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Haven't been for a few years…the last time it was pre Covid in the previous venue. Got there just after 10 am, and easily parked across the road in the (?)Academy car park.
I went to the Live Stage to see the Neural DSP guy. His playing was decent enough, but he said very little about his usage of the Quad Cortex, which was disappointing. On the other hand, the Sound Engineer in the Room saw that I was interested in his rather fine Allen & Heath, and invited me to have a closer look, and demonstrated how it all worked. This bit of generosity really made the day for me.
Rather amusingly, I could not find the simplest of things for sale. I decided after one of our recent rare gigs, that I'd like a more substantial guitar stand (currently use a Cooperstand). Couldn't find a decent Hercules Stand for sale, though I got info off one of the exhibitors.
All in all a good turn out, Plenty to look at and some interesting folks to talk to, and space to grab seat for 1o mins.
I didnt find it too loud at all this year, though quiet times were welcome of course.
Great job @Jason as usual.
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Nowhere near as noisy as previous events have been. Parking was easy enough (at 0930). And venue was easier to get to without needing to get into the depths of Birmingham. Seemed to be more exhibitors there, and fewer of the big stands that can take over a bit, so more variety. All comments I overheard from public/exhibitors were completely positive.
Great to meet a lot of old familiar faces (I missed last year, so this was my first since pre Covid days) - though somehow everyone seemed just that little bit wiser. Or older.
Didn't get to see any of the live stage stuff - but I was really there to help Lee out on our stand rather than be a visitor.
Picked up a few impulse purchases, but nothing over £5k* so I'm still alive. Managed to grab a copy of last year's ELEVEN as well as this year's, and to hear that maybe it's going to be bi-annual if time permits. Good to have something different to read, and some proper quality photos too, and on real, old-school *paper*.
*actually, nothing over £50! But it's great to be able to see stuff, touch stuff, talk to the owners (etc) even of simple things like straps and capos rather than just buying everything unseen on-line.
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Did anyone get a good look at the @Tuffset bridge?
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Amps are always difficult to judge, because there's usually someone playing through them at hyperspeed nearly all the time.
Quite honestly, if there were pedals, I don't remember them, though I wasn't looking to increase my pedal collection at The Show.
This is interesting to me getting feedback, as a small maker I like the idea of this concept but not sure it works.
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Then Jack Gardner absolutely shredded through the Neural dsp for an impromptu 30 minute spot ( someone hadn’t turned up). Followed this with Digital John who was pretty impressive through neural dsp though a lot of tracks were pitch shifted ( one 13 steps down).
went to the adventure in tone lecture but that really wasn’t my thing-sorry!.
saw @Roland and @guitars4you manning the stall but each time I passed , it was so busy I couldn’t introduce myself though mark yiu looked pretty much the same as the last time I saw you in 1984