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Sorry for the sidebar, but could you Tamworth boys go and pull UPS's effin' hair for me? Got a bass stuck at UPS Tamworth for the past 3 days...

A wee change of preamp (and removal of old compressor, think it's gone a bit pecuilar - unsurprising considering it's about 40 years old!) Battalion has a built in compressor, and a noise gate too, so some consolidation and an extra feature gained. Lose the headphone out from the Monomyth, but I rarely used it - really needs aux in to be truly useful IMO.

Good old Super 10 to the rescue! It ain't called "magic spray" in my house for nothing...

Awesome news!

Last night, a new venue for Nine Lives - the St. Olaf Golf Hotel in Cruden Bay. It was a bit blowy driving up to the place - thought this might limit attendance. Place is nice though, we got to set up in the lounge bar which felt like playing a gig in someone's living room (albeit with a bar at the opposite end. Setup was a doddle - small room, levels were easy to dial in. In the first half, it was surprisingly busy - a group of 6 or 7 ladies determined to dance the night away made for a great time. Unfortunately, they had to leave to go to another social engagement (for which one of them apologised - that was nice). Second half was a bit dead, unfortunately and annoyingly there were quite a few folk through in the main bar but barely any of the effers came through, despite me going through a couple of times in an attempt to shame them into it. Honestly, you can take your second hand "enjoyed the band" comments delivered later by the staff and stick them up your holes sideways as far as I'm concerned. Props to one lass who kept coming through when she heard a song she liked, you're alright! Gear was the G4M "rat" bass, then the Epiphone/DiMarzio Les Paul into the Markbass cubes. One plus from last night was finding the culprit for some recent pedalboard nonsense - my old 80s Yamaha compressor is getting cranky and making humming sounds which change when you wiggle at it. I removed it from the signal chain last night and played without it, but it looks like its time may be up.

Also, the H2n can still be bought new in a couple of places - Amazon and Musicstore/DV247, although I get the feeling it's on the way out so if you wanted to pounce on one, best do it soon!

Who signs off on this shyte? I'm with you - like your old H4n, my H2n can be set to manual gain and I put the wheel at minimum and it'll handle a band in a room going full chat with acoustic drums and everything.

Thanks for the advance info about new Zoom stuff - I've got an H2n that I've had for yonks. So "handy" (heh, see what I did there?) for recording rehearsals when jamming out songs so we can remember what the bloody hell we did!

My delivery date has been brought forward from 27th-30th Dec to 17th Dec, and I only just got charged for them today which confused me no end - that got my fraud radar twitching! I had to look back and no, I did not get charged for them when I ordered them back in November. I guess that means it's definitely happening then.

I left it out on the stand with the guard off where I would see it often to make sure I knew what I wanted. I like the look of it without the guard, but I despise pointless screws in the body, and I hate pointless holes worse. I CBA filling the holes, so the clear guard is the compromise.

He does everything through his eBay store https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz I would just send him a message via eBay messenger.

Brian received the pickguard for copying on Thursday and I paid yesterday so hopefully it'll be next week some time. Not trying to be secretive but it might be cheaper now that Brian will have a template for the Z7 - I'd enquire directly.

HA, I just remembered, I went completely missing during the middle bit of Back in Black one time. Total mind blank moment. The rest of the band found it funny. No-one in the audience cared or mentioned it.

Accept that you're human. Works for me. Haven't been fired. No-one has ever come up to me at a gig and said "see you missed a note at 1:43 in that song". Mistakes are fleeting moments in a show or a song. Don't dwell. Practice the song after if it really bothers you.

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I got mine here - https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/east-knob/ - but they're out of stock of most of them. You could ask them when they reckon they'll get more in.

Why can't all pedals agree on where the input/output and power go? That's hella neat and tidy, love it.

I wasn't aware you were playing...

I'm being sarcastic. To some, you've committed some heinous violation of the originality of your bass. Me, I don't care, it's not my bass. But you fixed it and I applaud that.

Apologies one and all, I have been remiss in my duties as caretaker of this year's thread and missed the end of October/start of November summary. So, here is your end of November/start of December roundup. One fell in October, and one fell in November. That leaves 18(!) still standing with just under a month to go. Impressive stuff folks - stay strong, you remaining 18; you're nearly there!

Well, that's just knocked a hundred quid off its value Or added to it, if you're famous...

You're talking to thin air - first post, one follow up, hasn't been back since. Anyway, back on topic - UK/EU price gouging

Nit, aff it. I have something on back order slated to arrive at the end of January to ease the shakes, then that's it.

This Saturday, Nine Lives play another new venue for us. I don't know why I'm even mentioning it here due to remoteness, but we'll be playing at the St Olaf Golf Hotel in Cruden Bay (effin' where?).

Leading on from my earlier point - why bother? You've got a working bass - you've kept the old pots for the "provenance" or whatever psychotic requirements will be brought to bear whenever you sell it. What's the problem now?