Stub Mandrel

Was nice.

I think it fell on the floor... behind your right foot.

All sounds good on my PC speakers. 👍

Never underestimate the power of a cheesy press release! https://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/25261621.rock-band-dinosaur-connection-play-penarth/

A very high input resistance voltage probe would do the job.

Point of order. if you want a bass that sounds how it did when it left the factory, you seriously want a 2025 modrl not a 1966 one...

I think the arguments for specialist speaker cable are weaker than for instrument level cables. For bass stacks cables are so short any losses are negligible. For long PA runs maybe. The speaker cables I made in the distant past used cable designed for repeated coiling and flexing and I've never had a failure. I do use branded off-the-shelf speaker cables now because I greatly prefer speakon. Instrument wise, I use decent cables and prefer my Sommer/Neutrik ones for reliability and 'limpness', although I have many others.

A good one. That's both sets sorted. They threw some unexpected arrangements at me tonight and I had to cope on the fly. We finished by jamming Need Your Love So Bad. Typical Peter Green song - sounds like a standard 12 bar blues but is very different. Amazed myself by anticipating the chord sequence and even managing a bass solo - I've never played it before. TBH that's as good as it gets 🙂

And... the one issue when in more than one band. I just got asked to a rehearsal for a gig I hadn't been told about on 5 July. I have another gig in the diary and I'm committed to that, so the others are going to have to find a dep.

Hmm. Needs vocals.

Whoops! 2002 to 2020! Too many twos.

Hmm ... an obvious experiment is to substitute a variable supply for the batteries and see how low it can go before the preamp fails.

Both a good example of how far the batteries can discharge in a low-current application and still function (the Precision ones were probably below 8V before they failed completely). It also hints at the rapid collapse in voltage when the batteries fail.

I lived backing on to Branston Water Park from 2002 to 2020. My daughter was born in the QE Hospital in Burton, but we lived in Tamworth in those days.

I used to go to Rattle & Drum on Osmaston Road.

Miranda Sex Garden Richard Jeffries Museum Goths on a Field The challenge is to guess which one is a band...

Congratulations on the offspring!

Typically, the voltage of an alkkaline cell rebounds when taken off load quite fast, then it slows down over a longer period, so if you measure when they come out of the bass after a gig it may have gone up a bit by the next one. It doesn't really affect the capacity but can mean a battery you thought was flat can appear to work OK for a while. Obviously, over months/years they self-discharge which is a different effect.

The problem is that at the end of their useful life 9V PP3 batteries tend to 'fall off a cliff' in higher current use. Hence the familiar rapid onset of fartiness halfway through a set. They usually show well above 9V off load even when fairly well discharged. What really matters is the on load voltage. A better quality battery e.g. a good alkaline one, will go to a lower on load voltage before it suddenly drops. The load varies between preamp designs. A preamp taking a smaller current will cause less voltage drop and therefore work with a weaker battery. They can also recover a bit when unused. So the voltage level a gig or two before the battery fails depends on the quality of the battery, the preamp current requirement and the frequency of use. This graph is at an unrealistic 100mA discharge rate. Much lower rates would be found in mist of our applications (except old school digital effects). The theoretical ideal would be to measure the voltage with the preamp on and keep records for each battery brand until you know when it's likely to fail. Thinking about it, a sensible compromise would be to use older batteries for practice/rehearsal and keep fresher ones for gigs. You could keep track of which batteries are freshest by measuring their voltage. I'll probably start doing this! P.S. I have an active Hohner with a red LED for power on. The LED probably uses more power than the preamp...

My partner's daughter and her Family live near Aberdeen, so on the slender off-chance we visit at the same time I'm registering my interest!

They usually had one high end bass in that would take ages to sell. I tried out a lovely looking dolphin grey aerodyne Jazz bass. It was so badly set up that instead of buying, I completely lost any desire to own an aerodyne.

Looks more like Olympic White to me?

Was a comment on the 'poetry' not the music* 😁 Which sounded like JJ Burnell and the Cure doing pop music.

Handbrake if you use a PC. Does all (most?) other format/compression changes as well.