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She's a bit good isn't she? You sound familiar with her work. Is this via YouTube or she a student of yours?

You may be joking, however, would you like to see a picture of my bedside table?

I'm not the world's greatest slap bass fan, but this is so wonderfully rhythmic, even out of context it had me tapping my toes.

It's nerve racking, general anaesthetic at her age, but needs must.

I also replaced the pick up in my SB with an Armstrong and it is every bit as good as the original.

Well, if you want to wait for my review before you buy I'm afraid it'll be a few weeks. Dog needs an operation so I'm watching the pennies.

The name alone deserves an award

Like the look of the solid state heads as well.

As everyone knows I am getting as much HB stuff as possible before the drawbridge is pulled up and we can't buy from the continent any more. However I have no room for any more cabs, dammit!

Do it. Demand satisfaction. Don't take no for an answer etc

I haven't bought from Dv247 until last week. The last thing I had from them was when they were Musicstore Cologne and sent out a paper catalogue listing all their stock. So a long time ago. Happy to report the item arrived a day earlier than expected. The quality of the item is another story for another thread.

Took delivery of two new exciters today. One male fowl-up straight away - bought the AR-30s and not the AR-50 which would have been better but ho hum, on with the show. Why 2? Well it seems in the world of these little vibrating wallahs if you want wattage you end up buying a 4ohm speaker thus maximizing the output of the amp . My littlest amp is 200 watts so I bought two 8ohm exciters, wired them in series, attached them to the seat and off I go. These are different from the previous speaker which got hot and melted. Better designed, don't get hot, and produce a different sound. They're more hi-fi is probably the best way to describe the difference. So good in fact that I can listen to music through my chair! The trade off is that the bass is more 'precise' if that means anything to anyone. Whereas I used to hit a low E and feel my innards liquify this is a smaller, tighter sensation. It still shakes through the seat, but with less violence, it's also louder in the room so less good for late night noodling. However I am already scheming! Another two linked together in series and both sets then wired to one another in parallel would, if my maths is working, give me a 120 watt 8ohm speaker system which should be much more capable and thus not need to be run so hard. I await, with a growing sense of nervous excitement to be told exactly why everything I have just said is wrong and in fact I can't possibly hear anything from the love seat because I don't have ears in my bum. Oh and lots of numbers I won't understand too. Bring it on!

OUCH!

I've had several Trace heads over the years and the SMX is the absolute king. So many astonishingly useful features. The valve pre is probably the least of these. @Lfalex v1.1 raises a question I've often asked myself. My favourite valve pre was in the Ashdown ABM. Subtle but not subtle like the SMX. It had a gradual impact on the sound which felt 'real' like others sometimes don't.

Gosh darn it. I'm after a rack shelf.

How much for the BF-2 😂

When typing (android phone) the return key has started taking me out of the message rather than just starting a new paragraph. Thought it was my phone but it only happens here. Driving me nuts! Please can someone help?

The last time I tried for a completely clean take of a song, I ended up recording the audio with multiple drop ins and miming on the vid. I mimed so badly - that didn't even work.

What annoys me most about the channel is how damn effortlessly good you are. Harumph.

I think Mama's Gun is sublime. We cover This Is The Day in one of my bands. Sounds such a simple breezy tune, but it's actually beautiful how it's constructed.