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I'm not eager to prove anyone wrong, but I am interested in how people perceive things so differently, especially when we're all a bunch of pedal nerds, with many many years (and countless pedals) of experience between us - my brain is always comparing and looking for this kind of thing, and there are many peoples I moved on due to latency. 'Something' is at play, and I'm interested. If I'm sat there playing an OC5 and saying there is no latency, then hand you the same bass and you say 'dude, there is noticeable latency' then the issue is 'us' - the human experience of sound and feel. And that's super interesting to me. I've too done the blind on/off test between the same two pedals as well, and can't feel anything remotely like 'latency' (but I can tell a slight tonal difference between the OC2/5 and the 3leaf, but it's super minor), so having that experience is genuinely interesting to me. South Shields is a bit of a trek (I'm in Derby), but after my next work trip, if the stars align, I'd love to take a drive. Worst case 0 a couple of hours trying out each other's pedalboards!

Today, I had my Marshall DSL40CR delivered. I ordered it from gear4music and it arrived from the warehouse in Germany to my address in the UK in just over 24 hours. The temperatures were rather cold recently , minus 4 degrees C and as the amp travelled in a van, airplane then van again, it was exposed to cold temperatures. My instinct and chat GPT suggest leaving it at the room temperature for 24 hours before switching on to allow for the cold components and valves to acclimatize and allow for the condensation build up to dry. Is this something I should adhere to? So difficult to resist the temptation, plug it in and crack it up!

"Terrible piece", surely? I initially assumed it was some sort of bland AI thing but I'm pretty sure only a human could have written it. It reminds me of Bart Simpson's book report on Treasure Island...

I wouldn't mind one of those Washburns.

Marshall to make an exact replica of Lemmy's Murder One and sell it for a price I can afford. A portable guitar stand that doesn't fall over regularly. A budget range from Rickenbacker with the same electronics as the full price models but cheaper woods and a bolt on neck.

This is a great idea!

There will be nothing post 1995 in the top 20. Not because music before then was better but because the average listener is old and suspicious of anything modern.

Bluetooth has too much latency for real-time audio transmission.

For two gigs i went to 6E for our XR18 and that was really smooth. No lag and certainly no congestion. It just wasn’t very convenient as i was using my home router. Still thinking about going that route though if we get any more issues. At the moment 2.4ghz is working better for us.

Some years back Spector introduced bridges that weigh around 180g compared to the older bridges that weighed 500-600g. It was a quick way to drop almost a pound from the overall weight of the instruments and I've seen no discernible change to tone. I posted about this a couple of times in the big Spector Fans thread. The consequences of this on a light bass is that it's going to make it neck/headstock heavy. I have an early Euro 5LX that is /was quite a heavy beast and when I replaced the bridge with a new light one, it did change the balance but it's a heavy enough pair of wings that it doesn't dive. Newer instruments tend to be lighter and some are "weight relieved". If neck-dive is the problem, we either need to lighten the headstock or get some ballast loaded on to the body. There are other options like moving strap-locks or adding extensions but that tends to be anathema to the Spectorati and it affects resale. Solutions to either cure or reduce neck-dive: Using a wide strap that has a suede/raw leather inside surface so it increases the friction Lightweight tuners - make sure you compare the weights of what you're proposing to change out with what you're going to put in. If the new ones weigh 50% of what's coming out, see how the bass balances with two of the old ones removed so you get an understanding of how it'll balance before you commit to buying the new light ones. Get an old bridge. This is obviously going to add at least 400g to the overall weight of the bass.

Indeed mids are your friend or a curse depending what you do with them 😂😉

"Tone" as completely subjective. AFAIAC even playing pick with a pick some more mids are always a good thing.

Not really. Full of spelling mistakes (and they must be band if I can spot them) and a rather tasteless jab at Mark Hollis considering that he's passed away the year before the article was written and the author couldn't even be bothered to do a little research.

Dog. 🤭

Yes. I guess one problem with WiFi is people having their phones searching for SSIDs all the time. Latching onto your transmitter and trying to see if they can connect.

Interesting piece. https://2loud2oldmusic.com/2020/06/22/the-original-vs-the-cover-its-my-life/

Yeah, I was not clear with what I was trying to got say. Worded it wrong and way off the mark lol, but I am noticing more issues with 5.8 than I did a few years ago, at least at gigs we do regularly.