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Not a rhyme but a scansion issue. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Child Star" - to make the lines "Debussy and Mendelssohn, Handel and Dvorak of old" fit, Marc Bolan sings "Dvorak" as "devorack". In "Ballrooms of Mars", he just gives up completely, apart from a desultory "stars/Mars" rhyme halfway through. "Telegram Sam" has "Sam/man" and "Slim/been" (in mitigation, he sings "been" as "bin").

I've finally got round to doing my own version. This uses 6 buttons and a 20 x 4 I2C display (much easier than messing around with 16 connectors). I've got the facility to change the selections on the screen but as yet I've just got one set of selections. I used a 5V Arduino Nano. Power supply is via a 9V socket, and I used a bridge rectifier to avoid any embarrassment about having the wrong polarity. There's two 220R resistors, one to the MIDI +5V and one to the MIDI Tx pin. All built on a bit of Vero, secured to the lid by 4 M3 spacers held on by J-B Weld. At first I had a problem with issuing multiple commands, but I realised that the Stomp would have to react to one before doing the next so I put a delay in. I found 100mS worked - I didn't bother experimenting further. This is the sketch: Stomp_switch_I2C.ino

Haven't you noticed who you're replying to?

Based partly on reviews here and also on other reviews, I went for a pair of Audio Technica ATH-M20X - smallest bedroom is now my office, complete with hi-fi system, so transferred my Sennheiser HD219s into there and bought these for downstairs computer/hi-fi/recording purposes. Found them very impressive, not sure if it was psychological but I heard detail in songs that I'd not picked up on before. Haven't worn them for an extended period so not sure about long-term comfort, but they seem comfortable enough, despite being sprung disconcertingly like a bear trap when putting them on.

Depends if you count all the different permutations of face to face, side by side, or end to end. Although the end to end one would be silly.

It took over a year for the other members of one band to notice that I played a fretless.

Jethro Tull. Surprisingly devoid of agricultural knowledge. Conversely, The Levellers are quite liberal in their outlook.

You just know what the copywriter's favourite book is, don't you? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way".

Naturally.

It's timbre that we use to identify instruments, and that includes the envelope - which is why a plucked electric instrument played through a slow-acting noise gate or using a volume pedal sounds much like a bowed instrument.

I realise that this is contrary to the spirit of Basschat, but I googled "double blind violin test" and this is a piece by one of the violinists who participated in the 2012 one saying what happened. It wasn't a test to find out who could tell what from which, but one to find out which ones violinists preferred. This is a piece about a couple of other double-blind tests which show that players and audiences could tell the difference between old and modern, and generally preferred the modern. Apologies for bringing facts in. Back to basses. Seeing as vibrations will be travelling through the wood, unless it is a perfectly rigid material, it must have some effect on those vibrations, potentially absorbing some frequencies more than others. I would assume that the softer the wood, the more effect. How significant the effect is is a different matter. Pickups, strings, and electronics would be the main contributors to sound (as someone else said earlier on).

Fromnewood?

I'm out. Not basses, but a Variax 700 acoustic and a Kaoss KP3+.

It doesn't take long to type "minimum wage vietnam" into Google and find it's 4.42 million Vietnamese dong per month, which is £135. Average monthly salary is 5.88 million dong so their average pay is 1.3 times their minimum wage, as opposed to the UK ratio which is more like double. So even if they're on minimum wage, they're paid 3/4 of the average wage.

It works out the same, they're just connected in parallel.

This isn't an effects unit per se, it's a device to allow foot control of an Android pad with Bluetooth which I think would also work on an iPad. Two buttons, allowing page up and down, and with a menu to allow changing the functions to line up/down and next/previous window. Not up to the immaculate production standards of the other items here. It uses an ESP32 on a development board, programmed with the Arduino IDE, and a backlit 16x2 display with parallel interface, powered through a bridge rectifier (to avoid issues over supply polarity) and a step-down to 5V converter. Top view (note badly sized window for display): Inside view. The ESP32 is soldered to the board and there are female headers on the board just outside it. I put them on both sides by accident, but it came in handy as the unused side, with a few male pins with the board side of the pin clipped off, worked as a spacer. The thing in red on the left is a 10k trim pot to adjust contrast, and the power supply is in clear heatshrink on the right. The display is held in place by four nylon bolts with built-in spacers glued to the inside of the case (you can just see one nylon nut): Connecting to pad: Connected - page up/down: Long press to bring up menu, right button to go through menu, left to select or long press on left to exit menu:

If I was in the market at the moment, I would have a look at https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Caline-P1-Isolated-Guitar-Effects-Power-Supply-Direct-From-Caline-in-China/164191630829 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mosky-ISO-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Processsor-Power-Supply-Adapter-10-Isolated-Output/313203059775 and see if there's any more info available on the interwebs. In fact, regarding the latter one, see https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/mosky-iso-10-power-supply-any.2162617/ and you will see examples of fact (which say it's a Good Thing) and of speculation (which cast doubt on it being a Good Thing without any facts whatsoever).

I agree, the same with Freebird.

The full length version, presumably? Much as I love it in its many incarnations, I have to say that "Freebird" is another one in this category. Quite a few songs by Green Day have an outro that doesn't really follow on from the rest of the song (eg. Boulevard of Broken Dreams). Maybe it's just to make it more difficult for cover bands to learn.

Flanders and Swann (already mentioned above). Fascinating Aida. Doc Cox, aka Ivor Biggun. All musical comedy rather than comedians doing music, but capable musicians and I happen to find them funny.

He opened the new arts centre at my old school (which also happened to be his old school). Seemed quite a nice chap.

Mine has worked well. I've modified a daisy-chain lead so I can use two or three power outputs to power an HX Stomp, just need to actually try it out. However, you can't get them now. There's a selection of allegedly isolated budget PSUs available with assorted different mixes of power output, mostly taking the form of half a dozen or so low current outputs (100mA or 300mA), one or two high current 9V outputs, a dedicated 12V and a dedicated 18V output.

And veering wildly back on-topic, my approach has always been to find a bass which is comfortable and has a neck that I like, and a decent amount of sustain (doesn't have to be till next week, enough so I won't need more because you can always stop a note but without an Ebow you can't extend it), and any deficiency in the pickups or electronics can be subsequently attended to.

In 25 years of email lists, newsgroups, and web forums, I have come to the conclusion that looking at the subject rarely gives an indication of the contents thereof. The more ambitious posters can manage to go off-topic in the first post, let alone the first reply.

As you say, each to their own. After all, some people even like Prince.