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As mentioned above, Bjorn Again us one of the best. They were the first time I ever heard of a full on tribute band. Were they actually the first? Seem to remember them making the news, like it was a new phenomenon. Anyhoo, Last Year's Model was my (fictional) EC & The Attractions outfit for a book wot I wrote. Been in It Must Be Madness and The More Specials. I'd love to play Tina Weymouth in Stalking Heads.

Don't quite get that last post. I have a RM500 combo with a single 12. Its great. However in certain situations I have had to push it too hard and it's less great. Add the identical 12" cab and it will hold its own anywhere. So yes adding another cab the same will absolutely work

I now have three SA pedals and as @Quatschmacher says this one is quite a handful. I need to change my thinking around this and my other multi effects. If I find a couple of sounds to use live, then that's fine. I don't have to use every possible noise on it to justify owning it.

My Ultrawave arrived today. It's very very good. I have no clue how to drive it yet but playing with all the different presets is a blast.

This board is, frankly, ludicrous. 3 envelopes, a fuzz, an overdrive a bass synth, an octave, a chorus and a phaser. Oh and a synth. Ridiculous.

I've looked through and yeah, one guy even listed The Greatful Dead - which has to be made up.

Also dirt before an envelope can be great.

Interesting. I like the octave first but I must try switching it.

Oh God. I just realised my favouritest band right now, Lake Street Dive is not on my list. I think I will put Tadeschi Trucks and Cory Wong on it soon.

I have heeded the advice above. The dirt is from the same brand of pedals and I usually like to compress after envelope filters to keep things tidy. However I will try compressor first and add a limiter to the end. I shall report back. Thank you @Osiris and @fretmeister

Thank you. I get that lifting quiet and cutting loud is kind of its job but this is picking up barely audible noises!

One of my compressors is behaving very strangely. It's a Russian made pedal with 'straightforward' controls. Volume, tone, attack, sustain. Nothing to frighten the horses. Here's the thing. When I finish fettling, having found what I'm looking for, it seems to suck up all and any background noise it can find from the other stomps, and blares this out at a nice even volume. There is really very little noise from the other pedals but I can't use the compression how I want to without this unlooked for side effect. If I am using drive, chorus or drive, phaser the cacophony it manages to hoover up is astonishing. It's last in the pedal chain and has me beat. Any ideas?

Anyone mentioned The Au Pairs yet? Kind of new wave agit pop with wonderfully stark arrangements, spikey chords and great basslines. One of my favourite bands.

Timeless. Rotch replaced Hunt didn't he?

You sound great, you'll be great. They'll be lucky to have you.

Wasn't that the Hugh Jass Ensemble?

Entirely thanks to Bandcamp, 6 Music, Basschat and the YouTube algorithms. Otherwise I would never know them either!

I was listening to Paul Weller's latest vinyl and reflecting that I'm enjoying a kind of Indian summer of music buying. I thought of little else but buying music through the 70s and early 80s but gradually this petered out and I bought little or nothing for a very long time. Now I realise there are several artists and bands whose albums I will buy the moment I hear of a new release. I don't need to hear any of the songs, just take my money. It's an interesting list. The Burning Hell Vulfpeck Paul Weller The Lovely Eggs High/Low The Wind Up Birds Theo Katzman Who are you guaranteed to buy?