Blastronaut

Turns out it's been traced and isnt anything even close the Dumble-in-a-box it's marketed as. But no surprises why its it so popular. It's a Tubescreamer

I can't get on board with the whole "refs are bent" narrative. We hear enough of it up here, usually after a Rangers supporting ref gets photographed celebrating with Rangers fans a few hours after awarding their/his team a dodgy last minute penalty. Nope. All above board and definitely no bias with officials. 😉

Originals seem to go for fucking silly money but it's essentially a Big Muff with an additional germanium tranny that makes it gated. Had a custom order for one and found its really easy to mod to control the gating so it goes from stock V1 Big Muff to stupid amounts of unusable gating. Not my cup of tea tbh but there's admittedly some usable sounds in between. As for the Paul Gilbert Xmas stuff....I'm not listening to any of it again by choice but he gets a free pass for being Paul Gilbert. > 80p Germanium transistor. If I mind right this was the military spec 308v (or 308B?) from your Fuzz Factory? I've just got a few hundred of these for about 13p each. Dunno what I'm doing with them yet but they're really low leakage and great for Rangemasters, so worst case scenario I'll retire to a house in the woods built from Rangemaster pedals.

Dunno like. Kids ain't as prone to getting ill but they're the fucking harbingers of germs. There's one kid left in my sons class right now and while I don't like to make assumptions the gambler in me would bet his parents probably just haven't tested him.

That'll be me fucked then if the lad turns out to have that varient (thankfully doesn't seem to be the case so far). Heard today there's only one kid left in his whole class this week. Rest all off and covid positive. Oldest daughters class has been averaging about 10 still attending from 25 for the last month or so. Hear the guidance is changing from tomorrow so everybody with a positive case in the household needs to isolate, regardless of whether it's Omicron or not. Bit late but fair fucks tbh, makes a lot of sense. Really would've more logical to have kept that as the guidance the whole time, especially knowing there's way too many manky, selfish bastards out there that can't be trusted to even wash their hands, never mind wear masks or self-test a few times a week.

Yeah don't get me wrong I liked the first record, then lost interest until I heard they'd recently drafted in Roger Taylor's son on drums. Singles are entertaining enough but doubt I could sit through a full album of it.

Only ever seen his recent one on Cardiacs. Good to see him flying their flag but fuck me is he a bit of a stuck up tit. Ten minutes of him playing bits.of songs on his phone and saying "you won't get any of this unless you're smart like me or work really hard at trying to like it".

Nah, missus is away on her own. I got to play the "look at me being decent and self-less" card and say "it's fine, you go, I'll watch the kids". Currently 4 cans into a crate of Guinness and gearing up to watch Celtic get battered. Aye, I honestly wouldn't have minded seeing them at any other time. Class riffs, great songwriting and really amusing lyrics. Just a shame about that fucking tiresome falsetto.

Anyone familiar with the 70's Jen Jumbo Fuzz? Hadn't heard of it until a few months back, totally oddity of a pedal. Basically a V1 Triangle Big Muff but gated, except a lot of them were sold with the parts from the circuit missing making it essentially just another Big Muff. Really interesting take on a fairly common pedal circuit. Apparently the gated version is all over the Misfits album Static Age. Some totally fucking useless trivia for you all there.

PCR results back, about as good as could be reasonably expected. 5 negative but the lad is indeed positive. Good news is still no symptoms and it doesn't seem to be Omicron. Gonna be an absolute ballache trying to keep a hypermobile, non-verbal autistic 4 year old isolated from the rest of the family like. Probably just a case of the rest of us doing daily Lateral Flow tests and crossing our fingers.

Doubt we'll hit those numbers. The gameplan is clearly banking on the majority having mild or no symptoms and taking that to mean it's over and they don't need to get tested.

Buying them at £40 a ticket in the midst of a pandemic is what gets me man. Wouldn't mind seeing them but it's not gonna fucking sell out.

So long as everyone stays safe and healthy, 10 days isolation for us all would suit me fine tbh. I'm mostly just fucked off that my other half spaffed £80 on tickets for us to see the Darkness tommorow and my last-ditch get out clause is now pending PCR results.

We're all fine man, no symptoms but it's fucking rife in the kids school so testing fairly regularly. Just a massive ballache, the other lateral flows were all negative but I'm not holding out much hope for a false positive, the lad attends the autism provision at the school and 3/4 of his class haven't been there this last week.

Ah the fucking joys. Third born has just gone and tested positive on a lateral flow. Just had to haul our family of six down for walk through PCR tests. Quite the experience though, kids got to witness the testing staff get hardcore with a wee old wife with an oxygen tank that refused to wear a face covering.

Ah cool. I never really digged into the whole 3 humbucker wiring. Mind my local shop when I was a kid had a beautiful black LP with three humbuckers that Iusted after, always wondered what fucking use it was if the pickup switch was still three way. Guess that's my bedtime reading tonight sorted. Bit unconventional for a Tuesday night wank but I'm not complaining.

Love an SG. Is it meant to be out of phase or did they fuck up the wiring at the factory?

Thought most of them had two truss rods? You'd think that would make them more stable but I guess i can see how it would lead to confusion and potential issues if they're not adjusted properly. Maybe I just dreamt that. Two truss rods, two jack sockets, weird proprietary bridge and some extra knobs for good measure. Easy to understand why they didn't become more mainstream.

Aye Firebirds look and sound great (those mini humbuckers are the bollocks) but feel totally unwieldy. Sure I read somewhere that what we think of as the Firebird is actually the reverse-Firebird and vice-versa. Someone early on apparently went "fuck playability, it looks much better reversed, let's just pretend that first line didn't happen". Don't reallly have much experience with Rickenbackers tbh, they look and sound great (especially the bass's) but strike me a tech's worst fucking nightmare.

Plain old Firebird for me. Just like how they look so much I'm prepared to overlook the fact they all just feel like someone took a railway sleeper and put strings on it.

The lack of restrictions isn't a sign that it's over. More an indication of an incompetent government and a general population that can't think outside their own four walls.

Not compulsory for those attending, different story for the staff who in many cases just have to trust that everyone is double jabbed like you and not just some moron that thinks this is over. Gutted for your kid, glad for his teachers. Bad enough they have to deal with 20+ of the the little shits from different households on a daily basis in a pandemic. Cramming their parents and extended family into an assembly hall?

In a restaurant aye but in a good boozer that's like asking waiting staff to recite war and peace. Struggle to find a horseshoe bar as it is, mandatory "Sit the fuck down and we'll come to you" would be the death knell of all decent pubs.

Bollocks to that. How the fuck am I supposed to properly scrutinise the whisky selection if I'm not able to stand at the bar?