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Honestly this is one of the main reasons I use it

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Oh thank goodness, I thought it was just me struggling with this!

Haven't owned one but have played one a few times and it's very nice to play. I didn't really push the preamp much but it sounded pretty good through the amp I was using at the time.

It is a tremendous add-on!

There aren't many videos of him out there, and this is him showing off at his own wedding, but here you go:

Fleetwood Mac have a huge catalogue of amazing, timeless classics, but my god there's some dreary, soppy sheeyite in there as well.

Andertons have Sadowsky MetroExpress basses in stock, and if there's something else you'd want I'm sure they could order it in now they're an official dealer, but the next line up (MetroLine) is probably out of your price range.

First gig for a little while on Saturday, at the Postcard Inn in the bustling metropolis of Holmfirth (Last of the Summer Wine territory for those of you of a certain age). We'd played here before a couple of years ago before my time and they were keen to have us back, so I enjoyed a lovely drive through the countryside and tested my car's clutch on some of the hills. Holmfirth actually was pretty bustling and trying to find a parking space in the large public car park behind the pub was a challenge, but I lucked out and got one relatively close, as opposed to our singist who had to park halfway to Denby Dale from the way he described it!. The pub has a downstairs bar as well where there was a function happening, and our guitarist and I got very confused when we walked in to see that a band had already set up before the bar staff sorted us out. This was the first time I'd used my Siredowsky on a gig and it sounded mint through the ABM and Two10S in soundcheck, and I got positive feedback after the gig as well. The only issue I had is that somehow the level on my drive pedal seems to have been turned down, meaning I sounded really weedy on a couple of songs until I got a chance to turn up the amp volume to compensate, so I need to get that sorted before next time. As for the gig itself, things were going pretty well until technical issues crept in (not mine this time, thank goodness!). Just past halfway in our first set when our keyboardist's synth decided it wanted to have a moment and he had to reset it, but unfortunately restored an old backup of his presets without knowing it so he had a bit of a flap at songs being missing. He figured out what he had done at halftime, but we had to swap in the first four songs of our second set to close out the first. This threw us all off a bit more than it should have. Club Foot (second set opener) went well, but our drummist made a complete hash of the breakdown in A Town Called Malice and it took us a few bars to get back on an even keel. That threw me off and I started the next song in the wrong key. Our guitarist's wah pedal was causing her issues as well, getting stuck on and her tone was interestingly weird in a few places because of it. Fortunately the second set went a lot smoother after our singist had had a gripe at all of us about our cockups (we were all too mature to mention him going for a wander during the breakdown of Sit Down and forgetting to start singing again for several bars though), but it's clear our keyboardist needs to do something about his synth as the pitch shifter is also temperamental. He doesn't have a case for it or anything, or a backup, so if it craps out then we're buggered as there aren't many of our songs that we can style out with no synth. Having had a major failure myself I have spares for everything except the cab, and in the unlikely event that fails then I'll be DI-ing through the PA, and our singist has a backup mic in case his wireless one fails. Our guitarist uses a Boss Katana combo, and if that ever craps out on her then we'd be similarly scuppered as most of her tones are based on presets and patches rather than effects pedals. I think a conversation about contingency measures needs to be had at our next rehearsal. Obligatory "tonight's office" pic below. No band pics yet but there were a few people taking photos and videos so hopefully more might be forthcoming. No planned gig now until the end of November (!) but hopefully we might get one or two sorted before that.

On the basis that you're going the MCOL route anyway, and have resigned yourself to never receiving the item, then as long as you're 100% factual in what you say then go for it.

I've said two, but really 1½: Heads: Ashdown ABM 600 and Trace Elliot Elf Cab: Barefaced Two10S

Pretty much, yes. A lot of the content is included in the membership fee, but they also have premium courses like the "accelerator" courses which are only available to paid-up members.

So it's broken even though the plastic is still on the pickguard? Impressive.

If you have $7500 available right now you too can have one: https://sadowsky.com/instruments/nyc-basses/nyc-custom-jason-newsted-signature/

Nope: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/srtWcqL4fTQzbzb6/

Aren't they expanding to another unit though?

Having watched the video on Reverb's YT channel that's pretty much what he's said, that he's accumulated a load of interesting instruments that are just sat in storage rather than being played. I'm sure there are other reasons as well, but his royalties from Metallica haven't dried up so I doubt he needs the money, and he seems to be a pretty honest bloke so maybe he is mostly being altruistic. I wonder how many will end up in the hands of players though and how many will end up hanging on the walls of hedge fund managers.

Unless you buy a custom one, but those are super expensive.

I had it a couple of weeks ago. It doesn't get any less unpleasant

Very serendipitously here is Alex stirring the pot from both sides...

Mixed fare from late 70s onwards. We tend to do 2x45 mins + encores, but can go straight through for 1½ hours plus encores if needs be, depending on the gig.

Woohoo, managed to get it to work on Authy! Take that, Google Authenticator!

If it's something our singist can sing, isn't too difficult for the rest of us to play, and which we can all play on, it stands a good chance. Not being Oasis or Fleetwood Mac seems to be a theme with singists as ours hates them as well, despite the rest of us being well up for doing Go Your Own Way. He's all for us doing Mr Brightside though, and it'll probably be in our set later in the year.

I have one of these as well and it's very handy, and seems pretty robust as these things go