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It's not switch mode (I don't think?) - just a traditional supply.

The sofa is in Germany, is it not..?

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1502698743' post='3352869'] I'm pretty sure the Ashdown MAG in Whistlebinkies is old enough to be one of the class AB models, and the Orange is a solid state guitar amp, no valves. I wouldn't say that output topology is the issue here. [/quote] Ah, my mistake - fair comment. On a wider point, I do think output topology has a lot to answer for, but I guess it's been discussed ad infinitum on other threads...

Strangely, most (if not all?) 600w class-D 'powerhouses' have hi-pass filters to remove the really power-soaking lows, yet a 120w valve head can outperform them. But watts is watts, right? *raises eyebrow*

It's like molten lava! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2017-FENDER-PRECISION-1964-CUSTOM-SHOP-4-STRING-P-BASS-64-RELIC-3TSB-SPARKLE-/362068369033?hash=item544cf4de89:g:rhcAAOSwClJZjnxu

...|I don't think I've ever used a transcription in my life, TBH.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1502525268' post='3351963'] Anything Duck Dunn is good. . . . but if you can't get his bass lines from listening to the records you need to sharpen up your playing by ear more than you need transcrpitions. [/quote] I didn't buy it for that. I bought it for the first 50-odd pages.

Yep - it's about 200 pages, of which 150-odd are transcriptions. It shouldn't be considered a biog.

[url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-Fingers-Legendary-Bassist-Donald/dp/1495052923"]This is it,[/url] and my copy has just arrived...

I'd love to get another - unfortunately it's not possible to spec a lightweight. Understandable, but a shame!

Nice!

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1502399795' post='3351259'] Have to confess, I've not read this entire thread, but does anyone here know where in Poland Maruszcyk are based? I'm going to Krakow and wondering if there's any chance of getting to try some basses. [/quote] Germany. :-)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Guitar-Usa-/272798499591

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1502104304' post='3349291'] Hardly surprising though... it's pretty blatant. [/quote] Yep.. a blatant rip-off of songs that were blatantly ripped off of songs that were blantantly ripped off... etc.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1501736888' post='3346932'] most gigging musicians have no original bone in their body, all they can do is mimic someone else. A cover song is interesting until I learn it, then it's boring to play it, unless it's Zeppelin. But I don't look like JPJ so no tribute band will take me. Me, I've always preferred to play originals, to far fewer people and for far less money than a coverband would get. Young people these days only want to hear what they've been told to like, they want a song they've heard a zillion times because they know how to dance to it lol. we are regressing...."I don't beLIEVE it" [/quote] Can you post some of your stuff, so we can decide how original it is, please? As for me, I play originals and covers, and I don't really make any distinction.

I've always been a fan of early 70's (that said I'm thinking of springing for something 60s in the future). Differences... apart from cosmetic (tuners, decals, colours etc.) the big difference will probably be neck profile, with the '71 probably (but not necessarily) being chunkier front-to-back.

No ruffled feathers - just different points of view :-)

The Who totally started out doing covers, as many original bands do.

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1501522247' post='3345261'] Whilst this thread is kind of amusing in a car crash "how long before Mick asks for a refund whilst TE string him and ever other person along who's pre-ordered one" kind of way, it is intensely unamusing that after all this stress, hardship and chasing them to the gates of Hades for a delivery date, the amp (if it ever arrives) will probably be an underpowered matchbox gimmick only capable of holding it's own against a drummer with brushes. I can't see how a 200w class D amp will cut it in any loud situation at all. Were it 1000w I'd be saying it was genius, but not for 200w. I hope it doesn't go this way. [/quote] :-D

That nowadays money-grabbing music industry, eh? It's such a recent phenomenon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKt07B3A6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSmokR0Enk ...etc.

Pretty sure he used the Washburn at Hyde Park, too.

Slapped fretless, innit? Incidentally, I just got the Hyde Park blu-ray the other day. It's bloody marvellous.

There is also - correct me if I'm wrong - another approach used in the likes of the Walkabout, which runs the valves at a higher voltage.. is that right?