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Similar to @Lozz196's post above, my Aria pro 2 bass has been with me since I bought it new in 1983. I've bought many other instruments to stand alongside it but it's never been 'replaced'.

A few to learn this week... 1. I want it that way - Back Street Boys 2. Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf 3. I saw her standing there - The Beatles 4. You're the one that I want - Grease 5. Since you've been gone - Kelly Clarkson 6. New York, New York - Frank Sinatra 7. Lose Control - Teddy Swims 8. Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder

I like it a lot. I use it either as an always on pedal with the distortion set just to break things up a little, or set it higher and kick it in when needed, instead of using a separate distortion pedal. It's great!

A work of art. Thank you for sharing.

2nd set done. The interesting guy has picked up a tambourine to help us out. The sisters of the night have risen and danced to a couple of tunes. Excited to see how things develop.

1st set done and apart from one guy who is, I assume, taking the night off from welcoming cars to the village, it's like a room full of people in shock after some kind of natural disaster.

We are playing God's Waiting Room. 3 x 40 minute sets. The kind of venue where you can't really tell if the deceased members of the audience passed away during the set or were leftover dead from the previous week. One person raised an eyebrow during a song once but we couldn't tell if they liked it or were just coming up on the embalming fluid.

A shovel is different from a spade. Otherwise I agree with @Bilbo (winky smiley denoting humour)

Steel Singer Supreme. I imagine this is a guitar only pedal. But it's one of those you turn on and off and twiddle knobs back and forth in the fading hope it will alter the tone in any way.

I always thought it was half diminished.

I've bought a lot of pedals this year, most of them brilliant, some duds bought on a whim, but the one that has absolutely blown me away from day one is the Mammoth Factory Fuzz by Red Rocket Music. It just does exactly what I've always wanted a dirt pedal to do. That's the only way I can describe it. It works for me.

I use a Joyo Badass into a one by ten Epifani cab. Whichever bass I pick up and endless combinations of pedals.

It's tough. We are, as performers, necessarily fragile, ego driven and opinionated. The singer needs even more ego than anyone else because of the vulnerability of their role in the band. I thought I'd cracked it. I found a singer I loved as a human being, who was if anything lacking in self confidence and ego, and has the greatest singing voice I've ever heard. I did everything in my power to help her realise how good she is and knew I would stick to her like a limpet. Success is guaranteed to every band she sings in. So what happened? She f¢ked off and joined another band. Now I'm sitting at home with my thumb up my a$$ while she's out gigging with her new best friends. Moral of the story? Other people are entirely unreliable, unpredictable, and will do their own thing regardless of your wishes. Singers doubly so.

I do it all the time. Different boards some pedals the same, some not. The only thing ever to go wrong? Those solder free, make your own patch cables. Sometimes they just can't cope with being pulled in and out of pedals so often. Otherwise it's fine

Yeah the thread got well diluted. In response to your post I'll be happy to record some fuzz too. I used the Mammoth again last night and it will be staying on my board. Absolutely perfect fuzz. Does everything I want it to and just makes me happy when I engage it.

OK so ignore the playing as i was fiddling with the controls more than worrying about the notes!

How is it?

Yes. I am not a singer. I assumed I could not be taught. No one let me sing in public unless there was a fire. The lessons appeared to have nothing to do with singing at first. But actually they were teaching me about the mechanics of singing. What to do with my throat, my mouth, my diaphragm. In other words the instrument. I have since sung in front of people and no one threw anything. I have sung harmony acapella with three others.

I have a couple of Barefaced 15s and I would take one of those to any sized gig with any band with complete confidence.

I've been in a band with the guy sat at absolute farthest from the front of house was fiddling with the desk. They can, but they really didn't ought to be allowed.

Hi sorry Q , I was speaking about the envelope filter in that response. Yes it has the three sub switch

It's not just you. I got horribly lost in confusing computer speak.

So I tried and failed to get my audio interface working. But don't give up hope. Anything is possible in an infinite universe.