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97% of Wolverhampton corresponds to your needs, and with Carillion closing, that'll be up to 98%.

F**k yeah. Absof**kinglutely.

Thanks to Osiris and PaulWarning for their comments on the Zoom 160 Comp effect - I've got both a B3n and a MS-60B, which get used at assorted different times but with the same bass/amp/cab, and the only compressor that they have in common is the 160 Comp. It's nice to know that it actually does work (I did wonder how well a modelled compressor would work) and that it's effective. I would like to know what I should listen for when trying to sort the settings out for it though. I'm pretty certain I want a soft knee, and I suppose I should set the level so a note plucked at average intensity sounds the same volume when the compressor is switched on or off, but I don't know about threshold or ratio. Ah, just searched for 51m0n's Compression 101 post and found his (lost but archived) blog post on the subject: http://web.archive.org/web/20130215154741/http://blog.basschat.co.uk/setting-up-a-compressor/ which is more useful than the post I was thinking of, https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/30431-is-a-compressor-of-any-real-value-in-fast-rock-music/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-1148269

Coincidentally, you and I both had couriers booked via Interparcel for that Monday who never turned up. The difference was that I rearranged mine for the Wednesday, it was picked up, and made its way to Finland satisfactorily and intact. I say "it", it was in fact "them", a brace of speakers which the buyer was very happy with. I think you should hold out for them to return the bass to you without an extra charge - that's just adding insult to injury. Twitter and Facebook can be effective weapons, apparently.

If you're after fit-and-forget pedals rather than the switchability of a B3, you could do exactly what Jack has and use an MS-60B and DI/preamp - the MS-60B will give you compressor, SVT, and cab sim quite happily.

Once upon a time, a club band I was in had a heavy-drinking singer who would at some point ask "Are there any birthdays in the room?" (OK, I don't mind that) followed by "Has anybody got any requests?" (never never never ask that unless you know every song ever), and then the clincher "Would anyone like to get up and sing a number?". Unfortunately there would often be someone who would come up and sing a song, which would tend to be some Sinatra or Crosby song which the guitarist might know but I didn't. If I didn't know it, I didn't play it, although I never actually carried out my threat of putting the bass down and walking off stage.

But anyway, last night we played that gig. Slide guitarist hadn't done any rehearsals drumming with us, just went in cold. It was bloody excellent. There's another gig in a week which the slide guitarist will drum for again, then we'll try and recruit another full time drummer. The BL happened to find out from someone who'd played with the ex-drummer before that he was prone to occasionally having these tantrums. Still, it's an opportunity to find a better drummer.

No. We're all pretty open with each other about things. The only thing that happened to upset him was that his holiday trip to Ireland was cancelled due to the snow.# This is a man around the same age as me - six decades or so. He's not some angst-ridden teenager.

No ta. He texted the BL saying that BL was pinking on him. BL didn't bother replying.

Oh no, he was ranting all the time as he packed up. And yes, we did try to talk him down. Didn't work.

What you want is to start with that 8-string, then add some octave courses...

Are you me? I booked DPD via Interparcel yesterday for a pickup today, worked from home to be here, no bloody courier. Looks like it is normal.

Just over a week ago, the originals band played a gig, and the second half was somewhat sloppy. So this evening, first rehearsal after the gig, the BL (singer/songwriter/guitarist completely unafflicted by the ego that one might expect him to have) comments to me that I sounded a bit dodgy on song X (I agreed, I played mostly the right notes but a few were well off), then he said to the drummer that there were a couple of songs that had slight issues - one was too fast, and in the other the drummer had started putting in a fill, the timing of which was throwing the guitarist. He wasn't making a big deal of it, just saying which songs we needed to look at and why, which was perfectly reasonable (he'd also apologised on the night for missing a line on one song which had thrown me briefly, so he's happy to acknowledge his own errors). The drummer took umbrage, which we thought initially was him joking about it but no, he went off on a rant about taking this criticism personally, packed up his sticks, pedal, cymbals, and snare, and stormed out, leaving the remaining three of us (me, BL, and slide guitarist) somewhat open-mouthed. Not sure whether he's definitely gone for good, but with a gig coming up on Friday which we don't want to cancel, the slide guitarist who also plays drums is going to step in and we'll be back to a three-piece.

I'm on my second one of these: https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_guitar_stool.htm Works well for me. The first one eventually suffered a failure when the welds holding the footrest bar gave way (I had been using it to push myself up with many, many times) - just meant it became a bit wobbly and I didn't have a footrest, and I decided to replace it.

Another 'Oo song:

John Deacon.

I feel I'm just going through the motions.

One of the bands I'm in is an originals band, and I've been using a 10-string on some recordings that we've done recently. However, for live purposes, I think I'll be sticking with a 5 but with an octave-up on one of the Zoom pedals.

So that isn't what they mean when they ask you to do your favourite number?

Like I say, when I turned the tweeter all the way down, I got the treble. I hadn't got much room to manoeuvre and the cab was close to the wall, and I hadn't looked at the pretty picture on the back before putting it there. Now I know what I'm doing (at least with regard to which way to turn the knob, the bit about sticking your fingers on the fretboard in the right place is still a bit of a mystery). It'll get a run out on the 25th.

Make badge with neodynium magnet on back. For steel grilles, put feet up - job done. For cloth grilles, put steel bolts at strategic places on front baffle. My consultation fee is a Big Baby II.

The club band I was in had a set list that remained static for my entire career with them (several years), plus a few subsequent deps I did for them. OTOH, the covers band that folded a year back had coming on for 50 songs and we used 30+ of them in a gig, so we'd swap most of them round - we would keep a couple of songs in the same place though, as they made good end-of-first-set songs or they were flipping Sex On flipping Fire or Daf*ckingkota so they went in around the tail end of the second set.

Having heard so much in favour of Barefaced, and having actually bought a one10, and seeing as my poor old bones are feeling the weight even of Berg AE112s, I thought I'd keep a lookout for a Big Baby II, which seemed to be what I needed for the rock bands (the one10 is great for the acoustic band but with no tweeter, it lacks the bite I want for the rock bands). Managed to snag one on That Ebay, and although it was collection from somewhere near the South Coast, the seller also journeyed up to the Midlands regularly and so it was that we did the deed in the car park of the National Motorcycle Museum. I did an A/B against one of the Bergs and thought it seemed rather lacking with bite, even when I turned the tweeter all the way up. Then I tried turning the tweeter all the way down, and the treble arrived. That's the trouble with doing things by feel. It seems to have what I want from a cab, good range, thick bottom end, good bit of bite, and goes pretty loud. I'm toying with the idea of using the one10 as a monitor by angling it upwards - suppose it depends on how loud I want to go. Nice and light too, though a bit bigger than an AE112. Roqsolid cover on the way. Now to sell a pair of Bergs...