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I've never seen those double dot markers on anything before. Apart from that, looks very MIJ to my untutored eye.

Marble Baby - Buddy Holly

You Take Me For Granite — Betty Davis

All About That Basalt - Meghan Trainor

There's always tea, good tea, lots of tea, we like tea.....

There is also a difference between single driver and multi-driver cabinets because the 4 ohm version of a driver is usually a little less efficient than the 8 ohm version. Usually the difference is roughly a dB or so but sometimes it can be as much as 3 or 4dB which means that the 8 ohm driver is now louder than the 4 ohm driver. In multi-driver cabinets, it depends on the impedance of the individual driver rather than the grouping.

At this point, with the incorrect assumptions already made, you might just want to leave it alone before you really break it! No way is that a fan relay, it's a freekin' 10A/5A G5 series relay that's safety approved for use in primary circuits. It's one of 3 things... a soft start disengagement relay, a remote power-up relay or an output muting relay.

Does anyone else find the tuner doesn't recognise anything lower than E? Really annoying when I have to play in drop D quite a lot, or tune my 5 string bass.

It's very playable, I haven't put it down all week. I was going to put flats on straight away but I'm liking the growl with the stock rounds (D'Addarios). Definitely not just an oldskool wannabe. Go Nigel go! 😁

Well, I now find myself in the weird position of being the conductor of a decent town brass band and I take the rehearsals on Wednesday evenings... Main things I'm working on are improving dynamics to make greater differentiation between pp and ff, plus some articulation issues. There's a lot of gigs coming up over the summer.

I Am A Rock - Paul Simon

It's got a lot of Ricky Capri vibe going on hasn't it. Also reminds of the Shaftsbury bass that looked very Rickenbacker.

I haven't used it through an amp or PA yet, just at home with headphones so far. I haven't noticed any unwanted noise through headphones at home from the pickup, usually worse with household electrics, dimmer switches etc, so fingers crossed it'll be fine. As for feedback it'll be used in addition to a doublebass on gigs, if there's going to be feedback issues, it'll be with the doublebass. All my gigs for years have been everything through the PA so never any feedback issues anyway.

Added, there isn't a mark on it, seems lightly used.

My 'band' consists of a drummer and me. I swing between bass and guitar, but tonight was guitar. I have no pride and no skill. As a laugh we decided to do one of my original songs as if sung by Lemmy in Motorhead. I was using a Laney LC15R valve amp with a Strat, brought from this very parish from @kwmlondon. As Kim lives London and I live North Yorkshire, I only managed to pick it up at Xmas and due to other commitments, tonight was the first time it got used in anger. Bloody hell, for 15W it's loud, it's very loud. Its my first and only valve amp and I still don't understand why a tiny 15W valve amp should be so, so loud. Not just loud, it sounded really good as well. We wound the gain up, wound the volume, I did my best to channel Lemmy and play and sing at the same time whilst Bev the drummer was laughing so hard, she couldn't play. We did a second even faster run where we tried to combine The Ramones and Motorhead and it was a wonderful joyous experience. It's been a utterly sh1tty week at work with issue after issue and escalation after escalation, so putting it all behind me for 90 mins of manic singing (badly) and playing at stupid volumes was great therapy. Now I can't speak as my voice has gone and I still have lines in my fingers from playing so fast and hard, but it was worth it. We've decided we're going to do it at the rather staid open mic sessions in either Settle or Sedbergh. I suspect they'll kick us out but it will be fun. Rob

Tell him Paul (with the jazz n the ric) said hi. Will be taking my vintage p there when i get a sufficient break in gigs