Beedster

Yep, fascinating is certainly the word, and the idea that there's no such thing as sound until it meets an ear/brain system stands as a wonderful metaphor for so many other things humans tend to argue about

Just listened to some Amon Düül and heard a lot of early ELO in there, hadn’t noticed that before

Great thread Psychoacoustics is where the idea of audio objectivity disappears, as has been nicely out above. If a speaker was plugged into an amp in the woods, turned up to 11, but no-one was there to hear it, would it even have made a sound.......

I bought a Flea Bass from Modulus in 2008, Walshy bought it, I bought it back, I got skint (due to Covid) and Walshy bought it again. Typical Basschat behaviour I hear you say. But actually no, Walshy has been a true gentleman about things in a way that I won't embarrass him by describing further, but which I want to thank him for publicly. Beers are on me when we meet Paul. Thanks again mate

Agreed

Yep, DVT247 advertise as a UK company, indicated items in stock in UK stores, but when you order you are all too often informed that the gear is actually out of stock in the warehouse in Germany where all web orders ship from. As the result of this you might have to wait weeks/months for the item to be back in stock in Germany, even if it is in stock in the London shop about 20 miles away from where you live (but from where you cannot order it online). DV247 will never have any of my cash again

Yep https://www.amazon.co.uk/Krautrocksampler-Heads-Guide-Kosmische-Onwards/dp/0952671913 Re Krautrock the word, might have had a long day but I'm so fed up of the lengthy interrogation of every word, concept and idea that appears to be de rigueur these days. Whatever we decided to label the music in question someone somewhere will be offended, if not by the reference to region then by the reference to style (Can, Amon Duul and Kraftwerk are rock?). So if we can't agree I suggest that we replace the term Kraut rock with ..... .... so as not to cause offence

As an electronic music student in the 1980's, Amon Duul were pretty up there for me. Wow, seems a long time ago though

Splendid

This, and it's organic compression that responds to the signal as opposed to synthetic compression that needs setting. I've never found a compression circuit built into an amp that I liked. Get a lightweight all-tube head and let it deal with it for you

I imagine all bass players wear underpants also, I vote for new pants

You’re a moderator so it must be true

Sorry, Ive looked at both and wouldn’t buy either for the reasons you suggest

Well you did ask what you should buy yourself? Had you just left baby news hanging out there, I would have said "Congrats on the new arrival, buy him a Precision Bass" BTW I don't like to see the words P-Bass (sublime) and Trump (ridiculous) in the same space

Congrats BTW

A Precision

Yes and yes. Like so many other things in life - social media, virtual reality, food flavourings - we're replacing the organic with the synthetic, and when we get the organic - real face to face contact, real skydiving/sex, real food - it just does something to our emotions that's a little more, well, emotional. Now, before all you Class-D'ers descend on me like a ton of whatever the hell it is they make Mesa Boogie transformers out of, what I mean by this isn't that tubes are somehow better in objective and technical terms that transistors etc, but that all too often we're sold the idea that whatever the non-tube technology is, it can do what tubes do. In sonic/waveform terms perhaps it can, but IME in emotional terms, it can't. There is something visceral about a bass played through a big tube amp; even my Mesa Boogie Titan V12, a great amp with shot loads of h**t, couldn't touch my SVT.

The comforting glow of power tubes. Our singer got a telling of a few years back for trying to take my Mesa 400+ out to the car park on a freezing night about 5 minutes after I'd turned it off. It would either have heated up the entire car park for all the punters, or cracked all the tubes, I wasn't going to risk the latter