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To be fair though, i've played loads of gigs where there are multiple bands, and everyone was asked to do a sound check, but the sound guy changed all the settings for every band, and never wrote anything down. I fail to see how he manages to remember the levels, let alone the EQ for 4-6 different bands, and to be honest, I don't think he even tries. They normally forget to mic my guitar amp, and probably forget to turn it up when i've mic'd it up 'cos i'm a bassist, and I only deserve a DI. We don't bother sound checking at these kind of venues any more, it's a pointless waste of time!

In the studio, you can polish a turd, but, if a band has horrible guitar sounds, all you can do is try to EQ them a bit. Most PA systems won't have enough equipment/flexibility to polish a turd.

I think it's impossible, but a passive sustainer would be cool.

I've seen axe guitars and basses. I think I know someone with an axe p bass.

like the new marshall shape, for the echohead etc? I've seen some brightly coloured pedals with a similar shape on ebay, but can't remember their name. I don't think they have much of a reputation, it's just cheap stuff really, but could be good. Could be that? Have a look on ebay, see what you can see!

At least in London some people might turn up, and maybe one of them will be in the music industry. I had a soundman refuse to take a DI post EQ 'cos he said my EQ was too extreme, before he'd heard it, or tried it. I said "I like my EQ like that, aren't you just supposed to make me sound louder?" and he said "no, I'm supposed to make you sound good", which has to be the most arrogant thing i've ever had said to me. Still, I just let him do what he wanted. Everyone thought I sounded crap in the audience, but it sounded good on stage, so I enjoyed myself. It's good to have a relaxed attitude towards these things.

Zvex wah probe!!! I love it. No loss of low end, a nice bit of grit if you turn the drive knob, and way more responsive than any other wah you'll find. To be fair though, I haven't tried another wah in ages.

I don't know if mine's a TNT one, it's old, but has a greeny/blue colour for all the printed stuff, so not as old as the one above (I think?). Anyway, it's a 150W 1 x 15" combo, 200W with extension cab, very loud, very useful EQ, and very useful (for me) crossover outputs. If you can get it for £100 it's way better value than anything else you can get for that price.

[quote name='16Again' post='96073' date='Nov 29 2007, 11:58 AM']That was the year i found ALL my christmas presents before christmas [/quote] Your parents let you find ALL your presents? That's awful, you should have really talked to social services about that.

I haven't done it myself, but i'm 99% sure my lecturer had this model and SX3 working fine.

expandora is silver isn't it? It could be anything to be fair, loads of people re-house pedals, or have custom pedals made etc. I've never heard of the band, so they can't be that big. Maybe just ask them?

[quote name='theosd' post='95118' date='Nov 27 2007, 03:07 PM']£599 for a musicmaster! Doh! [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/17673/a/r/e/base"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/fl...7673/a/r/e/base[/url][/quote] That's a guitar though! Well, never mind. Maybe I can get her to sell it me back for £70. I really liked it but needed the money at the time, and I only play 6 strings in the band.

yeh, but a white pick guard. It's not worth loads is it?

I sold, what I thought was a crappy old cheap bass for £70 in order to buy a drum kit. I think it said Fender Musicmaster on it though. Can anyone link me to some pics so I know if I have a new regret or not? It was a white short scale thing. I regret not buying a washburn 6 string I saw on ebay once, but I couldn't really afford it, so, no big deal.

Some amps don't have the option of a DI post e.q so the soundman should know how to eq the bass if he's using a DI in this way. Obviously, they won't always be great soundmen, but, you think they'd know the basics of what they are doing if it's their job.

I'm drumming for a punk-ish band, just for fun, and we've done some demos using a drum machine (can't record drums atm). I can actually play it all, just not quite that tight! Here's a link to the myspace with 4 songs, let me know what you think! [url="http://www.myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon"]myspace.com/theprematureejaculatorscomingsoon[/url]

Erroneous! I actually bought it with the captain scarlet comics already on. I'll have another go with the craft knife and let you all know.

Thanks for that! I've wanted an in-depth article about this for a while. I'd love to try it myself!

I think he wanted good reasons stewart

So in the case of these drug companies - How do they know that the real responders aren't just placebo responders in the wrong group? I realise that under observation, the same people may have similar responces to similar tests, but, there must be 1000s of different placebos. What i'm saying is, that if you take the idea of different placebos affect different people to different extents, aren't all placebo related tests pointless? Also, maybe the true healing power of the placebo can never be harnessed for mass use (this would be great, obviously) due to the fact that they generally only work if you don't know they're doing nothing. EDIT: Has anyone read Derren Brown's book? It has a good section on placebos, and new-age + chinese medicine etc.

I've tried a sharp blade, but it doesn't slide between the speaker rim and cab, it just cuts into one or the other. Does this mean it's glued do you think? Is this common?

Good point actually. If you're used to using a rack/pro/vst compressor, then the limitations of pedal compressors can be rather annoying!

[quote name='Aussiephoenix' post='94466' date='Nov 26 2007, 12:03 PM']so, I cant use that hand position... I slap with my thumb facing down as someone who'd wear their bass on their knees...[/quote] I have the same thumbs, and i'm in eactly the same situation! (we should get t-shirts)