Woodinblack

Don't see it mentioned on here, although I am sure I wrote about it, I notice in previous posts on here I mentioned that my smoothhound jack plug was loose. Well, it fell apart leaving a gig when I was tearing down. The side of the plug came out. Talked to chris at smoothound and for £20 he replaced all the metalwork and sent it back to me. it is perfect now.

I think I mention mine somewhere around here, it was a Vitos 8 or something? has 6 9v, and a 12/18v switchable. It is pretty good, but what I woudl really like is a mains powered one, rather than a 'wall wart' power supply, I have already lost one of those by the singer jumping on it. I have a separate box where I took the power supply apart and embedded it under the case so now it is fed by an IEC cable, but now I also have to plug the helix in too, as after a couple of hours if I power it from any power supply i have, it dies. Is it too much ask to have a mains powered isolated 4-6 9v 300ma, 9v 1a, 1 12v 1a, one 12v 2a power supply for less than £100? Seems it is!

That isn't an isolated supply though, it doesn't even claim it is an isolated supply. That is just a multiway power supply, like many others. As I said in my 3 year old post you quoted, I got an isolated supply and it sorted the noise out.

Jon has just come out with a new single actually (in the last week or so). Also he has an ibanez signature guitar coming out.

Not sure, the broken one is later. Looking through the photos I took on the first day (in fact the first one on this thread) I realise the crack was always there but for some reason I hadn't noticed it. Whether it became bigger or not later, it wasn't something that started when I had it. Seems odd that the second neck would actually be different wood / construction, its the same model and everything.

Always a shame, it is easier to keep customers than get new ones. I have personally never had particularly good dealings with them, and they aren't a place I would use for anything that I couldn't get anywhere else.

They come with an adaptor in the box.

And now I look the replacement (older) neck I have has a different construction to the original (newer) neck, the original one had light woods on the side and narrow spacing on the laminations, this has wenge on the side and wider laminations.

Nope, they are genuinely isolated. Back (probably when I wrote that), I had the zoom B3 and the Smoothhound. They could not co-exist on a non isolated board. I still have the smoothound, but the zoom is gone, and have a helix. Can't get that powered off anything other than its own supply so now a bit irrelevant.

Yes, its not the most obvious thing, but here, pick the pink bit or the yellow bit!

There are certainly options for which side you want when I look, who are you getting them from?

And today, I have had it back fixed, with a new neck (an older neck, the serial number is on the neck on all modern ibanez). Or maybe I have a new bass with an old body. Anyway, as I mentioned the B string wasn't as good as the 2605, I can say the B string on this new neck is really bright and punchy and nothing like the other one. Initial unplugged impression is that it is better than the SRs. So I suspect that as that crack was on the B string anchor, that the problem that caused the crack was there before the crack appeared.

Oh, I wish I hadn't looked that up.

Wow. That has to be a winner of this competition!

Clearly she is saying she likes the dead baby song, and admits she is lying if she says that she doesn't like eric clapton because of that. Either way it seems quite surprising that she had heard of Eric Clapton.

No, my ear gets most of the cymbal noise! Luckily I don't have unadorned ears.

Everyone is allowed to just like music, or whatever they want. Doesn't change anything about the music or whether other people have to. Noone is saying it is wrong to like Eric Clapton. Or even iron your jeans

Steve Cram stopped running, so cant be judged by what he is doing now as he stopped doing it. Arguably Bill Gates best work is what he is doing now, so I would say he is getting better as his earlier work which is frankly quite poor. EC carried on making music well past the time we were talking about so he can be judged by what he was doing both up to the 70s and way into the 00s. I am not sure that any of this is not self evident though

Threads are like children, you start them off all well intentioned, then they get their own ideas and throw parties when you are out and get god-knows-what in the carpet and eventually move out to shack up with someone you don't approve of.

To be fair, there is very little to discuss on his music. Like him or loath him you would have to be very positive on his achievements to think that he had done anything actually interesting since the 70s. I always wondered, when people say things like 'if hendrix hadn't died just think what amazing things he would be doing now' and the answer is, you really don't know do you? I would think that he would have continued to innovate, but maybe he would have just stayed stuck doing the same thing. Or he could have gone all synth pop in the 80s and ended up playing vegas. Maybe some memories are better the way they are!

I don't think so - for his songs, the 'voice' of the song is the guitar work. You can have the best drum and bass backing on a blues song but if the guitar isn't reaching you, the song isn't going to either.

As I said earlier, there is a difference between not saying something because you no longer believe it, or because you understand it is not something you can say without implications. It is hard for a casual observer to know which is which.

I got one from ebay some time ago to show we were too loud. It showed we were too loud! And it also showed us how difficult quiet is, and why we don't play places with a sound limiter. The apple watch has a dB meter in it. When I have finished a gig, my watch helpfully has a list of how many times the music was at a dangerous volume, and at the end of the week, which days were bad!

Inc shipping from the US seemed pretty good, can't find them for less than £40 anywhere else (for 45-130)

Agreed - I guess what would be relevant is the context of why did she say that. If she was asked about music in general or older music it would be. If the question was 'do you have an opinion on Eric Clapton, Race and the song Tears in heaven' then it would be a bit more relevant. On the grand scheme of things I am not sure why EC would have any relevance to her, but without knowing who she is I guess I wouldn't. His track record before that didn't show he had a problem with it, but he clearly showed he had a problem with it in the 70s. Easy to blame on drugs and alcohol, but not sure how valid that is. And it was pretty big at the time and since. Opinions have nuance. His at the time didn't. OK, maybe he is a different person now, or maybe he is better at hiding it. I guess we can't know. Just as much here as there. I used to think it was better, but when our countries leaders and influencers decided to stoke the race card to get ahead it showed that it was as bad as ever, it had just got less acceptable to show in public. As soon as they showed it was, it started heading back fast.