Stub Mandrel

🙂 Extra mosfets won't make it louder, just less likely to let out magic smoke...

LOL! I was thinking of buying a cheapy for £10-£15 off eBay! It's just for curiosity to make my subjective comparisons less vague. I'm very familiar with issues of measurement as well as the differences between accuracy and precision.. and also how easy it is for people to waste their time making measurements with spurious precision.

Has anyone got experience of cheap and cheerful sound level meters? How accurate are they? More importantly, not worrying too much about absolute accuracy, how consistent are they across frequencies and time - are they good enough to make comparative plots of a few amps/speakers matched with a signal generator and RMS voltmeter on the output*? *I know that differences in speaker impedance may well be enough to make even such comparisons less than accurate, I suppose I could measure RMS current as well, at least for external cabs.

Women's Hour - and the story of the kid who only ate chips. As a teenager I hardly ate vegetables. I could list what I ate regularly: Egg and chips (no egg white) Salmon and chips Chicken roll and chips Bananas/swiss roll/Mr kipling apple pies and Custard Home made mince and potato pasties On a sunday... braising steak or lamb chop with potatoes and gravy Steak and kidney pudding (very rarely!) Bread and butter pudding (Plus sweets and chocolate, jelly etc. on special ocassions...) I expanded my horizons very gradually at Uni. After I left I went through the classic unemployment/split up depression and spent a while living largely off omelettes, home made chapatis and beer. This made my fingernails fall off, followed by my tonails a few weeks later. I vowed never to skimp on food again and started eating anything in sight. Now I eat everything other than dead animals, cooked cabbage (I'll eat it raw or stir fried) and sprouts...

Things like changes of ownership, corporate logo/style/ownership, legal issues (e.g. "this bass could cause cancer in the state of California") 🙂 Nice to have the one that matches your instrument's period though. I'm surprised how FEW there are.

Which spawned the response "Home Taping is Skill In Music" 🙂

This. Applying hifi standards to instrument amplification ignores the fact that amplifier and speaker are part of the instrument not just 'colouring the sound' but a fundamental part of it. This is why people who eschew a backline and use IEMs will almost always use an emulator. Even with two different setups side by side one which one sounds the loudest may depend on the frequency mix being played through it as much as the actual sensitivity.

I tried out one with dots as if the frets had simply not been fitted (or liek a defretted bass) and it drove me nuts! I had to ignore them and try and play by ear. That's why I thought I would ask. Mine has side dots at the fret positions (the 12th fret pair appear to be neatly either side of the right position. Obviously you can tweak a bit with the intonation.

No right or wrong answers, this has to be matter of personal preference, but I've come across all of the above variations!

Agreed, of the one's I have tried most will compete with an acoustic that isn't being thrashed and certainly match one being played fingerstyle. They also sound very different to solids,

Hohner Jazz bass (which was actually quite decent, although the natural colour was a bit meh) and a Sound City 50W Bass amp (which was not so good...) I will be briefly reunited with the bass in late October which will be interesting!

I love the little pot plants in between the monitors. So very Dutch 🙂

Perfect for stage diving!

Fun to play along with as well:

But if you delete @Teebs thousands of innocent emoticons will be rendered homeless!

Some people are very thick. Thick enough to steal and then 'find' the stuff. I once lived in a shared house, one of the guys had his car hit by someone who than ran off. I was outside a bit later and a dodgy young man came up and asked me all sorts of odd questions about what happened. I went back inside and suggested the plod who were talking to my mate nipped out and had a chat with this chap. Took about two minutes of questions from el plod to discover that the young couple who had reported the car as stolen after they crashed it had asked him to pop over to see what was happening - and were hiding in a pub not very far away. I don't think any of them were very bright...

One person's worn out is another's worn in.

You can keep them damp so they go rusty and non-magnetic 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud

@Dom in Somerset UR Bob Clampit AICM5UKP

Always worth popping your head in to see what's there.

Owners of older Fender basses might be interested in this page: https://support.fender.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005938763-Fender-Bass-Guitar-Owner-s-Manuals It has a good selection of old manuals - I even found the manual for my Fender Performer!

I used to do that. Worrying when you see the scum on top of the water...

Is that code??? Intermediate Band Thermo-Radiative Cells. Kill strings stone dead in seconds.

Why not get a rhythm guitarist and an octave divider pedal? That way you can stay at home and avoid interacting with guitar types completely 🤣