Blastronaut

Actually fuck knows if it would even work. Any of you fancy trying it? Guitar> Helix > Effects loop return and have the helix model your amps preamp that you've just bypassed. Im really curious how well it works, if it works at all.

That's fucking amazing tbh. There you go Tom. Nae excuses next time you get shafted with a solid-state head with an effects loop. Ah I jest, you won't get the same response from a solid-state power amp, but at least you could rule out the solid-state preamp being the issue and hopefully get closer to the sound you're used to if you ever in a pinch like that again.

With the Helix, can you create a preset with a preamp patch at the end of the chain? I'm curious, maybe @Andrew or @Gemmill can weigh in. I ask because most preamps in solid state amps are essentially just distortion/overdrive circuits pedal circuits, just running at 24V rather than 9V. Definitely the case with that orange amp. Issue could be that you've essentially been running another distortion pedal that you cant bypass after your Helix. No use to you now like, but I'm thinking try plugging the Helix straight into Effects Loop return and bypass the amps preamp completely if you're ever in that situation again. If the helix preamp thing I'm asking about is a go-er that could be a winning solution.

That's a bit shit man. Hopefully didn't interfere with your set too much. As an aside, you're not still rocking a pedal chain of basically "just a Rangemaster" are you? Let me know if so, I can't have shit I've made sabotaging yer live act.

Someone give this man an enema. It will give him a sense of accomplishment.

Mrs B was just telling me they apparently opened for the Rolling Stones a few years ago when they were still touring the wee club circuit. Heard someone describe IDLES as "punk for Tories". I'd be lying if I said I didn't largely agree.

Jesus that's bleak. Good shout though, well up my street, Cheers Sammy! It's almost the antithesis of Dan Deacon's Wham City.

Ah I jest, he's a good lad (actually that's a lie, he's a terrible person but a good mate). I'll earmark one for you, been trying to multitask like a manic octopus since we moved again in November and struggling to keep up with things so I'm hesitant to offer much in terms of timeframe beside "sometime in February".

Fair. Walked into that like. Yeah probabaly made about a dozen or so. Actually I'm having a weird stand off with an old mate that I could fucking swear I gifted one to but he's adamant I didn't. He runs a local pub so we have this situation where I stop by his work when I'm passing and he refuses to charge me for my first pint but makes a point of reminding me he never got his Mr Sparkle pedal. So I have like three more Mr Sparkle enclosures lying around that I'm stubbornly refusing to finish wiring up until the free Guinness well has dried up.

I could swear a few year ago I read something about a study into online sales that looked into whether higher base prices with free shipping were more popular to buyers than the same item with combined price and shipping working out cheaper than the alternative. Hilariously, folk would flock toward the more expensive option that had "free shipping". If I mind right the catch was that the folk that went for the "free shipping" option were (by orders of fucking magnitude) more likely to return the it. Amazon have had us all for idiots. Hoodwinked half the population into paying a monthly subscription for their "free shipping and no questions asked return policy".

Even set it up as something he's not looking forward too. "Minibus full of rival fans, 700 mile round trip. Not even fussed about going but I've sort of promised this busload of folk I don't even want to spend time with that I'd organise this. Honestly like!"

I dunno, he's accomplished what seemed impossible for Liverpool under FSG if you ask me. I thought he was getting found out just after he fell out with his sidekick Buvac, but then he kept winning big trohpys and reaching finals. After a while I had to just accept he wasn't just milking the Buvac playbook anymore. Some of the football they played when he arrived was batshit mental and incredibly entertaining. A lot like Postecoglu at Celtic. Mad shit like signing Steven Caulker and playing him as a Striker. Just tearing up the rulebook, but that was all Buvac in my eyes. I'm convinced Klopp was just as surprised as everyone else that theyre top of the league right now after last season and is wisely getting out while his reputation is still mostly intact. Fair play to him. He's kept Pep on his toes for the best part of a decade and humiliated Man U a good few times. For that alone he gets a bye from me.

That's fair like. My da's da was a fucking jazz musician so I think the "patter" gene leapfrogged both me and my granda. Amusingly, my son is totally non-verbal but absolutely hilarious, and if I'm lucky that's where the family name ends. Wise beyond his years, I've said to Mrs B plenty times that his first words (if he ever speaks) could well be "you pair of cunts talk too much".

I'm convince the second T only came about in protest to the English refusing to pronounce the first one.

I'm three sheets to the wind but aye alright. If he's from my neck of the woods that guys either a Meldrum or a Marshall. I noticed the name Paterson on another post but I'm not having that. Might be a Paterson by name but the Paterson gene is recessive. Two t's, prick. But we all grew from the same stump. And it's "son of the man who had good patter". See what I mean about the gene being recessive?

Btw the guy on the right looks so much like half of the guys from the village I grew up in that I think I could take an educated guess at his surname.

Hold that thought. I have litres of flux and drawers full of old capacitors. If I can get our old Shitbox Megane up to 88 mph Weirdly reassuring that they're both clearly left handed.

In a similar vein, if the KGB are in fact reading this, I most definitely DO NOT have an extensive collection of late soviet military electronics components. Those late 80's/ early 90's era germanium transistors they were producing just before their collapse where they almost completely overcame most of the shortcomings and instabilities of germanium semiconductors some 20-30 years after the western world abondoned them are of absolutely no interest to me and never have been.

I had a fucking weird encounter with "street patrol" army recuiters about 20 years ago. I only remember it so well since shortly later I took a shite call center job and the guy training out group was ex army and turned out to be the same guy who had been cruising our council estate with two other squaddies in full kit.

Aye like me with my chronic lung condition would be any use on the frontline. I might volunteer all the same though, mainly because I live halfway between a nuclear submarine base and massive oil refinery.

The end that's labelled "Rishi's Cabinet"?. Artists impression surely, no way is it that sharp.

Fidget spinners as a religious analogy is hilarious but presented like this is on a other level. I'll stick to roulette. I rarely even gamble anymore but even blackjack seems more favourable than Pascal's Wager.

If it turns out that this is the image wikiki's architect "accidentally" shared I wouldn't be even the slightest bit surprised tbh.

As far as I'm aware the DSM has abandoned the use of term aspergers as a diagnosis, understandably. I think a lot people, who are on the spectrum and considered higher functioning still like to use the term as am identifier that distances them from folk in other extreme corners of the spectrum which I also understand. But aye a lot of folk find the term pretty offensive since it comes from a Nazi German doctor who was tasked with evaluating folk with additional needs and decided which ones could be put to work and which would be put to death. Hans Asperger.