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I'm not much of a Jamiroquai fan, less so Jay Kay, but Stuart Zender is great. I guess Stuart had similar feelings towards Jay Kay as they argued and he left Jamiroquai a few years ago (and they've not been as good since).

Perhaps a bit of a cheat as it's a part of a much bigger city, but Brixton (population 78,000). Has a long list of musicians, including: David Bowie Alabama 3 Skin Dillinja Maxi Jazz Don Letts Stereo MCs La Roux Ty Linton Kwesi Johnson Basement Jaxx Carter USM .... and 50% of the Clash

I've spent hours mucking about with multiple pedal boards - literally doing the woodwork to make custom boards to fit pedal setups, playing tetris with pedals, then changing pedals and their order for certain sounds/gigs, I had a 'utility' type board that basically stayed the same and the other more fun board could be added to it which changed all the time. I enjoyed figuring it all out but it did take quite a bit of time and effort, and bulk, and cost of pedals, and room for error playing live. Lately I've gone for maximum convenience and only use a Boss GT 1000 Core - basically doing all that pedalboard re-arranging (and more) with presets within one small box and no actual pedalboard at all. It is flexible enough that I've also used it for Guitar, Keyboard and even as an extra FX tool for DJing. The biggest downside for Bass is the synth and envelope filters are nowhere near as good as the individual pedals so I might add them to it and step back onto the stippery slope of pedalboards.

I won't bother listening or paying to see them live, but that is a choice anyone can easily make (by doing nothing!) so it doesn't bother me that they are continuing. I assume they enjoy making music, playing live, being famous, and making money..... I wouldn't stop doing that just because some people don't want to hear my stuff.

What was that you said?!

I suppose there is potentially something a bit conceited about it, I guess it's not too far off having a t-shirt with your name written on it. And possibly it looks a bit too much like trying. Personally though, I own a t-shirt of the band I'm in and would wear wear it live - but I am aware that about 50% of people think that is un-cool and I'm not cool enough to ignore that!

Bonus point for Mick Jagger wearing one with his face on it: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tugboatcaptain/pictures-of-musicians-wearing-their-own-bands-t-s-cb7n?utm_term=.qpBZpj44mD&epik=dj0yJnU9cHU2N1BlUXA3eUdURUVrUVcwVnBRVHNhSlVCeE5zOUcmcD0wJm49WG1YUG1PZS1aeGRNd1JPaDNkVWZOUSZ0PUFBQUFBR1RuUFJB

What do you reckon to wearing your own band's logo t-shirt as you gig? Free advertising....or just advertising that you are uncool?!

Nice!

Looks good, I reckon my next headphone amp will be this Mooer Prime P1. I've owned the Vox and Nux ones but both broke (on my second Nux though as it is generally a good bit of kit). I know it is asking a lot, but if it had a tuner then the Mooer would do me fine for band practice and perhaps live stuff (I have a clip on tuner but it doesn't tend to work well in noisy places and on the B string). It'd be less stuff to carry and take up stage space and it reduces the amount of things to go wrong - no power supply/patch cables/multiple pedals to potentially go wrong or have unwanted settings or forget to bring, all eggs in one basket though!

I'm not full time but the run up to Christmas/NYE is busy for bands for parties/corporate things. Then the ski season properly kicks off. I've done 4 ski seasons (3 in French Alps), not playing Bass but was resident DJ for a bar/club. Bands were in demand and there is plenty of extra work in bars, driving, kitchens, hotels, cleaning etc. Not sure how the B word has affected it though. And stuff like music teaching, session work (I know someone that uses fiverr), writing, production, etc. don't stop in the winter.

Yeah, isn't much of an upgrade. I have the MPC Keys and don't find the Wifi/Bluetooth particularly useful. More internal storage is handy bit there is the external option. I'm itching to use it live but am in a 9 piece with a keyboard player so it'd definitely be overkill!

I've just finished reading 'A Scanner Darkly' by Philp K D ick, it's science fiction but also semi autobiographical relating to confusing the sense of self. It's worth a read - about someone literally viewing themselves as different persona (undercover cop assigned to investigate himself by immersively 'scanning' recordings of himself acting as a different person) and mentally losing touch with the reality of who he actually is.

I mostly play Dub/Reggae/Ska but also a bit of Doom and I've found extra scale length does help to keep a B string tighter. You don't have to have a multi-scale for that (I had a 35" scale Lakland that was good) but it means that the higher strings get a bit tight/bright/twangy, multi-scale helps keep the tension and tone more similar across all strings and the fanned frets also make playing a bit more comfortable for longer scales. I had a 5 string Dingwall Combustion (37"-34") which was good but was heavy at about 4.5kg and quite expensive. I now have an Ibanez EHB1005MS which is half the price, sounds nearly as good, and is much more comfortable to play at 3.3kg and a shorter reach (35"-33").

MXR M82 Bass Envelope Filter is probably my #1 pedal for tweaking and noodling, have spent hours mucking about with it rather than doing 'proper' practice. There are other envelope filters I prefer the sound of, but none I've found have quite the same hands-on adjustability and immediate feel. Team up with the Auguilar Octamizer and that is a lot of different sounds. Add an MXR Brown Acid for fuzzy doom sounds (also works well with the Octamizer). Or, if I'm being boring and practical and there is a band on the desert island: Nux Flow Tune (tuner), FEA Opti-FET Compressor, DHA VT2 (EQ/Drive/DI).

I've been eyeing up an MTD Andrew Gauche for a while now.....it'd mean I could instantly play as well as him wouldnt it?!

If it's the ones most pub going public would recognise I'd try to include some of these mutha funkers: Pass the peas Sex machine Rock steady Pick up the pieces I wish Jungle boogie Green onions Express yourself Apache Cissy strut Think Melting pot Funkin for jamaica Give up the funk Fire War Low rider

I find it analogous to Kindle vs paper books, streaming vs vinyl, digital camera vs film etc. Multi-fx logically/practically make more sense than individual pedals, but individual pedals have a more 'soul' (for want of a better word). Personally, I prefer multi-fx for bands where I know what all the songs are all going to be and to set presets accordingly. For more of a spontanious jam band type thing I prefer stomping on and adjusting individual pedals.

The Nux Flow Tuner is good. Small but with big bright screen, tough, accurate, buffer, pink. I prefer it to the others I've owned (D'Addario chromatic and Korg Pitchblack mini).

I seem to remember doing pretty much that. The 'alt' control are a bit tricky though - it flashes to allow alt editing for a few seconds before reverting, so you can easily end up altering the wrong thing. It is a great pedal, just a bit tricky to get all that editing changed on the go. There are the presets though.

The EQ is good. The main issue being quick access to editing it live.

Pretty much self taught, but after a few months of playing I think I paid £100 for 4x hour long lessons over a month which was worthwhile to point out bad habits I was falling into - something youtube and books can't really point out.

& The Mike Flowers Pops (cover of wonderwall) who I remember being interviewed at the time and asked if he'd be a one hit wonder, the response was 'that's better than being a no hit wonder'.

Yeah, it's amps I worry more about than Basses.

Yeah, I was probably mis-representing things. No one has actually said that on this thread.