SteveStrummerUK

My first gig, 1978 age 16.

The rugby club's safe, but both the County Cricket ground and the racecourse do get flooded regularly.

I was there ☺️ Slade were brought in to replace Ozzy's Blizzard Of Oz, and apparently were quite hesitant about doing so. You are correct about their prowess as a live band - and Noddy had us eating out of his hand before long. He jokingly said it wasn't a 'request show' as so many people were shouting for them to play Merry Xmas Everybody, and followed that up, in his thick Brummie accent with, "Go on then - you lot f***** sing it!". And we did! (they even kept the crowd sing-a-long on the Slade Alive IV/Live at Reading 80 album). Great line-up that year for us (New Wave Of British) Heavy Metal fans. Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, UFO and a load of others, plus established rockers like Rory Gallagher, Ian Gillan, Gary Moore and (the simply wonderful) Whitesnake. And incidentally, I was a big Slade fan as a kid - Gudbuy 'T Jane was the first record I ever bought ?

Couldn't agree more ? Saw them about 15 years ago in the local rugby stadium and they were fantastic. However, we also saw them on one of the recent 'Frantic Four' tours and they were absolutely amazing. The four of them were just so tight as a band (even after 30-ish years apart), and they played all the old stuff - nothing on the set list came from any album later than Blue For You.

Cheers mucker ☺️

? Too easy .... ......... must ..................... not .................................. be ..................................................... sarcastic ? ☺️

It's my Ol' Pal - how's it hanging DHR ? ..

I think I've cracked it mate. In answer to your query regarding the XLR input (which were working fine BTW), I had a cable plugged in to input 1 from the Kemper. I tried unplugging that and restarting SONAR and it's now seeing the S/PDIF perfectly! It would appear the analogue input was somehow 'masking' the digital in. Thanks for your input (pun intended ?) mate - you certainly got me thinking along the right lines (and saved me a few bob!).

And ............................. cue the cowbell ?

Yes mate, I skilfully edited midstream though ?

I'll give it a try mate. Here's the Zoom U44: I'm going into the U44 using the Coaxial In S/PDIF. It works absolutely fine in as much as I can hear the Kemper through my monitors (also plugged into the U44).

Big thanks to everyone for the excellent advice and insight ☺️ As the S/PDIF inputs on either Focusrite seem to offer nothing above what I have on the Zoom, I might be better off staying with that. Only problem is - I'm still on the last version of SONAR and try as I might, I can't get it to recognise the S/PDIF signal coming via the Zoom from my Kemper. Am I missing something really obvious?

I was chatting to my old mate Troy the other day, and he mooted the idea of rekindling our VeRy MeTaL project. I'm currently using a cheapish Zoom U44 interface to connect my Kemper to my PC using S/PDIF. It works really well, but the Zoom isn't really up to the job when it comes to recording. It doesn't even come close to my old TonePort UX2 if I'm honest, but the UX2 doesn't have S/PDIF (hence why I retired it). I thought that if I was going to get back into recording stuff, I might as well get an interface that's a bit more up to date/sophisticated. I've been looking at the Focusrite range as these seem popular among us hobbyists, and I've narrowed my research down to two potential purchases: Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 USB-C (UK £224.00) Focusrite Clarett 4 Pre USB (UK £459.00) Both have more than enough ins/outs etc for my needs, and crucially both have an S/PDIF in (to connect my Kemper) and an S/PDIF out (to connect my monitors). Bearing in mind most of the stuff I record is likely to feature too much distortion in A minor, is there any 'noticeable' benefit to me spending nearly twice the dosh for the Clarett over the Scarlett? Or is there something else out there in that sort of price range that might be worth my looking into? Thanks in advance for any wisdom imparted my way ?

Ah yes, the locally famous 'long-legged' Wibbleses ? It's pretty much phonetic as written mate, Fly Ford Flav - Ell. A mate of mine used to run the Flyford Arms, a proper village pub with some decent cask ales on draught. Also, let's not forget the wonderfully named Bell End - just up the road past Droitwich.