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Ssh! I assumed nobody would have time to listen closely to all these clips beyond the first 60 seconds...

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest a Who song. Yep, with John Entwistle on bass and everything: Admittedly this is dredging right down to one of the few good tracks off probably their weakest album, but even though the bass tone is completely over the top, the playing is surprisingly restrained, especially by The Ox's standards.

This sounds like a job for Dave Hall: http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/

Oh god...too many shops I've been to where I've had to quite bluntly tell them, "I've tried Ernie Balls before, and I don't particularly like them." A few years ago an old house mate mentioned that he'd be up in central London and was meeting some friends near Tottenham Court Road, so did I need anything from Denmark Street? I replied that yes, actually, I was hoping to get some new strings, and wrote down the gauge and two preferred brands. Then as a failsafe I added "NOT ERNIE BALL" in case. Apparently the guy behind the counter gave "a knowing laugh" when he saw the note.

That does look lovely! (Your 1W Blackstar isn't an HT-1 by any chance? I do love the way my own Tele sounds through one of those!)

Good point; in most other languages it's pronounced to rhyme with "crass" - basse in French, basso in Italian. As for SeiBass...I always thought it was pronounced more like "sigh." Glad I never phoned (phanied?) a shop to ask if they had one!

You may be unsurprised to learn that Alexander "ooh I've made my own scale for that" Scriabin assembled a scale which uses all four of the notes in a 7b5 chord - scroll down for the section on his "Promethean" scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexatonic_scale

I'm sure it's just an optical illusion caused by the fanned frets, but it looks to me like the neck is bending slightly downwards...the most extreme form of neck dive?

Airick the Half-a-Bee?

Good god, I don't even know where to start...the bass guitar string sitting on top of a packet with a picture of an upright on it...the description which is for a 4-string pack of standard gauge Warwick Reds, with no mention of a high C...and not just the ridiculous price but the offer to bung them twelve quid a month for the next two years. Consider my mind well and truly boggled.

Time to dust this thread off, as I think I might be developing a mod addiction. I installed the DiMarzio. It sounds wonderful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSTRSG-ILU for a demo) The other night, I replaced its volume pot with a push-pull, and after a couple of hours of faffing and head-scratching, I have it switchable between series and parallel.) Now, I'm looking at the rotary switch again...and wondering if there's a way to wire in a fourth setting which puts the bridge pickup out of phase with the neck. Who's feeling brave?

Your real name is Finbarr Saunders, AICMFP

Funny you should say that - I still use an original flavour Little Bastard 30 for both. It's great for recording as it still has a nice warm tone even at modest volumes, although you'll need some good soundproofing if you want to push it harder. Similarly, it's done me well for smaller gigs and can be astonishingly loud with the right cab. (Though I do defer to a CTM-100 for larger venues!)

I always feel bad for laughing, because I know their grasp of English is infinitely better than mine of Japanese...but then, "One Seymour Duncan pickup is arranged from the rear..." - well, if that's what you're into...

I think I'm right in saying that some similar firms have come a-cropper when enough employees/"sub-contractors" have banded together to take them to court - I'm sure someone like Hermes or Deliveroo was ordered to changes the terms of their contract to offer basic workers' rights such as sick leave.

Heaven: walking into a shop like the Bass Gallery, and seeing all the beautiful instruments lining the walls, which quickly becomes... Hell:...when I see the price tags hanging off them.

It's quite a practical design, really - it doubles up as a bottle opener

Ah, I didn't realise they were flogging the HT as all-tube...that is a bit cheeky. I do like my HT-1, but there's no way an amp that small has a valve pre AND power stage! I have opened up an Artisan 15; didn't really stop to examine the wiring, but judging by the size, weight, number of valves and lack of PCBs, I could believe it's all tube. That, and it does sound incredible!

Actually, his computer hid it automatically, before jumping off the desk and claiming to be a Golden Retriever. PC gone mad, I tells you...* *hoping Rich isn't a Mac user so that this tenuous sub-Dad joke holds together...

How rife are these porkies? I was aware that the HT series were a valve pre but a SS power stage, but I was fairly certain that the Artisan series were all-tube...have I been mistaken all this time?

Children's songs take a dark turn as Bananas in Pyjamas Forget The Safe Word...

Yeah, phrases like "valve-inspired" make me think it's probably SS circuits modeled to sound like valves - and I suppose valve bass combos are a bit of an unusual beast as it is. I suspect you're right - if there were any, you'd expect them to be waxing lyrical about how many different 6L6s or KT88s are in each stage, and so on.

So does anyone know if these actually contain valve stages, or are they just simulated valve stages in some of the voicing options? I know valves aren't every bass player's cup of tea, but I always felt the great strength of Blackstar guitar amps was their valve tone - I'd certainly be interested to hear how it translates to bass.

Can the filter pick a random element from an array of strings? I'd personally be all for randomly replacing 'snowflake' with 'farty old witch', 'toilet smell', or any of the other mature and witty epithets found in the highly cerebral Viz comic strip "Spoilt B*st*rd"

Wasn't it also Johnson who called Chuck Berry "a c**t," then, when interviewed years later and asked "is it true you once called Chuck Berry a t**t?", clarified his stance said, "that's not true; I called him a c**t." Always tickled me, that did. Perhaps I've too long since accepted that a lot of my favourite music was made by horrible people, and if they turn up to be nice people then that's a bonus. I think if they come across as nice or funny people then that gives me more time for them as a person, but not necessarily their output. I've certainly found more time for Noel Gallagher (certainly in comparison to his obnoxious brother) and James Blunt more recently, but it doesn't warm me any more to their music. Similarly JK Rowling: I think she can be very entertaining on Twitter, and I like what she stands for, but I still can't get on with Harry Potter.