Silvia Bluejay

And longer wavelengths such as bass frequencies are best appreciated at a distance anyway.

It may not need replacing - you may have an inherently 'noisy' power ring in that part of the house, which a different power supply for the BB won't be able to improve. However, if you do replace it, let us know if it makes a difference.

In reply to your question re. the power supply, yes, that's how mine looks too. Regarding the hum, mine makes all sorts of hums and noises, but so far I've always blamed the fact that it's connected to a PC, and it really makes no difference how far from the PC I move the BB, since the AUX cable still connects the two devices. The variety of hums and whirrs seems to depend on a lot of factors: the PC screen, my radio mouse, the PJB headphones, all of their wires functioning as antennas, and the bass guitar and its lead adding their own earthing/screening problems. I can't remember whether it was less noisy when I first got it (it's on permanent loan from hubby). Curious to hear if others have the same.

The tritone being a case in point, and yes, I'm a metal fan.

And yet, its relative Dmin is a common disco key, lots of fun to play IMO...

Blimey, yes I know it's got a ridiculous number of flats in its signature, but maybe the above is a slight exaggeration? I do get the equal temperament argument, but I think what each key conveys now and used to convey before equal temperament is a product of tradition more than actual fact. Think about, say, the Middle Ages - if it became customary for composers of religious hymns to use a certain key to express a certain feeling, that choice would have been influential on music outside the church too; minstrels would have deliberately used a different key in their song to express a different feeling. And so on.

Apologies for the glitchy/noisy zooming in and out - DSLRs don't like having that done while they're recording video.

Is it not so much the specs, but the way the drivers deal with them? I seem to remember noticing that on PA speakers highs and mids are usually somehow 'favoured' over lows, even if the specs say that the delivered range starts at, for instance, 45 or 50 Hz. So if you use one for just bass, it doesn't sound as good as a 'proper' bass speaker, even when the cone is the same size. That's why it makes a difference when a (sub)woofer is added to the PA system, in those cases where the bass doesn't have its own rig. Looking forward to hearing the experts, of course.

I think it may have cost even less at the time!

I've got a couple of those clip-on phone lenses and I must say, my 12-year old, 10MP-or-so very mini, compact Canon with 6x optical zoom still knocks the spots off anything coming from a phone plus one of those thingies.

The luxury version of the above appears on this thread by @Happy Jack.

I want to play too! D'Addario Chromes,

I'VE TWEETED THIS THREAD AGAIN!!!

I've tweeted this thread again.

The Basschat Herts Bash 2015 had a maple v. rosewood shootout. The blog I wrote at the time is HERE.

This was doing the rounds on Facebook a while ago. Happens to me all the time.

My humble opinion is NOT to reopen this thread, and to remind trolls, would-be trolls and those who like an argument no matter how badly they contradict themselves that they may well be breaking the forum rules and hurtling headlong towards a warning. Just sayin', Gianni.

Yes. *prepares padlock for the inevitable* Back on topic - paging @TrevorR for some Wal advice?

Here we go...

I posted this thread on our Twitter account a couple of days ago - if you don't quite reach the numbers, I will re-post. Just let me know.

It's been done before, I think?

Not in a million years - it'd be me or the cat. I hate them.

A different pic from the one we posted at the time. Better sense of scale I think.

Jack's famous last words a few hours before delivery of that item happened: "It's a clip-on tuner, they can put it through the letterbox, can they?" Er, no they couldn't...