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For me programming patches is the best bit. It's the whole point of having a synth. IME most pre-programmed synth patches have been designed o show off all the features of the synth and usually aren't actually much use in real world situations. And those that are any good tend to have been over-used by other owners of the same device. Whenever I get a new synth I'll spend an hour or so going through the pre-sets normally being totally underwhelmed, before diving in to program something that is actually useful to me. However agreed with FM programming. Back in 1983 the other synth player in my band bought one of the first batch that arrived in the UK. He would spend hours tinkering with it and eventually come up with some fantastic sounds. I couldn't get anything I liked out of it and I wasn't massively impressed by the ones supplied. Nothing since then has changed my mind.

Sorry for the delay, I was going to take a picture outside, but with the weather we're having, water and electricity dont mix 🙃

I've got a Django 5 - really superb bass. Does the Stingray thing well (and I have 2 Stingrays to compare) but offers additional versatility (I very rarely solo the MM pickup on mine). Light, punchy, very high quality build and fun to play. Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine.

I can vouch for Glued to Music, I've used them a few times. Very fast delivery and never any problems. They're also on eBay but tend to be more expensive there Not sure if I can vouch for Google though, use DuckDuckGo instead! Oh, and PayPal used to be owned by Peter Thiel, absolutely awful right wing libertarian geezer

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Love 'em!

let us know how you get on with it

Our other bass player in the punk band uses an Elf - at rehearsal into my large Precision Devices 15" cab and for gigs into a 4x10 with Celestion speakers. * He uses a Sansamp as well, but we constantly have to tell him to turn down - and the rest of us are quite loud... And I use a 1200w Crown power amp into Markbass 2x10 and 4x10 for home practice. It goes loud as well as quiet! *both cabs have a sensitivity of around 100dB/W@1m. So that's 100dB of racket for 1W going in, 103dB for 2W, 106dB for 4W, 109dB for 8W, 112dB for 16W, 115dB for 32W, 118dB for 64W, 121dB for 128W.

wow that is bad. It's almost like it's been done on purpose it really isn't difficult to put a fret in a slot

bubble toes - jack johnson

Given some of the earlier comments I ought to say I'm not being critical at all just that you made an interesting point The theoretical maximum power of an amp is determined by the operating voltage, the power in practice by heatsinking. If you are buiding a 60V amplifier than a lot of your components need to be 60V rated particularly in the power output stage. Running at 30V saves you a lot of money. Most Class D amps are complete amplifiers in a chip though there are also class D driver chips where the processing goes on in a bog standard chip and manufacturers can add the output devices of their choice. Designing and fabricating the first chip is an expensive process but then mass producing them costs pence. Nearly all of the high power chips are manufactured as stereo chips and many as quad amps. Power is proportional to the square of the voltage and you can use a stereo amp module in bridge mode to get four times the power. The same chips are used in domestic hi-fi electronics and things like in car entertainment systems. If you have a car stereo with a sub it's probably running one of the 50W quad amps with two of the amps running each side and two others bridged to drive the sub. It was these chips that stimulated the whole 2.1 phenomenon. So there are a few manufacturers of these chips who make ones of the right voltage to produce 200W into 4 ohms given the limits of their power supplies and heatsinking. Guess what is in the Gnome ,Elf,BAM at their heart they are car stereos with a bit of bass orientated EQ. It's also how they can be so cheap. Bass amps aren't really a big market so a lot of innovation is piggy backed upon what happens elsewhere in the market especially at the bottom end of the market. It also makes sense for amps to go up in 3dB steps which is doubling amplifier power. So, 100,200,400,800 does make sense both for the bassist and the manufacturer.

Pop punk song - Die Spitz Great band, have a listen if you like punk (definitely not pop punk)

I recall an ad with him and Phil Collen in. I don’t recall if it was a sig or if he was endorsing a specific model

China. eBay I bought Jazz and Precision profiled necks last year, blocks, binding. £70-80 shipped.

If it was mine, I would be replacing the nut. 👍