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Oooh, Earthtone9, there's a blast from the past, I saw them supporting Misery Loves Co at Camden Underworld about a million years ago!

I'm on the last leg of my train journey from Hamburg to home after seeing Massive Wagons at Bahnhof Pauli this evening, well, yesterday now, to be pedantic 😉 Tiny venue, 400 max capacity but a really good gig, probably the best I've seen for a while. It was one of those punt gigs after hearing a couple of songs on the radio but totally worth it.

This is what I'm using as my current drive patch. It started off by me asking the MLA for the best guess at JJB's sound from Rattus Norvegicus. As disscussed above that resulted in a horrible mess so I refined said question by asking it to use the Dark Pre, and no amp sims and it has ended up with the attached. Before you all jump in and say it sounds nothing like it, probably not, but it was an interesting experiment and I've ended up with a sound I like. Which is the important bit I think 🙂 I've also chucked a chorus in it to get a second drive patch and created a clean patch from it by winding the gain on the Dark Pre back to 10. EDIT, created and uploaded with Tone-Lib, but I imagine you could use ZoneLabs to open it if you don't use Tone-Lib. Drive.zb3n

I believe the correct equation is n+1

Don't post clickbait then WTAF is that supposed to be? Is it my eyes or are the "pickguard" and "pickups" just a printed sheet of paper?

Does a new pedalboard count? Nothing (more or less) on it is new, just the legs and top...

The Kulturwekstatt have for many years had a blues themed Easter Monday lunchtime concert with the regular Georg Schroeter/Marc Breitfelder band. Previously Georg and Marc have had brought guest artist with them but recently they've just had Kalle Reuter. Every song has a piano solo, a harmonica solo and a guitar solo in it. They're all amazing musicians but "They're Red Hot" doesn't have to last 15 minutes. We're not going again unless they change something, it was so boring last year. They'd better not see me play then! Life's too short for such pettiness

It was last Thursday, not last night. I was complimented on my tone, my timing and for being the first of their bassists to notice the do do do dee dee da do bit in the middle of the organ solo in Golden Brown. Apparently all of my predecessors have either missed it entirely or come in late. Because of which they don't play it anymore, so I was wrong as well 😂

Yep, I thought that as well so I threw the amp and cab sims away and it sounds much better for it. However what I'm actually using is based on the Dark Pre patch. I'll see if I can download it on Thursday and upload it here if it works.

I've just noticed that the bridge on my Squier Jazz 5er is curling up at the back, the fulcrum is the fixing screws. It's the standard Fender/Squier improved BBOT, the ones with the solid block rather than being bent and to my eyes looks identical to the one on my Fender P-Bass V. Can I do anything about it or is it a new bridge time, chunkier construction like a Schaller or a BadAss? It's strung with D'Addario ECB81-5 standard tuning.

My Peavybird mashup uses two Delano Quad Coil pickups, VVT with push-pull volumes. It's wired as follows, Neck - V in: P-Bass, V out: Reverse P. Bridge - V in: All coils, V out: P-Bass. They all work as they should with the tap test and can be be played as P/All, Reverse P/all, Double P and Reverse P/P. Much to my dissapointment I can't tell any big difference between any of the combinations. They're nice sounding pickups, just not what I was hoping for.

I organised the monthly music night in our regular in West Haddon for a year. No-one turned up after the second one. On the last one there were quite a few people in the pub asking when the music night was going to start. My response that it would start as soon as someone was willing to stand up and sing/play something was met with some bemusement. "What, someone has to make an effort for us to be entertained?"

I quite like Vision Thing.....

I find it convenient. I don't wear a watch, we have no wall clock in our rehearsal space and if there is one it's not always on the most convenient wall, and it's easier to look at rather than finding whichever pocket I've put my phone in. So, need? Probably not. Want? Definitely. Why? Because I can

It was supposed to be mounted horizontally under the rear most top rail, which would have been right at the back. Just before he pressed the print button, as a final proof @rwillett asked me to measure the internal dimensions of the flight case and the biggest pedal that was going on the top deck. He then modelled it, and voila the pedal poked up through the flight case lid. By quite a lot, like most of the pedal quite a lot. Cue muffled swearing and a lot of rethinking to come up with what, we think, is a very neat solution.