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Nice work.

Wow you have a Rail? I am not worthy. Seriously, I often wondered wheter that started as a development tool to check pickup position.

Socially distanced boat race? Interesting.

Ah but that was science fiction..............

Ironically there is a Cambridge vaccine, it is a long way behind but uses a novel way of injection, without a needle using compressed air.

The Oxford vaccine is due to reveal its phase 3 trial results in December. Fingers crossed.

The Bugera is really about 700W and the difference between 700W and 500W is very little acoustically.

You need the angle of the shim, just raising the neck will not work unless you use a very thick piece of wood. Also 2mm is qiute a low action, how low do you want go?

Same here, found an OF band full of good blokes, no EGOs, still rehearsing when we can. Have tow gigs booked next Summer.

Trouble is that was for MMR.

Saul, Before you do anything too drastic, loosen the strings and try to loosen the truss rod. Assumming that works, tighten it again until the neck is staight. That should put the neck close to the right setting once you put the strings back on. Also those bridge saddles seem a long way back. Adjust the intonation before you take the neck off as part of your problem may be the the saddles are too far back and hence out of intonation. If the neck is still bent, do the clamping trick above, then put the shim in and adjust.

Almost correct. All Japanese words have been translated phonetically into English. Go Toe is right BUT in Japanese each syllable is the same length and quite short ( don't tell the Americans that there is no she in Hiroshima). I have included a sound sample with my amatuerish pronunciations of Gotoh, Hiroshima and Matsushita (the original name for Panasonic). Japanese pronunciations..m4a

We were due to rehearse on Sunday but our drummer had to isolate until Tuesday. Who knows when we will rehearse again let alone gig.

Sadly all my optimisn has gone.

Sadly Pete they are only worth what someone will pay for them.

The reason I asked is that the MiBass 2.0 has symmetric diodes after an opamp (see below). I like the sound as you turn up the gain and dig in. I wondered how the change might affect its sound. It is also has a true gain control.

I saw the assymetric diodes on the DOD diagram in your post, without seeing that you were quoting @paul_5.

In the top picture, the clipping will be symmetrical as the two sets of diode operate equally on the top and bottom of the waveform. The bottom one will clip the top of the waveform more than the bottom.

What difference does it make to the sound if you have symetric diodes rather than the asymetric ones in this circuit?

I have not played through any Ampeg kit but I do object to you lumping HiFi (by which I suppose you mean FRFR) and toppy cabs. A well designed full range cab is not toppy but a cab with a cheap tweeter of whatever type, incorrectly crossed over, is appalling.

On the grub screw length problem, you can buy shorter ones.

I would buy 10 of the Sound City heads I had in the late 60s plus.............

You are quite right but for me the preference for a lightweight Class D head comes from necessity, I can no longer hump two large lumps of iron around at close to 69. So yes that puts valve amps out of the question. I love my old HH amps but they were designed to sit on top of a 4x12 and my cabinets are smaller than that. Even the best Class A/B amps (ABM) overhang my current cabs. I think of it like this. If I were a mechanic, I would use Facom or Snap-On tools, but for me my Lidl spanner set works, has never let me down. The same goes for my amps, The Bugera Veyron has never let me down and is manageable and does not look silly on top of my cabinet. Another point, modern cabinets are smaller. It made sense for big wide amps when sat atop a cabinet 2ft6 wide (750mm approx). Newer cabinets tend to be designed single or vertically aligned speakers as speaker design and drivers have evolved.