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When Yamaha decide to make the Ricky Rioli signature BB, I shall insist that it be called the RD350

I called mine 'Grandma', does this mean I'm obliged to called it a 'Yamha'? 😕

I only ever play it on passive - couldn't find anything for me in the active controls

Is the preamp in the 735a the same as the one in the TRBX504/505/604/605?

A quick google produces this interesting thread: Phil Jones H-850 headphones and Edifier H850 the same? Thank you!

I've found a thread from 2016 full of headphone recommendations....most of which look at bit pricey for my lo-fi soul. These look good... Phil Jones Bass H-850 Closed Back Headphones ....I think? £74 delivered.

I'm glad I added this ps, as thanks to it I've now got one headed my way

I'm also thinking of getting an Auralex Gramma pad for the amp to sit on, to cut out one of the two routes the noise I make passes through the building. Daft price, but good for my conscience....

Problem A - I haven't put on a pair of headphones since I discovered a few years ago that my habit of listening to my ipod on the tube had given me some entry-level tinnitus. It comes and goes, sounding like silvery cicadas, and is never annoying. I really don't want to make it worse. Problem B - where I live, I've neighbours above and below and on both sides, and the flimsy building is an acoustic marvel for transmitting sound, and so through each day my playing is a combination of moderate, quiet and unplugged. My Peavey practice amp is constantly chomping at the bit. So I could do with adding headphones to my repertoire, but need to be careful, and am almost entirely ignorant of what's what. (When I was a kid I had a pair of Sennheisers that had a seeming flat foam-covered panel against the ear, and were gently domed on the outside. That sort of design doesnt seem to exist anymore.) Firstly, are noise-cancelling headphones any good for practising with, or do they mess with the tone? I live on a main road, so there is a little bit of traffic noise. Secondly, would open back headphones be better for not annoying my tinnitus? Sound leaking out within my home isn't a problem.

On the website of one of the string manufacturers is a set of 0'15" long soundclips of all their different strings, demoed by Steve Araujo. I listened through and thought, "they all sound like Steve Araujo.... just as every pickup on every G&L sounds like Steve Araujo...." ...and then the penny dropped.

Thank you for all that 😊 The tweed version is currently £55, and delivery is £4.50 I also found PMT selling something similar to the standard one, again for £50 Tourtech bass guitar hard case

I've been wondering why Yamaha built their factory for cheap acoustics in China and the one for cheap basses in Indonesia. Will it to be with the different kinds of wood needed and where good supplies of them are?

Ditto this reggae version from 1973

Side 1, Track 1 .... and the only song on the album never performed live .... 🙃

I thought I was going to have to give away my Westone Thunder I-A guitar, I've been quite surprised to learn that it still has some value. Unplayed this century! 😄

This wasn't what I was looking for, but is something I was very glad to find I had a bit of a moment listening to it

Something I'm hoping exists: Blackbird in a full band RnB or soul style. I've found a live performance of it by Alicia Keys. I like the way she sings it, but the accompaniment is just herself on the piano.

I got a delivery from UPS yesterday. The shop hadn't bothered to add anything to the manufacturers packaging, just stuck the label on it, and it arrived absolutely pristine. Related to this, I was wondering what cheap hard cases like this £50 one sold by gear4music are like - are they actually any better than lots of bubble wrap and cardboard? And would it make the parcel insurable? £50 hard case

As someone who shelled out for the Beatles In Mono box set, I'm contractually obliged to point out that the original mix had zero stereo 😁 As for the stuff about the piano, we're very definitely listening with different ears and heads, so......

The same pink paint on the same bench under the same lighting in the same month probably photographed with the same camera....

It's a funny song, it gets under my skin, while I'm listening to it simply just existing suddenly seems tremendously exciting, and this cover really makes the most of that quality, and while its playing I feel totally revved up, heart and soul [/insanebabble]

I'm listening on my phone, so clearly I've no idea what things really sound like - my head seems to fill in enough gaps to keep me happy - but here's another upload. The production strikes me as pretty typical of its time, but that's not an especially well informed opinion.

I'm really really hoping that the SB-1 due to arrive sometime this side of the Rapture will neatly render the TRBX superfluous and take over its stand, sending the TRBX off to a new home. Both 1½" nut, both light, both strung with Chromes....so there's a decent chance. But I'm not going to risk saying anything definite 🥴

Another stand arrived today so I was able to take a shot showing the difference in size between the BB and the TRBX. I should have thought of doing this when there was some natural light, but never mind.