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Beavertown Brewery, of Tottenham. Now, I'm already well aware of a tendency for some "craft" breweries to be a bit up their own posteriors, but Beavertown just extracted the micturate a bit too much, I felt. I understand how chaotic a busy bar can be (I've spent enough time on both sides of one), but we were a bit miffed off at being made to stand in a long queue to enter a tiny room, where you don't even get to see what's available until you're close enough to squint at a messily chalked-up blackboard just outside the bar. The long wait might have been slightly more bearable if they hadn't bookended the route with a couple of big PA speakers blasting out some generic w**ky indie-rock at a volume that made conversation all but impossible. Thanks guys, great way to welcome your customers.

Ha! Well, I can't vouch for what he does outside the house. Who knows what those cheeky blighters get up to in other people's gardens?

John Densmore, and Ray Manzarek's left hand

UPDATE: this is now gone! (How does one move these threads to Completed Items?) Two-seater cream leather sofa going free to anyone who is able to move and collect*. Around eight years old with some small surface wear and tear (see photos) but still plenty of life in it and very comfortable. Passing on as we have now got a sofa bed so not needed any more. (Smoke-free home, though we do have a cat**.) Approx measurements: 183cm W, 82cm H, 80cm D. Collection* only from KT1 area of New Malden ASAP. Will also be listing on other sites. * or arrange collection - we're equally happy for you to send a man-and-van to come and pick it up. ** he doesn't smoke either

Here we go - managed to track down the original post:

"Babooshka" came up on a thread about great fretless basslines, and one kind soul directed us to a No Treble article with a transcription of John Giblin's sublime performance, so I've been trying to get my fingers 'round that. I'll see if I can dig up the link and share it on here. Anyhoo, it's been a good challenge for my fretless intonation, as it's not often I find myself having to play up the dusty end in E-flat. Definitely a good workout for the ears!

I know MIDI guitars haven't really caught on in the same way as keyboards, but it did occur to me that keyboard players have a great boon when it comes to writing down music these days - they can play a controller keyboard into some sequencer software and, presto! the music is transcribed by the computer - albeit with all their mistakes, but much faster than clicking them onto the stave by hand. Now...on that basis, is it time that MIDI guitars were stepped up a notch? I'm sure they can transcribe the individual notes well enough, but are they capable of doing TAB? If the interface can detect the pitches played, and the strings which are sounding at any given time, surely it could infer the fingering from this information?

Just remembered, there's some very tasty-but-not-too-difficult fretless phrasing in Pink Floyd's Hey You.

Thank you - that's my evening sorted!

*head explodes*

...and don't forget, on a 'bird you'll have a second pickup to throw into the mix and try those different Tonestyler positions with. THINK OF THE COMBINATIONS.

A computer tech once advised me I could drain the (admittedly much smaller) caps in a PC by unplugging and then pushing the power buttom - if there's enough juice left in them, you may even see some of the LEDs on the casing light up briefly. Could you do the same with an amp, or would that be inadvisable?

Hi all, Been eyeing up the iRig 2 interface recently, more for better sound quality when recording/livestreaming via a phone, than for the possibility of using Amplitube. The manufacturer's site seemed to suggest this second edition of the interface is, among other advantages, compatible with Android devices (not just iOS any more). However, some customer reviews seem to suggest that this "Android compatibility" might be limited to Samsung devices...and I'm buggered if I'm going back to a Samsung phone. So: does anybody have any experience of using an iRig 2 with another Android phone or tablet? (Any Nexus 5 phones would be particularly useful to hear about...) And: if the consensus is that they're incompatible / disappointing / worse than Hitler when hooked up to a non-Samsung Android deelie, which alternatives do people like?

If Aerosmith had come not from Boston, MA, but from Leicester, UK...

Dani Alabama? It's got a ring to it...

The UK boasts some of the highest highs... ...but also some of the lowest lows.

Whilst it has been a slight inconvenience, it has given me a prompt to find a fresh moose for my own avatar. Let the blasting recommence!

A car in CAR?

Thank you very kindly!

Keane? (/runs for cover)

Weren't the Foo Fighters a trio for the longest time? At least, I'm sure it was a three-piece that recorded Colour and Shape and Nothing Left to Lose, and I kind of lost interest after those... PS if you can busy-up the bassline during the (generally quite brief) guitar solos, then you can cover a LOT of Creedence Clearwater Revival's back catalogue without a rhythm guitarist. I say this from experience!

On Monday 13th May, Ralph Beeby & the Elephant Collective - which is to say, me with a couple of acoustic guitars - will be heading up to Oxford to provide an evening's entertainment in the form of some furiously fingerpicked folk-blues, in the vein of Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell, etc. The venue is the Bullingdon Cocktail Bar: 162 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE - same building as the well-known music venue, but I understand this will be in the separate bar area. Music from 8pm-11pm, free entry (though the purchase of many large rounds of drinks is advisable to keep the guv'nor happy) If you've not heard this outfit before, you can do so below, or via the Bandcamp link in my sig If you're inclined to use the Facebooks, there's an event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/379182622667504/,

Probably worth also noting that not all scoops are equal: there's the "gentle scoop," such as @Lozz196 describes when going for that gnarly, JJ Burnel-esque sound, and then there's the "nu-metal style" scoop, where there just seems to be a massive chasm in the middle of the frequency range, until you're left with a rumbly, indistinct, wet-fart-distortion sound right at the bottom end, and a horribly thin, trebly, clackity-clack which sounds like two mice fencing with lolly sticks.

I can't help but think that would have looked all wrong at any time of day...

I would guess there are two forces at play: 1. yes, it probably is quite fashionable at the moment. I've seen a lot of "smiley face" EQs at gigs when I've been close enough to see the amp. 2. sound engineers in a hurry, dealing with a multiple-band bill, may find it easier to cut the midrange from the bass to mix the sound during a 30-second line-check, especially if they have to keep two guitarists and a singer happy with the foldback. Edited to add: I'm very much pro-mids myself - partly because I feel that's where a lot of the "character" of the bass comes through, but also from years of playing in single-guitar bands, where I have a lot more sonic space to fill.