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Bought a strap from Ian, great bit of kit that turned up well packaged in as-new condition. Cheers Ian!

Bought a gigbag off Nick in a super easy transaction, great comms and a fantastic bit of kit, and to top it all off he met me at a mutually convenent location which cut my journey time in half. Cheers Nick!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167304789976 These normally go for about 450, so I presume the excess in this case is down to the original Picasso covering the front.

Surprised no-one's mentioned the Fender Mustang Micro (I'll never understand why they chose that name when there's already a 4/6-string using it), a matchbox sized modelling amp with a headphone jack that plugs directly into your instrument. USB rechargeable, the sound quality is great and you can stream to it via bluetooth which lets you play along with, for instance, a Spotify playlist. The latest model (the Plus) features 25 amps and 25 effects that can be chained together in whatever configuration you like via an app and stored in one of 100 presets, along with a tuner and a tap tempo metronome - the original is a little more basic with only 12 amps and 12 effects, and only lets you select one of each. Sound quality on both models is superb, really clear signal from your guitar and the modelled amps and effects are (mostly) great. Absolutely love mine, the upgrades on the Plus are fantastic but the original is still a great little headphone amp. Both can double as an audio interface for use with DAWs as well, although I've not tried that so can't comment on how good they are.

The EHX Switchblade Pro will do what you want - the two send/return loops each have individual volume controls, and work as outputs if you don't return a signal. Mine conked out within a year and is getting sent back to EHX for repair today, as it happens, but it was a fantastic unit while it was working.

Collected a cracking little amp that Jon very generously gave away, he even re-arranged his Saturday morning around our collapsing rail network to meet me at the station. Super friendly and helpful guy, cheers Jon!

K

Saw The Jesus Lizard last night, first time seeing them do a non-festival show in over 30 years and they completely tore the roof off, one of the most incredible / terrifying gigs I've seen. Yow's stage persona is basically GG Allin crossed with William Burroughs and the band are gobsmacking. Sims is an astonishing bassist, an absolute engine of a musician, almost unbelievable that this vicious wall of noise was being turned out by a 3-piece. Playing Bristol tonight with a few more UK shows left, if they're playing anywhere near you get yourself on twickets and see if there's any spares, even if you've never heard them before you absolutely will not regret it.

Bought a couple of drives off Stealth, great deal, banging pedals and they turned up next day in secure packaging. Cheers chief!

Bought another bass off Benedict, same deal as above basically - good deal, belter of an instrument and it came extremely well packaged. Super smooth transaction, Benedict communicated promptly and in detail, couldn't have gone better.