Congrats Bob , obviously a magazine with good taste!

Folderol wrote: ↑Sat Apr 05, 2025 4:47 pm Guess what...
I came first, out of 16 entries

Congratulations Will.

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:12 pm This is going to be played on the radio on Thursday. Actual FM broadcast radio too (none of your internet radio nonsense).

Congrats Drew.

Does anything in your chain have a connection to earth? Maybe it needs one?

EDIT - ignore the above, it looks like the OctoPre DOES have an earth.

BigRedX wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:26 am I've actually lost two previously which had worked their way completely out of the saddles without me noticing

Might be worth considering using a mild strength thread lock on those screws?

Silly question maybe, but are you sure it’s the heater?
Have you spent a long time in the studio without the heater plugged in? (Not likely in the winter!)
If not, then it’s possible the ring might trip without the heater, and the problem could be somewhere else?

For remote gigs I run my entire rig from my laptop (using Cantabile), so all I need are physical USB-equipped keyboards and an audio interface. What kind of music is this Elf? The only thing I know about you is that we share a penchant for Hedgehogs I'm afraid. Got a website or anything? Lol! No ...

Nice looking Breedlove...

Gentle restrained guitar playing supporting the song
Nice work James.

"Turn the phone off and on again" worked for me with a similar problem a few months ago.
Might be worth trying?

SOME pictures of the QX3 show it with a DC input jack, for an external power unit, but the manual shows a mains cable directly connected (no socket), and a review mentions a power connector!
So, what's on the back of your QX3?

Have you checked to see if the song’s tab is available on one of the guitar tab sites?

ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:26 pm Wot? No Aeron chair? How do you expect to make the cover of SOS?

Sod the chair. Wot? No guitars?!

It looks great, James, nice decor

My idea was to digitize some of my vinyl but I am going to have to find some way to deep clean them first. IMHO it's a lot of grief to digitise vinyl. Clean it, play it into your computer (obviously in real time) then edit it into the separate tracks, then labelling the tracks and artist details ...

I enjoyed that.
Tasteful guitar playing, both the rhythm & solo. Nice!

Wonks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:43 pm

Kwackman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:41 pm If those black barrels are mic preamps, then maybe plugging into a LINE input of an interface/mixer would be better than into another mic preamp?

It needs P48, so needs to run into a mic pre.

Another great suggestion destroyed!
Good point.

merlyn wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:38 pm I know that music theory isn't a strong point around here, but as far as I am aware it's not possible to change the key of lyrics.

What if you're singing them....

If those black barrels are mic preamps, then maybe plugging into a LINE input of an interface/mixer would be better than into another mic preamp?

It might be worth downloading the owners manual, esp for the iD software if that's possible. It should tell you about the feeds to the headphones and if they can be independent.
FWIW, I've had an iD22 (original model) for many years, it's used most days, and has been very reliable.

Wonks wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:11 am And there is always the free Kontakt Player rather than the full-fat Kontakt.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... -8-player/

Good idea, but unfortunately the Wavesfactory instrument linked in OP requires the full version.

That looks ace, James.
You completed it fairly quickly too.
Congratulations, enjoy putting it all back together

I used a flat cotton bed sheet.
Large choice of colours and fairly cheap.
It might not pass flame tests though, if that’s important.

shufflebeat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:08 am Piezo pickups aren’t really at their best when flapping around like underpants in a hurricane

Perhaps this should be added to the SOS glossary?

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:58 pm"Why do you feel that anyone might like a banjo to be louder?"

The last 3 words of that sentence aren't needed....