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"The coating material is preferably a U-V or EB curable coating selected from one of the following chemistries: silicone acrylate, urethane acrylate, epoxy acrylate, polyester acrylate, vinyl ethers and cationic cure epoxides." Full details of the process here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060174745 The irony of patent protection is that to get it you have to detail the process sufficiently well enough for others to copy it.

Ignorance and/or ego. It worries me, this. No-one, absolutely no-one, fails to recognise that the sound of the amp is as essential to guitarist's sound as the guitar itself. Yet bass players are supposed to abdicate their sound to 'what the soundman thinks is best'? The relative cost and quality of the kit is irrelevant; it's the sound you get that matters and if you have spent a great deal of effort to get a sound that suits your style, the music you play and the band you play with why should the audience have to accept some identikit sound? IMHO the job of a PA is to be as transparent as possible, and that's why a good PA is so expensive. Even in my limited experience of being recorded, and DI'd, both times the engineers got me in the control room and sought my advice on the sound I wanted and involved me in that aspect of the mix.

Stonehouse in Crumlin tomorrow night. Are you on here Dave?

De14 home of branston pickle, marmite, marstons pedigree and me!

Thanks for the kind offer. I have been offered one from France .

So get an Operations Director in before investors impose one on you...

I read the ad as saying "Scott has loads of ideas and has grown the business to this point but has some issues... one he wants to focus the creative and teaching not the business side, two he wants someone who can harness his wild ideas and make them into a practical business startegy and three, they can do this without pissing him off beacuse the team enjoy what they are doing and don't want someone to come in and kill the atmosphere." Obvious places to go... other instruments, recording etc. - develop the brand for wider audiences building on an existing good reputation. Look for ways to affiliate with physical music schools. Investigate real life masterclasses and workshops that get filmed. Merch, shop. Assigmments where you ge a piece, record yourself and get feedback. Tutors who aren't Scott but have charisma and can develop their own instruments/areas. Child friendly lessons. Snack-size videos that only last 5-10 minutes. Feature vids 'meet a member' 'members basses' etc. etc. Online magazine with news and long-lived content, some behind a paywall, Different models for making it pay.... Anyone including these ideas in their application, I want 10% 🙂 P.S. sorry for spilling - using my laptop with crummy keyboard.

D'oh theres one about 15 miles from me. I'll call in.

The problem with leaving a clip on tuner in place is everyone thinks you are a poseur with a Go-Pro 🙂

Philistine 🙂

Presumaly the tiny buttons on some fenders are marketing ploy to push those...

Not being facetious, as I would like to get this right... where am I going wrong? 56 / 1.414 = 39.6V RMS P=V^2 / R 39.6*39.6 = ~1600 1600 / 4 =400W Alternatively I = 39.6/4 = ~10A P = I * V 39.6 * 10 = ~400W

Just settling down in an incredible hostel on Dartmoor that's a WW1 hut moved here in the 30s! On the way I met up with the legendary @stewblack and exchanged some grubby notes for a lovely old Westone 1A which willbe restored to its riginal glory, complete with a nice padded bag :-) I never reallised that his pink curly hair was real! TopBloke!

I don't! I had lovely long hair before that. This was my Graham Bonnet phase - it didn't last long...

I was in this, my first band, from about 1986 or 87 to 1989. Not sure why but the keyboard player didn't take part in this show 'Rock for Life' at Bridgend Rugby Club. The main thing is, this is the first song I wrote that other people performed! (Jon wrote the lyrics). No claims for outstanding musicianship. It does show my old 18" speaker cab of unknown provenance (with the Reichsadler on it), I have no idea what the head on top is, I may have been mine or p[erhaps have borrowed it because I thought I got the Laney around this time.

Metal fatigue.

I remember those! I made a lovely box and stuck two Maplins 100W Piezo tweeters in it with a pair of 10 ohm power resistors and a big wirewound potentiometer. It certainly boosts 'slap and pop' sounds, but it's main function was/is to make my stack look even bigger...

Oh the glamour of big business... I used to be CE of a modest-sized charity. In conversation with a friend who, like me had come up through the ranks to become CE of a related charity it transpired that we both had unblocked our office loos because the staff were too lily-livered...

Let me correct that for you!! 🙂

I think I asked at the Bass Bash, and you made some suggestions (I think woodturning fairs?) but where can a fule like me find nice bits of timber like that for modest cost?

My dad used to rent out TVs until the early 80s. Many were still valve B&W sets!

Maybe I'm wrong. I can't make a proper analysis because my only DSO is a cheap battery powered gadget and combined with an x10 probe it's reading well below the Hameg (which I trust). <edit> FWIW according to the Hameg the peak to peak voltage into 8R if I pop G string really hard is 130V. That's running at a slow timebase and observing first the top, then the bottom peaks, 264W. I really can't be bothered to get another cab out of storage and see if it hits 112V into 4R for a 400W transient because you wouldn't believe me anyway...

Just wanted to use the picture 🙂

I'm sure you're well up to it, Blue, enjoy the gig 🙂