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  1. nekomatic
    I knew I had an unpopular opinion on something, thanks for reminding me what it is! Trouble is, you won’t get far criticising them in this country, as their position is deeply entrenched by long-standing constitutional convention. Well now that I’m here: Tina Turner should have been a jazz singer. I know Christian McBride and Esperanza Spalding are both prodigiously talented and highly acclaimed, but I’ve always struggled to really like their music. Accordions are brilliant. I’ll stop now.
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    I imagine the planning process for mounting such a gargantuan event starts pretty much the second the winner’s name leaves the presenters’ lips, so I imagine there are a lot of people at the EBU having absolute kittens right now. After all, they can’t possibly show a lack of faith in Ukraine by entertaining the possibility of an alternative host being necessary…
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    The Eurovision result clearly demonstrated the sympathy that many Europeans feel for a fellow nation oppressed by a malicious, dictatorial regime. Ukraine also benefited from the same phenomenon.
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    And now I've also lined up Honeyfeet at Band on the Wall on 17th June. The awesome Rioghnach Connolly's blues project on home turf - should be raucous!
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    Booked tix for a rake of gigs in the Manchester Jazz Festival: Daniel Casimir, Mamilah, Kara, Nguvu, Intergalactic Brasstronauts, The Deportees, Secret Night Gang, Zoë Rahman, Gary Crosby, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Tim Garland. Very much looking forward to all of them but most especially Casimir, Rahman, Crosby and Garland. Top tip for fans of the sax player Nubya Garcia (and you should be): her own gig in the festival is twenty five quid a pop, but she's also in the line-up for Daniel Casimir's band which is a princely one pound booking fee only. Albeit it's in the less than perfect setting of Escape To Freight Island rather than the unimpeachable Band on the Wall.
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    Only one bass here. I can see the attraction of having more, but I’d have to be playing a lot more to justify it… either to myself or to the rest of the household
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    Knock Knock - Who’s there Shirley or Karen - Shirley or Karen who Shirley or Karen expect me to pass up this obvious setup for a joke
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    I’d start with your local trading standards department, they should be able to advise what to do here. Are Selectron simply not answering their phones? The next step might be to write to them by recorded delivery setting out what you want and by when, e.g. either to agree a repair cost and timescale with you, or return the unit and anything you’ve paid, or pay you a fair sum for the value of the unrepaired unit if they can’t return it. Of course if they’ve actually gone bust you’re probably out of luck. I don’t think PJB have any legal obligation to you but they might be willing to help try and sort it out with Selectron from their side.
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    I discovered Benson by randomly picking up a copy of Shape Of Things To Come, so that’s my favourite of his, and one of my favourite jazz guitar albums.
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    My cancellable bass take is that I like sunburst, I like tort, but tort+sunburst?? Noooo… Single cutaway and relicing are also both just wrong, obvs.
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    I don’t know the original manufacture date sorry - I’ll try emailing Inter-M with the serial number to ask if you like. As mentioned I got it about a year ago and don’t know it’s history before that, although I think the seller said it had been in a fixed PA installation. (er… Vin??)
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    I have made exactly the same mistake in my time 😁
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    Like the colour ultramarine refracted through a pentaprism of unfulfilled desires.
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    I think their original drummer moved away for uni (or too far away to come back for gigs), yes.
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    I’m at the Tynemouth Social Club seeing the Samphires, in which mrs nekomatic‘s best mate’s niece is the guitarist. They are really, really good - easily up to the standard of bands I’ve seen at small festivals. If there’s any justice they’ll go far.
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    I don’t see why that circuit wouldn’t work off 24 V for a 24 V fan. Bump up R5 to 750 ohms ish, and maybe R6 and R7 to 2k each.
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    Yes indeed!
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    It would be perfectly possible for a pedal power supply to use an external mains adapter and still have isolated outputs, if it uses isolating DC-DC converters for each output I don’t know which if any do that though. Where people have found problems with noise when using non-isolated or daisy-chained supplies, did one of the pedals use digital circuitry? My guess there would be the digital one injects noise into the power supply which an analogue one is not very good at rejecting.
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    Some of you may know Ruth Goller from her furiously energetic bouncing at the back of Melt Yourself Down (and if you didn't, you do now) but this is one of her other projects, which could hardly be more different:
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    Now sold elsewhere thanks This hefty unit is a 2U high linear, fanless stereo power amp that will do 150 W RMS per channel into 4 ohms, 100 W each into 8 ohms or 300 W into 8 ohms mono bridged. It has balanced XLR and TRS jack inputs, Speakon and binding post outputs, and a level control and signal and clip indicators for each channel. A rear panel switch sets it into bridge mode in which only the channel 1 input and level control are active and the speaker is wired between the ch 1 + and ch 2 + binding posts or 2+ and 2- pins of the ch 1 Speakon. As well as being physically silent it's electrically very quiet with very little hiss or hum through the speakers. You can get a user manual and full specs from http://www.inter-m.net/en/view/data_technicalDocument_list.asp by clicking 'Power AMP' and finding R300PLUS in the list (or I can PM it if that's easier). I picked it up off eBay about a year ago with the idea of setting it up with a rack preamp but plans have moved on and while it feels terrible to part with such a nice bit of kit, I really don't need it taking up space here so it's time for someone else to give it a loving home! £70 Price drop - Now £60 including UK carriage, will take a few quid off if collected…
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    Withdrawn as now sold elsewhere, thanks for looking! Line6 Bass Pod XT multi-effects unit for sale in good working order, just a few scuffs on the casing. With third-party mains adapter and a printout of the instruction manual, sorry Pilot's Handbook. Price drop - Now £60 including shipping within the UK, or if you come and collect it from Stockport I'll knock a couple of quid off. I'm interested in a Zoom B1 Four, Behringer BDI-21 or possibly other lowish-cost overdrive pedals, so am happy to do a trade or part-exchange deal if you have one of those.
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    I voted for Dolly partly to wind up the sort of people who don’t think Dolly should be in it but mostly because any ‘hall of fame’ without Dolly in it really doesn’t deserve the name. Cool that people are finding out about Fela though.
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    I hadn’t actually noticed that mine had a longer horn than others…
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    It’s a late-’80s/early-’90s American Standard. What makes it “boner”, or shouldn’t I ask? 😳
  25. nekomatic
    Lined… …and loaded, grilled and cornered: It's done! A labour of love and no mistake: it would have been way less effort to build a new one from scratch, and probably no more expensive (I'd have needed to buy a few clamps, but on the other hand I've killed a battery on the cordless sander in the process of doing this one), but it's really satisfying to know that I've given the original cabinet a new lease on life. And I'm really pleased with how it sounds and looks! If I can make it along to a Bass Bash at some point I'll be sure to bring it along. Thanks once again to everyone involved in the Basschat designs and the valuable discussion around them, and everyone who's helped me out on here with advice, information and components: I somehow feel I have an extra incentive to do the thing justice now by playing as well as I can and as much as I can through it On that note, here it is with the amp and bass, which I hope will be seeing lots of each other:
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