Woodinblack

I think the OLPs are great for experimenting on, cheap and loads of space to work with.

Well, when I was young we saw the bigger groups at the Portsmouth Guildhall, but they were very cheap and affordable compared to how much we had, so it was actualy the same price as going to the pub, which obviously we did quite often, because that was cheap. There would often be a band in the pub, or one of the smaller venues. None of those things are that cheap any more. But then, it was the status of those groups, you see iron maiden / scorpions / Dio etc, they weren't mega legacy groups at hte time, they were just the normal groups

When I was first out of school there was a works canteen, but since that job I have never worked anywhere big enough to have a works canteen. Since 1983 I haven't worked at anywhere with over 20 employees - oh hang on, not true, I worked at westlands but that was mostly from home too, and when we were in contractors didn;t go to the canteen (in fact I am not sure where it was)

Well, yes, when I said I WFH all the time, we actually go in every other tuesday, where we have a couple of meetings, then go down the pub at lunchtime (when we were full time there we never went down the pub), then chat - so it is more a sociable time. It is nominally a work day but we go home earlier and nothing really gets done, even indivual sessions where you need to help someone discuss something don't tend to be as productive as on teams as its generally just too noisy with too much going on.

Yes, the knob location isn't standard for the OLP so I assumed there was something else in there.

I have an OLP and use it quite a lot, they are really good for cheap things. Mine isn't any hotter than any other bass I have, but it has a stinger preamp on it so maybe the original wasn't good.

Agreed - speaking as a full time working from home guy, when I was working from work I took my lunch with me, and work was about 15 minutes, so expenses wise, apart from burning more fossil fuel it wasnt adding anything. Maybe 'normal' depends on the area. and I get more done, isn't that the idea of productivity, rather than everyone going out and buying sandwhiches and making things dirty?

Portsmouth PMT I would have a long history with, as it was originally Telecoms, then Nevada. I bought all my first musical equipment there, my first new guitar (a westone concorde), electric piano, pretty well every effect boss did in the 80s, used to practically live there in the early 80s!

Absolutely wouldn't be something I used (3 up or down), I guess they just put it there as they could

they did - thats what i mean, they used to have that (and wasn't there a PMT in plymouth?), but no longer.

The gigs are still good, I think the rehearsals with my main group that might end up pushing me out of the game!

Good clips, if nothing else, it does tell you to avoid the 3 octave up mode!

Yeh, PMT used to be quite good for bass stuff until they moved, only went in a few times after they moved and they weren't as good. But there were others down your way, such as dawsons, in exeter, but they didn't have that much.

Point of order, there aren't any half decent outlets with any choice in Bristol!

Well, some good scavenging there then! Will keep facebook fullerton marketplace busy for a while!

What was skipped? (for those of us that can't get more than 2 seconds through a Sapko youtube!)

Hope it goes better than it appears and all is well soon Greg.

Ah, sorry, didn't know that, I just use the file or a polishing block to do that.

Yeh, I wouldn't have put up with that, I would join the ranks of the bassplayers that had left (or probably more likely been sacked for turning the top and bottom knob of the bongo flat out, the middle two off and slapping the whole set - trebbly enough for you?)

Slipknot - Duality, which was a lot trickier than I was expecting, and Muse, Unravelling. I mean I am also learning Staying out for the summer by tricky for the other group, but as we haven't had a practice for a while, which means that when we get back together the guitarist will a have forgotten it again and take the practice to relearn it, I am not putting too much effort into it!

Well, there is one on eBay but not sure how much I trust that advert!

I think for me, now I see I can have a couple of presets, the XS-1 is probably going to be the right one, no room for a XS-100 and no use for the expression pedal on a pitch shifter.

Although it is a bit of a pain, £25 doesn't seem too much considering that you be getting less money second hand anyway

So reading the manual, am I right that you could have 3 presets? It says in the manual that using a dual footswitch you can set what the footswitch does by pressing it and setting the controls. That means you could have two for the footpedals, and one for the button? In which case I can emulate a footswitch with my midi controller so that would be fine