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Dad's was naval guns on an anti aircraft cruiser.

I thought I needed a flanger for the sound I was after. Turned out it was a phaser. TC E was on my list but I snagged a Mr Black Gilamondo before I got to try one. It sounds so good in my soul band adds a psychedelic vibe.

currently relaxing to a fairly steady chord, hum and two whistles. My dad lost hearing in one ear doing his bit in WW2. He always said he could cope with the deafness but the tinnitus drove him to distraction. Like someone tuning an old fashioned wireless set with the high squiggly noises helicopter and hiss. Most well mannered, considerate man I ever knew and yet he put up with that from 1945 to 2005 without complaining. Only told me about it when I asked him.

Thomann have a very reasonable price two switch one I might get once my basket reaches the free postage threshold.

I don't actually know! They were built by a guy I work with who moved house and couldn't find room for them.

I sent condolences via WhatsApp to a friend who I know has been massively influenced by EVH. Seemed appropriate as I knew he'd be genuinely upset. Personally I can't name one VH song so obvs to me the news was sad but no more so than any other cancer death of a stranger. If Bruce Thomas died I'd be desperately sad but as I didn't grow up in the age of social meeja I'd probably express that sadness in a different way. The passing of people who have enriched my life and made my world a far far better place is worthy of mention. That's a simple human response. We have new choices how to make that response, that's all. We don't need to like nor decry the choices others make.

Only used it for two gigs and a handful of rehearsals but I really like it.

Not easy to see jammed in the corner but bigger than my Barefaced 12"

Don't know if it's the angle is the problem, maybe if the front was higher the curse of the varifocal specs wearer might not come into play.

I would do the decent thing and buy a couple from Thomann purely for research purposes. However I already share my room with several large bass cabs and a couple of hi fi cabs bigger and heavier than some bass cabs.

Another thing I've been telling folk, HB strings are just fine.

Everything @uk_lefty said 👆 there is an exact mirror to my pedal board experience. I once even went to the extreme of owning a board fully loaded with effects all the same (not budget) brand and just thought, meh, in the end and got rid. I blew hot, I blew cold. I spent months programming patches and then wished I could twiddle individual pedals sur le mouche. Only now has the penny dropped. It's not anything to do with getting the right sound, or even a good sound. It's all about the board itself. Building it, stripping it back, velcro versus 3M, battery versus mains, effects loops versus straight in, clean signals alongside effected/affected signals, several distortions in parallel as opposed to one in series. Geraniums or silly cones, digital or analogue, self made patch leads, shop bought patch leads, flat or round patch leads, hard case, soft case, single tier, double tier, always on, midi controlled, and a million other considerations. These are not things you plough through en-route to the ultimate board, these are actually the reasons for having a pedal board in and of themselves. Oh, and handmade British boutique pedals created from old Marconi radio parts and housed in a train set controller. Oh yes, make no mistake. It's an addiction. Another obsessive, illogical, train spotty, borderline spectrum disorder, largely male, fanatical, self feeding, collecting hobby. And that's why I love it.

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I'll get to it soon, @Al Krow, I'm awaiting delivery of a special new pedal which is going to create a fascinating challenge to my board layout. B1-Four may be coming off anyway, but it will need extracting from the underground carpark!

Thanks mate, I'll give them a shout. So glad I listened to your advice this amp is just soo good

It all sounds fantastic to me. I've been banging the Benton drum so loud folk must be sick of it, so it's nice when a real quality musician showcases how great their stuff is. Listening with decent cans and man it sounds good. What strings do you have on it?

Yes it was 😂😂

I don't mind it at all. Neither do I mind that you do mind it.

Regarding the shiny (impossible to read) front. Does anyone know if the new matt finish is a straight swap for the mirrored one? If so I might see if Ashdown can supply a replacement. Using masking tape and magic marker right now. It's not the best look.

I have an RM500 and really like the dirt button. Will any generic footswitch work for this? Or does it have to be the Ashdown one?

I left a band once, amicably (or so I thought), but in a state of extreme hissy fittery the BL sacked the rest of the band! To this day I don't know what that was supposed to achieve. He's since been sniffing around the singer, but as the rest of us are now together enjoying a new project he won't get far.

I don't want to spoil the surprise...

Utterly annoying and useless answer alert! It depends. (sorry) On my old Eden amp the tone controls were so amazing that I never touched anything else. On my Trace Elliots and Ashdown RM, pre shape, boost mids, done. On my CTM100 turn everything up full, slowly increase the gain until the singers glare becomes too much to bear. Generally I don't mess much with pedals at the gig, they're too darned fiddly. Set 'em up at home and unless it sounds dreadful in the room leave well alone. If I'm lucky I have a band member I trust. They go out and signal (in broad brush strokes) more or less; top middle or bottom) Usually it's just less bottom or more mids. Anything more nuanced and subtle would be pointless naval gazing on my part, especially in a pub gig where the guitarist will inevitably turn up throughout the set and no one in the room cares about the bass sound.

I too like this combination, only thing I add is the HPF. 1 pedal instead of three, and my other MS-60B set up as a whacky phaser. The B1 Four is in use as comp, pre and HPF on my main board simply because as an 'always on' pedal it slides under the upper row. I'm now going to have to side by side it with the MS-60B.