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I got a Future Compact case a while back in glorious Blue, and it's cracking. Let me keep my FI on the smaller board! @GisserD makes good stuff. IIRC I did a little work on the screw holes so the screws would fit nicely and everything bolted together wonderfully.

@colleya - interested to know your ampless setup on the HX stomp - did you use an XLR adaptor, or do you have a DI box you use?

I literally had a first dip gig with Full Flavour last night and they have these. I was wondering where they were from! BTW - if anyone gigs in the Camberley / Blackwater area, Mr Bumble is a nice venue to play - audience skews slightly older, so the classics go down well - and for a 5-piece we got £75 each, so for a pub gig, that's pretty good. Appreciative audience, good beer, and they have 3 pool tables out back, where apparently if the band stops everybody asks why the music stopped, so there's that! Here's the setlist (ignore the key sigs, we sorted that out later :-D) - indication of what works. The Weekend track (blinding lights) was amazing (no rehearsal, first go!) - the keyboard player I know from the Alanis covers band, and he'd spent some time on the synth sounds for it. I'd found a great Moog patch for the C4 synth pedal which swelled beautifully and brought in the texture with harder playing, and it all sounded amazing. Lovely when that happens. Has anyone dug out the tools and adjusted their bass action halfway through a gig? First set (I didn't get the chance to warm up properly) I realised the action was a little high, and after a quick quarter-turn down on the bottom 3 strings, things were a lot less difficult (I keep the neck really flat on my basses). Always take tools 🙂 Set 1 Let me entertain you 125 E 💯 You should be dancing 125 Gm 💯 Don’t stop me now 151 A 💯 I’m still standing 89 Bb 💯 Video killed the radio star 131 C#/Db 💯 Cosmic Girl 120 B 💯 Angels 150 E 💯 I feel good 142 D 💯 Dancing in the dark 149 C#/Db - write out the structure Superstition 100 E 💯 Baby when you’re gone 125 C 💯 Hard to Handle 104 E 💯 Simply the best 120 F 💯 Blinding lights 171 D#/Bb - write out a structure (not a complex song) Uptown Funk 115 C 💯 Summer of 69 139 D 💯 Set 2 Final Countdown 118 F#/Gb 💯 All right now 120 D 💯 Mama Mia 138 D 💯 Pinball Wizard 123 C - write out the structure and watch for the modulated last verse Don’t stop Believing (Journey) 119 E 💯 Sweet Home Alabama 98 G 💯 Remember us this way 130 C - write out the structure, not too complex Rebel yell 166 E 💯 Man I feel Like a Woman 125 Bb 💯 Don’t stop (FMac) 119 A 💯 Proud Mary 171 D 💯 It’s my life 120 C - write out the structure Highway to Hell 116 F#/Gb 💯 We will rock you 81 D 💯 I love rock and roll 94 E 💯 Bat out of Hell (Introduce band??) 172 F - DEFINITELY write out the structure - LONG SONG Sweet Child of mine 125 F#/Gb 💯 Sweet Caroline (Last tune) 63 B 💯 Extras:-, 500 miles 132 E 💯

I did the same on my board! Works a treat and very handy.

Been there! I know so many amazing drummers down here in the Thames valley. Lovely times ❤️

Fascinating. I’m late to the party on this one, and it’s been many years since I was in this kind of situation, but the memory is fresh. It’s always interesting to me that some musicians develop enormous egos, some pass through that stage, some don’t. The ones that don’t are often the ones who don’t progress musically anyway - which is usually a sign they’re not that great. They’re the ones who still crank volume WAY too high and rehearsals and gigs, take ludicrous solos (and yes, you always sigh inwardly during the gig when that happens) and generally have the diva thing going on if there’s something else in their lives bothering them which has FA to do with the gig. My take is always to be the coward. If that stuff starts rearing its ugly head, wait until you feel like it’s not fun, then bow out and find something more fun to do. Tell them you need something fresh, or you need a change of direction, anything useful. The egomaniac will know, in their heart of hearts, exactly why you’re going, but it won’t make any difference to their behaviour, and you’ll hear whispers about the whole thing fizzling out a few weeks later. Sesame Street: A is for a*%hole 😂🤣 (jk)(a bit)

I’m on SBL, and I created a Google Sheets thing with automation with schedules the courses I work on. I do maybe 1 to 1.5 hours a night - sometimes it’s not courses, but prep for gigs (like tonight), but I’m always trying to improve my weak spots. I’ve played since I was 18 and I’m 55 now, but I only started really practicing with intent back in 2017 when I joined SBL. Prior to that, it’d be warmups (from an A4 sheet I created), then playing along with songs. Since 2017, I’ve learned to walk bass properly, retrained my slap from Flea to Marcus Miller (still perfecting but it’s come a huge way), and loads more. part of the driver is reviewing how far you’ve come. It’s like looking back down the mountain.

Bump to ensure people still see this 🙂

I've read the specs and that thing has a serious ARM core on it, but there is processing delay, it's not *no* additional latency.

Dear lord, what's the latency on that?!

Nice solution! Like the patchy - I'm guessing that's your own design? I just made one for my filter board: Gave me an appreciation for guys like Bright Onion - enjoyed the process, but weighing up the cost their service is a damn good one.