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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?

We all know how easy it is to badge a bass as something it isn't. If it says Fender the price will be high and therefore its worth checking it's real. There is enough expertise online to help with this. I don't care if my, or your, basses say what they are or not so it's a non issue for me. The logo is just another part of the design. But anyone knowingly selling a forgery as the real thing is a turd.

Don't write analogue off too soon! No one thought vinyl would reappear but it is proving difficult to kill off!

We talking 3 maximum? 🤔 Going to assume a clip on tuner and a compressor built into the amp. So .... I'd have a Prunes and Custard, for dirt and touch sensitive insanity, a source Audio Spectrum (or maybe Fwonkbeta - it's a coin toss) for filter. A phaser is my absolute favourite pedal but the Spectrum can mix a bit of phaser with the filter, so I would go for an octave pedal for synthy goodness. Either Sub'n'up or my little Hotone Octa which is capable of OC2 type glitchy subbiness. Basically, Dirt/Octave/Filter

I agree with @Al Krow. Start budget - you might be surprised. In fact I found my Zoom pedals so easy to use, and way more useable live than the price tag suggests that I think I actually prefer them. Before I got ill I had many more opportunities to use them and the concentration and learning skills to really get into them. I suspect I'd enjoy the Helix more if I could put similar time and effort into it. The Plethora's a different beast. Interesting, but in no way a stand alone solution like the B1-Four. But it only lacks two pedals and it would be. Suck and see, but give it time.

It's a real poser. I talked myself into a Stomp. Parallel routing being the clincher. However, I can't get past individual stomp boxes. I just like them. They're expensive, and fiddly and need a sorts of extra bits and bobs but I just love them. The designs, the simplicity, the occasional unexpected gem like the Prunes and Custard, or the SY-1. I might try a trade for a Helix FX but I'll probably just sell it.