BigRedX

There were some rather unusual (IMO) choices, I certainly didn't recognise Robbie Grey, even though Modern English were one of my favourite bands of the early 80s...

I was thinking Robert Smith since he played a lot of Bass VI in the "Pornography" era Cure, but is not really know for being a bass player.

OK - next question: how many of them are bass players? I make it 6/7.

I found the Clare Grogan one when I was trying to work out which of the illustrations was her (the other possibility turned out to be Bellinda Carlisle).

Thanks. By myself I got 77/100 (did get 10 wrong that I though I knew). Still not convinced by some of the likenesses and Aimee Mann certainly didn't look like that when I saw her in the 90s!

I'll take your word for it. I've just done a Google image search and I can't see the similarity myself.

Thanks! Tom Bailey. I actually saw the Thompson Twins in 1980 when they were still 4-piece indie guitar band. And not Trevor Horn, I meant the bloke next to him who I thought might be Geoff Downes?

And I would never have got that. I think I have names for all of them except (from the bottom up, left to right) - Row 2: 3 and 7 (got these two now although I'm not 100% convinced about #7) Row 5: 5 and 7 Row 6: 3

No I think he means Elizabeth Fraser in row 5

Good call. In Google Images that very picture is in the 4th row of results.

Hope that helps. Feel free to disagree with any of my choices. Can anyone fill in the blanks from above?

They're both in the second row down.

I think you may be right.

74/95 which ones are you stuck on? Two are particularly bugging me because they look familiar but I just can't put a name to an illustration. The tall guy roughly in the middle of the picture with shades and a grey coat, and the bloke with the long face two rows down and slightly to the right.

The Yorkshire Ripper was in the Beatles? Is that like Charles Manson auditioning to be in the Monkees?

TBH if you can't type it old school you shouldn't be using it. I would have put an old school emoji here but the forum software insists on converting it to some tiny indecipherable graphic

A friend has the guitar version of this in a "natural" finish with a wood grain that looks as though it was taken off a bad 1970s flat pack wardrobe. Plays and sounds great, but it's the ugliest thing ever, and unlike some instruments IMO looks worse in real life than it does in photos.

The best thing the OP can do is to remove the source(s) of interference. However as this does not appear to be possible. In that situation I'd look a good quality power conditioner, but be prepared to return it under the distance selling regulations, if it doesn't make sufficient improvements. ALL the audio equipment will need to be connected plus the computer and ALL of the peripherals, so make sure that the power conditioner is capable of handling the combined load. It would also be worth disconnecting any computer peripherals that are not essential for the recording process.

I had this happen to the the body of the guitar I made myself back in the late 70s. Some two years after the instrument had been completed, one day I noticed a number of small holes had appeared in various locations on the body exactly like the one shown in the OP. I rushed out to the local hardware shop and purchased a small tin of woodworm fluid which I injected into the holes as directed. No more holes appeared, whether that was because there were no more insects left to emerge or because the treatment had killed off the others I don't know. However the glued-in neck joint failed about a year later, again whether that was due to insect activity I don't know, but several of the exit holes were in the area of the neck body joint.

Update on the DHL parcel. It turns out that the parcel hadn't been refused by me, but DHL have finally admitted to the supplier that the parcel had been damaged which is why it hadn't been delivered. Don't know why they think they had to lie about the delivery status? Maybe they thought if they said it had been refused the problem would go away? Idiots. Not massively impressed with the supplier, who had to be chased up on a daily basis in order to get this information and to get them to send out replacement items. I've insisted on a tracking number in advance this time.

For me that bass part - especially in the intro - is such an important part of the song that it really needs the correct sound otherwise the OP might as well use a plain bass guitar. And these days there are plenty of plug-in synths with the required features - 2 oscillators and two envelope generators per voice that you don't need to be using a crap emulation of a second-rate synth. If you really wanted hardware there's no need for a real Jupiter 8 - Roland's very own System 8 synth will nail the sounds you want.

All the options apart from series humbucking wiring will be significantly lower in output.

On the whole Power Conditioners are designed for countries with less than robust mains electricity supplies (like the US) and deal with voltage fluctuations and mains-borne noise. IIRC the interference generated by fluorescent lights and dimmers is as much RF as it is mains-borne, while the power conditioner might make some difference it won't eliminate everything. The people who would get the most benefit in the UK from using a power conditioner are those living out in the sticks with variable mains voltages and those who do a lot of gigs where the power is supplied by a generator, although IMO in both cases they would be better off with a good quality UPS. Personally I'd get rid of the fluorescent lights (is there really any need for them these days?) and the dimmers. That will be a far more effective solution.

Nicely played, but the sound is really weedy compared with the original. It shows that you really need an synth with 2 VCOs and separate ADSRs for the filter and the amp to get close to the original sound. I've never understood the value of having a Juno 6/60 clone or VST. Back in the day no-one bought these synths out of choice. We bought them because we wanted to be able to play chords but couldn't afford a JP8, Prophet 5 or OBXA. If you really want that weedy Juno 6 sound just turn off one of the oscillators.

You will never get the big fat analogue sounds of a JP8 out of a DX7 emulator.