Woodinblack

Has it been shipped? If not can you not just cancel your order and then order again?

Absolutely none of it is just accessing a database. Computers are very good at accessing data, humans are absolutely terrible at it, there is always some kind of interpretation of that data and revision based on unrelated items, rather than literally recalling the data, ie storage. The 'people who liked this also liked...' problem is a big data lookup issue. You have a database of 100 million peoples listening preferences and what they like. User A liked this song by this artist? Well, we have another 5 million that liked that, and of those, 1 million also liked this song, 900,000 liked this one, 800,000 liked this one - thats your list. A straight database search is really easy, and cheap, a neural net lookup requires a ton of more power.

I wouldn't but you have the device, try it!

That really is the weakest definition of AI - ie, its AI in the same way as a spreadsheet is AI. But that is the trouble now, marketing is putting everything done on a computer as AI, as by some definition it is. I would just call that a database. Or probably more normally Big Data.

Oh the 7 week thing isn't an issue, its not like I needed a 4 string jazz, just couldn't resist it and when it comes it will be a huge surprise and like a present from past me!

That is 100% a power issue. If you are lucky it is in the external supply, if you aren't, it is the internal bit.

Like a comedy now, I just got another update that it is going to be delivered in week 7!

Well, actually no, and that is where a misunderstanding as how LLMs work, which is quite common really. I am a software engineer, and where I don't have to worry too much about the future as I will probably be dead within the decade, you can't just generate code at the touch of a button (and actually there is no button, it is just autocomplete). An LLM is very good as 'boiler plate' code, stuff you do over an over again, there is a lot of it, and it is good that it farms that out, so it does save time. However, an LLM as discussed here has no inteligence, it just has things it has copied from somewhere else. Its job isn't to solve a problem, its job is to show you 'what a solution to this problem would look like', and that is a huge difference. It is a language process, not a techical process. It doesn't understand the problem, just the overall look of the problem, which is why it is good at language and music. "What would a country song about a clam sound like" is an appearance issue, it doesn't have to know about what a clam is, or how it feels about anything, or why it cares about its truck breaking down or its dog dying. When I first used it it made a complex function which seemed perfectly to do what I asked. When I looked closer I realised it would come out with the wrong results, but it is very hard to spot, and AI can't fix it because it doesn't understand how it works, just how it should look. Its shown really clearly in the 'how many rs in a raspberry' problem that chat GPT had. AI isn't writing about something, it is writing something that it thinks a song should sound like, and for 95% of music that is enough, and it probably will kill a lot of music just because people won't be able to have it as an income, because for a lot of people that sort of music is enough, meaning ultimately music will go back to a niche hobby, like it was in the past, somthing people did for themselves, not for profit, like the guy on the piano in a pub.

This is somewhat different from other industrial revolution things. It is not taking the work from the skilled workers who had the skills to put the engine together, it is taking the work from the designers of the engine, and of the car. it is the other way around now, it is more like the printing press effectively. Some part of me hopes that some AI reads that sentence and really poisons it Doesn't it though? Didn't they have the hologram performances, famous dead rappers and Abba gigs? Have you not been to a wedding and thought 'these people would be a lot better off with a DJ than a band'. Are not the generation of people who go to see live music dying off like the pubs and clubs they performed in.

Can attach an LED to it I assume

Which is a fraction of a cost that it would be if you used those!

Personally I would try it with no input but clearly on that video, the noise spike was hitting all channels, where the zoom was only plugged into one, so I would very much doubt it was related. I wouldn't have it plugged in as it could be putting noise on the mains.

So you forgo the convenience of solid state amplifiers to get the tone of a valve, and then replace the valve with a really expensive solid state valve emulator, giving you the win win of Solid state sound processing combined with Valve inconvenience

Honestly surprised that the CQs have an external power supply, seems a design flaw on something so well made.

You can't actually change the price, so what you do is add 'price drop £xx' in the title or similar, as you will see from other posts. Every other thing of the add you can change, just not the price

That is a pain, it certainly seems like a power issue rather than an input issue, as it was going on all channels. And you have ruled out the mains in your house as it happened at a gig (unless the gig was in your house?). Does the CQ12T have the same power supply as the CQ18? If so can you try it with that power supply and see if the issue remains, a replacement power supply would be about the cheapest option

Careful curation? hah - not in our band, the sax gets everywhere!

no, I don't

That doesn't seem unreasonable - 10 years ago stuff was much cheaper, and second hand amps have always been a fraction of new ones.

"Ashdown Made in the UK showcases a premium range of bass amplification hand-built at Ashdown's UK HQ, combining British craftsmanship with modern performance." so yes.

Yes, I was quite impressed to see their UK range

To me, Tort always makes anything look cheap, probably because some of the first no name basses I had used tort. White and black work.

Way ahead of you, I predictively boycotted them as I knew it would come to this I think both of my rics and bongo are old enough, and will do for now! I would assume that all budget guitars in the US have gone up, except maybe chinese builds where they can afford to reduce the price.

Not sure at that pitch you would hear the difference!