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You forgot to mention Schubert?

Right, that's back at gear4music, who I'm very glad to say we're very happy to straightforwardly refund me – no attempt to force a replacement on me. Trying to phone or email their remote customer services is a pita but the staff in the showroom are universally lovely and helpful

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Input and output connected to bass and amp. Power unit given time to get itself settled down. Power attached. Screen stays blank, but a very unhealthy-sounding throbbing noise comes from speaker.

Being well-educated and literate, Andrew Eldritch knew what gothic had meant for the couple of hundred years before post-punk rock, and in that context his assertion that the Sisters were not gothic makes good sense (especially as he self-identified more as a poet than as a songwriter) The easiest way to illustrate this is by comparing his lyrics for "Alice" with Wayne Hussey's for "Garden of Delight". "Garden of Delight" is full dark gothic imagery — Take my hand and lead me to the Garden of Delight blah blah revelation blah windswept blah breathless blah — whereas "Alice" is a straightforward portrayal of the kind of screwed up modern girl who lives life through that Pre-Raphaelite filter: Alice in her party dress, she thanks you kindly, so serene, she needs you like she needs her tranqs to tell her that the world is clean.

I know that SBMM basses are made in Indonesia - do we know if that's going to be from Cort as well?

Unfortunately the sodding thing doesn't work. That'll be another hour and a half traipsing up to gear4music and back 🙄

The Indonesian Squiers and Ibanez, too?

DPD did in fact refuse to do it Thank you for the warning. Parcelforce it is. I'm hoping this instrument is too cheap to attract the attention of Parcelforce's pixies of misfortune.

Slight difference in size

This has helped me get some vague thoughts in my head into focus: the difference between the general tones of a P and a 424 neck pickup (whether through the pickup itself or its location a little bit to the left) is that quality which allows a P to cut through

From an article about 1986. Then, Metallica were supporting Ozzy.

The Wikipedia entry on Heavy Metal is extraordinarily thorough on all this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music

I've just taken a bass to the tech. We agreed that the nut could do with being replaced. He offered a choice of bone or Tusq. He pointed out that the Tusq will give a brighter tone than the bone. For this bass, that sounded like a good thing.

I recently read someone trying to claim that nothing pre-Metallica was metal, which if true would create the question: why tf did they call themselves Metallica? 🙄 It reminds me of Entryism. Metal exists; new bands join the genre and move it on; their supporters define the genre in terms of their band, and eject the bands which created and established the genre in the first place. I'm not sure what are the psychological motivations for this behaviour (unimportant people trying to give themselves consequence?) but I doubt they're anything especially healthy.

Have you seen some of the info given in this thread?

I've been looking at the bass options to work out where to start. The Ampeg SVT seems the obvious choice of amp as a starting point. Searching around, it seems that the Ampeg 8×12 cab would be the correct pair for it? For a more vintage sound, I guess I want the Vox AC-100. Reading up I saw that in the 60s this would be typically paired with a 2×15 cab....but the Ampero doesn't have any 2×15 choices. What would be the obvious choice to go with the AC-100 from that list? One of the modern 1x15? Or an older 2x12?

I've now watched enough demos of the user interface in action to know that I will like it, thank you I'm sure that I won't find a single sound in it that isn't already loitering within my Line6, but something inside me absolutely refuses to engage with the Line6's controls. Also the Line6 is massive: at 52×28 cm, it takes up 3.5 times the space the 28×15 cm Ampero will.

I noticed that I could either spend a few more days umming and ahhing before buying it, or I could just buy it straight away. I'll have it start of next week 😊

How was the parcel looking after this adventure?