Re: Old guy needs help with compressors

Gosh, you'd think I was a sales rep... Where's my commision check?? (great products though:)   http://www.ebs.bass.se/

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Simon Andersson - ex Pain Of Salv.

Jim Anton - Jonny Lang

Archzie-The 69 Eyes

Bonny G Assan - Thomas Godoj

Keith Axelson - Burgundy Curtain

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Anders Backelin - Lord Belial

Victor Bailey

Tamás Barabás

Lorenzo Barriendos

Alex Bedmar - Hora Zulu

Stephane Beguier - AKPHAEZYA

Carles Benavent

Johan Bengtsson - The Sounds

Jonas Björler -The Haunted

Andreas Blomqvist - Seventh Wonder

Kern Brantley - Musician & Producer

Victor Brandt - Totalt Jävla Mörker etc

Victor Broden

Tommy Brown

Arnaud Buffon

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John Calabrese - Danko Jones

Juan Carlos Díaz

Stéphane Castry

Michael Choi - Frankmusik, ex. MIKA

Tobias Christiansson - Dismember

Jackie Clark

Laurence Cottle

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Yuri Daniel

Jonas Danielsson

Lars"Larry"Danielsson - DK

Keith Duffy

Sebastian Durre

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Colin Edwin - Porcupine Tree

Bjorn Englen - Yngwie Malmsteen

Mats Mackan Englund

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Ola Flink - Soilwork

Full - Nicotine

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Jesús Gabaldón

Kristen Grove Band

Alex Grube

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Hank - Whyte Seeds

Adam Hector - Bullet

Henrik Hedelund - Memfis

Niko Del Hierro

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Omar Ibrahim

Mikel Irazoki

Mika Itäranta - Astral Doors 

 
 

Peter Iwers - InFlames

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Andreas Johansson - Raised Fist

Pal Johnson

Anders Jonsson

Julian - aVid*

Aaron Julison - Kid Rock

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Nathaniel Kearney Jr.

Oscar Kempe - Neverstore

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BJ "Berra" Laneby - Million

Fredrik Larsson - Hammerfall

Jesper Liveröd - Burst

Kristoffer Ljung - Kid Down

Salva Lopez - Complices

Dan Lundholm - Will & The People

Henke Lönn - Hellfueled

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Fernando Mainer - Tako

John Marcus - TimMcGraw

Dave Marks

Etienne Mbappé

Warren J McRae- Tina Turner

Byron Miller

Anders Molle Molin

Charlie Moreno

Barak Mori - Peter Cincotti

Anders Mossberg

Roberto Mårdstam - Scotts

Jesajah Mårskog

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Ni~Ya - Nightmare

Micke Nilsson - Bonafide

Mattias Norrman - Katatonia

Tomas Näslund - Blindside

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Orefo Orakwue- Anastacia, Sugababes

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Stig Pedersen - D.A.D.

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Antonio Ramos

Jonas Reingold - Flower Kings

Lars Risberg - Rhapsody In Rock

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Eric Sainte-Croix - Banane Métalik

Peter Samuelsson - Barbados

Jakob Sandgren - Intohimo

Per Schelander - Pain Of Salvation
Chyco Siméon

Peter Sonntag 

Asger Steenholdt - Big Fat Snake

Jan-Olof Strandberg

Christer Stålbrandt - November

Dave Swift - Jools Holland

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Jay-Tee Teterissa

Dywayne Thomas Jr.

Timo Tolonen - Leningrad Cowboys

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Kevin Walker - Justin Timberlake

UFO Walter

Hazze Wazeen 

Joey Vera


Josh Werner - Matisyahu

Marcus Wesslén - Dead By April

Joel Whitley - Stevie Wonder, Everlast

Claes Wikander - Crystal Eyes

Tal Wilkenfeld

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Lennart Z Zethzon - Clifftones

Robin Zielhorst - Cynic

Thomas Zurmühlen - James Last

Jocke Ågren - Blue Eyes Soul

Capman Örtefors - Freak Kitchen

Erkan Özdemir - Memo Gonzales
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Al Barrow - Magnum

Marten Andersson - Lizzy Borden

Adam Blackstone - Kanye West

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Oscar Cartaya

Al Carty - T-Pain

Chris Childs - Thunder

Stanley Clarke

Will Davies - Attack! Attack!

Gail Ann Dorsey - Gwen Stefani

Josh Dunham - Prince

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Roger Glover - Deep Purple

Tony Grey

Pete Griffin - Zappa Plays Zappa

HIJ
Tony Hall

Mr.Hardgroove - Public Enemy

Anders Iwers - Tiamat

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Tony Levin

James LoMenzo - Megadeth

Dick Lövgren - Meshuggah

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Micke Malmgren - Bo Kaspers

Justin Meldal-Johnsen - NIN, Beck

Marco Mendoza

Danny Miranda - Queen+Paul Rodgers

Anders Modd - Wolf

Gary Moore

Jamie Mooses - guit. with Queen

John Moyer - Disturbed

Jonathan Noyce - ex. Jethro Tull

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Rufus Philpot - Planet X

George Porter, Jr. - The Meters

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Vivi Rama - Will.I.Am.

Frank Romano - Guitar player

Magnus Rosén - ex. Hammerfall

STU
Fred Schneider

Mike Scott - Guitar Session Great

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Chico Willcox

Roy Z - Guitar player

  

 

 

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Victor Bailey returns to EBS!
We are very happy to welcome back mr Victor Bailey to EBS! Victor Bailey is a true master of the bass instrument that has played with them all, and with a great solo career as well. After a few years with a different brand, Victor decided it was time to come back to the sound he loved from his EBS Fafner heads and ProLine cabinets. 

 

Here's Victors own statement:

'In our search for our musical selves, often times we travel to the far ends of the universe, only to end up back home. EBS is home. Simply the best bass amps in the world!'

 

We say welcome back and are happy to have Victor onboard again! 
Read more at www.victorbailey.com

New EBS Artist: Julian from aVid*!
aVid* bassplayer Julian is now armed with EBS. The four German guys have shared the stage with acts like the Smashing Pumpkins and Chris Cornell. 
New album coming soon!

 

www.avid-music.de  

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  July 2009

 
Marcel Jacob 1964-2009 


 

It is with great sadness we recieved the news that our friend and long time EBS Artist Marcel Jacob passed away on July 21, at the age of 45. Marcel was a fantastic bass player and musician that helped put Swedish hard rock and metal on the map with his early commitment as bass player for Yngwie Malmsteen in the 80's (as well as a short period with Europe). In 1988 Marcel formed the band Talisman along with his friend and singer Jeff Scott Soto. Talisman became his main gig for his last 20 years – saluted with a big Anniversary gig at the Sweden Rock Festival 2007.  Marcel also performed as a solo bass player at the EBS Bass n Drum Days, a yearly event that was arranged between 2001 – 2007. Our thoughts goes to Marcel Jacob's family and close friends.

  June 2009

 
 
Pic of the month: Justin Meldal-Johnsen recieve his EBS pedals!
Justin Meldal-Johnsen from Nine Inch Nails / Beck is new EBS pedal artist! Here's a pic from when he recieved the goods from Jack Thompson at MDG (EBS US distributor).



May 2009

 
Warren McRae from the Tina Turner World Tour!
EBS Artist Warren McRae just finished the final shows on the Tina Turner world tour. We had the privilege to meet Warren in Stockholm and made an interview with him. 

Read the interview with Warren at the brand new EBS Blog at www.ebssweden.wordpress.com

New EBS Pedal Artists: Chico Willcox and Fred Schneider!
Brazilian bass player Chico Willcox is new EBS Pedal Artist. 
His clammed album "New Samba Jazz", released by Autrisuoni Records, had an excellent feedback he is currently in working progress for a new album to be released in 2009. Credits include playing with Brasilian stars Bocatto, João Donato, Guilherme Arantes, Emilio Santiago e Sandy and international musicians, such as: Nguyen Le, David "Fingers" Haynes, Mike Stern, Jojo Mayer etcetera.

 

French bass player Fred Schneider is a new EBS Pedal Artist.
Fred is well known in the bass player community with several solo albums and session work among his credits. He's featured on recordings with Cyril Achard, the Bass Influence 2 & 3 compilations, TC Jones Project Eclat, Seul à seuls, Lag I Run etc. 


Welcome to the EBS family!

 

Pic of the month:
The Sounds with EBS at the Bamboozle Festival, NJ

April 2009

 


EBS Welcome Peter Sonntag!!
German bass extraordinaire and living legend Peter Sonntag is new EBS Artist. Peter has a long and succesful career as bass player and is currently playing with his band Final Virus as well as doing a lot of sessions and workshops in Germany and around the world. We say welcome to the EBS Family!
www.peter-sonntag.com

Will Davies from Attack! Attack! on EBS pedals
Will Davies is the bass player for UK rock band Attack! Attack! Since forming in 2007 Attack! Attack! have been making waves across Europe and the USA, racking up tours with bands like Lostprophets and Funeral for a Friend and playing the SXSW music festival in Texas. Wills aggressive yet melodic bass lines hold down the bands catchy rock anthems, whilst adding another dimension to the bands sound. It's this knack for writing catchy rock songs which has led the band to be featured on the next Activision Guitar Hero game! Check out the band and their debut album at www.myspace.com/attackattackband

More new EBS Artists...
Bonny G. Assan, with German bassplayer with Thomas Godoj (Winner of the german pop TV show DSDS) is new EBS Artist.
www.thomas-godoj.de/


Eric Sainte-Croix from French band Banane Métalik is new EBS Artist. www.bananemetalik.com

 

Solo Album from Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree bass player Colin Edwin has a new solo album out, called Three Vessels. This is not really a solo bass album but an interesting composition of urban and far-east rythms, spoken words, ambient sounds and bass grooves. The album is only available to order from the Porcupine Tree webshop at www.burningshed.com

Pic of the month: JJ Smith on Tyra Banks show with Jamie Foxx
EBS Artist played on a recent episode of the Tyra Banks show with Jamie Foxx recently, and sent us this nice pic from the TV studio. 
March 2009

 


Tal Wilkenfeld on Jeff Beck album and DVD
EBS Artist Tal Wilkenfeld can be heard on the new live release by Jeff Beck Performing this week...Live from Ronnie Scotts. The recording is available as a live album as well as on DVD and features Jeff Beck, Tal Wilkenfeld, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and keyboard player Jason Rebello. Visit the album website here.
Check out Will & The People!
UK based Will & The People plays a ska-pop-rock that will probably fill your head this summer with the coming release of their debut album on RCA Records. The album is produced by Johhny Douglas, whose previous work include George Michael, John Legend, Chris Brown and Kylie Minouge. Although the album is not yet out, the band has already been opening for such bands as The Police, The Hoosiers, The Script etc. Bass player, and our fellow Swede, Dan Lundholm is now armed with EBS NeoGorm combos and MicroBass II preamps! More info at www.myspace.com/willandthepeople
Rave reviews for Wolf's Ravenous!
Wolf's new album Ravenous was released in Europe by the end of February and will be released in USA by the end of March. The album, that was produced by Roy Z (Judas Priest/Bruce Dickinson etc) has already been entitled the Hard Rock Album of the year by several journalists around the world, and might be the big breakthrough for this Swedish class act of classic heavy metal. Bass player Anders Modd and guitarist Johannes Axeman both endorse EBS pedals and the album was recorded using an EBS Classic 450 amp and MicroBass II preamp. More at www.myspace.com/wolfheavymetal
And there is more...
Swedish metal band Hammerfall is currently on tour supporting their new album No sacrifice, no victory Backing up bass player Fredrik Larsson is an EBS TD650 and ProLine 810 cabinet. www.hammerfall.net

 

EBS Artist Victor Broden is now the bass player with the acclaimed band Luna Halo, as well as on the upcoming tour with Jessica Harper. Visit www.myspace.com/victorbrodenbassfreelance

 

EBS Artist, 18 year old Dwayne Thomas Jr. just recorded for a coming up Bass Gospelchops DVD with Hadrien Feraud, Andrew Gouche, and Janek Gwizdala, among others. He's also on a new album with Rick Flanagan called Memphis Nights.

February 2009

 


EBS Artists at the Grammy Awards
Zappa Plays Zappa won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance recently. Here's what bass player Pete Griffin has to say about his EBS pedals: "I'm loving the EBS Black Label Pedals! The UniChorus can produce such a wide array of tones, I've never heard an octaver track like the OctaBass and the BassIQ is very easy to use and just as juicy sounding as my vintage Mu-Tron, but smaller. The Micro Bass II has saved my butt a few times on the road, I use it to balance the sounds of my different basses onstage, and being able to dial in the amount of effects loop helps keep a good fundamental tone even with all my effects." 

 

Also congrats to EBS Pedal Artist Mr Hardgroove for his performance on Burning Spears 'Jah Is Real' who won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album.



Photo: Mike Mesker
In Flames Sum up a Great 2008
In Flames with bass player Peter Iwers can look back at 2008 being proud of themself. Here's the Awards won by the band for their album "A Sense Of Purpose":

Sweden
P4 Dist Award
P3 Rock – Album of the year
Grammi – Best Hard Rock
P3 Gold – Best Rock/metal
Swedish Metal Awards – Best Death metal Band
Swedish Metal Awards – Best Video (Alias)
Bandit Rock Awards - Best Swedish Band
Bandit Rock Awards  - Best Swedish Album
Bandit Rock Awards  - Best Swedish Live Band 

UK
Metal Hammer Awards - Golden God Award 
& Best International Act.

Russia
Russian Ramp Award – Best International Band

 


--- In [email protected], bluesbrian <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Although I have not tried it, I have also heard that the EBS MultiComp is a good one. Note that the customer reviews are nothing but "glowing"!
> 
> http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/EBS-MultiComp-True-Dual-Band-compressor-Pedal?sku=151466
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/nba3ln
> 
> 
> I have the DigiTech XBS Bass Squeeze Compressor Pedal
> 
> http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/DigiTech-XBS-Bass-Squeeze-Compressor-Pedal?sku=150826
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/m82nme
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> Note that it is not a limiter, so if you're looking for that part of the equation, might as well look elsewhere.
> 
> I haven't used it much.  It's easy to wreck your tone with it, so go easy.  The customer reviews are a mixed bag, but if all you can swing is $69 .. then it's worth considering.  (I think I got mine from a local Guitar Center store, where I could actually try it out.  Of course, it will sound different on each bass and amp, so using a store rig won't tell the whole story.  (hard to find the EBS multi-comp at a local shop.)
> 
> Note that Jeff Beck's bassist, Tal Wilkenfeld, is using EBS gear.. She is great!  (probably could play great on any old gear!)
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> // Brian
> 
> --- In [email protected], mark monillas <alembic4@> wrote:
> >
> > $199.00 @ musicianfriends
> > 
> > Yo Victa, whatsoever you do, remember this here. You can't hold no groove, If you ain't got no pocket !
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Steve Molk <bassmansince62@> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Steve Molk <bassmansince62@>
> > Subject: Re: [Bass Place] Re: Old guy needs help with compressors
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 6:13 AM
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> > >From: john_lapietra <john_lapietra@ yahoo.com>
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> > >To: bassplace@yahoogrou ps.com
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> > >Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:28:27 PM
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> > >Subject: [Bass Place] Re: Old guy needs help with compressors
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> > >My 2cents for whatever it's worth... I own/play 8 basses- all of them active p/u's except one. I am dependant on using a compressor in both establishing my tone and playing style (believe it or not, so does Tony Levin- he uses these very rare vacuum tube compressors/ stomp size compressor made by a company from upstate New York that went out of business called Retrospect: good luck finding one, I've been searching for years..) I use a compressor more like a sustainer (also evens out the notes and at the same time enhances the tone IMHO anyhow) than a limiter (which squashes your signal)- so I always keep the attack delay near zero and my compression near max. I've tried many different expensive Rack Mount units: DBX, Ashley, Rocktron, Symetrics, ART, Alesis, RANE, Urie- to name a few- many of them worked GREAT for use as limiters and clipping out peak signals, just not for my personal applications. . One of my first stompbox compressors that gave me
> > 
> >  what I was looking for was a Vintage Ibanez CP9 (A little noisy until I modded it with military-grade caps and such)- which I still own as a "back up"- Other Stomp-box compressors I've tried; Boss, Keeley, DoD, MXR, Demeter, Arion, Tom Scholl's... just didn't have the gain/bite I was accustomed to. I own an ART Gold TUBE MP pre-amp and that gives me just enough if I use my vintage all tube heads (very clean too- right out of the box) but doesn't seem to have quite "enough" (even maxed out) when I use any of my solid state rigs. 
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> > >What I've discovered about 4 or 5 years ago, turned out to be the best compressor HANDS DOWN, I have ever used for my Live/Studio Applications. "EBS", a company from Sweden who has been making high-end targeted Bass Gear for decades-(Listen to early Stanley Clarke and you will hear Grey-Label series EBS effects. The latest Series of Bass stompbox gear is Called the "BLACK LABEL" series and features: All Analog Boutique-quality components, True-Bypass, Ruggedized Cases and Military Grade pots/switches, will use either 9volt batteries(for zero 60HZ hum) standard Boss input jacks/power supplies, and also a proprietary Phantom Power system which utilizes conventional 1/4" patch cords. For Product info see: http://www.ebs. bass.se/
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> > >The model I'm referring to is called the "Multi-Comp" and it is a true Dual Band Compressor that is both pro-quality and extremely simple to use- See the numerous positive reviews here:
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> > >I also own a B.L. "Uni-Chorus" & "Bass-IQ... plan on getting an OctaBass and all new Metaldrive, soon, to add to my collection.
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> > >Also in regard to Behringer- most of their stuff is built in China pretty chinsy, although their engineers are located in Germany and have made some noteworthy contributions in regard to innovative affordable music gear. You can get a lot of "bang for your buck". I personally don't like any of their stompboxes because they are all S.M.T. components, and you can't upgrade or mod them- plus most of their "effects" are mostly digital, and I personally prefer the warmth of Analog... Although I would never put my trust in one of their Power Amps (without one or two B.U's of course.. ha ha) there are plenty of Professional Live Sound Touring Companies that use truckloads of some of their rack gear for Live Sound Reinforcement- For instance their compressors are so "affordable" you can afford to have one limiter dedicated for each drum tom... 
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> > >Out of a half dozen Bass Rigs, I didn't own that would fit in the front seat of my Toyota Celica Convertible- I Love the sound of Hartke Aluminum-Cone speakers, but it seems as they've discontinued all the smaller "KickBack" combo 10's and 12's... all I could find locally were 15's and they were too large to fit in my sports car. I ended up buying a Behringer super compact single 12" slant-back combo: 
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> > >http://www.behringe r.com/EN/ Products/ BXL1800A. aspx
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> > >$250 Brand New with 1 year Warranty (like how could you go wrong there?). The onboard effects (especially the compressor and octaver) are completely worthless to me, but it actually has a great deal of headroom and great tone (sounds pretty much like a Hartke- since I own a bunch of them, I think I can make this statement)for that tiny little beast. Does it compare to my Vintage Ampeg B-15 port-a-flex Combo? Hell no... not even close... but it's also like 1/3 the size and weight, and for that, it suites my purpose- completely(have about 4 months left on the warranty and so far so good- been driving it HARD in a little practice room too!) Anyhow, sorry so long-winded, just thought I'd lend an opinion to a fellow old-man Bass player..
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> > >--- In bassplace@yahoogrou ps.com, Steve Molk <bassmansince62@ ...> wrote:
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> > >> Anybody know anything about compressor / limiters? 
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> > >> I don't now and have never used any kind of pedals at all on the Bass but I am thinking my new active 6 coulld benifit form a compressor.
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> > >> I see the CS-100 and CS-400 and they look exactly alike. Anybody know the differance? And whats with the "Dynamics Compressor? (Like the Behringer DC-9) what's the differance between it and any other compressor?  
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