I found this news today at Thomann.

No idea if it's good or not, but cheap.

 

https://www.thomann.fr/thomann_pageturn_pedal.htm

 

Crikey that is cheap if it lasts. Bonus, rechargeable battery too. 

I’ve been using an iRig Blue Turn for several years https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigblueturn/. Bluetooth and totally silent in operation. I use an iPad with OnSong but the pedal works with Android stuff too. 

It’s the age verification where this has always been a bit of a nonsense. Savvy kids can put any age they like, and just keep taking out new accounts in different names and ages. Free gmail, outlook etc email accounts make it easy. 

This is very sad news. Sam gave me reassuring and helpful advice around the time of my cardiac surgery. 

23 hours ago, Merton said:

Katy Hurt is releasing her debut album in May, so we have a UK “tour” for mid May to mid July

 

Current dates:

 

18th May - Dart Music Fest

25th May - Square Tower Portsmouth

30th May - Chapel Arts Centre Bath

5th June - Hot Box Essex

6th June - Fiddler’s Elbow London

8th June - Gullivers Manchester

12th June - Acapela Cardiff

20th June - Greystones Sheffield

6th July - Country in the Park Poole - TBC

12th July - Rodeos Birmingham 

 

 

And then my original pop/punk/emo band Youths will be releasing our debut album in May too. Only one date so far though, Cambridge at the end of May.

 

Thats it so far

Thanks for the introduction to Katy Hurt, I like what I hear. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the gigs  

On 10/04/2025 at 20:02, Count Bassy said:

and the Val Doonican .... Val Doneagain

A bit off topic. The Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year has The Bar Steward Sons Of Val Doonican on the bill. 
If you have time to kill, trawling the acts appearing on various UK festivals this year has some wonderfully crazy band names. One of my favourites is Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5. 

Thanks for all the info guys, If I had looked at the OnSong website which I haven’t done for several years now, all the info is there. Including some useful video tuts for doing exactly this. Even my old version of OnSong has all the required midi functions. I think all I need is the Widi Jack and I’m good. 

4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

How are you controlling the Stomp from the Hotone Ampero? Because AFAICS it only has MIDI in?

It’s just buttons 4 and 5 via the expression socket to select presets. 

4 hours ago, ratman said:

I control an iPad from my HX Stomp via Bluetooth MIDI with a WIDI Jack.

https://www.thomann.co.uk/cme_widi_jack_din_5_midi_bundle.htm?msclkid=4378f7436f9515e9fe9b90b76414017b

 

This looks interesting, thank you. 

Control a Stomp and an iPad using MIDI?

May have been discussed already but before trawling 96 pages here I thought I would ask. 
I use OnSong on iPad, each song in a set list has BPM and elapsed time. I select the songs using a bluetooth page turner pedal and then select the Stomp patch I want using buttons on an Ampero Hotone. It’d be nice to do all this with one button push on something, possibly using MIDI as the Stomp doesn’t do Bluetooth?

There was a Queen tribute band I shared the bill with years ago called Flash Harry.  They put on a good show. 

Have we had Johnny Rash yet?

That’s what is known in the trade as “showing off”. Unlike bass solos, also showing off, he isn’t actually playing the bass while impersonating a Whirling Dervish. The drummer, however, is showing off. 🙂 

On 19/01/2025 at 15:38, MothMan said:

Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money

 

 

A work colleague gave me a copy of this album on cassette, introducing me to Zevon, and it spent several weeks in the car cassette player. Probably being played too loudly if I’m honest. Great album. 

Facebook is just too popular to be useful any more. It’s too crowded with rubbish and fake posts. Instagram is no better, Twitter has lost all the interesting contributors and Reddit is full of illiterate American kids of all ages.  I like this place. 

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

It's definitely a distinctive sound. I'd suggest looking up some shoegaze playlists on the streaming service of your choice. 

Thanks, I’ll do that. 

An aol email address. This guy is old. 

Genuine question in case I have heard some and didn’t know. How does Shoegaze differ from other sub genres of rock? Not talking about a live performance here, just the recorded music. 

1 hour ago, carlsim said:

I'm selling my Stomp currently in the classifieds and am looking to sell the Vintage Synth Pack that I bought from Ian Allison. Would this be allowed in the classifieds? Obviously if I have no stomp I have no need for the presets so I would prefer to sell them... Does anyone know if this would be allowed in the classifieds?

You bought it, surely it’s yours to do what ever you want. 

32 minutes ago, goingdownslow said:

Some years back rechargeable PP3s were only 7.2 volts, then they became 8.4 volts and then 9.6 volt. Each time the capacity becoming less as they were trying to cram more 1.2v cells into the same size battery.
These Lithium-ion batteries do measure 9+ volts but I doubt the 1200mA.

Good to know, thanks. 

Rechargeable PP3 batteries don’t deliver a full 9volts which may not suit some instruments.  

On 16/09/2024 at 09:44, Rosie C said:

 

I was thinking the same about ibuprofen... 

 

According to my surgeon the drugs I’m taking are keeping me alive. 

On 17/01/2025 at 13:31, Tandro said:

Went to see Sonny Landreth Wednesday. Just him and his guitar,  and it was sublime.

 

 

 

Saw him a couple of times a few years ago. Supurb player. Had no idea he was visiting the UK. Where ws this?