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  1. Hi all, I'm sure this will be of no interest to most (all?) of you, but we'll be having an online 'listening party' to launch our new album on February 28th, 7pm. https://crhb.bandcamp.com/merch/mynd-r-t-am-dro-listening-party It's alt country / Americana / Neil Youngish type stuff, so hopefully someone somewhere will enjoy it! Aled
  2. It won't run a passive cabinet obviously, but you can plug it into any active speaker that has a suitable input. (I won't call it a "FRFR speaker" for the same reason I don't call my car an "Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle" - it already has a perfectly fine name that everyone understands!)
  3. *SOLD* BBE Opto Stomp - £80 + PP Excellent condition. One of the older models with a blue LED which, apparently, is the one to get. All I can say is that it's very good, in a very transparent way. I much preferred it the Ampeg Opto it replaced. Zoom B3 - offers! Battered, bruised, but fully working. It's in quite bad cosmetic shape and missing a knob, so open to offers to see how much I can realistically expect. If it's not much I'll probably keep it as it's such a handy box. Pics to follow. Line6 M5 - £80 + PP Very handy box, but all its effects are included in my new HX Stomp! Pics to follow. Foxgear Echosex Baby - £80 + PP Very cool delay pedal. Not bass specific. Pics to follow.
  4. The H9000 is a fairly recent product from Eventide - I think you might be thinking of the classic H3000 rack. But your point still stands - it's not all about processing power. If they sounds good, they sound good - the old Eventides ar a good case in point, as are the high-end digital reverb of their time such as the AMS RMX16. We have an RMX16 at the studio (and an old H3000!) and it sounds absolutely fabulous. To the point where they're able to charge £1000 for a modern version with exactly the same limited processing power in a small 500-series chassis! The UAD plugin version also sound brilliant. Digital processing has so much flexibility that it's hard to objectively quantify the cost sometimes. I think the new Eventide H9 is an interesting one - if you look at it as a guitar pedal, it's extremely expensive (about £1000). On the other hand, if you look at it as two of their wonderful old SP2016s reverb in a box with line-level I/O, it almost becomes cheap (I think a new single SP2016 in a reverb in a rack is around £2k!) - and that's before you consider all the other effects!
  5. Well, I don’t mean that they build a hardware pedal than can host VST plugins. What I meant is they probably port the code over to the hardware platform. I can’t imagine they would create a brand new digital recreation of an LA2A when they already have arguably the best one in existence.
  6. Well, the code would need to be ported over to whatever hardware’s in the pedal. But the hardware in the pedal would have been chosen for this task. But I don’t think they’d code a new emulation from scratch when they already have such a good one! These digital pedals are all computer codes running on a chip, and they’re usually available as plugins too (Helix, Tonex etc) that are cross-compatible. The car engine analogy doesn’t really work. Not saying the Cali76 etc isn’t good! But the UA is probably more accurate to a real 1176. But who cares about accuracy really.
  7. I’m assuming this is essentially the UAD 1176/LA2A plugins in a pedal. Top level mixing engineers have been using those plugins instead of the real hardware for years. I’ll bet they sound closer to the ‘real deal’ than any analog ciruitry anyone could fit into a pedal enclosure…
  8. Pretty sure it is - it was a straight swap on my MIM Jazz anyway. Will check this weekend.
  9. Great neutral-sounding condenser mic pair. Fully working. Decent cosmetic condition for age, but expected signs of wear. Very versatile, used for pop/rock/jazz/classical/choral. Comes with Rycote USM shockmounts and a box. Will post at buyer's expense. Aled
  10. That sounds like complete nonsense. Recording systems have gain controls precisely in order to make a signal "hot" enough. If there was an issue it should have been addressed at the time. A signal not being "hot enough" is only a problem if there are noise issues, and if bringing the gain up makes the noise problematic. That should a very obvious problem that can be sorted together at that time. In all honesty, I'd avoid him. Doesn't sound like someone who runs a professional service.
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