Osiris

High voltage - AC/DC Hopefully that's self explanatory 😃

Don't expect roses - Therapy

Through glass - Stone Sour

Who are you - Black Sabbath

2000 lightyears from home - The Stones

Drag it down - New Model Army

In my case, it's a damaged Ulna nerve. Might be worth Googling the symptoms to see if they match yours? With me it's more in the wrist and the elbow, I don't have any issues with the palm so maybe it's something else in your case? Either way it might be worth a quick look if only to eliminate the possibility.

I have nerve damage in my left arm and wrist caused by years of cycling. 3 or 4 years ago I was at the point where I could no longer play a 34" scale bass for more than a few minutes without cramping up and getting fatigued in my left hand. A mate of mine who is a medical professional suggested trying out a short scale and another mate of mine had an Ibanez Talman that he let me borrow for a couple of weeks - and it was a life saver. The first fret being 4" closer makes a massive difference, especially if you're a bit of a short arse like me, I can play a short scale for hours without any cramps or fatigue, something no amount of warm up or exercises was going to help with on a 34". If you have a similar issue I'd say don't even think about it, just try a short scale and see, it'll hopefully be as much as a revelation to you as it was to me. All my 34" scale basses have been sold off and I now only play short scales, whenever I play a 34" now they feel cumbersome and impractical, and I wonder how I managed to struggle on for so long.

New dawn fades - Joy Division

Don't want to know if you are lonely - Husker Du

Is there anybody out there? - Pink Floyd

Had I have seen this earlier I'd have had a pair of the 1x12 cabs, even allowing for VAT that would still have only worked out around £250~ish for them both. Bügger! I'm guessing it's end of line blowout stock from Tech 21 so there's unlikely to be any more at that price. Unless anyone knows different?

Where I find my heaven - Gigolo Aunts

Second chance - Shinedown

Slow and steady wins the race. Good job really as speed isn't so easily achieved when dragging an exoskeleton around at all times 🦀. But baby steps are the way to go, it's not something anybody will master overnight, take your time, experiment with the various controls, listen and feel to what's happening to the sound, how much more consistent and controlled the bass is, how it sits better with the instruments around it, how it becomes more punchy and so on. As a sweeping generalisation less is usually more, and embrace the fact nobody other than you may notice or care.

I've played with the Tone Print editor for both the Sprectracomp and the Hyper Gravity and it's pretty much identical in terms of parameters, although I seem to the ink the SC had 48 different settings you can configure last time I looked, which admittedly was 2 or 3 years ago. My first reaction was bewilderment too but you've essentially got the same controls for each of the 3 bands - plus a couple of global parameters such as crossover points. If you have a little understanding of what each control does, your basic threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee then it soon becomes pretty intuitive to use and you can be creating your own sounds shortly after. For example, with my Hyper Gravity I set up a patch that was essentially a single band compressor, I set the low band to work as an adjustable high pass filter assigned to one of the physical controls and set the high band at a high frequency (<5KHz, IIRC) with a low ratio to work as subtle brightness boost on another of the physical controls. The mid band did the heavy lifting of the main, full band-ish compression. The patch resulted in being part compressor, part 3 band EQ. The other 2 physical controls were one adjusting the threshold of the mid band and a master volume which also brought in more clean signal as you boosted it. While dual and multi band compressors are technically 'better' for bass compression I do like the overt sound of single band bass compression, when done right I like the way that it clips the lows, especially when using a more immediate compressor type, FET designs being perfect for this type of thing. But you can do what you want with the TC pedals, everything from subtle and transparent to flat out squash. With the Tone Print app the world, as they say, is your lobster.

Come as you are - Nirvana

Sounds perfect, I'll keep an eye and nose out for the post man over the next few days.

Machine gun etiquette - The Damned

I feel dirty and ashamed for saying this but I'll say it anyway... @Al Krow I actually agree with you on this. There, I said it. . As much as I usually enjoy Steve Cook's Premier Guitar vids, he doesn't really do that Boss comp justice in that video. At the time points you mentioned it is very squashed sounding - although in respect to the comment you made about him managing to get a bad sound out of it when he said it was impossible, you need to remember he's playing a very hot 18V bass through it so he's hitting the threshold a lot harder than you would with a 'normal' bass, which is what is causing the excessively squashed sound at times. It's this amount of audible squash, where you can very obviously here the compression working, that people complain about compression killing their dynamics. The Bass Gear Review video, below, shows off the pedal - and therefore compression - in a much more positive light, IMO. Just about every playing style is covered and in almost all of them you can hear the effect of the compression when the pedal is engaged, the bass sounds more refined, controlled and more even while in most cases the dynamics are still retained. Pay particular attention to the jolly Frenchman at 3.53, listed to how once the pedal is kicked in at 4.02 all of a sudden there is extra definition and separation between the notes making the piece sound more... professional, for want of a better description. And that's just from listening to it through crappy laptop speakers. The Boss wasn't previously on my radar even though I love their LMB-3 Bass Limiter pedal, but I'm going to have to try the BC-1X out for myself after watching this. If anyone wants me over the next few days I'll be in the bath vigorously scrubbing myself with a wire brush and some Domestos.

Ooh, that looks like fun, I'd like to have a play with something like that. But then again I'd only end up using one channel, maybe two if I was feeling really clever (rarely these days) but it's somewhat overkill for my needs. But seeing as we're on compressors again, I wonder how long it'll be before everything goes south again!?!? In terms of things I'd run away from it's got to be anything sunburst. Awful. Just awful. And tort scratch plates which are equally disgusting. The two together are an affront to all that is good and holy in the world. Oh, and Stingrays, that weird nasal mid range thing they do really irritates my delicate sensibilities.

Got the time - Joe Jackson

Do you still believe that to be the case?

Room a thousand years wide - Soundgarden

Ego, the living planet - Monster Magnet