Stub Mandrel

I said 'popular music', implying the charts. 5 and 10 of the contemporary ones are good... but possibly synths. I think most of the older ones are more musically interesting (rhythm and melody) than most of the newer ones.

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The current top ten. https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart-update/ 50 years ago? Whispering Grass ... mellow, fairly straightforward jazzy line on an upright. I'm Not in Love ... any questions? Three Steps to Heaven ... simple but some nice stops The Hustle (Van McCoy) ... nice syncopated funky disco bassline. The Proud One (Osmonds) ... verse very simple, gets funky in the chorus Listen to What the Man Said (Wings ) ... nuff said? Stand By Your Man ... quite a bit going on there. The Way We Were (Gladys Knight) ... a great slow upright line. Disco Stomp - (Hamilton Bohannon) .. Would be pretty simple some really honky slides used as accents. I've done my comparison and I think my observation stands that test.

I remember sweating like a pig at a rehearsal studio. There was a death metal band in a nearby room, and they finished about the same time as us. They walked out surrounded by a thick mist... I won't mention the delicate aroma of well broiled death metalllers...

How odd... I shouldn't try to follow such things in the small hours! Sorry for the mistake.

Let's face it, they and their ilk are a pretty small proportion of modern pop music. You'll find few songs in the Sixties or Seventies charts with straight eights as a bassline, and those bands that did use them often were more sophisticated. I used to think Dire Straits basslines were simple in the 80s, they seem sophisticated now!

What do you feel about the smell of acetone?

I used to commute to Birmingham, each spring I had this odd experience where my eyes would water as I was driving down the M42 for a month or so. After several years I eventually realised it was hay-fever... or more likely tree pollen. I still get a bit of it but the odd thing is if I take a single antihistamine tablet, it pretty much goes away until the next year.

Isn't Ab to G 6 to 5 rather than 5 to 6?

Gutted as I got rung up before my swimming lesson... cancelled due to a kid gaving an 'accident'. 💩 Rung up again a bit later as I'd booked lane swimming for afterwards.

Who cares? Great opportunity!

On average, more than that.

I couldn't find that yesterday! Except I have notifications turned off.

I've started swimming. after a 30 year break.

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Originals band up to 9 songs now, plus we added a lead guitarist tonight. First gig booked. Finished by jamming a few songs including Sweet Transvestite 😁

I will have a play... never had any questions about varying levels from a sound guy.

Indeed.. Hobgoblin Birmingham were very patient and helpful to me in the past.

Indeed... we went by train last time as parking tipped the cost balance. One time we got an air bnb that had a resident permit. Another time we arranged for a sheaf of 'scratch off the date' parking permits to be in our room whrn we arrived.

It's possible, I don't remember if I entered it, but I know it was pre-covid. I recorded it while house sitting for my brother.

Seems that circuit diagram is for the Terror 500 mk 1 do you have the diagram for the Terror mk2?

In the days before Speakon, I used to make my own speaker leads using (orange) twin-core 13A mains cable. I used high quality metal body jacks with internal plastic insulation over the tip connection and I fitted heat shrink over the metal body and strain relief to minimise the risk of any shorts.

No it doesn't. It's post gain but before master volume.