From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   Once upon a time on usenet radams2000@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Putting aside all the expressions of puritanical musical moral   
   > outrage, what I am interested in is whether or not there is s market   
   > for such a device. Sometimes I play jazz jobs and have no mic at all   
   > , the  and other times I'm playing in a funk band, and when the   
   > guitar player stomps on his solo switch , I want to do the same. Why   
   > doesn't the guitar player just set his volume higher and then play   
   > more softly? Because when you turn up the volume , you amplify the   
   > hum and noise and fretboard sounds. Same for me, if I set my volume   
   > high and then back off the mic during non-solo periods, it picks up   
   > every little clank and rattle of my 1954 vintage sax, not to mention   
   > all the other Amps and drums around me. So my suggestion is a   
   > practical solution for real-world musicians, and if it violates   
   > someone's concept of a utopian musical world , then I can live with   
   > that.   
      
   God-damnned wall-of-text!   
      
   If posters can't write properly I'm not reading it. (Yes I realise it's 12   
   months old.)   
   --   
   Shaun.   
      
   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy   
   little classification in the DSM*."   
   David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)   
   (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)