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What's this? New Harley Benton?? Why wasn't I told? I shall prepare to become excited.

No, I loaded (bodged) it into my rack at the start of the lockdown, I've always just plugged into it rather than get the wireless pack out and find the strap with the pouch on it. Quicker to plug in with a cable. Never gigged with it in there. I bet I know what would happen if I did.

That looks really cool! I would say, if the chips were down I had to play for my life, I would go with my Bruce Thomas Profile. It always used to be my Aria Pro 2 which I've had since I started, but the Profile seems to fit me and I play that little bit better when I use it.

Darn it. A bit closer and I'd have popped round and left you a handful of Harley B's to try.

I didn't know this! Mine lives in a rack 🤦🏼‍♂️

Anyone here entirely cable free? Including pedal board? Effectively two wireless transmitters/receivers in the same chain. Is it even doable, or does the latency make it unusable? I suppose I'm after the views of the average user here. Not those who can happily play a mile down the road from the rest of the band and not care about latency, nor those who are put off by the tiniest fraction, undectable to the unwashed herd. Of which I count myself as one.

Same here. Had a moment of interference from another wireless transmitter, which was so easy to fix, otherwise it is perfect. Worth noting too it uses AA batteries. So should you forget to charge it you don't need to plug the unit in to recharge. Just keep a couple of spares in your gig bag. Not that it is likely to run flat, it switches itself off if you leave it alone for any length of time. I like the on board tuner, the ability to scan the venue for the least busy frequency, the ability to save different 'scenes' for different instruments and the robustness of the unit. I dropped mine from a reasonable height without any damage. Also should you somehow break the jack, its just a normal 1/4 plug so can be repaired/replaced. It has multiple outputs including xlr, and you can even choose the colour of the light around the jack socket. Fair to say I recommend it.

@uk_lefty whereabouts are you BTW? Roughly speaking?

Too_Much_Too_Young.pdf Too Much Too Young, from the live ep (i.e. the fast version!) by The Specials, featuring Horace Panter on bass.

Did several years in a Specials trib and 7 of us were in constant motion only 'Terry' and the drummer were stationary. Again you couldn't really call it dancing...

I can't not dance while playing. It's part performance but it's also an integral part of making music. Of course I use the word dance in its loosest possible interpretation.

No neck dive on any of my HBs. One or two quite heavy , others not heavy at all. The best of them hold their heads up in Squier company. The last one I bought, a £100 P-Bass is extraordinarily good. I prefer it to my Mexican Fender PJ. Now, what some people consider a serious problem, others do not count at all. So my, or anyone else's opinion is really hard for you to measure. I sold a bass once and the buyer returned it unhappy with a couple of things I hadn't mentioned. He wasn't picky and I wasn't a scammer, I just didn't think of them as issues or worth mentioning, for him they were a big deal. It's like the HB preamps. For me they are absolutely perfect. The only active basses I've ever liked other than a Sandberg. There's a gentle subtlety to them which is just what I want from tone controls. Others have said they're rubbish, don't do anything, need replacing immediately. It's what you like, how it looks, feels and sounds to you. All I can say is Thomann are great to deal with.

Some transcriptions make me want to leap out of bed and start playing - this is one of those. Thank you.

On the topic, ease of reading, you guys were on my mind during last night's rehearsal. I pulled up the chart I'd made of a tune way back when all this started. As we progressed through the song and I became lost and confused I thought, my god this chart is a total mess. The thing is I never thought that before, back when I wrote it. I realised that for a total beginner the entire page of any score was a kaleidoscope of bewildering, alien hieroglyphics. Whether it was laid out neatly or not I couldn't tell! As more of it starts to make sense, all the 'rules' or accepted practice, become increasingly apparent and important. All this is my fault. I started out trying to learn to read music by downloading a score, laboriously working out which notes were being referred to by which dots, and then taking it to a gig 🤦🏼‍♂️ Had I learned systematically, from the ground up, things would have made more sense. So thanks again for helping me unpick it and put it back together properly. Without your input I had just as well have used TAB.

Yeah, I can be excited by the word 'bass' on a pedal but honestly I don't think it matters at all. Not because every guitar pedal can do all the same things, I don't mean that, an eq pedal which starts at 100hz isnt going to help if you want to boost 60hz, obviously. What I mean is I just use my ears. If I like the noise then it's good. Regardless of what it's called. When I was studying photography, the lecturer encouraged us to shoot similar scenarios but use all the different presets built into the camera then use our eyes to decide which we liked. Didn't matter if we took a landscape in 'pet' mode or a portrait in 'fireworks' mode - labels had no bearing on our creativity. I see this as the same thing.

Thanks. I have a bit of thing for such filters. It used to be distortion /fuzz/overdrive pedals but I kind of exhausted them before getting into the real pricey stuff. Swore I'd never need another envelope/auto wah type pedal after realising what I can create with my Future Impact. However need and want are not the same!

Nice one. Thanks.

I wish I could think and type as coherently back when I used to drink. Thank you as ever @Dood

Yep. That's the one as you say, glaring, mistake. And it's not by much either. Maybe they assumed folk would just shove psu under there.

The algorithm which decides what ads we'll see must be broken. I seem to get lots of offers for ladies underwear but never SBL.

Am excellent adage.