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  1. Earbrass
    Now sold through Facebook.
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    SOLD TC electronics Flashback delay pedal, in immaculate condition, complete with box, USB lead and paperwork . Bought only a few months ago for a project that fell apart. Home use and a couple of rehearsals only. Never gigged or velcroed. Please note that this is NOT the new Flashback 2 pedal. £75 posted within UK product page: https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/Tcelectronic/Guitar/Stompboxes/FLASHBACK-DELAY/p/P0C80 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pICHsCPNVrg My feedback
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    SOLD MXR M300 Reverb pedal, in immaculate condition, complete with power supply, box and paperwork. Bought only a couple months ago for a project that fell apart. Home use and a couple of rehearsals only. Never gigged or velcroed. Has an interesting 'Pad' mode, in which you get two 'shimmers', one an octave above the signal and one an octave below, which can be blended using the Tone control. £145 posted within UK product page: https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/m300-7-10137-07231-2.do manual: https://vidweb.aws.marketlive.com/jimdunlop_vid/text/content/pdp/manuals/M300.pdf review: http://www.theguitarmagazine.com/reviews/mxrm300reverb/ demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAeWwMC2EaI My feedback
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    I find the turn that this thread has taken rather bizarre. While one might reasonably claim that the gender of an instrumentalist is, or should be, of no relevance to their suitability for any given band, this cannot be said of singers. The male voice is, in most cases, intrinsically quite different from the female voice in range and timbre, and a band seeking a vocalist might well have good reasons for preferring one over the other. It would be odd then, surely, for a vocalist advertising their services not to specify their gender. In the case of transgender women, the situation is a little complex, as vocal reassigment is one of the more challenging parts of the process. This is what the (US) National Association of Teachers of Singing has to say on the matter: A transgender woman will have gone through puberty as a male. Her larynx enlarged and descended in the neck, the vocal folds became thicker and longer and the voice deepened into an adult male voice. Once puberty is complete, there is nothing that can reverse the process so she may choose voice therapy or phonosurgery to sound more feminine. Voice therapy should be undertaken with a speech-language pathologist qualified to work in this area. Voice therapy goals include raising the average speaking pitch, usually to an androgynous pitch area and modifying voice quality, resonance and inflectional patterns. There are several phonosurgical procedures used to raise speaking pitch and eliminate lower pitches. However, these are controversial, the outcomes are mixed and they don’t address other vocal characteristics, such as resonance or voice quality. (https://www.nats.org/cgi/page.cgi/_article.html/What_s_New/Training_the_Transgender_Singer_Finding_the_Voice_Inside) For the advertiser to describe herself simply as a female singer could therefore be misleading. Quite reasonably, she has specified her gender as "transwoman". As has already been pointed out, this is in no way a description of her sexuality, which is of course entirely irrelevant. The fact that she has felt free to describe herself in this way could be seen as a positive and welcome sign of increasing acceptance of trans people. Some here, however, perversely choose to interpret it as evidence of intolerance. There seems to be a view that any suggestion that a transgender person is not in all respects the same as someone born to that gender constitutes some kind of hate-speech. It isn't; it's just an acceptance of reality. Maybe one day medical science will advance to the point where that view is justified, but we are not there yet. The fact that this issue has triggered an intolerant hate-filled rant against an entire generation just shows that when it comes to self-righteous bigotry, there are some amongst those who consider themselves "progressives" who could give any US evangelist preacher a run for their money.
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    I think the poster is irony-impaired. The fact that the advertiser is trans-gender could be highly relevant if their vocal range is closer to that one would expect from a male singer. Of course, that could be a point in their favour - it all depends on the band.
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    Put your experience in his feedback thread. At least then others will know what to expect, and will possibly feel less aggrieved if they receive similar treatment.
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    As my current roles both involve me playing an unamplified nyckelharpa, I'm going to have to say "no". However, when I last played bass in a band I used a Peavey Milestone, so a squier would be a step up the poshness scale.
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    This is all too often the case. Blaming the (non-) punters for being "lazy" is ridiculous. The onus is on venues and performers to provide an experience that is appealing and attractive.
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    In recent months I've attended several concerts (Philharmonia Orchestra, a violin duo, a solo pianist) where there were no compressors (or indeed any amplification) in evidence at all, despite it being, as others have pointed out above, a scientifically provable, unarguable fact that compression makes music sound better (it is, after all, a simple matter of the measurable behaviour of sound traveling through air). As far as I could tell, the only mechanism they had for managing their dynamics was to rely on the skill and musicianship of the individual players! Honestly, I felt embarrassed for them. I did ask one cellist whether she'd considered using a compression pedal to help her "sit better in the mix", but she just looked at me as if I was some kind of weirdo. Amateurs.
  10. Earbrass
    "pop group" surely?
  11. Earbrass
    Peavey Milestone. Light weight, well balanced, slender neck, sounds great.
  12. Earbrass

    Eh?

    Earbrass replied to Dan Dare's topic in General Discussion

    There is a tricky balance to be struck between catering for the needs of minorities such as the deaf, and limiting the burden that so doing imposes on the majority community. From all I've heard about this case, my opinion would be that the promoters did all they could reasonably be expected to do and the case should fail, but of course what is reported in the media may not be the full story, and the court will have access to more information than we do. On the wider issue, it is perhaps worth remembering that, in the US at least, disability campaigning has a highly unpleasant extremist fringe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-41850498 We should be on our guard against such lunacy spreading here.
  13. Earbrass
    This. Playing amplified in a terrace house is unnecessary and antisocial.
  14. Earbrass
    Wal bought my old Zoom G2Nu guitar fx unit, and was a pleasure to deal with.
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    Mike bought my DSI Mono Evolver Desktop synth. Fast payment, good communications, all good.
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    Just like to add that anyone who plays a fretted bass (or any other equal temperament instrument) is influenced by J.S. Bach whether they know it or not . But people these days prefer to bang on about some modern fad like the Beatles......hell in a handcart I tells ya.
  17. Earbrass
    ...and Lidl aren't taking Fortnum and Mason's business either.
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    ***** SOLD ***** Dave Smith Instruments Mono Evolver Desktop synth. £325 posted within UK. This is an absolute beast of a synth. As far as I can tell it's in full working order (sometimes the push-buttons need a firm press to activate, but they all work), although I spend a lot of time staring at it and wondering what the hell it is doing...which is largely why I'm selling it - it's just too much synth for me! Also it's default mode seems to be the gnarly/industrial/sci-fi type sounds whereas I am mostly interested in the more trippy, ambient type tones. These can be coaxed out of it too, if you know what you're doing, but it doesn't take much provocation for it to revert to the dark side. You do need to take some time to understand what it does - you can get it into modes where it does not respond to keyboard input, or where the sequencer is running but no audio is sounding - all these are legitimate states, but it's easy to think it's defective when you are new to it - I went through this several times in the first few weeks of ownership. Maybe not an ideal first synth, but it is stunningly powerful if you take the time to learn it. OS V2.1. Power supply (US 2-prong style, with UK adaptor) included. Manual is available on-line, as is an excellent in-depth guide written by an enthusiast, which is really worth having. I can email both if required. Links: DSI product page: https://www.davesmithinstruments.com/product/evolver/ Manual: http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/downloads/evolver/doc/Evolver_manual_3.2a.pdf?765cbf "The Definitive Guide To Evolver": http://www.carbon111.com/evolverguide.pdf There are also plenty of demos on Youtube if you want to take a look. Summary of the specs: 4 OSCILLATORS : 2 DCO's -(sawtooth, triangle, saw/triangle mix, and pulse waves (with pulse-width modulation), and hard sync) 2 Digital wavetable oscillators with Prophet VS waves and wave sequencing capability, FM and ring modulation. White noise generator. Glide (portamento): separate rates per oscillator. 2 FILTERS: One low-pass analog Curtis filter per channel, selectable 2- and 4-pole operation (self-resonating in 4-pole mode) Digital high-pass filter 3 ENVELOPES: filter, VCA, and Auxiliary envelope. Envelopes freely assignable to multiple modulation destinations & all envelopes can repeat/loop 4 LFOS - Four syncable LFOs MODULATION MATRIX: 4 x 2 modulation matrix with 24 mod sources and over 75 mod destinations FEEDBACK AND 3 DELAYS: Tuned feedback. Three-tap syncable delays with feedback and amount controls per delay VCA: Analog VCAs EFFECTS: Stereo analog distortion. Output Hack SEQUENCER: 16x4 steps: syncs to MIDI clock and external audio: sequences can control not only oscillator pitch but any parameter in the modulation matrix. MEMORY: 512 fully editable programs (four banks of 128) IN/OUT: MIDI In, Out, Thru, and Poly Chain. Stereo audio input: 1/4" unbalanced. Stereo audio output: 1/4" unbalanced DIMENSIONS: Dimensions: approximately 10.75" L x 6" W x 1.9" H (27.3 cm x 15.24 cm x 4.8 cm) Weight: 3.18 lb. (1.49 kg)
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    SOLD Zoom G2Nu Guitar Multi-FX The first encoder is ok if you move it slowly but gets a bit random if you tweak it fast. Otherwise it all works fine. Link to manual: https://www.zoom-na.com/sites/default/files/products/downloads/pdfs/G2Nu_G21Nu.pdf A couple of YouTube demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNexJsu1zM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7vuAKR9nA Sold with manual but without power supply (also works on batteries). £20 posted within UK. Thanks for looking. (Feedback thread in sig.)
  20. Earbrass
    No thanks; I believe you when you say it's the "most retarded thing on earth", and that it's "stupid garbage for the lowest common denominator". That's why it's the sort of thing I would never watch. . The question is, why do you watch it?
  21. Earbrass
    No. So why do you watch it? Have you considered starting your own youtube channel in which you sit in your bedroom shouting at stupid retarded youtube videos? You never know, you could be onto a winner there.
  22. Earbrass
    What we should really be discussing is whether or not he was influenced by the Beatles at all. I'm going to say..........no. Any other opinions?
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    We're off to see them at the O2 on Thursday. Probably wouldn't have bothered on my own account, much as I love their output from the early 70's, but Mrs. E has somehow managed to go her whole life without ever going to a big rock gig, so this is largely for her benefit.
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    Seriously? Perhaps I'm getting old - I thought everyone would get the reference. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNYUJIW4sw @2.25)
  25. Earbrass
    ... he played all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
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