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I first mailed John about my P-Retro about 18 months ago and received no reply even back then, and plenty of people appear to have bought from him since then so I assumed all was fine. Likewise however, I hope he's OK, he's a bloody nice bloke

Last time I spoke to John - about three years back - he was having problems with securing the rechargeable battery pack that is required for the unit to retro fit a Precision. He mentioned that he could build a version of the circuit that would run on a normal 9v battery but that this would not simply drop into a Precision in the way the P-Retro did, so I don't think he sees this as a commercially viable option. I must admit that whilst I've always supported John's products and service on here, having emailed him several times over the last year following one of my P-Retros suddenly not working (doesn't work at all after probably not much more than a hundred hours of use), and having not received a reply to any emails, I feel a little let down

As all the feedback above suggests, Tony's a great guy to deal with. Looking forward to seeing the completed pink Jazz Tony

Or not

Yep, a significant upgrade on the EBMM 3-band circuit

I think the problem is a little simpler than that, they're all working from home so the phone number logistics (all the call diverts etc), security (which is significant) as well as simpler factors such as the inability to record phone calls for legal (sorry, 'customer service') reasons, means that for most businesses, email is a lot simpler and safer than phone at present. Theoretically it should be faster also

Yep, i played for a band leader who wanted a very specific visual image for the band, one component of which was a bassist playing a Precision (he was looking for an early 80's Clash/New Wave vibe). He said he preferred the sound of my Precision over my Ric, but I'm really not sure that in the mess of noise produced by that particular band he could really hear anything at all

That's the key isn't it, not about how it sounds as much about how it feels

Very similar jam in both vids

We all hear things differently I guess (see psychoacoustics thread)

This is very good advice

Really?

Agreed, and played on a Hagstrom Super Swede for added authenticity

The false fundamental idea appears a clear example of how technology fool's the brain, in fact, in real terms I guess it's an example of VR? Not sure how accurate my thinking is, but I'd assume that throughout millions of years of evolution, any given series of harmonics wouldn't have been heard without the fundamental being there somewhere, even if it was below the threshold for hearing (it had to be there to have generated the harmonic series in question). So our brains evolved to recognise, and then to predict the presence of the fundamental from the harmonic series. And as we can now produce those harmonic series with the aid of tech, we are in fact tricking the modern brain into hearing something that isn't there because our ancient brains learned that it was a reliable prediction? Are there any other similar acoustic phenomena?

Yep, which means that unlike most YT vids, these are really good instructional vids also, gonna be getting to grips with Voulez Vous later

You're gonna be a busy man Gary

IIRC it was in Flea's as well

Awesome, can we do requests, my kinda YouTube channel Great work Gary, look forward to checking out out

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