King Tut

I’ve got the Bugera head. This looks like a bloody good combo for the money, the heads are great. They missed a trick by not having a speaker out connection though.

I’m out, just bought a pack of pedal toppers for the Stomp. Not too extravagant though!!

This was Friday at The Craufurd. Top to bottom: LD headphone transmitter, Bugera Veyron MOSFET (spare), GK MB500 main amp and Supertwin. Had the same rig the following night at The Cart and Horses but used their in house Blackstar 4x10. I used my Ric 4003 on Friday and my Fender pro Jazz on Saturday with a Lekato wireless into an HX Stomp XL.

That sounds pretty cool - I'm well into the process of learning my Stomp XL after swapping over from Zoom so I don't see myself investing time into another system at the moment - I will check the vids out though - thanks!

I may have sounded a bit glib here, apologies if I did. I never realised IR’s were just about cab sims, I thought you could maybe sample an effect and recreate it on another unit - what a donut!!🍩 Anyway, really appreciate all the responses and probably will download some and have a play!

Well - as I don’t use cab sims live I very much doubt I’ll be messing with IR’s but thanks for the pointers peeps!

This weekend I’m out with Stray. On Friday it’s a home fixture at The Craufurd Arms in Wolverton MK, then on Saturday we’re at The Iron Maiden pub - The Cart and Horses in London. Come say hi!

Could some of you kind people explain IR’s to me please? For context, I’m in the process of transitioning from Zoom to Line 6 and I’m finding my way around a Stomp XL. So, what are they, how do you use them, where do you get them, can you tweak them and are they worth bothering with? Thanks in advance!

I spotted this on FB recently. It all looked pukka but I reckon if something looks too good to be true then it probably is!

That’s pretty straightforward, cheers!

Thanks mate, I understand the festival organisers are picking us up from the airport so I’m sure they’ll have that in hand!

We’ve got a festival in Sweden in July. We’ll be flying in to Denmark then driving across the bridge to the gig in Sweden. I understand the regs on Carnets were relaxed a couple of years ago - what’s the score these days and is there anything peculiar to Denmark and Sweden? Thanks in advance.

Thought this post was about alcohol recovery for a moment 🙀

I played my first ever gig in Milton Keynes City Centre. A lady approached our bandleader and asked if she could manage us. He agreed and a couple weeks later we were all off to Camden for an audition for Sky Star Search. We to a slot and next thing we were on telly, show hosted by Keith Chegwin with Barbara Windsor and Simon Potter (Who?) as the judges. The spinal tap moment was getting voted runners up being beaten by a sax playing comedian in a wheelchair! It all went downhill from there!!

Arrived at Bideford Bay Holiday Camp for a Blues Festival. The band was Stray but billed as Del Bromhams Blues Devils. Rather than check out our cabins we decided to play first and sort it later. By the time we’d played it was pitch black and we drove around the holiday camp in the peeing rain looking in vain for our accommodation. We parked up and one of the roadies volunteered to go on foot to find the cabins. So off he and his helper trotted. Once they were clear of the bus, Del put on his best upper class royal accent and said “Hmnn just as well we have staff!”. Cue immediate eruptions of guffaws! Anyway, we eventually found our cabins only to find that the electricity was metered pay as you go with tokens that could be brought from reception which was now shut. With just a tiny bit of power left we had to eke it out the best we could until we set off next day. The glamour of being in a touring band eh?!

That'll learn me!!

Dumb question, but when you plugged into the board are you sure you had the volume AND gain controls turned up? Was your speaker lead connected both ends?

There’s not a headphone socket on these Stub

That’s not working properly. They should both work together. I’ve gigged one a few times with a cab and di out.

Just traced the fault to a loose screw in the speaker lead speakon plug. Just threadlocking all my speaker plugs at the mo as a preventative measure - cheers for the heads up though!

Yeah that’d be good. Don’t see too many about though. Unless you’re selling one?

My GK MB500 started cracking at a gig on Tuesday so I swapped to my spare amp. I’ve got another spare amp but it won’t fit into my gig case with my first spare amp so looking at a nano mark 300. Or maybe a bigger case. Can’t recreate the fault on the GK. Decisions decisions, either way it looks like I’ll soon be out!!

How very sad.