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As far as I know they will be the first set of roundcore I've ever had. My J (sandberg) has Dunlop flats on it at the moment. I like them very much but as the Sunbeams are on the way I'll just have to take the flats off carefully and store them.

It appears that one night when I was a bit piddled and on Amazon I bought some DR Sunbeams. I just found out when I got the dispatch notification. Are they any good?

I have the Mic Mechanic and I really like it. The single setting "Tone" adds Compression / de-esser / EQ and I really like what it does to my voice (tenor range mostly) The pitch correction is subtle and seems to be a shift to the nearest note in freq terms rather than the nearest correct note - there is no way to input a key signature and it doesn't listen to chords like the more complex units do. I didn't really use the pitch correction unless I had a bit of a cold! But I always use the unit for it's EQ / compression stuff as I like the sound of it. It's mounted on my pedal board and will stay there. I'd love to try one of the more complex ones.

I know it's an old threat - but the Ibanez Mezzo 32 scale 5 string is excellent. It has become my main 5 string purely on merit.

TBF they've stolen the UI from the Helix. Not really a surprise, the Helix UI is the easiest of all the next gen modellers. I didn't pre-order a QC but as eventually it will be able to run the Neural plugins - and I am a HUGE fan of them - I just can't see me not getting one. I use the NTS and the Parallax plugins all the time.

Lovely! Best colour too.

Depends how thin it is I suppose. Billy Sheehan covers the top of his pickups with epoxy and then shapes it.

If the ramp is going on top of the pickups, then use a black perspex and use double sided tape.

I bought one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clear-Ramp-for-Jazz-Bass-without-Radius-72mm-or-73mm-Spacing/254194476376?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Uses the pickup screws to hold it in place.

For some reason the blackstar website keeps setting off my Malwarebytes for Trojans. Weird.

I can see it now. Couple of years and the Classifieds and ebay etc will be filled up with these - but the headstock logos will have been swapped. Just like Squier and Fender.

I have great sympathy with this despite me personally hating fan noise completely. But sometimes I'm accompanying only a single clarinet or flute and on some amps the fan noise is obvious.

Zakk Wylde was in Rock Star... the guitar parts were fine. But then they let him speak....

It's certainly the Attitude shape.

Fieldy from Korn. He's made a living, and yet it doesn't work at all. He sounds like a guy with hooks for hands trying to beat his way out of a metal dustbin.

I hate fan noise even at levels a bat wouldn't hear. At a gig I can cope - but in the house it drives me insane.

No - I like mids. That's where the detail is.

By "new" do you mean recorded after 1975?

2 of the rooms I play in couldn't be more different. The first one is nice sounding, high and sharply pitched ceiling, lots of stuff on the walls. Sounds great. Small amount of natural reverb. Then the other - no matter what EQ, no matter what other instruments it just sounds horrible. Somehow boomy and dead at the same time. I end up lowering the bass and low mids massively and getting a twangy sound just so I can then turn it up enough to hear it without the room going boooooooooooooom. Doesn't help that the supplied drum kit has the longest kick drum I've ever heard. But will they put a pillow in it...

The USA ones can be unscrewed and rebuilt for left or right handed use. The USA ones are also a little bit lighter in weight.

Miki's got himself a new custom Sting.... er BB model. Looks great to me. Would be nice if it was a lightweight production model.

You're not the only one to have experienced that. Psychosomatics are fascinating! IR / Cab sim into the vast majority of real cabs sounds like ar$e. That's why it's not an option.

Surely the simple fact that a pleasing EQ setting when playing alone doesn't work in a band is enough to show that a band situation test is the ideal approach? I'm fortunate enough to have 2 sets of cabs at home at the moment and I prefer one set when playing unaccompanied and the other when playing with (at the moment) backing tracks. Acoustic instruments are different, particularly the classical ones. They've been developed and tweaked over years to work together. Even then there is "band adjustment" going on - you're just not seeing it as that. If you've got a band with 4 trumpets, then you're going to need 10 or more violins to compete, and to avoid the violins still disappearing they will have different parts to play to fill out the sound. They can't change the sound of the instrument, so the number of a particular instrument and the musical arrangement is adjusted instead. It's the same aim - to make the band mix work. But saying that (and I've just asked her) - my daughter has 2 clarinets and she plays her wooden one at home / lessons / trio, and her plastic one in the big band. She tells me she can hear the plastic one better in the big band even though the wooden one is the better instrument.

The cab sims on the Darkglass head only work on the DI and Headphone outs. Not on the speaker outputs.

Older than Manze's Pie & Mash? They were 1902. My dad (classy as he was) took my mum on a first date to Manze's. When she saw the liquor she refused to eat any of it! It's wonder I'm here at all!