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  1. mcnach
    I actually saw it as the ideal amplifier for a stage monitor. When I have my bass amp/cab on stage it's typically just for monitoring and placing it behind me was never the best idea. Have a single speaker on the floor angled towards you, just in front of your pedalboard containing not only your pedals but your amp too.
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    Then you'll like it. It gets VERY close with minimum effort without getting into deep menus or anything, just from the default parameters accessed on the pedal controls.
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    Don't trust youtube videos, they can be very misleading. Passive Stingrays sound great. I had a preamp bypass switch installed on mine, and... I found that the sound I generally go for is pretty much the same one as bypassed! Roll off a bit of treble with a passive tone control, and it's delicious. You can just remove the whole control plate as is, and get a new one and install passive controls. Then it's a 5 minute job to restore to original if you wish, in the future.
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    You know you can use your existing pickup passively, right? It *is* a passive pickup after all.
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    good choice
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    I never tried to make the Aftershock sound *exactly* like my big muff, but I got in the vicinity without trying very hard. It is super-tweakable (even too much! :D) so if you want it to sound just like it, I am pretty confident with a few tweaks on the Neuro app (which opens up a lot of additional parameters) you can get it to sound much like it. It can do anything, it seems.
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    She probably thought they were meeting at 6...
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    Music was primarily 'fun' although between May and September I tended to be pretty busy and usually made some nice additional £££. Not enough to quit my day job, but enough to pay for those new toys and a vacation here and there. This summer looked to have been particularly good, but... all I did was a live-streamed gig, purely for fun and to keep the band looking alive. I do know a few people whose income is entirely music related, and they're struggling. My day job is still there, so I'm doing ok... but my current contract was meant to end at the end of the year, and new sources of funding (I'm a molecular biologist / bioinformatician doing research) are proving to be difficult. As it stands, my lab has sufficient funds to keep me for 9-10 months beyond my current contract, but if we don't find new funds, I'll be gone... not a good time to be a 52 year old unemployed foreign researcher in this country. Redundancy money will be very helpful (I've been working for the university for 17 years) but it will only get me so far. I suspect the future for a lot of us will be a time of rediscovery and adaptation. Who knows what I'll be doing next? Is it too late to become a boy-for-rent? 😛
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    Yup, I've done that a few times in the past. The first couple of times I simply moved the bridge 2-3mm one side or the other. You need to be careful and you should really plug the old holes as the new ones tend to be right by the old ones and even overlap a bit, but it's easy to do. Then I learnt that most times it's not that the bridge is mounted at the wrong place (CNC, templates... it all makes it extremely unlikely), but an issue with how the neck was mounted on the body. There's always a tiny room for manoeuvre there and all it takes is a movement the size of a gnat's baw hair to angle the neck off-centre. It's very very slight, but enough. I only learnt this the first time I tried to swap necks on a guitar... After I noticed that, every single (bolt-on) bass that was not quite aligned could be set right by reinstalling the neck carefully ensuring it stays centered. There may be exceptions, of course, but CNC manufacturing techniques make them very rare.
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    If you like the candy apple red and maple combo, and prefer lacquered necks, the SX one is very nice too.
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    Another vote for Fusion here. Not the cheapest but definitely the most comfortable, with really good protection and lots and lots of storage space. I've been mostly using their F1 for... about 7 years now. Since March, it's only left the house a handful of times but before that it's been used several times per week, travelled all over the place with me in the car or in the band van with other stuff, and it still looks good and nothing is fraying or anything. Yeah, they look expensive at first glance, but totally worth it, in my opinion.
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    Indeed!
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    In a nutshell! I have a long history of projects I start, and then lose interest the minute I know how to overcome its hurdles. At work, a big part of what I do is figuring out solutions to problems, and that part I love. Once I know how to solve the problems, all I want is to teach someone to do it so that I can move on to something else... I hope this one will be one of those situations where I actually use what I learnt
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    In case any of you is still fooled into thinking that I am a sensible reasonable kind of man... I may have just bought a little android tablet, with the right functionality that would have made this thread completely unnecessary to start with However, I've learnt a couple of tricks here (thank you all! ) that I am very happy to know about. The iRig2 arrived today and it seems to work well, I just need to RTFM and figure out how to adjust latency in n-track. No biggie (I hope!), but of course, I started messing about with the built-in instruments (keyboards... lots) and it's hard to access all the little buttons on the little screen on my phone, so that's what finally pushed me to get a tablet. Still... I'll keep n-track on my phone too. A multitrack on my phone! I can't get over how unbelievable this would have seemed to me 20 years ago. Then use the tablet around the house, take it to practices, writing sessions... The future is here, and I didn't even know it...
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    Of course, you had to come here and point out the harsh truth: I'll end up recording basic drum beats, four chord progressions and little more So much technology wasted... if only I were able to have this when I was in my 20s and time was not the scarce commodity it is now! I sometimes think we've all been misled. I mean it's 2020 and life is not that much different, on the surface, from what it was in 1975. No flying cars or silver 'space' suits... However, look at what we can do with a tiny devide that fits in ur pocket. My first programmable calculator that I used for my engineering degree had just over 1K of RAM, and I thought it was magic. (I do not have an H4n, 'though, not that it makes any difference )
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    I didn't care for Telecasters. Then, I grew up and saw the light They do look a bit like something assembled in technology class at highschool but I love them.
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    When someone at a guitar factory indulges too much on mind altering substances...
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    Aha! Do you know that I already have a Sessioncake? I haven't used it in ages so I entirely forgot about it. [*] Of course, I ordered an iRig2 yesterday morning, yup (they were even cheaper than I thought, £37 delivered, from Andertons) Well, between the iRig, the Sessioncake, and that amazing idea to get around the USB-power issue that would allow me to use my Focusrite USB interface... something is bound to work! ... and I may just ending up getting a small tablet anyway, just for that stuff, no need to be very powerful. I realised that it would be a handy tool to bring to rehearsals (only one of my bands is rehearsing now, once a week, but that may be put on hold soon again, the way things are going, so no hurry). This is what happens when my band activity drops and I am left with too much time on my hands 😛 [*] Since I moved to our new place, I must have a lot of stuff still stored that I am forgetting I even own. Maybe I should spend a weekend checking my treasures and selling what I don't need
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    That's an 'interesting' guitar design... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-STRAT-STYLE-6-STRING-FLIPPED-REVERSE-BACKWARDS-SEAFOAM-GREEN-ELECTRIC-GUITAR/302200847914?_trkparms=aid%3D555021%26algo%3DPL.SIMRVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190711100440%26meid%3D31c14be938214a4b896a01e2fadf92d0%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D10%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D193366176256%26itm%3D302200847914%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplRVIAMLv5WebWithPLRVIOnTopCombiner&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982
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    Do you just connect the Sessioncake directly?
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    Oh! That looks good indeed and it's under £50, a one stop tool that does it all (analog input but that's not a problem) I must check that out.
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    Hmmm, that looks pretty interesting, thank you! Sure it's more than I was hoping to pay, but it's tiny, can run on batteries... definitely on my list now, thank you! I'm going to try first the 'trick' that @SubsonicSimpleton posted earlier, because if that works well then I just use my Focusrite Solo and buy nothing but a couple of little cables. But if I struggle, this one is now high on my list, than you!
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    oooh, that's intriguing! Thank you! I've got a couple of nice power packs that I could use for this (2.4A per port, so they should be ok - Anker Powercore 20100). Definitely worth trying, thank you!
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    They're great units indeed. To give you an idea of how much I want to use my phone... I have a Zoom R16 multitrack recorder somewhere in the loft. Any normal person would have just gone up and fished it out: it's got built-in microphone, signal processors for guitar with a million effects, runs on batteries, can easily record 8 inputs at once... It's simple enough right? I never got along with it 'though, but I keep it because I hope one day I'll put it to good use 😛 I really like the format/display of n-tracks on my phone. I like it so much that I also bought the computer version, so that I can easily shuttle projects between phone and PC. I'm committed to n-tracks now!!! I'm just looking for a way to get the audio signals into n-tracks on my phone via its USB port (which means whatever unit I use as an interface cannot be USB-powered). I'll probably end up getting a mixer like that Q802USB above, as it'll be useful for other stuff too and it's cheap... but ideally I'd like one of its smaller relatives, the problem is they're all USB-powered.
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    Ah, that brings me memories... I used to own an H4 long ago (not the H4n, but its precursor - I sold it and bought the H2 as it suited me better... I never used the multitrack recording option). Great little recorder, and it had a 4-track recording capability too. As a stand-alone ultra-portable solution, the H4n is indeed fantastic. I'm looking for ways to use n-track on my phone 'though. The larger display and intuitive layout is perfect (I was able to record a couple of things in minutes without even glancing once at the manual ).
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