TimR

Sorry to report I have had a terrible accident. I accidentally drove to Camden tonight and bought a new gig bag. The old one was very tatty. Unfortunately the bass I had ordered to just try out, also accidentally left the shop in the bag after I accidentally paid for both of said items. A terrible state of affairs. I now have 4 basses! I am practically a hoarder now.

No. They don't. There will be a THD% accompanying the X Watts at 1kHz. That will tell you how much distortion the amp suffers at that output. The lower the better.

I'm surprised it's not USB C.

Most bass players are incredibly chilled people. We have to be. There's only so many drummers you can kill before someone starts to notice.

Sensitivity. My 500W amp spends much of its time set at 3. If I adjust it to 2.5 its far too quiet, 3.5 too loud. I guess a 200W amp might give more range.

I think it's when the attempts of middle aged people dancing to a medium rock song fail when it turns into a full on house rave.

It's called the "amateurs disease", to make something more exciting, just play it quicker. The alternative is to actually work out why it sounds dull. Some bands have sped up recordings but I suspect that's under controlled conditions while listening to it. I also played Livin' on a Prayer in a band with a drummer who would speed up. I used to spend most of the gig trying to hold him back. One gig I'd had enough and just went with him. By the end of the song the singer couldn't get the words in and was giving the drummer daggers, and the people on the dance floor were begining to give up one by one.

I blame the "keeping up with the drummer" mindset. Even I have fallen into that trap in my post. The drummer should be playing at the appropriate volume. Too many non-musical drummers playing at one volume. But that's another thread.

Electronics is a lot cheaper and easier to mass produce than it was 'in the old days' Manufacturers will do market research and watch sales figures and know what sells. My first Amp in 1987 was 100w. It was just about loud enough to keep up with a drummer in a pub. But everything got louder as it got cheaper. That's not good for anyone imo. Everything is getting lighter now. It'll get to the point where everything becomes 1000W as it'll cost the same and be the same size as a 100W amp.

It won't be free for long.

AI slop. The backlash has started. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wx2dz2v44o

Tube is easy to mistype as tibe as U and I are next to each other. Tibe autocorrects to time.

No. The rest of us needed someone clever to spot it as well. 🤣

Conversely, I've just had an hour long meeting with a couple of people I don't know very well on a personal level. We discussed something very important to all of us and required every ounce of my emotional intelligence to learn and pick up on their micro body language and inferred language. I'm ready to go back to bed. I certainly couldn't do that regularly for very long. When machines have learned to do that, we are in trouble. Until machines learn to do that, they are not going to be much of a problem to us.

I would say the first three hours of my weekday, every day, is exactly the same and can be done on autopilot. I suggest most people are the same.