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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 better

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.

We're planning on moving back to the UK from the US later this year. Been keeping an eye on what the approximate equity in our house will be worth when we convert it back to £ - basically, it's worth about £8,000 less since all this f**kery started.

Also if we take away amp modelling and so on which I’m sure is brilliant … it does make me think of zoom line6 will be at the end where there’s a million different effects modelled source audio are the end where the effect has a million different variations you can make this is the zoom middle ground?

In 2008 I bought a MIJ Geddy Lee from a guy in the States, the Dollar was two to the pound back then. Once I'd paid duty at the post office I realised I hadn't actually made the saving I thought I had and should have just bought the Geddy Lee from a guy down the road.

I saw a band down at Alfie's in Soho on Saturday night and there was an absolutely superb band i'd never heard of before called "Happy Garden". All the band members were effortlessly brilliant and they worked so well together as a unit and when soloing. I plan to see them again asap even though it was a long trip down to London, on the train, and an overnight in a hotel. It was worth every penny. The bass player was great, really responsive to what was going on and really held the sound together, plus his bass sounded awesome and used effects tastefully. No idea what the bass was though.

It makes me think of a quad cortex went on a diet and made babies with a zoom b3