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Sad day for music. He did it his way and won. Huge respect to the legend that is Ozzy. RIP and condolences to the family and close friends. We will all miss you. Dave

He literally said a 4 ohm cabinet 😀 A sensitive 8 ohm cabinet will be equally effective in my experience

I had one, bought in about '93 but I suspect it had been in the shop a year or two. Decent neck, plywood body but none the worse for that, and the pickups sounded fine but were a little microphonic - I could hear my leather strap ends creaking on the buttons through the amp.

Yes, as above, the chords seem to be G, D and Amin, so any notes from those chords will fit. You can see the chords changing from his hand positions, so just watch and listen, and you'll soon 'hear' what you're seeing. Try it, using the video, and listen to what notes you play fit best. Top tip : just play notes on the beat at first, and all will become clear.

This is exciting. If you could use both an FM and virtual analogue voice simultaneously, that would be even more so - a bit of moog underneath REALLY fattens up a dx7 bass sound. Definitely another case where careful choice of presets will be invaluable; so many of the classic sounds were just factory presets in the case of FM, it is horribly unintuitive to programme. I guess an S&S engine would be useful for some people, and very innovative in guitar pedal terms. Wavetable synthesis maybe even more so. For digital multi-effects, imo they have to be very good indeed to make it much of a selling point. So many decent-ish utility units and modellers already available. A nice compressor model would help give the synth output an even more 'finished' sound based on my experience so far, but again 2 or 3 optimised presets would be essential. I'm a big fan of the one knob compression/saturation in the Strymon Deco I picked up recently, it really is very tape-like and sounds great on the FI4/VIP, just adds hugeness.

Fixed!

Inside looking out - The Animals

Something Martin could do in his sleep. https://www.facebook.com/charmpickups

Don’t bring pugs into it… let’s concentrate on diminutive humanoids!😂

Y'know I find Basschat somewhat bizarre! I remember all the gigs I played in England and Wales using 50W amps. I was never at a loss for volume! Now here are you guys saying that you need 500W in order to be heard in an average British pub. I find that incomprehensible. Back in the day I would have died for an amp as powerful as an Elf! If an Elf is not enough for your needs add a second one with its speaker system to increase your volume. I can only imagine how loud your band must be.

Thorn In My Side - Eurythmics

Is it just me or are the mutes on the wrong way round on the bridge?

Depends on the cabs impedance. If it is 8Ω the amp will be giving much less than it's 4Ω capability.