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‘Tchuh’ I thought, ‘I bet it’s Windows-only though.’ It is not Windows-only! Thanks for the tip and I’ll be happy to contribute measurements of a Laney RB-500H and a Marshall MB15…

Anyone else expecting this thread to be about Leslies? What is a 'half-open' cabinet anyway? If it's not closed or reflex then it's open, right?

Hi Gary! You should be able to get yourself a decent setup within that budget, at least to start out on - have a look in the Bass Guitars and Amps and Cabs sections to see what people are recommending at the moment.

Unless I've missed it we need a shout out for Kim Clarke of Defunkt and also Ruth Goller of Melt Yourself Down and (very differently) SKYLLA

Derail but… that would be all the iPhones from the 5s (being generous and assuming Jobs’s influence took a year or two to wear off) to the 14? Are you sure?

Wow, best of luck to @stevie with this venture! Will be interesting to see how it fares as a commercial product, how it reviews not 'for a DIY project' but on a level playing field with the big names. Which I am sure it will hold up very well to.

À propos of nothing, part of Audio Kitchen is Kendra Jane Frost who played bass for Lonelady on her last tour.

I have to inform you that…

…or for next time someone tells you the bass player never gets the girl

There are tricks for using a digital PIO pin to measure an analogue resistance value by charging and discharging a capacitor through the resistance and measuring how long that takes. Or if you have something like a 555 (preferably a CMOS version) or an op-amp lying around and can knock up a little analogue circuit, you could make an oscillator whose frequency varies with the resistance, and measure the frequency. If you have a Pico you don’t need for anything else right now though, I’d just use that for speed. You could always substitute a proper ADC in later… or just get another Pico when you need one, which will probably be cheaper!

Someone else might have a cab with the same nominal impedance as yours, but a higher actual impedance, so they'll need a bit more voltage out of the amp to realise the same power. Someone else might have a less even (er, 'more dynamic') playing style than you, or use less compression, so choose to set the input gain lower to avoid the light coming on, so need more output gain to get the same power. If I were an amp designer I'm sure I would want to leave some margin for each of those sort of possibilities, rather than risk someone complaining (these days, on YouTube) that my amp 'won't go loud enough' for them.

What The Style Council did, but for eye infections?

Aint Etienne (surely this is an actual tribute band) Weather Repot The Stye Council

The Sot Machine Radiohad Nubiyan Twit

‘Craft facility liberates expression, and I am constantly amazed how many artists think the opposite to be true.’ - Ansel Adams

1.8 kΩ with a 7 V drop would give you (mental arithmetic) somewhere between 3 and 4 mA, which should be visible with most LEDs. If it's too dim and you need to build it right now, you can parallel up two or three of the 1.8 k's to get (all other things being equal) double or triple the current.

Ah, I didn’t look up the design. Apologies for rashly volunteering you!

I’m on holiday without access to speaker modelling capability, but if you have the volume of the cab and the port dimensions then I’m sure @Phil Starr could do some calculations for you.

Ooh, I was wondering about that. Have you seen her before? Does the band stand on its own merits or is it a bit of a bass hero(ine) showcase?

I used Rust-Oleum Satin Finish Furniture Paint on mine - seems to stick to anything including PVC port pipe and is available in small pots so you don’t need to spend too much. I will have got it from either B&Q or Homebase.

I'm looking forward to listening to all the above, thanks for posting everyone! I hadn't thought of a link between d'n'b and minimalist composition before, that's a fascinating angle. I just saw there's been a series about the history of drum'n'bass on the radio - haven't listened to that yet either. I was also never much of a clubber, to me drum'n'bass is what was always on the radio in the 2am minicab from one part of North London to another when I got to tag along with my slightly younger and cooler music student mate…

Brendon sold me this BDI-21, it arrived quickly, was well packed and exactly as described. Can't ask for more than that!

I certainly don't place Mitchell beyond criticism, but I find it hard to comment further without knowing a bit more about the supposed problem. Mitchell and Hancock have a musical relationship going back decades that includes Hancock choosing to record an entire album of Mitchell's songs, so I find it hard to picture him 'being kind and polite after shaking his head in disbelief' - he doesn't need to have anything to do with her music if he doesn't want to, so I have to assume he likes and respects it (if anything, for me his reinterpretations on that album are a bit too respectful of the originals). On the other hand, I don't find it hard to imagine some guitarist or rock critic trying to be controversial by claiming Mitchell's use of harmony is deficient in some way, and in that case, I completely agree that it's a shame if she was thin-skinned enough that felt she had to respond to it. But great artists don't always have perfect personalities.

Wait, what? There are people who reckon they know better than Joni Mitchell about what chord progressions she should have used? Can someone give me an example? See, for me this is exactly what makes songs like Coyote brilliant, and it's exactly the chord progression she chooses that makes it possible. If someone's concept of music theory tells them that's wrong, it's not Coyote that needs changing to suit, it's their concept of music theory.

I design boards in Fritzing fwiw, which has many issues but it always seems less hassle to live with them than to learn something like Kicad.