Woodinblack

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!

I do like the crossover split thing, reason I wanted the HX really. I was playing around with it tonight with a crossover split, where the lows basically bypass everything, the highs go through the 2 part harmony and a bunch of distortions chorus and echos, and was rather impressed with that. I do like the ability to bypass the distortion with the bass so it doesn't drop out, makes them all a bit more useable. Still yet to do the 4cm into the CTM to use 'real' overdrive

You can certainly get muddy tones out of it and way to unmuddy tones, depending on what you have selected. Although if all you want is amp modeling into a PC, I can highly recommend Positive Grid Bias Amp2 as a fantastic amp modeller.

£200? I would think a bit more than that. Also they are not small things are they?

Did a pub gig on Friday and a private party on Saturday, thought both might be called off as the guitarist was ill for both of them and the drummer ill for the first, but no, we actually got through them which was good (even if it almost killed the drummer singing Highway to hell). The pub was our 'local' pub, for some reason facebook had gone overboard on views, at over 1.3k, so was expecting 5 people, but no, it was heaving and everyone appeared to be enjoying it. We got some good compliments. A friend of the singer kept telling me to smile as apparently none of us apart from the singer did. I pointed out that they were both ill and I was way too serious for any of that shenanigans, and that is why we had the singer. The party was in the same place as a party the previous week, but then there was a proper sound man and several other bands. This didn't have but it was much busier. Odd collection - this week was a 50th or 60th but they wanted newer songs. The age range was much bigger (probably because in general there were more people), so 20 to 90. It was hard to tell what to play. The older ones got up for slow dances to Need your love so bad, but then also got up for more rocky ones. Then everyone was up for poker face and moondance. Some times you can't predict what people will dance to. The end few, does your mother know, timber and a few of the more ska ones, more of the younger were up as some of the others had drifted off. There was a young woman who was very enthusiastically dancing, more bouncing like a tigger with bare feet and on the last song someone had dropped a glass on the other side of the dance floor, and I was transfixed hoping she wouldn't bounce that way. She did a bit, but seemed to avoid most of it!

I would say, as someone that owns a number of 2 octave keyboards, they are always frustrating when you try and use them for anything other than simple lines. Only go for a 2 octave if you are sure you don't want to do much with it. Bearing in mind it gives the flexibility of playing on a 1 string bass!

The JD-Xi can make great sounds, and is probably the most versatile as it has the analogue part, the 2 digital parts and the drum machine (as well as vocoder and all that stuff), but it is a pain in the a**e with all the red text on a black background. Do they really believe anyone can read any of that? So what sort of sound do you want? I have a bass station which is great for bass sounds and mono stuff, but small keyboard and limiting. I have the GAIA which is very versatile as a synth sounding thing, but with presets and everything, and I also have a Roland Juno DS, which is big but does actual instruments on presets with not much editing. They all make very different sounds. If I wanted to play keys for a coverband, the DS is perfect, you have any sound you need easily from a menu. If I wanted to do organs and the like for rock I would have bought the roland VR-09 instead. The GAIA is great if I wanted to do synth sounds or for pads and washes. If I wanted anything really synthy I would use a waldorf blofeld I have, much more digital sounding. If I wanted just bass, the bass station would probably be the chap.

Don't overlook the sound options that playing through a guitar amp and cab will give you just because they say guitar.

Looks good - I didn't see your reply for some reason, I just saw it tonight. Also it doesn't want to play the video so I have to resort to actually reading the words! I bought the Amp2 for the mac as well. Actually I didn't, I bought FX for the mac accidently, when I meant to buy AMP2, but I contacted them and explained my stupidity and they changed it to Amp2, which was nice of them. One thing I notice on that review, was that things had got so bad it is now cheaper in dollars than pounds!