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Got myself a Luminite Graviton M2: Seems a decent bit of kit. Lots of nerdy potential! The best thing with all this stuff is also the biggest drawback - it can be very complex.

Free reverb: https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/magic7/ A good list of free VSTs: https://www.idesignsound.com/best-free-vst/

Ride the riddim!

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That worked for me as standalone and seemed good, but crashed 'Guitar Rig' twice (the only time it has ever crashed and otherwise always seems very stable with dozens of plugins). So I dunno where the issue is but I quickly uninstalled as I'm planning on using Laptop/Plugins live.

I saw Johnny Osbourne play live earlier this year and he still puts on a great show. 3 rewinds of 'truth and rights', I don't think anyone there was getting quite as hyped for it as I was! I have a lot of dub and reggae vinyl, but I more often use Spotify for the convenience - with various quite specific playlists.

Lots of great free pedal and rack effect emulations from Nembrini, and no latency so you can use them live: https://www.nembriniaudio.com/collections/free?srsltid=AfmBOooPRVmuR7RMiPTRp-sOmyV3cCo6e7raWnmzqIGNB4B-zvqpNFlo

I'm not fussed about Demon FX or Behringer making clones. They aren't counterfeit and pretending to actually be the original. And they aren't people basically copying (but saying 'inspired by') old designs, changing something like a transistor or adding something simple like a clean blend, then getting their kids to paint it, calling it 'boutique' and making a big deal of 'made in UK/USA' then charging £300.

And, possibly because almost every 'original' pedal has heavily borrowed from others. "The SNOW WHITE AUTOWAH (SWAW) circuit is based on a 1991 BJF rack mount remote wah circuit"

Played at on old slightly run down independent country pub last night. Didn't look promising to start: Stormy weather, small space, not many people, dogs, skittle alley and billiards table and open fire sort of real ale pub - didn't seem like the place for quite a loud lively 7 piece ska band. ....but it turned out great, almost entirety down to the landlords and small crowd of about 30 people (it can't have been profitable paying us) who were all really friendly, welcoming, all knew each other (the pub closes when the landlord couple go on holiday as there are no other staff, and 10 customers went on holiday with them this year!), a proper boozy (lots of good cheap beer, no food served) community pub. Not the sort of country pub you see many of nowadays, they mostly seem to basically be restaurants in a pub building. The music was all good, but that kinda felt secondary - mostly it was good to feel part of a communal party where everyone wanted (and therefore had) a fun evening. On the Bass playing side - I didn't use a compressor, and I missed it. I could tell the slight lack in punch and consistency.

I wasn't impressed with the 'Bassment' plugin. Nice to have a lot of things in one plugin, and it was only about £10, but all of the individual things can be done better with free individual plugins.

There are plenty ot trite phrases for this, everything from 'practice makes perfect' through to 'Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order'. .... I guess there is a middle ground where you strive to be better but don't take it badly when your expectations were set too high.

Thanks, that looks good. Especially "Effortless MIDI programming on the large 3.5 inches touchscreen LCD" when compared to the Paint Audio Midi Captain Laptop editing: You can do stuff on the controller too, but for the more in-depth stuff needs this editing via Laptop. It feels like a programmer from 1990 would be quite at home with it!

Milton Henry is new to me, but what I've heard is good. Not much available online though. https://www.reggae-vibes.com/news/2022/12/milton-henry-passed-away-at-age-72/

I'd say particularly for home stuff it is a good option if you already have an audio interface. I've spent a lot of time with Bass hooked up to the Laptop for Multi-FX editing, Source Audio Pedals, Future Impact etc. And it seems like for many of those things you can just cut out the middle man of using a pedal, the Laptop has plenty of processing power to do anything pedals can do, and lot of the free VSTs are just as good (or better) than pedals. Admittedly, using it live is a different proposition - and I might regret it!