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I have an Ashdown ABM-600-EVO IV head, and while it's fantastic, at 600W it's more than I'll probably ever need, though the extra headroom is nice to have. I have recently been using a Trace Elliot Elf for smaller (pub) gigs and I haven't gotten above halfway on the volume knob with 200W @ 4 ohms. Obviously if you're going for the head/cab separates option some of this will also depend what cab you have.

Jeff Berlin (who I now think of as the UFN thanks to Ed Friedland) swears by his four-string signature version.

Welcome! Loving that someone else is rocking the Squire P and Sire V7 stable, although my V7 is a 4 not a 5.

A current one I believe is Yola, who if you haven't checked her stuff out is incredible.

But but but, vintage!

Nice one, thanks! Might look at the 60 as 500mm is the width of my current board and I have designs on acquring more pedals in the new year Also looking at the Pedaltrain Metro series.

It's interesting that there's a comment from June in the seller feedback about making a MIM Jazz try to look roadworn, so I wonder if they've been trying to flog this for some time but nobody's been fooled yet.

I can happily recommend the TC Electronic Corona, which does do Toneprint so you can download presets straight to the pedal if you wanted a number of different chorus tones to use on the fly. There's some interesting ones done for the likes of Nathan East, Duff McKagan, Victor Wooten, Fieldy, to name but a few.

Don't think I've posted an updated version since adding my PSU, but I definitely think a three-rail board might be on my Christmas list as the number of affordable two-rail boards with PSU holders under them seems pretty low.

I can still see it there

Exactly my point. The system as designed relies on every venue where live music is played, or every band that plays live, reporting what songs are played at every gig. That's never going to happen, as you say.

So songrwiters are supposed to contact every venue in the country on the off chance someone has played one of their songs?

The best version of the Spotify app is probably the Linux one as it's an unofficial one the Spotify programmers created for themselves.

We managed to learn three whole new songs yesterday, which is some sort of record for us.

Nom nom nom

This is something I've always wondered as well, how PRS shares out the fees that venues collect. PRS seems to suggest that it's done on self-reporting by venues or artists, including for cover bands, but this seems to be placing an awful lot on trust.

As I say, Bigsby, Fender, Les Paul, etc. were all contemporaries, hence the "cross-pollination" comment earlier. Fender may have nicked Bigsby's design but it's arguable what claim Bigsby had to it being their original idea in the first place.

Yeah, I had to log in to IG to play it.

Toight!

But to be fair the Bigsby headstock design itself was inspired by headstocks used for much older stringed instruments. Alas my Google-fu has let me down and not taken me to an image I've found previously, but they're effectively a violin family instrument headstock viewed in profile.

I have a Vox amPlug 2 and it's quite a nifty bit of kit and extremely portable. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Vox-amPlug-2-Bass/13GA

There was a lot of "cross-pollination" of ideas around that time. The Birth of Loud by Ian S Port is a good read for the background.

That Audiovox sounds pretty good all things considering!

They're selling in the neighbourhood of $1100 at Sweetwater in the US, so I'd expect them to be in the region of £900 if that translates from the current exchange rate, which is Fender Player series price territory

Looks like one of these: https://www.tc-helicon.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEG