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Another reason why these sorts of things don't appeal to me - while I fully appreciate that it's a me issue - option paralysis. WTF is a ham fisted pub playing weekend warrior like me gonna do with all these cab sims? I'm better off out of it.

Or... learn to do it yourself?

I don't care, didn't really think about targetting. I'm just using the same parochial view that is frequently trotted out, but in reverse to prove a point.

I've only ever bought a bass off a Reverb seller once, and it was a complete success. Ergo, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Reverb, you're all crazy, what the hell are you all talking about?

I'm not a luddite - I'm on board with the likes of Toneprints - I've plugged my phone/computer into my TC pedals to edit Toneprints and tailored them to my requirements - tamed the make-up gain on the Spectracomp as I felt it was giving too much of a volume jump when engaged vs. disengaged, and got stuck into the Brainwaves to set the custom interval to be a single semitone - not available in the stock configuration. But these are one time adjustments, now it's done I just crack on with using the effect - by going straight to the pedal I want to adjust settings on and just doing so.

It all just leaves me cold. All of these multifx units do. I don't want a single point of failure. I don't want a touchscreen. I don't want something which cost more than many of my basses did on the floor in front of me at the Dog and Duck. I don't want to have to go through menus to get to what I want. I want physical switches and knobs that don't change purpose depending on what mode you're in. I could go on, but you get the gist. Any time someone's shown me one of these devices, either in a video or in person I just think "why?" while giving my best "mmm, this is delicious" act so as not to offend. I'm just offering my personal opinion, not trying to yuck anyone's yum, if you're on board then more power to you.

Don't you dare chlorinate my sausage rolls!

I'd like to think my berk-ness is well known round these parts, yes

It's a pickup, innit? Same thing, innit? What are you moaning about?

Did you miss the part where I said I was physically there? My bad, I got my year wrong, it was 2008.

Pfft, the golden age was when it was £1 == $2. I visited the US then (2009?) and chuckled heartily about getting on a bus for 50p ($1).

If you have an original, get it copied. Brian Pillans (he's on ebay - username/store name earlpilanz) or TinyTone are the two places that spring to mind for this service.

It's "forever", isn't it?

TGI Ultimate gig bag for £110-130 TGI Extreme gig bag (less padding but still substantial) for £60ish