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as suspected, if you discount our friends and families it was a really poor turn out... let's hope they don't blame us for not drawing a bigger crowd by not booking us again.

Do you mean 'Harmony Singer', cos there's several that are blue...

thanks, I'm not familiar with these sort of pedals but this looks just the job

Can anyone recommend a vocal effects pedal for our singer that can be used live? We need something that is easy to set up, that can foot-switch between a (programmable) delay setting for songs to a basic clean/touch of reverb setting for talking to the audience between numbers. Ideally something that takes a mic input so it can go between the mic and the PA (we don't carry a mixer as the band only has one mic and our powered PA gives us a mic input with eq (but no built in effects or loop )). Looking at what's available in the big shops I can't see an immediate solution without buying one of the multi-effects units like Zoom or Boss etc. make. Can anyone suggest a solution?

+1 for the Vong. A really useful pedal.

we're playing a new venue (for us) tomorrow evening, a very stylish restaurant. We sent the organiser some visuals a couple of weeks ago, but they didn't post the gig on facebook until two days ago and put up a poster outside the venue yesterday. And they have a chalk board inside that gives the time that is wrong by one hour. If not many show up, it will be so disheartening. OK, we'll get paid but all the effort that goes into it is only worth it if we have a good crowd and a fulfiling experience. It really isn't that difficult nowadays for a venue to get the word out to its regular clients.

I wait with bated breath. Or are you privy to inside information?

isn't it easier to use, er, normal amps and cabs and not switch them on?

All Kent is great, Canterbury excepted.

fascinating but I think I'll stick to 12 bars on a saturday night

OK, then why are people spending £100+ up to big bucks on Furmans for their rack? Can someone who uses one make the case for power conditioners?

I thought it was a bit odd too.... But here's the link: https://smarthomeprotector.com/best-audiophile-power-strip/ And if you scroll to the last entry for the WAudio AC Noise Power Filter it says 'Can sometimes limit the bass of the sound system.'

I'm thinking of getting a power conditioner for (hopefully☺️) some additional piece of mind and perhaps an even a better sounding amp/pedal board. I don't use a rack, so I'd rather not get a rack mount one which most of the ones aimed at band gear seem to be. I'd rather have a unit more like the ones aimed at the hifi market so I can cable out from it using IEC extensions to the amp & pedal board. Some reviews I've read say the bass response might be compromised, so that's a worry🤔. Has anyone any recommendations?

she only comes out now for special occasion gigs, being an older lady, although that happened yesterday and there's another opportunity tomorrow (unless it rains). No firewood jokes please.

I'm a bit late to this party, but here's mine for what it's worth: tuner - limiter - unichorus - l/hpf with a Harley Benton power supply and a homemade base.

good story and amazing right hand technique

The Musicmaster is a great bass to play and it sounds as good as anything I've heard (a bit subjective, I know). I've made a couple of essential (and reversable) upgrades - the pickup is a Curtis Novak, and locking compensated saddles - otherwise pure Californian '71.

Here's my #1 Fender rig: Bassman 500, Rumble 2x10, Rumble 1x15, Musicmaster, tuner and HPF out of shot:

two gigs a month is ideal for me. I'm more interested in the difficulty of travel / parking / get in as I find most pubs (where we do pretty much all our work) are much of a muchness. That said, our gig last Sunday was at one of the loveliest pubs in Kent with the worst travel & parking I've encountered.

That's bad news. Hope you get it all back undamaged and the scumbags who did it are caught. I will keep an eye open down this neck of the woods.

looking at the specs for this unit, I wouldn't rely on it for a two-setter down the pub, when the quoted battery life is only '2-3 hours'.

I bought a Marshall 50w head and 4x12 from a bloke in a pub in Willenhall (the Brown Jug at Lane Head, if you know the area) in about 1973/4, he claimed he was Noddy Holder's roadie and they had been given a load of new stuff by management so the old gear was being sold off. I never checked out if the story was true, but it was decent and well worn gear and the story suited me to believe it. My first amp & cab, it lasted me a fair few years before I foresaw back-knack.

what strings are you using? It could be a simple as changing to a different set.