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I do remember that one too yes!

I wonder if that is where the quote about ensuring that you make every note count comes from? ha ha!

Ok, cool, mistaken I am, there was as you say, definitely a "tube replacement" or two out there for the guitar market though. It willl come to me.. in time! I don't have the old pile of magazines to refer to anymore. ha ha! Brands like Sovtek and the like did dabble with creating SS tubes for drop in replacements maybe for milspec/health devices, but I suspect as the cost of manufacure of solidstate hardware in general came down, there was little point in pursuing them.

The trick in these circumstances is to make it not sound like a soundcheck. No fannying around or practicing riffs you should have tidied up in the rehearsal room. No annoying feedback or tuning up at full volume. Everyone is focussed and ready to do a very specific and planned sound check. A band I played in had the soundcheck rehearsed so we could get set up, and play something both useful to get our levels and fix any sound issues with the room, but also appear to give the punters a montage of tunes. (We used the same soundcheck plan to set up rehearsals too as it happens) It helps if you have someone else doing sound "out front", but it is still more than manageable if the whole band is reading from the same page and actually helps rather than 'not being a team player'. As a side effect of turning up with this professional attitude is that you'll also help to bake the idea in to the heads of the punters that the band are gonna be really good and worth hanging around for. Nothing puts me off more than musicians who have no stage craft and p*ss around, not helping each other but still think they are great. /disclaimer, yes I've played festival stages and the toilet circuit where the engineer checks merely for some noise on the DI as a confirmation of bass tone lol.. It's not always perfect.

I remember solid-state plug-and-play valve alternatives advertised in guitar magazines back in the 80's. For the life of me I can't remember the brands behind them. BK Butler, or Seymour Duncan or someone! I wonder if this new product is a variation like those by AMZ or Soundsmith? **EDIT - Yellow Jackets! Such as a 6L6 / EL34 alternative, my brain cell came up with the goods today!

Now I get it! I could never understand how people on Farcebook Marketplace had the gall to sell garage ridden overpriced guitar tat. They were just placing the instruments in a pro-toneworm environment to enrich the instrument's inherent musical qualities!

Maybe chatGPT has already had a visit from John Hall and has tongue firmly wedged in cheek!

That’s actually very good. cGPT has managed to recreate my video review set in pretty incredible detail, not to mention the great big muppet sat front and centre.

Still want. It's funny, after all these years of not playing a Tobias shaped bass, I really need one in my life again. This one.

Ahh yes, my friend Erik Arko says (in his video above) parallel processing as well as sending different stuff to different outputs is possible (Like sending an IR / cabinet sound to PA and the rest of the path to the onstage amplifer).

The blurb mentions six core processing, which is some heavy audio lifting. I think I saw a brief glimse of parallel paths in on of the videos, but I've had one eye on the screen and the other on a small IT issue I'm dealing with!

24 effects at once! Crickey Charlie!

It seems an odd move doesn't it, given how closely they are ensconsed. Or, is it a stroke of genius getting N.A.M in to their world(s) before the other big profilier players out there can? Sonicake have got the N.A.M player in to their lil £50 Pocket Master, which reminds me of the old Zoom 9002, but that's not really competition for Darkglass Anagram.

Yes, the TC Electronic Plethora X5 seems to be wading in the same waters, I'll have to go for a snout to see how each measure up. I guess I ought to have a chat with Darkglass and have one over for review, right?

The fact that they have brought on board Neural Amp Modeller is very interesting! I've been using the Open Source application for quite some time, from release I suppose. It's profiling abilities are really rather good and "Steve Ack", the chap behind the application could have charged for it over and over it is that good, but chose to keep to a "free for all" license. A user led repository already has a huge amount of bass gear captures (usual guidelines apply regarding the caprturing process) https://www.tone3000.com/search?search=bass&q=bass . Quad Cortex's user uploads are pretty huge too, so having the option of either is nothing but a good thing - though I wonder if there will be cross-compatibility between Neural DSP and Darkglass. In a funny sort of way, they kinda compete, but then, don't?

As a teenager, my mum took my friend and I down to the Marshall factory for a tour. An experience that I will never forget as a wide eyed and impressionable young Dood! Jim may have been in that day but we didn't get to meet him (although I did get to meet him on numerous other occasions at guitar shows, so much so that he remembered my name!) On the tour, back then, Marshall number 1 wasnt in a glass case and Production Manager (i think) Steve Yelding dumped it in my lap whilst we were rummaging through the piles of amplifers I could only ever dream of owning. A surreal moment, but there was an inevitability that I'd end up with an old Marshall amp at some point. I have a 68-69 Super Bass that makes all the right noises!

Absolutely agree, all of these names that I used to read about all the time in guitar magazines when I was a teen (and onwards). I'd pour over those pages pre-internet learning about amplifier design. Really fascinating to hear these memories and experiences! I feel sure it fuelled my interests (not to mention hassling a certain british valve amplifer manufacturer for schematic diagrams to study! - We used to receve them by letter or, if I was very lucky, fax!!!!)

Recently I was looking for a now-discontinued Gotoh (OEM?) bridge for one of my basses and I posted on BassChat to see if anyone could identify it. @lemmywinks very kindly found a spare that he had stashed away and offered to send it to me for a crazy good price. Well wrapped and signed for it just arrived and its just what I was looking for! Thank you Steve! Happy Dood!

Yeah!!!!! Isn’t it always the case that you need that very thing after you’ve consigned it to music gear heaven 🗑️🚮 😄

You and me alike! I have boxes of stuff! I really need to clear it all out!!! (Sadly no suitable bridges but I’ve just PM’d you!)

You absolute legend!!!! Yes please, that’s the kitty!!! PM coming, I really appreciate it, gotta love Basschat!

Yes! Definitely would love to see thank you

https://g-gotoh.com/product/404bo-4/?lang=en I think after lots of searching for a cheap replacement, I’ll keep an eye out for a Gotoh 404BO (or possibly SJ model) - which is in keeping with the whole “MIJ” thing. Gotoh came back with some tech specs, if it’s helpful for anyone else. Minimum string height on these bridges is 11mm for the SJ (Steel saddle) and 10.5mm for the BO (Brass saddle) models.

This is why I love coming to Basschat, there’s always something new and interesting to learn. I looked the names up to see what they meant and this sums up my point about rubbish bass bridges masquerading as “high mass”: Pot metal (or monkey metal) is an alloy of low-melting point metals that manufacturers use to make fast, inexpensive castings.