Rich

Weave Your Spell - Level 42

Xmas ads are all, without exception, awful and cringeworthy.

Hannibal approves.

Yup, thanks for the reassurance chaps. 👍

Here's a thought. Obviously the new pickups are active, and so is the eq. So... will it all work off a single 9v PP3? The installation instructions suggest that 2x9v is preferable in such circumstances, but it doesn't say it's mandatory. Problem being that if I want to go 18v, I will need to do some routing first -- thus making it all a substantially bigger job.

You've never played support for anyone then?

Currently either Spector 4-string or Shuker 5-string into Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.2 into Barefaced Super 12T. Overjoyed with the way it all sounds and in no hurry to change a thing.

Not yet... I need a gap between gigs.

Ska band a variety of t shirts (current favourite is a wild tie-dye I got in Grand Cayman) with a b&w checked shirt on top; either black jeans or patterned shorts depending on time of year; trilby or pork pie hat; b&w checked Vans. Daft party band I have 3 different outfits... 'Peaky Blinder' (grandad shirt, tweed waistcoat, watchchain, bakerboy hat, etc), 'Australian Idiot' (ridiculous Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, huge boots, hat with dangly corks) and generic US footballer (Dallas Cowboys shirt, white leggings, inflatable helmet). They all look f**king stupid but that's the whole idea.

Woohoo new sonic toys.

I've had an extensive fiddle about with the DIP switches. Still experimenting. They're both Off at the moment but that's sure to change as I keep fiddling.

And so that's what I'm now doing. New 35P4 and 35DC are on their way to me now 😀

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My mistake. I'll give myself a hard stare to make up for it.

I'd probably keep the original HZ pickups, and re-fit them if I move the bass on (which at the moment I think is highly unlikely).

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye - Sound of Music OST

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This is my favourite Level 42 song. Not a slap or pop in sight, just a beautiful song and a simple message, "I want love in a peaceful world". Don't we all. And from the same album, this. Another of my very favourite Level 42 songs, and again entirely free of any bass acrobatics. Just a lovely song about searching for The One.

Electricity - OMD

Oh my word, this man's voice ❤️ Oh my word, this woman's voice ❤️

My preamp is the EMG BTS, I'm happy with it. TBH my main driver for the pickup change is to get more beef and aggression especially from the neck pickup.

I'm going to change the pickups in my Spector Q4 - it currently has EMG HZ soapbars and they're ok, but I want to swap them out for something a bit more... well, more. I've looked at Aguilars and Delanos but they're well out of my reach £-wise, and active EMGs seem to be the Spector thing so I'm going with them. The 35DC is my current favourite for the bridge, but the 35TW is also a possibility. For the neck, I'm quite interested in the 35P4. A good ballsy P tone is ideal for much of the stuff I play, and the P4 seems like the perfect candidate. Or would I be better with the reversed-coils P4X? Any experience-based advice welcome.

Yes, for me it's the playing/singing that's the most impressive aspect of his playing. Something as complicated as To Be With You Again, and he sings over it AND makes it look easy. How? Great playing. At Bath his fretless work on Words was lovely, I really wish he'd been further up in the mix.