nilebodgers

When I started playing in the late 70s only rotosound rs66s were available anywhere I could get to (North east back end of nowhere).

Just looking at it I would absolutely want a baffle to back panel brace in that design.

£1931 for a P, £2325 for a J. (Via the Bank of England inflation calculator) Considering that these are almost identical spec to the current Player models, you get a lot more for your money now.

Is that a double stoppy bit at around 4:21? The rest sounds familiar.

True - a fP6400 will blow any bass guitar cabinet into oblivion.

I never post on YouTube. The comment sections are a toxic hell-hole on there.

I might buy myself a Fender USA Jazz for my 60th next year. I don’t like all these coffee table bespoke things, just a really nice quality working bass.

That cup was a great bit of lateral thinking!

Once they have done an IPO and the founders plus initial investors have cleaned up no-one cares about the company. Being profitable is never the goal as long as it doesn't prevent the shares being unloaded onto mugs.

Wow - that was terrific. I'd not seen that before. 👍

+1. There is a load of great music that sidled through the door that punk opened.

It's not completely obvious from the freq response though, I've seen horn responses where it is much more pronounced so they must be favouring the exponential response a bit more. The CD HF response can be corrected by making the high pass look a bit like a 3rd order topology, but deliberately using the rising impedence of the driver to create a HF peak (the capacitor value nearest the driver is tweaked if I remember correctly). I found this trick in some commercial speaker designs and used it myself although it needs a lot of care to avoid the impedence dropping too low. (I used to use LspCAD and LAUD when I did some semi-commercial speaker design in the early 2000's)

Nice and simple. It’s handy it’s not a CD horn so doesn’t need correction.

I only discovered rancid recently believe it or not. Most of the USA stuff passed me by. I’m going to have a look at playing roots radicals at some point, that has a nice bassline.

Rezillos, Top of the pops. Just transcribed it and am really enjoying playing along.

They sound very similar on headphones too, I couldn’t reliably tell them apart.

It's good enough for me to check I have the rhythms and note duration correct, so that is all I really need.

Ok, I downloaded the evaluation version and I'm quite impressed. I managed to fumble my way through entering an entire song transcription and got it looking decent. I'll be able to use that I think. I haven't managed to find a decent bass sound for notation playback though, they are all very "midi" sounding.

On the upgraded topic, just take the upgrade bits out and return it to stock if you sell the bass. The removed bits could then be moved on to another bass or sold separately which will get a lot more money back than leaving them in.

This is very interesting - where the emg gzr pickups came from and the Ashdown geezer butler amp: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1P08vbbnH3UNZqOCutdHuA?si=VYpIK7uaQsmql2UmPc28vg

That's pretty offensively large, would need some kind of parallel RLC trap in series with the driver to tame that.

Heard this on Radio 4 Inheritance Tracks this morning - terrific song from My Chemical Romance:

Which strings were they?

Yes, there is a free trial. It looks like one of those programs that will take a fair amount of time to evaluate though.

I'm thinking of getting GuitarPro so I can try and properly notate the songs I am working on. I already use Transcribe for slowing the songs down (+tweaking the pitch if not concert) so I can pick out the bassline. I add section markers as I go then I use it for playing along once I have worked it all out. This works well, but I'd like something written down in a better way than crude tab with no rhythms. (I can puzzle my way through notation at a pinch, but I am very, very slow) Does it sound like GuitarPro would be useful? What is the notation playback like?