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Just my Helix rack. The rest has gone. I had older L6 units, a compressor, Ampeg preamp etc, but it's all gone now. Between the Helix and plugins I've got everything covered.

Mine is last on my board before it goes to the amp. All the pedals get my full signal that way but then the SFX cuts the too-lows from the Octave pedals and filters etc before it gets to the amp. Works for me, especially in our boomy rehearsal room.

I’m thrilled that it went to someone who actually plays it live. I’m even more thrilled that Kirk having it upsets the sad old blues gatekeepers. I always refer to it as the Greeny/Moore/Hammett guitar now. Kirk gets a lot of abuse, but he’s a proper guitar nerd and unlike his detractors he’s the one playing Hetfield rhythm parts every night. His recent interview with Rick Beato is great. He comes across as a really nice guy who still loves to play.

I bought Dave's Boss BB-1X because for big band jazz I need more drive pedals.... Delivery was super fast and all is working as it should. Thank you.

Surely any old 3 way blade type switch would do? Any UK parts supplier will have something suitable - EBMM do not make their own switches!

They won't insure stuff from ebay or reverb sales or any big marketplace like that, but have no problem with forum type things. I emailed to ask them that last year. I'm assuming that has stayed the same.

For steel rounds - DR Hi Beams at about £38 For most flats - Ernie Ball Group iv - can usually find them for about £38 and they last for ages. For 2 basses I cannot get away from my beloved Dunlop flats. They are absolutely stupidly priced at about £85 (fluctuates a lot) for 4 string and over £100 for 5 string but I get years and years out of them. Over a 5 year period I would have spent far more on the Hi Beam rounds. The Dunlops used to be about the £50 mark but over the last 18 months they've gone mad. I've tried loads of others to see if I can get the same feel for a cheaper price without success. It would have been cheaper to just buy some more Dunlops than try a load of others! I recently restrung my 5 string after about 5 or 6 years with them on. They were still fine, I had just managed to put a bad bend in a string when I had lent the bass on the edge of a table. So really they only cost me about £20 a year.

Most of the couriers do not properly insure for damage even if you pay the extra. So use whoever you like and then buy a separate insurance policy for it - or there is a specialist called Overland Express who say they specialise in guitars and kit.

I had one of the PJ ones many years ago. It was very nice, but a bit heavy for me. I do wish I had bought a Fortress Flashback when I played one in the late 1990s. It sounded amazing but I just couldn't raise the money.

I hate notched pots. I always seem to need somewhere in between. My RM800 Evo2 had them too, but I sent it into Ashdown and they put smooth ones in for me instead.

I’d love one of the Will Lee basses. Maybe one day.

I bought Peter’s Source Audio Aftershock. Pedal arrived very quickly and well packaged, all working perfectly. Thank you.

Joel bought my Thumpinator. Very quick payment. All good! Thank you.

It’s not me. I’d have put EMG’s in it.

Can't go wrong with a Focusrite Scarlett or an Audient ID4Mk2 The 4th Gen Scarlett's have just been announced so I'm sure there will be a blow out of the 3rd Gen stuff. There are different models with different numbers of inputs and so on, so he can pick what he needs. The Audient is a great choice too, and can be bus powered from a USB-C ipad too.

Just surrender now. No point in fighting it. Although heroin would probably have been a cheaper habit.

I'm just about old enough to remember when they were the new standard, and at the time they were impressive compared to the other options. But, as you say, they are not really impressive now. The tech has moved on considerably.

Those cabs are mindblowingly heavy. You couldn't pay me to have them. You could get a modern 2x10 that will outperform those in every way. I wouldn't go for the amp either. On board compression with a bit of drive (not actually a tube) could look at a Darkglass M900 V2, or an Ashdown ABM, or if you don't want drive but just a great sound an EBS Reidmar.

I saw Devin Townsend when his click system went wrong and they had to reboot the laptops. He was open about it and properly explained that as the next song had orchestral parts and he did not, in fact, earn enough money to fly an orchestra round the world to do 1500 capacity venues he was using backings and backings need a click track. It also controlled the backdrop and the lights. Nothing wrong with that to me.

Is it though? Most of the time I see the di taken from the amp. Even if that is pre-EQ it's still getting any baked in sound and whatever pedals are being used.