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Jack

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  • Birthday 22/03/1989

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  1. Hivemind, I have this thing where I like to keep my gig stuff and my home stuff separate. It's the only way I can be sure that I haven't forgotten anything. I was keeping an eye out for another HX Stomp (as that's what I use for gigs) but the truth is that they're no longer cutting edge and sometimes you just want a change. With that said, has anyone used a Valeton GP100 or similar? Especially for home practice? Any recommendations for the Mooer, Harley Benton, NUX, Zoom options? Thanks, Jack
  2. Some rack rigs through the years. Like many I loved them for the ease of setup and hated them for the bulky carry. I still have and use the mixer rack right at the end but everything else is gone.
  3. I have some very similar ones from Hao Deng on Amazon. I have three synced to colour change slowly and one set to white as a spotlight. Can't recommend enough. The only downside is that they do rather shine up your nose.
  4. Tiny little pub for us as we wind down the indie rock band, only 3 gigs left! Silly setup in a silly place, but I think we were super professional and hid the cables well enough... The singer and lead guitarist went to plug the IEC cable into his amp and the thing just disintegrated, leaving the power socket inside the amp and inaccessible. Thankfully, because I'm lazy, I still had my other pedalboard in the car from practice a few nights ago so he ended up with my Sansamp and straight into the PA. Where was his spare stuff? Good question! After the show a nice young man came up and told me that I sounded amazing and that Stingrays were his dream bass. He showed me pictures of a copy he had and everything. Sweet.
  5. So it looks as though they're not held in too high regard! Mostly mineral oil with some snake oil?
  6. I'm not normally that bothered about keeping my strings amazingly-super-bright but I have always wiped down after playing with Fast Fret. I kind of feel like it does something, but maybe it's just placebo. However recently a few things have happened all at once which has got me really thinking about the life extender type products. Firstly, I've joined a pop punk band and need the brightness. Secondly, strings are ridiculously expensive nowadays. Thirdly I've sort of hit a concentration of needing new strings. It's like this year when the 5 year and the 7 year cicadas will line up, several of my basses would all benefit from new strings at the moment, to an investment of around £120. It's be nice to keep them lasting as long as possible. I have used Fast Fret, Dunlop XLR8 (that felt useless) and more recently the Dr Duck's Ax Wax, which I kind of feel like it does something. Anybody else swear by anything that I might want to check out?
  7. Ooooof. I bought mine almost 20 years ago and it was half that. Having said that, I still use it on the regular. Plenty of people offering similar functionality though.
  8. The only sensible point that Jeremy Clarkson has ever made (that I'm aware of) is that councils and pedestrianization are doing as much if not more than the internet to destroy the town centres. The town I grew up in still had the Blockbuster livery on a shop unit the last time I went back, the high street is dead. Meanwhile there's the Metrocentre shopping mall 20 minutes drive away, Team Valley (industrial estate/retail park, 15 minutes), the Arnison Centre (retail park, 10 minutes) and Dalton Park (outlet shopping, 30 minutes) that are all absolutely thriving. Why? Free parking.
  9. Good! I'm in the middle of getting a new band off the ground and we'll be using one of the RCF 708ii from my other band with two 910 that the singer owns. We're aiming to be quiet, but I was wondering what stepping down from either 932s or Alto 15s would be like.
  10. My wife has gone that route before as well when her Sumup was playing up, but we feel it looks a little less professional. Agreed that it's actually better though. We regularly do an alternative market that's all witches, bedroom toys, tattoos, exotic dancers, that kind of thing. You want to know who has the best card machines? Drag queens and sex workers. They are NOT missing a tip. If you don't have any cash they'll whip out a car reader from somewhere that I don't want to think about. They all use either Sumup or Square, with a bias towards Sumup. It just didn't work for us.
  11. Admittedly a sample size of only 1. But then, they've been useless 100% of the time we've needed them. Statistics, eh?
  12. It took me a few goes to realise you meant a couple (of bands) and not a (romantic) couple.
  13. My wife has just moved from sumup to square after 3 years with sumup. When there's a problem (hardware in her case) they just don't want to know.
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