Woodinblack

No, more in the 'take £250 off that and it would be a good thing!"

I don't get the digital part - where is the digital input? That is an amazing amount of money for a headphone amp though!

Well, I like the woods they use, and the layout of the body, although it is a bit big, and I love the look of the pickups (and the idea of them). But then at some point you just have to look at the headstock, and OMFG. If you set out to create the ugliest headstock you could think of and you came up with that, you would feel pretty accomplished! On the other hand if you were ever stuck down a river in a boat without a paddle the Wal owner would be pretty smug!

I check but have never bought from Reverb yet. I do like the format though. I have noticed that UK sellers price things more on reverb - like Bass Direct and The Gallery, so if you see something from them it makes sense to go to their shop.

I appreciate the sound of the Wals*, but have never been a fan of the look, so not for me, even if I could afford one (and lets face it, afford is an abstract term anyway). Where in this context I mean the sound from RHCP, Rush (who I guess were also not fans of the look) and Tool.

That is the problem. If you wanted to have an investment, and you did have a crystal ball, if you had sold one in 1997 for £300, and invested the money into apple shares, you would probably now be able to buy all the walls in existence!

I have a Ibanez 5005 and 1605. They are both exactly the same shape, but the 5005 feels like I have put the 1605 on twice. However, sonically they are as bassy as each other. They don't sound the same because they have very different electronics

Well, they probably will, but as with bitcoins, if you bought one for £200 in the 90s, and it has now gone up 10 x that price, that is the part of the curve that is done. What you need to find is the thing that has yet to go up 10x. Having said that, I did do bit coins and it paid for the ashdown amplifier!

I love wenge. I have two 5 string ibanez SRs. The 5005 has a wenge neck and a wenge front and back. The 1605 has poplar (I think) on the top and back. The wenge is so much heavier than the 1605, it is amazing that those are the only differences.

That is good - you won, they replied. When I used JMB and someone contacted me with something I wasn't interested in, I would have said 'no thanks, thats not something I am interested in'. I thought it was just polite to reply to people.

I would say that in the last 2 weeks, i have played brown eyed girl at two birthday parties, one a 50th and one a 30th. In am in my 50s. The rest of the band are in their 30s. I guess it works out

Yeh, I sold my GVR36 to france for £1 fees

I do ebay often. I try and do the £1 fee thing where I can but if not, you can get easily more than 10% extra there than here if it is just something general, plus it is a bigger market, so it works out ok.

We play quite a lot of ska songs, but luckily I don't care, and they are all british ska bands too, so I guess that is appropriate.

Playing?? You are supposed to play them as well? Oh...

No, I don't really like the Beatles, but then I never had a problem playing reggae either

Bollox - there are whole forums dedicated to how to play the Beatles!

The helix can't do the big sky but it does have tails for its reverb

Agreeing with above. If you want to reduce the amount of stuff you are carrying, get a set of active cabs and active monitors. And because you seem to be getting away with very low power at the moment, they wouldn't have to cost very much either.

Using JMB is very frustrating, when you do find something you contact people and most of the time they never reply to you making you wonder why the advertised in the first place. However, I joined my last two bands from them - the first one from an advert on there of a starting band, and the second I just advertised that I wanted a band when I left the first. Just lucky on that I guess as still in that after 3 years. I don't really think that social media has much to do with the success of a band, we use it but only minimally, and I don't recognise the part time job thing. We also have 20+ gigs booked for next year, but that is just a couple of evenings of phoning and messaging. We have some regulars and a lot of the other parties etc come through people contacting us who saw us at previous events.

Like here:

Reasonably assumption as I am in the wrong thread (although technically the thread that made me end up getting the HX). Would be nice to play with the amp models for that but couldn't quite push to the LT. Although now I realise about the 3 and 4 tone generators, it could relieve the reason I need key footpedals, which would give me more space!

Some people get on with things, and some people don't. Hardly worth getting worked up about.

This is on an HX so no amps. Currently my favourite is the studio compressor on the input - I hadn't thought to put it after the split. It is on several footswitches for levels of overdrive and to allow the chorus / 2 echo types and an impulse response to calm the thing down when we have to play soft songs. What I gigged with at the weekend.

That used to be my wifes favourite t-shirt. It died in the end!