Leonard Smalls

Same with the Ozrics! Excellent gigs...

Join the Army - Suicidal Tendencies

He's a brave boy!

Back in the early 90s we thought that in order to impress a number of scouts (that's record company ones, not boys in shorts) we'd need to be uninhibited and exciting on stage. Which of course meant about 6 pints and a noseful of coke each. We played abysmally... We never saw any scouts again! But saying that, in the same band we'd always have some weed at rehearsals and gigs (actually, weed wasn't that available - it tended to be more of the soapbar solid variety which meant it wasn't usually very strong compared to the skunk available nowadays!). And we played well - our live recording in our living room still sounds OK now! (If you want a laugh! ) However, I have a max of 1 beer (*) before playing now, and haven't smoked any dope in decades! *that's often due to driving though - recent gig in Chester saw at least 2 pints and a good glug of tequila before playing as the hotel was only 100m away! No decent cock-ups either...

Egg Man - Beastie Boys

The Hardest Fart - Olivia Dean

https://www.emporiumhifi.com/head-office-norfolk-suffolk/manticore-mantra-turntable-with-logic-datum-ii-arm/

Boys and Girls - Blur

I remember many years ago, when I had a Leak amp and Richard Allen speakers, I wasn't get much bass due to low powered amp and relatively low efficiency speakers no matter what positions the bass and treble controls were at - it just sounded completely unnatural and a bit unpleasant. So I took the tape out and (1st hifi heresy alert) plugged it via phono to stereo 1/4" jack lead into my (2nd hifi heresy alert) Marshall Jubilee bass amp, which was using a large Yamaha folded horn cab with 15" speaker. Turning all the bass amp's tone controls down apart from 50 and 120Hz gave an altogether more pleasing amount of surprisingly natural bottom end...

Depends on what you want! I'd say warning flags are raised by the fact it says "Surround power Amplifier" in the manual, but only has 2 channels. And that it claims 400W without specifying whether that's peak music power output, RMS output or some other vague measurement. And the only quoted spec is a signal:noise of 80dB - this is pretty low. My hifi amp is 115dB! So I wouldn't call it hifi in any way - you're probably better off sticking with what you've got complete with graphic in tape loop as previously mentioned.

For proper control I'd want something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366056421870?_skw=klark+teknik&itmmeta=01KE1G4GPMCA0H01QNA5TR8V95&hash=item553aa9b9ee:g:XrcAAeSwMzppPVFi&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8NHOg0D50eDiCdi%2FfP0r02sB47D3H41nPodwVckMlypGUGuKHHAl0KoHThrbEeLFOmMMzPBbmuC0WA4L0V%2Fw8kYuK7DWrNsdViIcyv220diFs1RsVMqNXxq91zHZwaeKrjjZknv1so8S8XEmRQq3TmwRw6OjpzRTz3LIb7daQy7uEEyQ%2BXuHtQsbTgeud6gIhmZMLpGfvpMACVaBrc5R3iFfiCIWj%2FGSyoZsyI%2B0ZEad6uHkC9d96nf%2F8wvGuQNXj3%2BxZtq817vvkSObI80xG3sYJeNdT0IViYcib%2BIkDuj34YzACT2L9LmZ%2BhbLWJA4%2BA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7KLkrDwZg It's the industry-standard studio eq...

You'd need it for that screechy treble! 😁😉😃

Heresy! It's well known that amplifiers must not have any sort of time controls, as this interferes with the Ultimate Goal, which is High Fidelity, or absolutely accurate reproduction of the original... 😁 I find that the best way to bring out the bass, is to have a large amp and speakers with decent low end extension, but if that's not an option get a graphic equaliser, as there's more control over other affected frequencies. Second best is something like my work Sansui amp, it's got a loudness button and 6 band graphic. Though I rarely use either as it sounds artificial and thumpy, apart from at very low level.

Or not... 'Tis a musing on whether it's best to be eternally just comfortable, or to venture frequently outside your comfort-zone. Bass is my trusty Wal, with a spot of guitar (strat), Rhodes plug-in, drums programmed in EZ Drummer using Clyde Stubblefield Phat Kit, trombone is stuff recorded many moons ago for a previous compocompo by my old m8 Nick - I've taken some liberties with everything as it's all cut up to within an inch of its life then smothered in Quadraverb, Objeq Delay, Temperence Reverb or Dubstation apart from bass which is a single take improv from which it all stemmed... Track has a good coating of Bassroom, Mixroom and Ozone 9.