Happy Jack

I started with a Digitech Drop and was very happy until I trod on the p/s where it exits the pedal ad completely f***ed it. When I looked around for a replacement I was shocked at how expensive they'd become, and even more shocked at just how good the Mooer Pitch Box is for less than half the money and a smaller footprint. Even better, the Mooer has a simple 3-way flick switch which turns it from a pitch-changer into a detune (chorus-y) pedal or a 2-part harmoniser. All that for £62. This video is (a) on guitar and (b) only about the pitch changing.

Try and play a Hofner like a Precision or a Musicman and you're on a hiding to nothing. Recognise that it's a different beast and needs to be played differently and you may well end up a happy bunny.

The f-holes are cunningly designed to draw away the smoke and extract all the soot. It's based on 72,000-year-old Atlantean technology, the sort that they won't tell us about. Anyway, have I told you about my healing crystals?

W T actual F?

Weight?

We always go down well there, and we get four gigs a year there so we keep coming back. Sometimes we get a decent jive-dance crew turn up, which is nice. The place has an 'estate pub' vibe to it, but it's actually a very well-run place and we've never had any grief when gigging there. Apparently what used to be the main music pub in Harlow closed down last year and The Herald is now the only real venue left in the town. Allegedly. I'm not an Essex boy so I have no local knowledge at all.

It's the interior of a 1770s Italian violin, but it makes me think of a Viking longhouse ... can you imagine that as a glorious hall with a fire on the hearth? All it needs is Grendel's arm to nail over the doorway.

That's a big violin you've got there. I'd like to see you get that under your chin.

I'd suggest buying him a lifetime subscription to Basschat, but sadly it's free.

https://www.soundcraft.com/en/products/ui24r Best decision I've made in years.

Interesting. I've been using Reaper for over two years now without hitting that particular barrier, and that's taken me from 5.nn (high numbers) when I bought it to currently 7.07. In truth, I'm not convinced that I'd bother to pay for a further upgrade, simply because (like most people) I use such a limited range of what's on offer that most of the 'improvements' are pretty much irrelevant to me. I could use my current version as a stand-alone for the foreseeable future without it being a problem.

As you say, different strokes. I have a quite specific need: I'll be gigging (for example) tomorrow night in a pub and then Sunday afternoon at a rock'n'roll club. After each gig, I want to take the audio and tidy it up (not drop-ins and such, just a bit of compression and EQ), then match that slightly-enhanced audio to the video taken at the same time. Then I can pick one or two of the best performances or the songs with the best dancing or the ones which make me look even better than I really am and produce a couple of 3-min videos for publication that very day. Being able to do all that, really quickly and easily, and all within the same product and interface, is an attractive proposition. If I was setting out to re-record Dark Side Of The Moon then no, I probably wouldn't recommend Reaper. And if I was looking to re-edit Life On Earth then no, I probably wouldn't recommend Reaper. It's horses for courses, innit?

Huh? Not been my experience at all. One licence purchase, unlimited (and frequent) free upgrades.

You're supposed to spray them occasionally with silicon grease.

I rate Comfort Strapp very highly: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/comfort-strapp-pro-bass-series-strapps/

Wicky Wacker went on to become a famous industrialist ...

Oh God! did I lust after that Dudepit model at the time.

A noisy reformer? Did you plug it into a Trace combo or something? 😉

Quite surprised to see how much these things go for nowadays ... well north of £2k I gather. In all fairness, I greatly prefer the Grabber. I do like me a sliding pickup. 😎

By sheer coincidence, I've just finished watch a twoodfrd YouTube about fixing & setting up one of these.

Too late ... I've already blown the Xmas fund on something else. 🙄 https://www.korg.com/uk/products/synthesizers/rk_100s/index.php Comes with a set of roller skates. Allegedly.

Different strokes for different folks. As an absolutely amateur DAW-user who mainly needs to mix live recordings taken in pubs & clubs the night before, I find it hard to imagine spending 20p on 3rd-party plug-ins, let alone £200. 10 years ago I was happily publishing unmixed, unprocessed MP3s recorded with a Zoom H2 set on a shelf behind the bar at the pub. At the time, unbelievably, that was enough to put my covers band head & shoulders above the local pack. 😂 "That's a live, no-frills recording of us playing the Dog & Duck last week. That's exactly what we sound like. Book my band to play here, and what you hear is what you'll get." I got a LOT of gigs like that. All very different from how @BigRedX (and many others) use a DAW, and I get that. It's worth bearing in mind that the OP (from 2017!) was not "the best DAW" or even "the right DAW for me"; it was "the best value DAW" and a product as good as Reaper that can be had for nothing, not a sausage, bugger all, represents value that simply can't be matched by any of the established high-end competitors. Even if you choose to buy a licence (as I did) you're still looking at a one-off £40 payment for a product that gets improved/fixed/updated quite literally every week.

Reaper. I say again, Reaper. And thrice! Reaper!

After a huge amount of research time and money spent, my opinion is that the best compromise between sound and weight is currently the QSC CP12. It's neither as loud nor as 'hefty' as the QSC K series, the RCF ART 712, or the Mackie SRM450, but it's easily enough for most venues and it weighs 13.7Kg which is about a third less than the others I just mentioned. When it's time to put them on or take them off a pair of shoulder-height poles you really notice that missing weight. Where I need more oomph than that for whatever reason, I just combine them with a couple of sub-woofers sitting on the floor, so no lifting onto poles involved. They also make superb floor monitors.