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Yesterday The Royal Blues, at The Royal George, Soho, that London. It was an open mic night, the promoter actually said we're too good for that kind of thing now, but he gave the band our first gig so we didn't mind. It filled up considerably when we were on, then was noticeably less full for the House band who finished the night off. We had a new backing vocalist. Myself and the drummer hadn't met her prior to the gig, but she nailed her parts. Gear: Korg clip on tuner ➡️ Ibanez UB804 ➡️ TC Electronics BG250 What a difference it makes being able to hear yourself 😆 Footwear: Mfre Bordo Suede Brothel Creepers.

Just rebuilt and added a few pedals to my pedalboard, My signal path: Peterson strobostomp HD MXR bass compressor MXR bass M80 DI+ Headrush MX In the FX loop Strymon bluwsky GFI system Skylar Then, because when I'm home i sometimes record using my bass into Ableton and would like to use the stereo feature in both the MX5 and the reverbs, but also like to actually hear the bass vibes, i have an Yamaha FR speaker behind me, so i then run into the Yler ABY pedal so i get 3 cables out of my board, 1 mono back to the Yamaha FR, and a y-cable stereo running to my sound card it has to be said that and i have no clue what, but there is somekinda error in my board, all the pedals work perfect when testing one by one, but when i activate the FX loop in the MX5 i get so much latency that Yousician that i normally use to play along with, regestre my notes as so late in fail the note, and i simply do not know whats wrong, it does not seem to be the cable a 2x TR jack to 1x TRS Y-cable into my Motu M2 sound card, you can't hear the latency, but you can clearly see it on the small LCD display on the M2 and see the hit registration error in Yousician, a guy from Thomann said it was because i had too many digital pedals on my board, but i don't get it, i have seen much much bigger boards that seemingly had no problems

I'm looking for a replacement for Gotch tuners (GB5) but they've stopped making them. Anyone any ideas where to get one?

Dakota. Stereos too late

I think I know this pub, played there a couple of weeks ago! The toilet proximity is a constant danger to band members.

It's also called Empress Wood. My Spector is made of it and it's absurdly light

Jimmy Purvey Shag 69 Silly Idol

Sean mate what's happening 👍 Yes my Spector went a while back. A pbass pretty much does what I need, although I would like a matching jazz or a pj. I have a couple of fenders which tick the boxes, a rosewood oly white 1996 and a black on maple 2004. I can get most of what I need from them. Something about a pbass just does it for me.

The Onward is definitely a trip. It takes a bit of attention to make it sound musical. If I try and do a progression, I have to be careful to play clean, since it can detect a change you didn’t intend and then loop the silence! It always sounds interesting, especially with a suitable amount of Error glitchiness, which is why I want to tweak that on the fly with the expression pedal.

It used to be that the system was somewhat loaded in favour of establishing a small company instead of being self-employed. The ideabis to encourage entrepreneurs and grow the economy. Doing this and being VAT registered has enabled me to subcontract out work I would no otherwise have taken on. The income benefit of having a personal company instead of being self-employed was eroded so much under a succession of tory governments (reductions in dividend allowances and increase in dividend tax rates) the benefit is now so small that it is questionable if it's worth the effort. The way covid support was set up excluded single person companies and forced us into covid loans we are still paying off. Quite extraordinary for the 'party of smsll business'.

@Basszilla, alright, mun? Tell me you didn't sell the Euro 4. 🤔

Just bought a GFI system Skylar, and a Strymon Bluesky, sadly this is also giving me some headaches, I use Yousician for practice at home, but its detection system is so touchy that now i have so much latency in my pedalboard that Yousician doesn't detect my notes in time, but outside of practic they are extremly great sounding pedals

Played with the blues band in a tiny pub in Lanark. Didn't take many people to fill it so an enthusiastic audience of thirty created a great atmosphere. One downside was the access to the toilets door being immediately behind us. Two songs before the end of the first set I was aware of a most unpleasant honk emanating from said direction. Thankfully the air had cleared by the start of set 2. Man alive, it was grim for a while.

Paul bought a Lakland DJ4 from me. Always a pleasure to deal with. Great comms, quick and easy transaction. Enjoy the bass, mate.

not sure mark has used pauliwinia as he didn’t kno anything about it when i spoke to him but a game changer as far as weight goes

I’m normally over 15k steps 😉

Nice @bnt - how’s the onward working out? I utterly ignored it when it came out thrn was a vid of it in action and could see the appeal

It’s not improving the more I think about it. I was genuinely accused of being “aggressive” today…because I didn’t understand why I was accosted for unplugging a 3 plug adapter (not in use) so I could plug my extension lead in. still reeling over it.