Paul S

Paradise, Sade.

Kind of beefy in a twangy kind of way. Hope that helps. Not really Fendery but still old school somehow - more J than P but without the burpiness. Hard to describe. This guy uses one a lot and captures the tone, with a little more processing than I use.

I'm still hopelessly in love with the one I bought recently. Be interesting to see what this one fetches.

Well, she flatly refused to get her hands on my Dano - one reason I'm selling it.

Nothing Going On But The Rent - Gwen Guthrie

Nope. Flu deaths are around 1/4 to 1/2 of Covid, depending upon whose figures to look at. And that is without the measures that have been taken with Covid taken into consideration.

Look. Just stop it. Stop it now. You're giving me GAS something rotten. 😁

Spooky, Atlanta Rhythm Section. (I know, band name isn't song title.)

Under My Thumb, Rolling Stones

Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution ' AC/DC

Yup [/thread]

Midnight Blues - Gary Moore

Down the Dustpipe - various, Status Quo will do.

My blues band played for the BBC for nothing but 'lunch and exposure' and it actually did us the world of good At the start of 2019 we were a brand new band, had our first rehearsal in January. Our first gig in March, I think. Our guitarist sent one of our rehearsal recordings to a guy from BBC Radio Suffolk, Stephen Foster, and invited him to come along to our second gig. To my amazement he did. To my further amazement, he really liked us and invited us to play at the Ipswich Maritime Festival that summer. No money but food, big BBC stage right on the quayside. What that gave us was a chance to perform on a big stage with a huge sound system in front of lots of people. The guitarist's son recorded some of it on his iPad and that ended up giving us the best live demo that a new band could have asked for. And it opened the door onto the blues festival scene in Suffolk this year, which is pretty lively (but of course everything was cancelled). Nevertheless we got many gigs on the back of the recordings nd will no doubt get many more once it gets going again.

Lovely! Was that the Gumtree one? Buffed up nicely, in any case

If it were me and I was young with a strong back - or even old with a strong back - I'd get myself a Trace Elliot rig. Just like the one I had when I was younger with a strong back, in fact. I always preferred Trace Elliot to Ashdown, myself. I like green.

Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest

Yes, being a died in the wool tight wad I bought the cheapest one, the Behringer UM-2. For windows you need to download the driver from the Behringer website but that is easy enough and it works just fine. I even managed to record some stuff for the first time. If I did it again I'd probably also get the Focusrite one, though.

We are an incestuous bunch here in SE Essex and half the guys @hiram.k.hackenbacker plays with I do as well. So, at their instigation, I also installed Jamkazam and although I haven't used it in anger when I tested it with one of the guys there seemed to be almost nil latency, which is astonishing. Way better than Zoom. But. I found it very frustrating to set up. Not being remotely techie one of the guys had to talk me through it but even so it wouldn't work, just farting and white noise. In the end I got the fellow who sorts out all my PC/IT stuff at home to come round and have a look. He hadn't heard of JamKazam but just went back to basics and looked at my pc set up. He found 3 things and corrected them. Moved the interface (Behringer UM2) USB from the front panel of the pc to the back. He said that was better. Re-routed the cable so it didn't travel across a PSU. Told me to ditch a fluorescent desk lamp. Voila. Green lights across the board for latency and jitter, whatever that is. He did explain why all that made a difference but I didn't understand. He also suggested turning off virus protection for the duration of the rehearsal. And switching it back on again afterwards.... It was after that I had the good result All we need to do now is find a time when all of us are available, so that is the same as usual

Oh dear. Orignals vs covers. Must be weeks since the last thread.... 😄

Shameless plug! 2.6kg, short scale. You need a strap to prevent it blowing away.