Count Bassy

My shoes. Before you ask , I did have another pair with me, I didn't go home barefooted without noticing.

To be fair - that includes delivery.

Rather an old band, but was introduced to 'Little Feat', about a year ago and love their stuff. I'm of an age where I should have known them from my youth, but they somehow passed me by.

On the catalogue pricing being out of date thing, I've never seen that before with CPC so I guess they are covering themselves in these turbulent times (B word etc.)

I have a Yamaha THR10 which works very well (depending on the volume required). I've never used it on batteries, but I lent it someone for an outside/remote acoustic thing where they used the batteries and they said it was fine. It's not going to compete with a full drum kit, but was fine with a Cajon.

This.

I am trying to follow the philosophy of worry about things you can influence, e.g. your own band and your own playing, and not the things you can't i.e other peole bands and other peoples playing (and, yes Brexit).

Plus one on this. If you want to play things note perfect to the original (presuming there is only one version of the original), that's fine, join a band that wasnt the same thing. If someone else want's to play something slightly different than that's also fine. Most audiences would notice or care. I'm not actively playing at the moment but when I have done "All Right Now" I've not played bass in the verse for the first two, but sometimes put something in the verse after the solo, as a way to build it up a bit. Re the solo in this song, does the gutarist include the guitar bit before the bass joins in or not? - Free recorded it did it both ways, so which is correct?

When you say quiet, do you mean completely silent?, and does it come back in with a big Crack/thump, i.e. not just the bass coming back. If so I have exactly the same problem with my DBS7400. On mine I suspect a dry joint or loose connection somewhere, but I've not looked at it yet.

Just got to say that(IMHO) Ed Freidland does the best bass & Gear demos/reviews out there.

So Phil Lynnot had already been dead for 8 years when Sargeant Pepper taught the band to play?

Jeff Berlin signature combo and a chainsaw should give you what you want.

And shaking his hand means he couldn't get away while you punched him.

And he didn't even invent the light bulb. Joseph Swan had a UK patent on a light bulb 10 years before Edison got his in the States. Even the US Patents offics later decided that his patent was invalid. Yet, you get the question in a Pub quiz and you know they want Edison as the answer.

Possibly most sound engineers ears are shot to pieces from a life time of abuse?

I'm not sure about this. There are some albums out there that I think most people would acknowledge as a classic, whether they personally like it or not. eg: Sargeant Peppers, Transformer. I guess it depends what you call a classic album, perhaps I'm thinking Iconic rather than classic.

I refuse to use Amazon for anything due to the way they treat their workers.

I don't know. That might expose a dry joint or shake a connector loose, but I wouldn't have thought it would do that damage. I guess we'll never know.

That one at 1300 has been appearing on Ebay for ages, with the price gradually being reduced. To my mind £1300 is ridiculous, I would have thought more like £500 - 750. £130 is still a brilliant bargain for a brilliant bit of kit.

Brilliant amps. I have the 7400 (Yours looks like the 7200). Brilliant sound, lots of flexibilty, and massive peak power. If yours is the 7200 its 200W continuous, and 2000W peak. It's a class H amplifier, so when it needs the extra power it switches to a higher voltage power supply. I suspect you'll find it deafening (We're talking Marshall Watts here, which I think is similar to a Trace Elliot Watt). Gary Twigg often plays through one of these as well.

There's "technical write-off" (eg parts no longer available) and "financial write-off" (ie cheaper to buy another one). Your tests would suggest that the damaged fuse holders are the only problem, so it's not a technical write off. I can only think that he thinks it would take too long to strip it down and rebuild it. Depends how much it would cost to buy another one I guess. Possibly he didn't feel up to the job and didn't want to admit that. If you're handy with a soldering iron you could Solder a new fuse holder onto the stubs of the old one. I do wonder how internal fuse holders like these got broken though.

Rather than conductive glue you could just solder the fuse to the remains of the holder.

Newtone also do round cores!

Yes, sorry, it was a bit abrupt.

RMS can also be used for current, and can be used for power as long as you take account of the power factor. Hopefully not patronising note to those who don't know: Power factor takes account of the phase difference between the voltage and the current. In a pure resitive load load this is '1', but when you get inductance and capacitance involved it is usually less than one. Fairly easy to calculate, or measure, with sine waves, but very complicated when you have a 'random' signal as in audio. It can never be more than 1.