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I must investigate this. I am getting more fed up by the minute with my dog eared book. Never in the right order! Which tablet do you use? Presumably cheaper than apple?

Bargain! I've still got the Dunlop flats on it and I'm liking them very much. I've also got some Newtone nickels on the way to try. With the flats.... (Yes it's not the original arrangement!!). It's a little quiet as I have no idea what I'm doing with video. It was a longer clip but the postman rang the bell so I had to cut it.

I'm now looking forward to them. Should be here by the weekend.

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.