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Yeah I'm quite glad that sax is the instrument I had a lot of proper methodical lessons in. It's in that group of instruments that you can't really just pick up. Like the classical string instruments and brass instruments. Anyone who's musical and got a decent grasp of theory can get to a passable level at guitar or piano or drums on their own, but without lessons I'd never have got near saxophone. I got to grips with piano a bit on my own, and now I'm trying to at least know my way around a guitar. I think instruments are like languages, every one that you have experience with teaches you something you can use on the next one.

Woohoo. Firstly, its nice that they did what they did. Most stores would have call it shit out of luck and left you out in the cold but they were nice enough to help you out and I think that goes a long way to building customer relationships as well. I'm sure you'll go back there when the time is right to pick up another Helix LT or maybe ... a Helix. https://www.gearnews.com/boss-katana-air-wireless-wonder-amp/ Spent some time today going over an amp I want to replace my old Fender and I am kind of sold on the Katana for now but then I saw this and thought to myself that in a smaller room this could be good enough and I never record from the amp out to the audio-interface anyways. This crazy bastard also did a good review of it. no cables. whats not to love.

I contacted the guitar store where I traded in my Mooer before I bought the Helix to see if they still had it... and they did. And the guy emailing me back was the same guy who was helping me in the store (and the owner's son, which ends up being pretty handy for this story), wanting to know why I wanted it back after I'd just got the Helix. So I told him what happened. He emails back saying he's going to talk to his dad, the owner of the store about it. I get an email back about an hour later saying that I can come in today to pick up my old Mooer back for nothing and also that I'd be given some store credit for the next time I wanted to buy anything from them, and that they were sorry they couldn't give me a new Helix (lol, no shit they couldn't - but nice of them to suggest they would have if they could). Pretty great customer service, well pleased with that. So I'm gonna pop around on my lunch break and pick that back up. It's not ideal, because what would be ideal is getting my Helix back... but it's nice that they wanted to help me out like that. Apparently there's been a hardware update since I last traded it in, so that's cool. I liked the high gain amp models on it, some of the effects aren't as good as on the Helix - but fuck it, it'll do for just fucking around. Going to have to go through some IRs to figure out which ones I liked. There's some great free IR cabs out there (if you use that stuff @Mel81x @Happy Blue - I think the 6505 MH has USB/XLR outputs so you could put it straight into your computer/an interface and have your actual amp powering virtual cabinets). This video lists some good ones:

"During defensive corners, we hear him shout "VIRGIL" and we get out of his way."

We have them in this country as well mate and they are actually a species called a Hoopoe. They are migratory birds and they don't actually mate here(unlike some migratory birds which do) but small numbers of them migrate to the far South of the country in the warmer months.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/08/120000-alien-hunters-planning-storm-area-51-discover-truth-10131273/