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Since I live on my own and have always done so since leaving home forty-odd years ago, I have often bought myself something 'significant' for the solstitial festivities. Back in 1982 it was Linn Sondek, which is still here sitting in the lounge.

Damping absorbs midrange frequencies that will otherwise reflect back to the cone at various angles of phase, causing response peaks and valleys. The back is the critical place to apply it, but for best results all the surfaces should be covered. It may not make a major difference, but it's so inexpensive there's no reason to not do so.

ok i briefly have the whole lot out of storage together so i took a quick pic! ...so rare to have them all in one room these days on account of the wife..

Fixing A Hole - Beatles

Sounds great, but damn does that pickguard piss me off.

Selecting a width displays the off the roll per metre price. Seemed pretty reasonable at 2.59 quid for the 54" wide.

Grease Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters

Yay!

The secret sauce of a Spector is the Haz preamp..... and that needs to be boosted to bring out the wonderful harmonic overtones....

I only look at FB on a desktop browser using FB Purity.

Actually it has a Neve preamp, rather than the Darkglass..... and sounds much better as a result.

Bass Mekanik – Bass Mechanic

Canadian price. I'm guessing it's even worse in Australia.

What like literally 36v or split +-18v?

Well, that was a very unsatisfactory experience. D minor, I played wrongly. Wrong notes in two of the pieces. My singing was off-key. Terrible. However I already have the Grade 3 pieces, and am playing them already. So, I have not let the bad experience put me off. However, I plan to do things differently for the next few months, and don't plan to focus on the exams for a while.

Reminds me... after my dad died, we wentfor a brotherly breakfast. One of my brothers found a photo of the three of us with dad. "We look like a country band!" said my other brother. "No!" I cried "we look like a band of c..." and the words died as I remembered the elderly couple at the next table.

Ive chatted to our "Bass Brothers" in the USA to enquire of certain specifications of bass Cabinets such as SPL, Freq Response, Power, Polar plot etc only to be told ......"Throw away the Spec and listen to the Sound" If it sounds Good then its "GOOD"

Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

I guess that I’ve been a bit derelict in my duty of keeping y’all up to date with how things are going on the worship team… well, I guess I’m now officially on the worship rotation, playing two evening services a month - the first and last. It’s with two different worship leaders with quite different styles. One leads from the grand piano while the other brings his own Nord keyboard to lead from. They both choose a nice range of choruses, drawing from more contemporary stuff but some oldies and oldies, which is great. The “cult of the new” in worship gets kinda tiring and there are many fantastic songs which were written ages ago. I like the mix. It’s our local(ish) Anglican church and the evening services is more of a modern format with just the band leading worship. Morning is a family-based service, again with a worship band and the traditional, organ-led hymnal stuff is done at a 9AM traditional service. The bands are similar - leader on keys/piano, a couple of singers, bass, drums acoustic guitar and occasional other instruments - in particular a saxophonist. All a really nice bunch. There are a couple of other leaders but I think they mostly play the morning family services. It’s hard for us to get to those as we’re ferrying our teenage boy to and from his theatre classes on a Sunday morning. The set list for the 26th October was as follows: Start 1. I could sing of your love forever (F) 2. Firm Foundation (He Won’t) (C) 3. Hallelujah (Be High and Lifted Up) (Eb) Response Song 4. New Wine (C) Communion Songs 5. Trust in God E 6. Only By Grace C End 7. The Potter's Hand G 8. Living for Your Glory C The following week, 2nd, it was… Start Break Every Chain Bless God Waymaker Response song I Will Offer Up My Life Salt & Light End Give Us Your Courage Worthy Really looking forward to getting to know everyone better (musically and personally) as I play with them more. Nice to have found a new spiritual home where we feel at ease.

Bought a US jazz. It felt like it had werid dimensions despite having great experiences with many US, mexican and other Jazzes.. Hated it.