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With the same though process, why do we need any pedals/processors? Why do we spend our bassy lives trying to chase the right amp/bass tone, if none of it matters?

Ah - I don't have any of their products. I suppose it will give me a day to think about if I want to do London on a work night.

Jonas always said that the 36v premap was modelled on a Neve board - which he apparently favoured for studio use. The sheer voltage wasn't for outright volume but headroom, or clarity of signal at higher outputs. Why that mattered so much to Jonas at that particular moment, I'm not sure, but if you look over his career you'll see he was always very interested in tone and the sculpting of his sound through his gear. His signature gear like his Sound of Sweden basses or his Warwick amps were always unique in some regard, in accordance with what Jonas wanted at the time.

These are on sale on a daily deal at Guitar Guitar for £849

Thanks LeftJ. Unfortunately this one requires care and attention I am not qualified to give.

I think that's what I've bought through... If you have an O2 phone or maybe even Virgin Media subscriptions then you go through O2 priority and you get dibs on some gigs and events before general release. There may be other ways but that's the only one I know of.

How does the Artist Presale work?

Torn on this one mate tbh. Not sure I can do the o2 two days on the bounce.

I've been thinking about this a bit recently. I bought a double bass that was owned by Jack Bruce (not in the putative sense most vintage instruments are sold) but with provenance from Bonhams. It's 100% one of his, but it means nothing to me really. I bought it because I needed a great sounding classical bass and this was checked over by a friend and was given the OK. We assumed it would be out of my price range, but in the end it sold for half the original Bonham's sale price. I guess my point is that the "value" of celebrity ownership is probably temporal and that the celebrities of today are unlikely to mean much (if anything) to the generations in the future. Maybe a few will, but ultimately, we're all shadows and dust. Or 3 generations from irrelevance, as my mum put it when we were enjoying a walk.

I play in a wedding band, part of the fun (for me) is getting close to the original sound. I use a classic octave-fuzz-chorus combo and I've had various synth pedals over the years. A pedal board is just something I always have, I use the same one for every gig, a standalone synth would be another thing to take, set up and require space. I have seen other wedding band guys do a great job with keyboard synths, and others doing a great job with just a bass into a DI. There are no right answers, but a lot of the fun (for me) is trying out different things. I'm sort of losing patience with the tracking for faster songs with the mxr, so I think I'll try the FI VIP next, @Quatschmacher any ideas when the new presets will be available?

But I don't. I have a Helix Floor which is essentially its own pedal board. Any additional pedals would either be free-floating which bring their own unreliability or would require me to have a board big enough to hold the Helix, whatever synth pedal I decide to use and its PSU (and main power distributer for both units). That makes it bigger on stage and bigger in the band transport. One of the reasons my band gets and does as many gigs as we do as because we can have a relatively small on-stage footprint and economical transport. Even so it's sometimes pushed to the limit. I've done a couple of gigs where I have been sandwiched between the headliner's equipment and the front of stage wedge monitors with just enough room for my feet and the Helix. Anything more and I would have been out of space. Also by limiting the amount of gear we take to gigs we are able to get the whole band, our equipment and merch plus our roadie/merch seller in a single estate car. At the moment everything fits in when packed in a specific way. If my pedal board case was larger than it is currently, there's a good chance we may not longer get everything in quite as comfortably. Also who is to say that someone with a more conventional pedalboard set up already has both room and PSU capacity for an additional synth pedal. Based on my reasoning above if I'm going to bring additional gear I might as well bring the right gear, and not extra stuff that is still a compromise. Many of my bass synth sounds use cross-mod and AFAIK none of the pedals offer this facility. As I said, if I we start to get regular gigs on big stages and more time to set up and sound check then I'll start bringing keyboard synths for me to play. As an aside one of my all-time favourite bands, Polysics, made the decision that when they played outside of Japan there were a number of their more popular songs that they would not perform because they felt they couldn't do them justice with the stripped down equipment rig they used on international tours from both a cost and logistics PoV. This was somewhat disappointing for me as an audience member.

A much more accessible chart today. The complete Steve Rodby part for the tune 'Afternoon' from the 2002 Pat Metheny Group album, 'Speaking Of Now'. I am hearing it in a gentle 12:8 because of the triplets throughout. Could be 6:8 or 4:4 swung triplets. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/afternoon-pat-metheny-group/

Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles

Semantic point as we have to define value in this context. Intrinsic and extrinsic. If we agree that the manufacturing process adds value then ownership and age can do too.

I disagree mate, it adds price, not value