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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. 👍

well if you've been running on those supplies without issues then you'll know by now. The supplies are probably manufactured in the 100,000's if not millions and then badged with lots of different brands. China is getting better all the time at quality control but if your failure rate is 0.5% that's still a lot of dud supplies. Even if A&H check every one which I doubt, they wouldn't pick up the fault and I don't suppose Andertons would either. Nobody checks something for the 2 hours plus that your supply needs to manifest the problem. Just bad luck, it's good to hear that A&H are showing an interest it's not good for them either if a batch of these have gone through or there is an under-specced component in the supply.

Super cool, I've only heard great things about these Alusonics

Ha! I had no idea. The whole time, I thought JJ had done a Dave Davies. The true story is funnier indeed.

Definitely playing Schecter; he has the white one and a black one, both with the Hysteria circuits patterning. They sounded great, probably the best bass tone he’s had for a number of years now. Was a great show, their vocals were bang on and the production was immense.

Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones

the bit that made me laugh was for quite a while he didn't even know they were ripped.

I have encountered a fretless Squier, presumably unlined as the dots were at the fret positions, which had subsequently been fretted. It was astonishingly hard to play as I couldn't work out where to put my fingers.

Should turn the light out but need to chill for a bit with a JD. Just got back from Llandovery, about 1hr 45 minute drive, mercifully the vocalist has a new van and felt guilty as I've been driving him for months. Our gig got switched to another pub because of a wake. Limited space but we were a man down and managed to fit. Just. Staff were great. 45 minute first set went ok. Locals friendly but not very engaged at first. Second set people warmed up, especially after some Manic Street Preachers. Lots of positive reactions, handshaking etc. and I even got bought a beer (nice bring the one who isn't driving). Yes we had a few minor fumbles, but we haven't played without our rhythm guitarist for a long time and we did some long forgotten and ungigged songs. Had to compromise on tone as electrical noise meant I had to keep both pups on full (Flea Jazz). Affected guitarist too when he used his strat instead of LP. I got told to turn up! We have a rehearsal on Monday to polish up with our full lineup. A big gig on Sunday, our first in the big room at the Earl Haig (my favourite place to play - see previous post) proper stage & lights 🙂

Only if it's not pretending to be real. I use AI from time to time for posters. A pretty obvious one: