Downunderwonder

I am retro! Small company obviously unwilling to expand its workforce instead cuts off orders to maintain sanity. 4 years worth of orders on the books ought to give plenty of opportunity to take on an apprentice or two.

At a guesstimate that's 5 years worth of all my pocket money! I can understand a professional bassist wanting to get in on 'the best bass ever' but the rest must be wannabe dentists?

No pic no, no new rig!

Who is buying all the vinyl they are selling these days? My nomination for future appreciated currently sunk with hardly a trace and barely appreciated in the first place album is The Travelling Wilburys. One hit 'single' got airplay for awhile, 'Handle Me With Care', then zippity nada except the occasional play on Classic Hits of late.

So every shipment has to clear customs with associated fees? Given that the UK is big enough to support more than a couple of big online players I think they will struggle to be competitive.

On Gransnet they will be staring threads like ''How to get him to take up golf''.

There's no compression unless you wind it on with the SMX series.

People have put oscilloscopes on them and found the rating matches exactly, and not a lot more with added distortion.

Who is that joker?

Automotive analogies nearly always fail miserably. Power equals Torque x RPM. Trace solid state watts give and give. There can't be much of any 'duty cycle' applied to the rated output. After the heat lost is taken from the wall draw rating it's all going out the speaker lead!

Looks like broken glue joint though.

Sounds like you have it under control!

Trumpets and Tubas would prevail.

USB keyboard lamp for my pedalboard.

Kermit the Frog in various states of amazement.

It used to bug me when people put up sound samples and the one they called Clean was definitely overdriven. I subsequently got into effected bass and for rock music I quite like a little always on jùs that goes into overdrive when I dig in. It more than bugs me when fools make pedals that can't switch clean(ish) to dirty without an accompanying massive volume boost. Then some even bigger fool buys it and posts up a review of his fantastic MOAR sound but neglects to mention the volume hijinks. That really rips my shorts.

Dude gets off his flight at some African holiday beach resort. He hears drums, lots of drums, pulsing gently in the distance, and he knows he is in Africa. He gets to his hotel to check in and again, drums, cool bananas. By the pool with a cocktail, you guessed it, drums and more drums. Dinner is accompanied by drums. Back at the bar, no letup. Come bedtime and our tourist can't get to sleep for the incessant beats from the jungle. He goes down stairs to complain to the concierge and see if they can quit it for the night. ''Sir, drums are good! Very good Sir! When drums stop very bad. Never want drums to stop!" ''Why the heck not, I can't sleep!" ''Sir when drums stop, then we get the bass solo''.

Just checking in on the NZ version of The Masked Singer. Holy cow the auto tune is helping out. Judges wowed. Meh.

Lack of incentive to get it right in the first place.

Certainly. Your concluding paragraph on stadium gigs endorsed correction as a means of giving the paying audience better value.

The bit I quoted was accepting of big gigs using the tech but in the next breath pilloried the solo artist for needing to practice to make auto correct unnecessary.

What's the difference between a stadium act selling their best performance and a fool on a stool doing the same?

Maybe you never played with a really hot pure rhythm guitarist. I have only played with one and he was VERY noticeable while just another member of the rhythm section. It's spoiled me for life as I may never find another like him.

Subjective is putting it mildly when Fender label their instruments Precisely no matter how they Jazz them up with badarsed bridges and active preamps.

Must be something in that because if everyone heard it like me he would have sold one record to his Momma.