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SSL have a new AI powered EQ, Dynamics and Mix Buss set of jobbies. £79 initial price. Until you actually order them. Then they smack £15.80 on top for tax. Pretty uncool behaviour. It does say Tax Excluded on the page, but who reads that when the ads all say "introductory £79"? Humph.

Ooh ooh ooh. I have a Chris Childs story! As he moved up the ladder, he left a vacant spot with a Cardiff based Theatre Company which were pushing forward the boundries of theatre as we then knew it. They were called Brith Gof. With substantial Arts Council funding. I have no idea how my name came up. I lived 5 hours away at the other end of Wales. Anyway, they were writing their next production (8 way sound system on 40 foot scaff towers in one of the Harland and Wolf shipyard buildings). One player on each tower and a joystick to pan us to anywhere while the audience were pounded by waves of sound. They were also dodging earth and chalk dust. While the performers flew in on harnesses. I was sent a cassette of what Chris had put down. It was a fretless concerto. I immediately knew that I was WAY out of my depth and my time with them would last the 10 minutes it took for the MD to realise I was not Chris and never would be Chris. Astonishingly I was kept on. If you ever read this Chris, cheers! I had a lot of fun.

It is a new name for me. But those knobs look lush!

His work is the bomb.

U5. Nice.

Plantation Lullabies by M'eshell.

I had a Session 4x10 combo which I put on top of a 15" JBL scoop bin. I ruled.

I played some nice dry single note stuff like that last night. Well it was kind of like that once I had hard quantised it. Like that without the tone.

Piano and either strings, "hammond" or moving to an actual harp.

You got the Jools gig?

The concept of buying 2nd hand basses does not phase me at all. 2nd hand monitors from an unknown source are just slightly too exciting for me. I shall go and listen to some options later on in the month. The interesting bit is that once the Yamahas were Sonor Works'd in place they were not a significant step up from my 1983 B&W DM110i + my Mission Cyrus 1 amp. Different, yes, but not "oh wow!!!" better.

Thanks everyone. I keep looking at the 66J on my wall that I have not played in anger for 30+ years and wondering what shaped monitors it could turn into. And acoustic treatment, obv. Only an idiot would have lush speakers in a bare room!

I suspect that the broad glamourisation of drugs in music is down to journalists making things more fabulous than they are. "Ooh look at then being naughty, they are getting away with it and are epically cool. I wish that was me". Ask anyone who has experience of heroin (other drugs are available) addiction either personally or within their family, and I can guarantee they will not be saying "yeah, but the songs made it all worth it". Have some people produced interesting stuff while using drugs? Yes. Would they produce interesting stuff anyway? More than likely, this was just a different flavour of whatever would be. We only read about the tiny percentage of people who have "done the thing" and " produce the thing". The rest of the people who have "done the thing" and produced "not the thing" are not eulogised by those who write about it - the tastemakers/gatekeepers.

My Sub Phatty came with aftermarket wooden end cheeks as well as the originals. I am sure it is trying to look like something it is not.

I bought a Reunion Blues bag 25 (?) years ago. I remember it being heiniously expensive. I would not change that decision. It has been the absolute bomb. I know that they are no longer available - my point is that if I was shopping again I would go to that end of the market. So much cheaper than getting donks sorted by "my" luthier.

Slow and steady wins the race.

As I have mentioned somewhere else on here, you will find that most players have at least some reference points in the grain of the neck. However, you will also find that people who are playing classical professionally have YEARS of muscle memory to rely on.

Thanks. I am looking for active boxes. My 1982 B&W DM110i + Mission Cyrus 1 amp have been doing sterling service, but it is time for an upgrade.

Awkward!!!!