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I have a new never fitted Sadowsky pre-amp. I've just checked and the pot threads are all 3/8-inch.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1394649529' post='2393739'] As per above, that's just a prototype, and the liklihood is that production models will be 19" or less. I agree with you entirely. I couldn't own a rig with a head wider than a cab. [/quote] Just spotted that point. Excellent.

Looks very nice and I'm sure it sounds wonderful however why build a modern day amp to the width of a Marshall 4x12 cab when most folk are using cabs that are much narrower. Even a 19-inch flight case can be too wide for some. Having an amp hanging over the cab just looks ill conceived and untidy.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1394366859' post='2390660'] Dave, Is it not working with your CN212? [/quote] works fine Chris. Phil and Vic want to try it and it'll give me chance to give it a blast.

I have a Prodigy but have yet to gig it. Am taking it over to Bass Gear this week to try with different cabs. Very nicely engineered.

[quote name='jassbass' timestamp='1394201959' post='2389106'] Wow nice basses [/quote] Thanks. Sadly all gone to new homes now. That was 2007. If you have any questions at all about the J-Retro give John East a call. He's a great guy and will talk you through it all.

Both DJ5 and a DJ4.

Excellent. 3-band with swept mid. Very popular and used by many top players.

John East sells a J-Retro that is on the same curved control plate as the DJ5 and it just drops straight in.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1393575682' post='2381979'] Depends whether or not you can get by all days on Oranges ... [/quote] I expect there will quite a lot of Apples as well.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1393248749' post='2377705'] Is the handle wonky, or just partly retracted? [/quote] The latter. I was never a good photgrapher.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1393247387' post='2377686'] You know anyone who can do that for you, Dave..? [/quote]

Although I've had it for a couple of weeks I'd not had the chance to try this new head before this morning. Excellent. Looking forward to using it anger sometime. Running it in the garage is not a particularly good test but it proved that it all worked. Looking forward to becoming more acquainted with it as time goes on. Next job is to make a new speaker cable and a footswitch for it.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1392842278' post='2373475'] Top of the pops was pre-recorded recreated tracks in studio and then mimed or just the vocals live. [/quote] Not in this instance apparently. The cameraman who kept the only tape copy of this performance and who also happens to be a friend tells me that it was a fully live performance mixed in the studio by Dickie Chamberlain. His camera was fitted with a prototype fisheye lens, a product he was developing. He asked for a copy of the performance in order to demonstrate his lens and the tape stayed in his archive until it was rediscovered in 2012. Good job he did otherwise this particular performance would have been lost forever as the BBC accountants decided they could save money by wiping and re-using tapes, which at £200 a reel was, to them, a significant saving.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1392628845' post='2370672'] I'm sure if that was the case they could have dropped the bass in on an overdub? [/quote] Not easy when it's live a live perfomance recorded directly onto a VTR. Quadraplex (2") VTRs of that era only had mono sound tracks. BTW I did spot a mic over the drum kit.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392549721' post='2369865'] How does it do that? [/quote] How does what do what? If you take the trouble to Google there is a huge resource about electricity and magnetism on the Internet. Try "GCSE Electricity and Magnetism" or "How guitar pick-ups work physics".