NancyJohnson

I think you need to source a Thunderbird body and get the chisels out...

@EJWW I've read down your OP, interesting. You spend the first six stanzas doubting your ability and the final one of which you're saying these guys were PROS; you then follow this by saying you had an uninterested audience, you started Teenage Kicks in the wrong key (I'm sure Michael Bradley would be having a meltdown at this) and that you got the evil eye from the singer. Never feel that you need to be in awe of other players and never be scared of whatever ability they may allude to have. While you may consider them as being PROS (your capitalisation), they're just a covers/wedding band; testament to the fact that they're covering 40 year old punk covers to an uninterested crowd. I've encountered many bands like this, many Creme Brulees.

I bought a Badtz-Maru that was based off a Bronco I believe. The machines were terrible so I decided to enlarge the holes for better tuners. Catastrophic headstock failure. I looked for necks for a while. Bought a 70s one from the US; it looked great, but (unbeknownst to me until arrival) had a terrible front bow and the truss rod was maxxed out. The body sat in a box in the spare room for ages (two or three years) until I finally got a Squier neck from the Stratosphere. Back then, they just didn't come up anywhere.

Get one from the Stratosphere. Honestly, life is too short.

Isn't the four-at-a-time thing just about assignment in your DAW? On my DAW, you just select the output route off the interface; the DAW recognises the total number of outs on the interface and allows them all to be assigned to individual tracks.

Broken arm/collarbone aside, guitarist/producer still throwing stuff out there:

Gibson have made a statement: “The Firebird X destruction video was an isolated batch of Firebird X models built in 2009-2011 which were unsalvageable and damaged with unsafe components. This isolated group of Firebird X models were unable to be donated for any purpose and were destroyed accordingly.” If the components were unsafe, what about the components in the ones that suckers people actually shelled out $3K for?

Did anyone see this? I know the Firebird X was a bit of a munter, but couldn't these instruments have been distributed to good causes or stripped and retooled? I've no idea how old the footage is, but it does seem horribly wasteful. Even the pickups (Gibson mini-humbuckers) are the same as the ones in regular Firebirds. Maybe it's a way of giving ol' Henry's legacy the finger, but like I said, Gibson just get weirder and weirder.

Back in the day (damn, I hate that expression!) or when all this was fields, weren't Carvin guitars kit built things? Also seem to remember Schecter being the same.

I'll admit we borrowed from Public Service Broadcasting on a sampling level, but musically we're totally different. Umm, the process? We don't write in the construct of a regular band; the guitarist just records and records constantly, I'll pop over to his home studio without the slightest idea of what he's done, he'll loop sections of music of which I'll track bass against on the fly and all the while he's recording everything. We'll cut and paste my content and then I'll rerecord. I'll do a four or five hour session, then go home. A few days later a rough arrangement will arrive. I'll go his studio the following week, we'll fix the recordings of the previous week and then record more. And repeat. At this point it's just guitar/bass/drums (some live, some MIDI, some live loops) and maybe some keyboards. At this juncture, we just start arseing around; guitarist has terrabytes of samples, noises etc. which we'll just start dropping in to complete the music. Once we have this, we decide the subjectmatter, locate voice samples and just drop them in. It's really easier than it actually sounds. On Jonestown, that's actually Jim Jones talking, just prior to giving the instruction to his followers to drink the flavour-aid. It's harrowing.

You're very kind!

I have nothing to really add to the map you've posted. If that's us, then good company. We're definitely called Lutz - we only chose it because we couldn't find anyone else with the same name at the time. There's another (very recent) thread elsewhere on these hallowed boards covering the newer stuff we're in the process of unleashing - there's a Soundcloud link to a new track called Jonestown. We're very close to finishing album/collection #2, but our producer/guitarist broke his left shoulder and upper arm in a motorbike vs. car accident two days ago, so things will stall for a few weeks unless I pick up guitar duties in post.

Please, nobody mention shims.

My mate will be at the Opera House on Friday night with The Members.

Lutz are good. We They have an album on Spotify/Apple, called Nowherebound.

I've never seen anyone put an extension on top of a combo. No reason not to, I suppose...

Just back from the guitarist's house. Said he was moving past stationary traffic on his motorbike and a woman just pulled out of her drive, through a gap in the traffic and hit him full on his left side. He was only about a half mile from home too. He's feeling very fed up, understandably. He hasn't had a poop yet either.

Thing is, most of us have seen said photos many times before...

I've lost count of the different combinations I've gone through and I concur with the OP that Ashdown stuff (irrespective of its reliability and general robustness) weighs a ton. When I had my Hartke deal, I just loved the combination of a 1x15 and a 2x10...it was pretty effortless to get what I wanted out of it, but after winning Alex's Barefaced Big One prototype at the SE Bash (which is a 15/6), I doubt I'd ever want to go back to multiple cabinets or different combinations.

Amazingly, it's just in a sling.

Well, at least he's alive. Left arm broken in two places between his shoulder and elbow, plus he's left handed. He texted me about half hour ago, explaining that while it was hurty and he'd only got three hours kip, his main concern was how he was going to wipe his bottom after a poop.

Rather than everyone posting photos, Bertie old boy, can you remember what you were watching? Channel etc.

Oh, damn. Lutz on hold for a bit. Pete James, our erstwhile guitarist and producer, proved last night that when cars pull out in front of motorbikes, it's always the biker that comes off worse. Ouch.