Woodinblack

Sit down. I did a gig after a knee replacement, just sat on a stool, stuff was carried to me and I had no problem with the gig.

I have never had any of that with pedalboard stuff, but certainly I have when they are loose. If they are bolted and cabletied to a pedalboard then i have never had any problem with the plug end - I really hate the wallwart power supplies, I think they have no place gigging, so I took mine apart and put in a metal box with an IEC lead. I have no problem with mini jacks if the cables are tied down but then i was never a really a fan of 5 pin dins (not that I have had problems with that). My synths run from my iPad from a 3.5mm jack (via an extension that is tied to my microphone stand. I have never had a lead issue on a gig apart from failing XLRs which are the ones that go across the floor. Normally singer related damage. I would agree, that power connector on Smanths box would give me anxiety - I would break that even without the crowd!

I spent a bit of time looking at it. It can and does take (and agrigate if required) midi sources in, and enables you to use full midi (it appears you could actually make a synth with it). WHether there is a compressor that uses the note on / off is probably doubtful as I doubt that many people have ever wanted to do that, but there are several open source plugins which would be easy enough to modify if you could do that, or find someone else to do it. I think for me it would be the ability to run things like that, off the beaten track, and also to make routings that weren't possible on any other multi-fx. Really it is an audio effects processor with jack sockets. The Mod Duo X has proper midi sockets if you need those (and CV and Gate, so more audio processing style) I got mine on ebay, I can't have leads coming out of the back of something straight, as that is where the people are at a gig, and some of them insist on getting pretty close.

Its coming with the new website!

Thats interesting - I didn't know about that, similar to some older projects but all in a box. Basically an audio processor with 2 channels in and out and you can do what you want in the middle. and its not too big (sadly not too many buttons either!). If I could also use that for sample playing (which it seems I could), that could be more useful to me than my current stomp, and also you can make your own pedals

The Spark 40. Did think of getting one of the small ones for moving around.

the original case is pretty good (assuming I had that one - it has the logo on it), or at least it does the job, holds everything and works. I am going to get rid of mine just basically because it is not something I get round to using very often. When I am practicing I tend to use my spark with headphones as it is by my chair, I already have a wireless that I use there anyway, so all it gives me is some (heavy) headphones, that doesn't have the same effects or software of the spark. If I traveled a lot, it would be great, but I really don't much so its not really worth it for me, I think I have only used them a couple of times in the last month or so.

Does it not come with the original case? I don't know, I got mine with the case already second hand. As you have just got one I wont mention any of my current selling plans.. 😊

I think the pickup of the ATK is the thing that made it special. I remember when first had it I wondered what the point of the switch was as the sounds weren't that different, but turned out when playing live at volume it made a huge difference.

Indeed - the knobs on the rhs aren't exactly anything special in the first place!

Its a pain, they used to be really easy to replace just contacting TC. For the shaft you can either replace the pot, which I would imagine isn't an unusual one, or just get some plastic shaft material, try and match the end and glue a new one on. Or like some I have seen, put a screw through it!

I had an ATK305 and it was pretty good - sounded good, played well, but its neck was too wide for me so it never became a favourite. However, it was a very solid bass to play and the pickup was great. I am surprised they don't do them any more, but I guess they know the sales figures!

I do too, but it is in a different price / size category. The B1-4 is cheap and can fit in your gigbag withough you knowing where it is (litterally, I couldn't find mine the other day, it was in a gig bag which I am sure I looked in once) it has next to no competition at that price, the B2 is more a substantial full cost thing and it is in a much more crowded market, it doesn't really seem that competative..

Yes, bought my electronic piano from a seller who was a smoker, it took over 5 years before I could play it across the full range without some sudden smell of smoke.

I must admit that I never use the compressor on my ABM - seems to take the life out of it (as well as the volume). The one on the TC450 seems a lot easier to manage, a lot more progressive.

Pretty delighted I would say!

Its nicked! "I don't know what it is, its from my dad, it says fender or something and it he bought it in 1964" Its an encore.

Good to see you have the brown sound patched in there!

Anyone have any luck contacting music tribe?

Of course it isn't - I won't eat sprouts, I don't like them. I am not cancelling them even though I am not prepared to come to an agreement. However, If Oasis came to me and promised they would be less sh*t I am sure I could find a way to play their music. If Amazon decided not to take over the worlds shopping markets maybe I would use them. But this isn't going to happen - I am a little person and have no power. As has always been the way, the big people crush the little people as they have more power - 'cancel culture' is the shock reaction from big people to little people suddently being able to get an equal power to fight back, and them not being able to get their way. Say for instance, I choose not to play Oasis at a gig (and believe me, I do), noone from Oasis suffers, and I would say the audience gains. So there is no cancelation there. If JK Rowling (as you brought her up) wants to campain to restrict the rights of trans women, then she has the power to make a lot of trans women suffer. This is regardless of whether you agree or disagree on the rights of certain groups of people. If a group of trans women and people who support them want to not support her, that is their right - if they get together and make a campain to not get rid of their rights, then it can appear to be a 'mob mentality', but is she suffering? Of course she isn't - she is still writing, still getting money from films and series. She seems to be doing fine other than she isn't able to get away with what she wants unopposed, and to the outside, as someone with a lot of power that might seem bad because things didn't used to be like that. If she is right in her opinion then presumably she will have a lot of people supporting her. Like John Cleese - has been on basically every media, news report and paper going saying he is cancelled and he isn't allowed to do his humour any more. Like you can't even shut him up, let alone cancel him. If he wants to do his humour he can, but it isn't a right just because he is someone big that people are going to find it funny. Indeed people will say he will be cancelled because he can't do his series, but he really can, just that isn't going to appeal to as large a group of people any more, basically some humour has a time and a place, and his has gone. But when it comes down to songs - if (for instance), someone doesn't want to play sweet home alabama because they think it is racist (which I have already said I disagree with), then there is no harm being done to anyway - there are thousands of other songs to do, and lots of other groups that can do them, so I don't see why there is an issue. Why should someone have to do a song they don't want to do. There are lots of song by people who I totally agree with what they say that I don't want to do,because they aren't songs I have an interest in - is that cancellation? Not a boycot, a choice. But a mob never really does damage to people with power, it only does damage to people with not much power, and has always been such.

Well, I didn't see any of that. I don't play anything I don't want to play, but that isnt' 'cancelling' anyone, that is choosing not to play something.

Apart from robbie williams doing a very bad advert for cat food - I guess that is a money thing more than anything else. Rod Stewart, well, I heard him doing the rounds on the last album on chat shows and his voice (which I never liked) seems to be completely gone.

I don't know, it can work. I love 'This guys in love with you' by Faith No More, and obviously when it comes to crooners, you can't beat Richard Cheese..