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Have a look on YT, there seems to be a bit of a debate on how thorough the QC checks actually are....

Nick Campbell does quite a lot of YT stuff with Scary Pockets and Pomplamouse:

Oh there's more, but I thought people would get bored: plus it was to make the point Phil Jones is not Welsh but did live there...

See above/below...

I lifted it from Phil Jone's resume (TBH I was too lazy to say it was PJ) but just did a quick C&P from his website.

From the PJB website: After graduating from college in electronics in the early 70’s, I enrolled into The Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Wales where I was living at the time. The WCM&D then had a very conservative view on music. They did not even consider the bass guitar a real instrument! So I opted for learning the Upright Bass classical-style and taught by Earnest C. Haigh. (He was an 81-year old musician with 60 years of bass playing experience and a former principle bassist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). I was playing in Rock, R&B and Jazz groups in bars, nightclubs and did some studio work for the BBC TV company in order to pay for my music tuition. One thing that had always frustrated me was that the current equipment for bass players was never up to the sound that was in my mind. It seemed that there was always a disconnection between the equipment and me. So I started to modify my basses and amplification on the search of the Holy Grail of great bass tone. I learnt about loudspeakers from a true pioneer of audio, the late Mr. Reginald Solomon. A cinema – sound engineer, who worked most of his life for Western Electric. (W.E. was the original founder of the pro-sound industry). This led me to becoming a pro-sound engineer working first for Vitavox, a respected and old British Loudspeaker company that manufactured huge horn cinema speakers. After this I started my own sound reinforcement company in London. Two things stayed with me, my fascination for bass playing and sound. I was building a lot of my own recording equipment in my studio then. The speakers I used for near-field monitoring were my own design. These later became the Acoustic Energy AE1’s now considered a milestone in the evolution of hi-fi and also in the recording industry. GRP records (a renowned Jazz label) used AE speakers and even eventually the famed Abbey Road studios too. In 1990 I moved to USA and worked briefly for Boston Acoustics in New England designing their premier loudspeaker range, the Lynnfield series. In 1994 I founded Platinum Audio, which made expensive home hi-fi speakers and studio monitors. In that period I designed probably the worlds most expensive and massive home loudspeaker system: the Air-Pulse, which sold for $175,000 a pair! The Japan Audio Society praised the Air-Pulse as the best loudspeaker ever developed in the 100-year history of loudspeakers!

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I'm Vegan: sparse, lean, tasteless and and lots of GAS

Tuned an octave higher than a Bass....

Would that not mean routing a jack socket into the body then?

Alas Joe Loss's brother, Dead Loss is no longer with us....

01 Ever played a gig sitting down? Yes, first gig with Idle Hands was sitting down, then I stood up thereafter. 02 Ever gigged on a different instrument? No 03 Ever shared a stage with a musical hero of yours? No 04 Any fan ever had a tatoo of your band's logo? No 05 Ever signed an autograph in a dressing room? No 06 Ever cried on stage? No 07 Ever worn a hat on stage? Yes, have been forced into it with current band 08 Ever gigged with a band you hadn't met before the gig? No, but often do jam nights and sit in on the Bass with all and sundry 09 Ever been in a relationship with a fellow band member? No Comment... 10 Ever played in different bands on the same day? Yes, at a Festival, about 1 hour apart 11 Ever had anything thrown at you while playing? Just money 12 Ever crashed on the way to the gig? No 13 Ever left a band over the choice of set list? Many, 'All right Now'....Take it Easy' 14 Ever slept in the venue despite it not being a hotel? No 15 Ever been supported by a band clearly better than you? Often 16 Ever played a gig suffering from some debilitating medical condition? No 17 Ever been in a band where the guitarist was your favourite bandmate? Yes 18 Ever played in the grounds of a stately home? Yes, Longleat and also York Minster believe it or not! 19 Ever injured yourself on stage? Just self esteem 20 Ever been told that your bass isn't loud enough? Occasionally!

I was speaking to a music shop owner 25? years ago, just at the start of the internet and he was bemoaning it as he said 'Everyone can now compare prices between the shops'.

I always though the Combo Head II was equivalent to the LMIII and the earlier Combo Head without the Master gain was the LMII....

Plenty of YT videos for tips on HMWYRS...

Ash at Oil City Pickups may help? https://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/custom-shop

Just found out there is a second series with people like Richard Thompson, Levon Helm, Allen Toussaint , Ray Lamontagne , Lyle Lovett, The Boss etc

and you can see your reflection in the cover too....

i expect you may be able to get a bespoke pickup maker rewind your current pickup to a smoother/punchier sound?

I've got the same amp in my CMD121P and I've found getting the gain and master volume set up correctly helped me get a better fundamental sound before even fiddling with the VLE and VPF.

Just stumbled across these on YT: Police, Sir Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou Reed, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones and James Taylor. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgLq5LTEgCkosi4HJzd5RgQ A nice way to spend an hour or so listening to the music and background to it

Here's one being played....

My GAS only kicks in when I'm gigging and I can justify another purchase and also feel I have a good chance of selling what I'm replacing. I could not even contemplate the Yamamha Cake thing that came up last week, for a mere £9.99 and postage. On the selling front however, I've got someone collected a garden incinerator from me today.....

This one must run him close, it looks longer but not as wide?

When he first broke on the scene Johnny Cash said, 'he's 24 and writes songs like he's 240"....