Stub Mandrel

The word you are looking for is 'harps'...

Even Slade were recording slap in 1970, it was old hat by 78.

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It's not unusual behaviour for some people- they start a topic with a good idea of how they will respond to some predictable replies.

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You could add a diode in series with your dropper resistor. I suspect your partial 'cure' is stopping the preamp output dropping rapidly to zero before the power amp has shut down.

This ^^ Unlike most YT bass-cover channels she interprets basslines rather than aping them, so the answer to: Is apparently yes.

Mid 70s 🙂

Hooray for JuliaPlaysGroove - her playing speaks for itself!

I can live with this:

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I thought Little Mix were Irish persons of reduced stature...

I shall send you all my sparezzez for your next brirthday 🙂

I had prepared a longer answer but decided it was teaching granny to suck eggs. In it I proposed a unity follower to give a nice hi-Z input stage, then a conventional volume control, followed by inverting amp with a gain of about 10 or so all fed by linear regulated supply derived from eth main one 🙂

Tell me more of this mythical 'audience' of which you speak? Is it truly some strange gathering from the maskless days?:

Long ago I shared a flat with (among others) a chap who worked in a computer shop. He told the story of the BBC computer that came in for a service full of dog ends. The owner thought the cartridge slot was an ashtray.

I like the little box on the back to hide unwanted plectrums in.

For banjo players:

That is, actually, quite nice, I must admit 🙂

Slap requires a degree of skill and dexterity, but it also needs like any 'lead' technique to be used to serve the song and to be done well. Unfortunately it's become the bassist equivalent of the flashy guitar solo - often delivered with little regard for accompaniment and with more concern for speed and display than musicality. This can lead to it becoming as hollow and soulless as rote jazz solos, meaning many people (only partly motivated by jealousy that they can't do it at all) conclude it's a waste of talent.

I would just put a unity follower before the volume control.

Another year and a half and you are in the clear... Although it depends on the species, the death watch beetle can take ten years before emerging...