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The FX return can be used as an external expression in. Personally I would not want to give up the FX-loop for that though. I would buy a exp-to-midi converter for an expression pedal. link to the manual: https://www.darkglass.com/anagram-manual/#Rear_View

Jaco re-incarnated on Sax!

Funny that we're on an Octaver kick, since I just got a Boss OC-5. I already have a MXR BOD, but I have two boards now and I wanted something with a nice octave up. In Vintage mode it gives me a digital octave up and a OC-2 style analog octave down. I watched a few videos before buying, but I'm discovering that even just a little of the +1 fattens the tone considerably, which I like and wasn't expecting. Still learning. The other pedal I got at the same time was a Landlord FX Cheeky Pint compressor, which I'm still dialling in a bit. Super cheap but seems solid enough. At the highest volume & compression, I seem to be clipping it a little if I play hard. By comparison, my Orange Kongpressor can take 12V and runs on 18V internally ... but cost me 5x as much.

I saw the Ghost-queue in Birmingham on Sunday and they were explaining how everyone would get their phones bagged. The Hawkwind gig was pretty good, people mostly just took the odd snapshot so no sea of videoing phones.

Vio-lence and Exhorder last Friday. Both blasts from the past.

I noticed that too. A bit annoying. Boss do make a MIDI enabled expression pedal (EV-1-WL), but it's a bit spendy at £140. I still can't get on with the Darkglass tone though. That fizzy top end and seemingly disconnected low just doesn't sound good to me.

Back in the mid 80s a mate of mines brother used to fly over to the US, scour the junk shops and bring 2 Gibson Les Pauls back with him. The profit he made paid for the trips over there plus a nice little bit extra.

Cioks DC7 would also do the job.

Yes this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barrina-Blacklight-Aluminium-Fluorescent-Halloween/dp/B0CPHSLQTQ/ and poked the lead out through the old speakon input hole. It actually looks a lot cooler than in the pictures but doesn't quite photo so well. You get a neat glow through the tweeter as well. My daughter nabbed the other bar for her bedroom.

It was the guy in the picture above, white slim guy with a beard, stellar player! Looking at their photos from this tour on IG though, I think they're using different musicians for different gigs, brass players at least.

It gives a vibe of a compact version that has somehow come out before the main one, even though that won't be the case. Like it's been adapted to fit in a small enclosure? Seems odd to design a screen and UI that has to be scrolled to see a full signal chain?

Excellent. Did you use the USB powered LED bar?

Smashing!

Behold - the finished cab drawers (and the other two cabs are very grateful for the speaker donation):

Hi Doctor J That’s a good shout. The J pick-up may need some extra sponge underneath to set it up a little closer to the strings

Getting there... The preamp layout The preamp circuit The capacitor bank and acoustic foam on the back wall. David

....and that's the project done (decided I could live with the wonky drawers)! Probably make a nice home for random pedals and leads - I'm actually tempted to take it with me to gigs as a way of storing things coz it looks so cool!

Looks amazing. Small too, so very gig bag-friendly (looks way smaller than a QC). I'd love to try one out. Only thing it appears to be missing is an expression pedal, or even a connection for an external one. Not a dealbreaker though.

Below - the donor amp, minus front panel. The seller was proudly demonstrating its clean, crunch and filth sounds when I admitted it was going to be reincarnated as a bass amp. I think that made him a tiny bit sad... All the 6L6GCs test good and are perfectly matched so need to drop a ton on buying a matched quad. Two of the 12AX7s are good, two test as 'worn'. Result.