Paul S

Turret tapes for me

Possibly the wrong thread

I've always had a similar horrible noise. Class D, hybrid, tube amp - always the same horrible noise. Swapped to FRFR and a pedal, yup, same horrible noise. It's just my playing

Snoozing in my summerhouse

These are my favourites, too - where the seller tries to assume a position of knowledge but gets it all wrong. 'Lawsuit era from the legendary Matsamoki (sic) factory'. Etc.

'If you are reading this you already know...' I'd still like to be told, though.

Controversially, my first name is Paul and my surname begins with S. I know, a real man of mystery.

I've probably said all those things at one point or another

Back to joking, this reminds me of an old one. Who is the coolest cat in the hospital? The ultrasound guy And when he is on holiday it is the hip replacement man.

I don't think Roxy Music were underrated - they were MASSIVE at the time. I wore out 'For Your Pleasure', what a great album. 'In Every Dream Home a Heartache' is up there in my all time favourite tunes. Spacey weirdness - and what a guitar solo on the outro! Ferry had such a unique style back then.

Depends on what channels the hotel TV has, I suppose.

How heavy are these?

UB40 made a career out of it.

Love Games might be more fitting

Much neater. You should offer pedal board feng shui services. After all, tone and functionality are merely irritating side issues.

This. Ever so very much this. You've got your tone shaping done via the pedal, all you need is to stick it through a powered FRFR. It is SO much simpler and eliminates the madness inducing rabbit hole of 'which backline'. If you already DI you just need on stage monitoring (or in-ears, but that is another rabbit hole) I took the plunge about 3 years ago and wish I had done it long ago. Then again I don't think the FRFR stuff was as good or as light years ago. It really is liberating!

Nickleback did a terrible cover of Elton John's 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting'. Sucked all the life, spark and fizz out of the original with just their regulation palm-muted distorted guitar riffs and the usual hoarse throat barked out vocals. Just noticed the video says GOOD QUALITY. No, it isn't. IMO etc.

Small nuts. Not being personal, but small nuts slid along the string would do the same job.

There's been a few over the years. Here's the most recent one.

That is just the ticket.

Thank you. The Lidl option sounds good - better than daisy chaining, anyway, and probably easier to set up. Soldering is off the agenda for me as my hands shake too much - I'd either end up in A&E or burning the house down.

I take that as a 'no' then 🤣

I fitted a DiMarzio to an Epiphone EB-0 some years back, more recently the Artec to an Antoria EB-3. To my ears there was little difference, I actually preferred the Artec which if I recall was around 1/4 of the price. I'd be interested to hear the Retrovibe one as all the Retrovibe pickups I have had fitted - the 50s single coil P bass and the Rickenbacker style - are absolutely tbrilliant.

Toilets are generally where rehearsal spaces let themselves down. I can usually put up with sticky rugs and a mulch of detritus in the room but to discover there has been a dirty protest in the lavs is just awful. To name and shame one of the worst, in a moment of madness I had a try out with another band at a place called London Road Music Tuition along London Rd in Leigh. Dear God. Set the bar, even more disgusting than a petrol station in the wilds of Mexico that was the previous winner - at least there is a sense of exp[ectation that public toilets in Mexico (should you actually find one) aren't going to be clean. My band are extremely fortunate - drummer is a farmer and on site is a listed 12th century thatched barn. 30ft ceilings, superb acoustics, fitted kitchen, toilets. The family used to use it for weddings but stopped so now it is pretty much a play area for his kids and our rehearsals. We keep the pa set up in there. Mind you it is bloody cold in winter! Here's a promo shot from when they used to hire it out.

So am I! In fact I will just play one but always take a back up, so I don't suppose it counts. I'm pretty much head over heels with my '76 Eros shortscale EB-3 at the moment and don't feel it is a hardship to choose it above everything else. We are recording our next gig for a live CD and I'm looking forward to hearing how that comes out.