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  1. Kiwi
    Your band does the choon justice.
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    The Birdy Song.
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    Town Like Alice - Jam Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon Let Me Entertain You (if there are keyboards) - Robbie Williams Crocodile Rock - Elton John Brass In T'Pocket - Pretenders Anything sung by the Blues Brothers
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    It kind of does depend on the audience but the middle ground is probably pop hits from the last 10 years plus some blue chip funk standards or blues brothers tracks that mum and dad will recognise.
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    Spector is selling to Korg. Sadowsky is licensing construction to Warwick (possible future buyout?) Smith has licensed construction to Brubaker. Pedulla has recently retired. Amptweaker is being sold to Alpha Distribution due to James Browns ill health. Anything else happening that hasn't been covered above?!
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    Or Shuker, the finish is basically a rock hard polyeurathane.
  8. Kiwi
    All I can say, as an former owner of three Celinders, is thank goodness it isn't a 5 stringer.
  9. Kiwi
    Ibanez have consistently put together great designs and well specified instruments on paper. But I've tended to be a bit disappointed by how the through-necked Soundgear range sounded.
  10. Kiwi
    Yeah I meant setting up the sensors on the bass.
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    John is one of the best in the biz and he has a background in electrical engineering. I just hope IR are willing to part with the information needed to set the bass up properly. If they are, he'll figure out how it all works I'm sure.
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    Well done, how are you going to manage the setting up of the bass to cater for your own technique and preferences?
  13. Kiwi
    I had a gig at the Cafe de Paris one time and miraculously found a parking spot on Lisle Street close to the Hippodrome. Came back after the gig and found my car had been broken into. All the scrotes took was my GPS suction cup stand - they'd tried to jimmy out the radio but unsuccessfully. I took the detachable head with me when locking up. The screwdriver scratches in the dash were permanent though. The car was otherwise undamaged as they got access by popping the driver's side window out of the frame and when I filed the police report, I discovered the parking bay was in a CCTV blindspot, suggesting the thieves knew exactly what they were doing.
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    I'm really fond of my Series 1. Really wish it was a 5 string but the only one I'm aware of with the same spec as mine is Jimmy Haslips. His sounds phenomenal.
  15. Kiwi
    My family had a succession of siamese and oriental cats from when I was 11 through to 3 years ago. They're fantastic cats, very quirky and interesting, but a bit prone to health issues.
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    This is precisely why I like them. Very comfortable for my 194cm frame. I agree about the price though and it looks like a weird Supernatural Calibas love mutant.
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    We once had a gig at the top of the Gherkin (aka St Mary's Axe) in the City of London. The load in consisted of driving into the basement and lugging the PA and other stuff into the service elevator and it took multiple lift journeys to get everything to the top. Half way up we had to change lifts as for building code reasons, lifts aren't supposed to go higher than a certain number of floors. So we had to lug everything out of the first lift and into the second, which as a walk around the other side of the central lift cluster. THAT lift then only reached one floor lower than the place we were actually playing in. So everything had to be hauled up one more flight of stairs to the roof space. And the acoustics were terrible. An all glass dome meant frequencies were bouncing around like demented chimpanzees. Nice views though. Then, at the end of the gig, we had to do it all again but this time in reverse.
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    I have found most pedals track better if a few criteria are met in the bass. The FI and SB1 both track single pickup basses with limited amounts of high frequencies and lots of mids better than other basses. So that vintage P bass or stingray are just the ticket. That Status Empathy with lots of fret noise probably won't be.
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    Brief update - Mimmotronics eventually replied to my FB message and apologised for not seeing it sooner. An EHX Freeze with the wet only mod and soft arcade style button has been ordered - it's a cheaper alternative to the Gamechanger Audio pedal and I avoid paying for features I'm unlikely to use.
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    I think what you are suggesting might be true with two conditions: 1) That the starting point was having an SY1000, which is different to where I am as I had already invested in half the pedals in the signal chain anyway, particularly the FI. 2) That there were alternatives to the SY1000, which as far as I can tell there aren't.
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    I'm a bit wary of all in one units at the moment. All it takes is for it to do one thing less than expected and the whole unit ends up redundant. Seven pedals is a lot but, as you have probably read, if one doesn't do the job as expected then I can swap it and leave the rest of the pedal board as is.
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    Update: I've been doing yet more digging around on Google and on another forum found a comparison of the EHX Freeze with the EHX SuperEgo Plus (basically a pseudo synth and effects pedal) and the Gamechanger Pedal Plus. You might have already heard Gamechanger, they made a pedal that relies on plasma spark to make your guitar sound like a Tesla coil. Anyway, they also make a sustain pedal call the Pedal Plus and it appears to have a wet only output. It's a big pedal but seems to have a lot of potential. https://www.gamechangeraudio.com/pluspedal/
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    I've been running a couple since they first came out ten years ago. One of them was second hand and the power caps went futz on me one time as I turned it on. Luckily though I discovered the power amp module was a OEM made by B&O and available separately through ebay. Ninety quid and two weeks later it arrived and the connections were simple enough to install the power module myself. Three years later and we're still going strong. Their lack of mid scoop and a growly bass make them very much part of my sound.
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    I was going to recommend them as well. Sei (Martin Petersen) used to get their instruments finished there before getting Simms involved. Simms are insanely expensive for an off-the-street punter. I've finished instruments and yes there's a lot of labour involved in a gloss finish with all that hand rubbing with 800 grit towards the end. But not 850 quid's worth.
  25. Kiwi
    The weak die. Wishing you a warm welcome BTW. ❤️❤️
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