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I'm looking forward to hearing some sound clips!

Boost/cut/whatever - it's a great upgrade over a cheaper pre. It transformed the sound of my Sterling Sub5.

I couldn't possibly comment on this individual circumstance, but something I have learnt over the years is that charity is a business. The higher up the chain you go, the people running the show aren't so much altruists as businessmen and women. Ordinary folks are brought up to equate charity with giving for free if they want to be a nice person. Those running charities are acutely aware of that and know how to exploit it. The people who give the most proportionately are often those who can least afford it.

Standing room only at the Griff and Coton Club in Nuneaton. We were half expecting an empty room, but far from it. It seems we had drawn a few in - we overhead one woman say it's the first time she had been in the place in over 30 years! 😂 A really good crowd. It took a little while to get them dancing, but then they didn't stop. My sound was strange in the first spot, which I put down to the really low ceiling in the "stage" area and fact I wasn't on top of the amp for a change so could hear it better. However then I noticed the knobs for the mids had been knocked up accidentally. I set them back to flat and all was well in Rumble world again. Many compliments and shaking of hands afterwards. The only slight disappointment were the cheese and onion cobs - we've had better.

I've always felt it's a bit of a shame how in the UK 'blues' became synonymous with 'electric guitar' and a particular restrictive formula. I remember growing up a lot of blues jams being held to ransom by a certain type of guitarist that meant I lost interest in the genre. One in particular, where a (good) keys player was told by the guitarist/singer that he just wanted repeated 8th notes at the top, nothing else, giving the guitarist all the space for his widdling. It was seeing the big US names at successive Bishopstock festivals in the 90s that taught me how diverse and musically accommodating 'real' blues is. John Mayall was the only UK performer I remember who was near their level.

It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.

You'd think. But that's the whole problem with LLMs... they tell you what you want to hear, so why proofread their output? People think they are search engines, and they absolutely are not.

£100 tip jar is exceptional here, but the uk is reticent about tipping.

Same here... I went for the 1960 AVII.

Yes, that's what I was trying to get at.

Bedroom virtuoso players who can't play with other musicians or lay down a track when the red light comes on?

I use several basses, but all of them are passive, just with hot pickups. They're fine, if that's what you're asking. There's no problem with grounding.

The pickup is wide enough for even 6 strings. They have bar magnets that are 75 mm wide

I agree that the Providence sounds simply great. I also have an EHX Bass Clone and a Boss CEB3. The Boss CEB3 is noiseless, but it's a digital chorus, and they usually have a very low noise floor. My EHX Bass Clone is noisy when it comes to noise, so I was looking for an analog chorus that would be much quieter. The Providence ABC is noiseless in the first switch position, but in the second switch position it produces more noise than the EXC Bass Clone. In my opinion, the third one is unusable because the noise is noticeable in recordings. I also tested it with other pedals before it, with no difference. I've finally started to understand that the noise filter is tuned in the first position of the delay clock, but if the pedal also has options with other increased delays, there is no way to shift the filter and extend it to longer delay times. When starting this post, I was inspired by several YouTube videos of this chorus, where no hissing can be heard in the second and third positions. That's why I thought there might be something wrong with the one I just bought. But perhaps the sound in those videos was post-processed? I'm talking about this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B27QqN29CdM