Japhet

I play through the chords on a 6 string and learn the sequences. I write tricky bits down because I can recall a picture of what I've written much of the time. The rest is mainly patterns on the fretboard to get the left hand position right.

Rosie Vela - Magic Smile Love the groove and the bassline. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I

Not impressed with the TC Head - fair enough. That should have been the title of the thread. There are dozens of class D heads about that are way better than the BH250.

Used to play Delilah as done by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Cue lots of drunken falling over and crooning. Great fun to play though.

I'd get out to some jam nights. If you spot anyone that fits the bill, have a chat.

2 I can think of which I played at jam nights were a Hohner violin and a Gibson Thunderbird. Both horrible. One tiny and boomy and the other one enormous, uncomfortable, dull and ugly to boot.

My 2p worth - either get your cab up to a height where you can hear it well or use a tilt stand (or cab/combo with that facility).

I was at Led Zep at Earls Court but got so pissed I missed the entire thing crumpled in a heap by one of the pillars. You don't want to be hearing Moby Dick in that state.

Saw them at Hammersmith in the early 80's. Can vividly remember the sound waves making it feel like you were being hit in the chest.

I'd say it definitely needs some sort of level control.

Seems to add a huge amount of gain to the clean signal.

My cab has 2 speakon connectors so I'd be surprised if it failed. I have a DI on my amp though and one in a Markbass Super Booster on my effects board too so feel reasonably confident I'm covered. The only recent failure we had was our mixing desk but we put vocals through my backup amp (Streamliner) and they sounded great.

I use a SKB pedal board with 8 (I think) 9v outputs on it. I have a Pigtronix Envelope Phaser I'd like to run which needs 18v supply. In the past I've used a DC Brick to power it but I also use a T Rex Chamelion to give me 12v for a couple of pedals and the power supplies take up too much room on the board. Would a cable from 2 of the SKB outputs into 1 do the trick. I've read that to do this they need to be isolated and don't know if these would be. Any advice gladly received.

Our singer is a total knob when it comes to adjusting the desk. Unfortunately he's the only one with spare hands but he has no idea whatsoever how the thing works and no interest in learning. We often have a guy come to see us who's very good though and he fiddles with the desk and sends us hand signals. We record a few gigs and the ones he contributes to sound pretty decent.

Glad it's not just me. I find the Ditto difficult to get right but the looper on my Zoom B3 is easy to use. I don't particularly want to gig with the B3 though (size) so am avoiding anything with loops for now.

The newest technical innovation to capture my imagination was the CD ( ), so that's where I've stayed. Really can't be arsed with MP3, phones, earbuds and have no idea what soundcloud is, and don't care. I listen to CDs in the car and trough a Bose Wave at home in our kitchen. We have an old Technics Hi Fi with Celestion Ditton speakers which was mothballed when we re -decorated and it sounds 100x better than the surround sound on our TV/DVD system. I also connect the laptop to a Blackstar Fly 3 (mini guitar amp) to listen to Youtube on stuff I need to learn.

Used to do quite a few. Glad I don't any more. For me the 'cons' outweigh the 'pros'. Money is good but there can be loads of travelling, hanging around for hours horrible music to play. You can often be expected to be a human juke box and people often have no idea that you have to know/learn a song before you can play it. Did a wedding once which turned out to be for travellers which was an absolute nightmare.

Fender all day long. I'd also go for something loud enough to gig properly with or you'll be losing more money when you need to change up than the upgrade would cost you now (if that makes sense).

I bought one a while back as a back up to my Tecamp head. I've gigged it quite a bit because I love it, but also love the Tecamp. Sounds great through Tecamp cabs as well.

I'm so cool I don't even know I'm cool, and neither does anyone else.

I've always thought of covers as interpretations of other people's songs. I don't try to replicate what somebody else has done and don't listen to songs much before we try them out. I play what I think fits and then have a proper listen to the original. Guitarist does the same and we sometimes prefer what we have come up with. Some bits have t be spot on of course. I once played in a band where the guitarist (who was a complete control freak) once said to me "The bass part doesn't go like that" to which I replied " It f***ing does when I'm playing it". I think tribute bands need to be as close as possible to the original, but covers? Would be bored stupid trying to get everything note for note.

I used to have a Peavey Mk VI head which would run 2 ohms. Built like a tank and as reliable as gravity. For £400 there won't be much to choose from though.

Could check out some lesser known stuff too. Try The Buddaheads (some great stuff) and The Boneshakers who play blues with a touch of funk.

Check out Paul Rodgers - Muddy Water Blues. There's some quite heavy interpretations of some classic blues numbers on there.