NancyJohnson

Weird resurrection stuff. It's funny how, after such a strong start, things went downhill so quickly. Guitarist and erstwhile producer involved in a low speed motorbike accident a few months ago, shattering his collarbone and arm broken in two places. Prior to this we'd tracked a load of bits, but everything went south while he got straight, so it was somewhat of a lumpy mid-section. Fast forward to November 2019 and he can finally throw on a guitar, so we're back on it again. He's busily cutting and pasting and I'm staggered with how good these results are, most of which I have little or no memory of actually tracking as much as ten months ago. So as 2019 draws to a close, I can only say, hell, 2020 has got to be better, eh?

The existing Schallers are in pretty good shape...if you want to hit me up etc. I think a D-tuner is just something I could throw on there and rarely use, but (like compressors), it would be nice to try one.

My wife is asking me what I want for Christmas and I suppose I'm at the stage in life where if I want anything I just buy it, so pickings are short, really. That said, was thinking though about throwing a D-Tuner into the mix. I have an old Aria Primary Bass that has a set of clover-leaf Schaller BMF F-Series machines, effectively these: Schaller don't seem to make a D-tuner any more, but Hipshot make the BT2: The mounting holes look similar, so I'm assuming installation would be easy enough. I'm wondering whether anyone has mixed things up and installed a Hipshot with Schallers? If so, do the clover leafs line up properly in general use or look odd? Also, could the clover-leaf/peg be swapped over from the Schaller to the Hipshot to match the patina of the Schallers (rather than having a shiny new one up against three old ratty ones)? Thanks

I have a top five, I mean, doesn't everyone? I just fancied it. It's like comfort eating.

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack. It's one of my favourite albums and makes me think I'm 15 again.

Two of my band (Lutz), play in a ukelele band called The Mighty Lemons. Not my thing at all, but I do kind of understand their obsession. Our studio space seems to be filling with them, but luckily they're all left handed ones. As an aside, my wife bought me a cheapie one for Christmas from Lidl a few years ago; I doubt it cost more than £20 tops. I wouldn't bother with buying another (better?) one...can't see the fuss.

Never too old to join/form a band. Personally, I'm happyish at the moment; ongoing studio project (Lutz), occasional depping (Rocket66), my own studio thing (Amphibious Vehicles). I did try out with some blokes a few days back and they were terrible, which kind of reinforces the question of whether I even want to do a proper band again. That's the question, not that you think you're too old!

Ooh, you're just setting her up for a bunch of curvy body, long neck and wooden head style gags here.

I love the St Vincent.

The sadness of this video is the championing of gear destruction just because it doesn't compare to more expensive stuff, thus going under the sledgehammer. It's 2019 folks, pretty much everything manufactured nowadays is generally going to be fittish for purpose; let's face it, while it's probably unlikely many Line6 Spider combos will be gracing big stages, but for bedroom, rehearsal or pub gig stuff, it's going to be fine and compared to what we all probably had access to when we first started out, these modelling amps are like something out of Tomorrows World. It really just sickens me that these asshats are just making a (small) name for themselves by subjecting usable gear to destruction, when it could be donated to a kid.

This was like watching Jeremy Clarkson. The Spider IV was under £200 new, it just opens up a huge variety of sounds and it records well. It's never been out of my house. I think the laughable element of these kind of reviews is that the guy is probably making a comparison against head/cab combinations that cost ten or twenty times the price of the Spider, so honestly, what does this guy expect?

As this thread took a little modelling amp swerve, I'll just throw in my 2 cents. I don't play much guitar, but I do own a combo - a Line 6 Spider IV - that I use for home recording; to my ears it sounds fine for demos...DI'd or cranked on the landing with a microphone in front of it. Whilst yes, I know that Line 6 stuff is sneered at and that this probably hasn't been withing a mile of a valve, a guitarist who's used it for recording at mine just loves the thing and compares it favourably with this Orange head and 4x12 and doesn't have an issue getting usable tones out of it. Moving along, small valve amps. I'm watching a small valve combo on eBay at the moment (no, I'm not saying what), that ticks all my boxes. It's a bit of a one trick pony, visually it's a bit retro, but I'll see where the auction goes over the next few days.

They (to date) have done six or seven albums, there was a bit of a hiatus period while they all seemed to be doing other work. Sadly, much a case of diminishing returns though; first album was brilliant pop/punk, the second had a couple of terrible tracks, and so on.

American Hi-Fi, first album. I think this was one of the first albums I downloaded on Napster (don't get your panties in a twist, I've bought it). It's a very strong debut...haven't listened to it in yonks.

Please tell me it wasn't being sold by the purveyor of instruments for people with big hands.

Some bloke called Thomas. Think his surname was Cook, or something.

Just concerning his feedback, as eBay buyers are now anonymous, what's to say the guy isn't getting his missus to buy his stuff and put positive feedback up? Also I'm uncertain whether there's any speedy way to ascertain whether he's relisted previously sold stuff, if at all.

Holiday for two in Crete.

I think the Lull JAXT4 is the closest I'm going to get. At a push (and for want of mixing things up), I do love the out-of-the-box tone a 4003 gives you, so maybe a JAXT4 with the guts of a Rickenbacker.

I find his written texts hard to work through. Does anyone remember the old Babel Fish translator site? You could type something in there and it would translate it from English back into English, via simplified Chinese, Esperanto and Navajo.

I saw it on eBay a while back!

I owned a Geddy Lee Jazz. It was OK, although I was probably more enamoured with the way it looked, although profess a little disappointment that the fingerboard blocks were painted on. Gone! A Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string. Difficulty getting a decent tone from it really. Didn't fit with anything I did. Gone! [Edit] God, yes. Lakland DJ5. I forgot this one. One of my Lulls is a Jeff Ament/Pearl Jam model, a JAXT4. I just adore the oversized body, the neck profile and the tone. I suppose I also love it from the perspective that it's not been produced in big numbers either, I think Lull had made about a dozen tops when I got mine.

Time for a bit of experimentation.