paul_5

Yeppers, black Jazzes with maple neck and black blocks and binding are a thing of beauty.

Wish Away - Stourbridge’s finest The Wonderstuff.

Will keep my eyes peeled dude. 😢

Polytown by David Torn, Mick Karn and Terry Bozio. I think I discovered this album through this very thread.

Cemetery Gates - Pantera \m/

If all else fails then the zoom ms60b has some great synth options - the filters on there are great too!

I did the whole tribute act thing in my 20s - it was hard work, but great fun. 'Twas a Queen act, aided massively by our singer looking (and sounding) uncannily like Freddie, and our drummer having the same hair as Prof. Brian May. As the bassist I wore shorts and a T-shirt, a la Wembley '86, but TBF, all of the attention is on Freddie, so it really didn't matter what we looked like. I think if the band has an iconic look (Angus, Freddie, Lemmy etc...) then I think it's only fair that you try to emulate that, but the sound has to come first.

Was it Ida Nielsen?

Sarah Brand does fretless singing - change my mind.

Gaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! etc...

If it genuinely IS a sociological experiment, then can I opt out?

I’m way Cat on this - if it saves a great performance then why not; it’s got its place in modern WDM/Hip Hop etc, but if you depend on it as a singer then you should probably look at some lessons, but ultimately it’s only pop music - nobody dies.

In Ms Black's defence, Mrs_5 was playing this for me on Saturday morning in bed, after much discussion and erudite critiquing of her body of work it transpires that some clever sort on the internet was defending the artist in question with the supposition that she was singing using 'forgotten notes' - i.e. outside of the tempered chromatic scale developed by one J.S.Bach - so C# and Db are slightly different pitches etc... Apparently it's really hard to intentionally sing like this, not as hard as listening to it is.

Are they any good for metal?

Milk - Anthrax

Looks more like 4K, 4K'ed up! All that 'relic' on the front and no buckle rash? Pull the other one.

Could be that your second pot is altering the impedance slightly - higher impedance pots always sound brighter than lower ones (500k will deliver more top end than 250k), so maybe it’s that - without seeing a diagram this is just an educated guess though.

Looks like the 2 100k pots are bridged (soldered together) on the board, giving them an impedance of 50k - you could either use a dual gang 100k, or a mono 50k. The taper would be different on the 50k mono pit though, so best stick with the dual gang 100k.

I'd also solder the leads from the board directly to the sockets when testing the board - twisted joints aren't the most reliable. Once you know that everything is FUNKtioning as it should, then you can desolder the sockets and fit the switch - I tend to leave the ones on the board alone, as they are a tad more fragile. Don't know if you've got a diagram for the 3PDT foot switch, but here's the one that I use:

I’d stick some more solder on the soft switch and the pots - looks like the joints are a bit scant. Also, did you get the 3.9 zener in the right socket, they look identical to the 1N4148s? Happy days that you’ve socketed the ICs though.

Raining Blood - Tori Amos (and, of course, Slaaaaayyyyyyeeeeerrrrrrr).

Clearly the blueprint for Babyshambles 🤔

Seems like a great way to get a few thousand more bad reviews.

This monstrosity.

There isn’t a global pandemic of second hand smoke though Jack, give your head a wobble - I think asking for proof of a negative lateral flow test isn’t unreasonable; they’re free and take a couple of minutes.