Woodinblack

I used to have a two piece captain scarlet.

I would normally dismiss the word rare in listings, once I was looking for a bass, and 3 of the listings on the result had 'rare' in the title. However, this is the most budget of the SR 6 strings basses so a pretty bold claim as every one of the large box shifters has it!

I use the critical mass for certain vocals (brick in the wall). I have a mic mechanic in the house that I haven't used, I used to use the voice live for things that I use the critical mass for but it kept having a bit of an issue.

Last time I was at reading, in 83, it ended with half a day in Thames Valley police station waiting to identify nicked stuff.

I also have a Jabba bass, which I can bring, maybe some spectors, and maybe the chapman stick again if anyone wants to see that who didn't last time.

I'm thinking possibly no. I do a couple of songs live, they go down ok, but mostly because they are popular songs, so not yet ready to believe the hype!

That can't be true, I believe I am terrible, that would make me quite good!

Sounds interesting, but not interesting enough to read the daily mail!

Because that is in part what most people want, straying too far from the formula means that you are never really going to get anywhere other than a niche interest.

Friday night - had to dash straight from work and fight with googles directions to get down to devon. Seriously, how do you tell Google to avoid roads where bushes scrape against both sides of your car at the same time? Anyway, this was a wedding for a friend of the rest of the band, ie, he was the previous bass player before I joined in 2016, I never actually met him. So they were doing it for free and I wasn't so it worked out well for him and us (well, at least me!). The place was a little village hall, great stage, all purpose built, who builds a stage that well, adds wings, stairs, curtains etc and puts 4 plug sockets in the whole thing, of which 2 are used by the stage lights? Luckily the was a door near the backstage part, and apart from some little stairs no real setup issues, or wouldn't be if I hadn't spilled a pint of coke next to all the power adapters! Cleaned that up, did a sound check, second gig with the RCF Evox 8 and during sound check I had to put my head right up to the Alto to see if it was actually doing anything. First gig playing the spector RST - so light and sounds great, fits well in the mix, seems a bit politer than the euro but just enough of a growl when you let it go. I had changed the overdrive patch in my HXFX to something softer as the previous rat distortion I had on it was over the top. Tried it, it made it sound much smoother so have to rethink that. Anyway, first half not much dancing (but that is our blues rock half anyway), lots of people outside catching up, second half (party stuff and it had got dark out) a lot of dancing and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Got to about 3 hours and the singer was starting to make lots of mistakes so we wrapped it up with the last song and then the one more song. A good night altogether, and the stupid devon / dorset roads are easier at night when you can see lights and there isn't much traffic!

We have truly got to the end of times.

The HX FX has just the effects patches of the helix, rather than the amplifier and cab modelling, although it does have IRs if you need those. It can use 6 'blocks' of effects, where the full helix and LT have 12. The HX Stomp is the cut down box, it does have the amp and cab modelling, and also 6 blocks, but some amps and cabs use more than 1 block. It also has a limited number of buttons (but is smaller). There is another variation. HX Stomp XL, which is exactly the same as the HX Stomp in structure but has more buttons and is bigger. The Pod go is a different family, so there isn't a direct comparison, it is more traditional effects pedal which doesn't have the same kind of routing options and is ideal if you want something simple.

Same place as any of the black wires go to

I got really annoyed at a 'charity' gig a couple of months ago. It was a local school and it was effectively a favour to the guitarist, he went there, his kids were there. We had to rush after work to get there and setup. We setup. Then this woman running the raffle came round to ask us if we were buying raffle tickets, I said no, I don't have any money (I did, but I wasn't paying them when I was doing a gig for free, and I really hate raffles) to which the guitarist said 'oh I will lend you the fiver' - gee thanks, can't say much there without looking bad. So another fiver down. We played, very little attention. Then we got told to stop so they could do the weirdest raffle you ever saw which took half an hour, then we played for another half an hour and apparently that was it, where the woman from the school used my PA to thank the volunteers for setting things up and the parents for coming (hello, we are right here, giving you the PA to talk through?). Then we started breaking down stuff, and one of the organisers was asking if we could hurry as they needed to put the stage away and couldn't get it done until we had finished and "didn't want to have to stay all evening". Suffice to say, that is the last time we are doing that! My rules for charity gigs now is, I normally get around £70+ for a gig. If we are doing a charity gig it has to be one that I would actually give that money to of my own accord.

For modern pop (ie, heavily vocally processed sounds) it actually is pretty impressive. And I am sure it will get better.

My wife runs an online shop where she does a lot of support and also we have done shows. I have not seen that. 95% of people are fine and then here are people who are just basically a**holes, and that is what they probably are in all walks of life, but what I have seen is people just expected to be acknowledged they are there. Personally never cared if the person was buying a ferarri or a coffee, just the fact they are there I am happy to treat them the same. And when it comes to employees, some are good, some are less so, its not their age or salary that effects that, except the good ones tend to be hung onto so it is easier to find the poor ones!

Hes got through a lot of mirrors getting that right!

That would be the same as me. Can lift it for about 3-4 hours but after that it gets way too heavy. two months? forget it!

I like my Euro (pre-lx) 5, sounds good and all, but the RST is so light and fits in the mix so well.

Indeed it is - do you want to speak to the manager?

Once two threads have been merged, there is no longer any trace of what post came from what thread, so no.

I only had one Plek'd instrument, a Les Paul. It wasn't noticably better than anything else I had, but as mentioned, the only way to know is a before and after on the same instrument

I didn't understand that! Oh yes, she is happy to help. I mean where else is she go to stop my buying anything

Yep, I took a break from mid 30s to 49. Glad I came back to it, but sometimes other things are more interesting / important.

Mine has solid maple wings and is a euro, but it has the NB serial