Recent content by sinewave

Being a total amateur, I have often recorded gigs using my iPhone in my pocket, thinking 'did it seem to go well because I was drunk'. Every time it was better than I expected. My recommendation is: record it somehow.

Jazz basses are definitely girly. Why would one need a bridge pickup on a bass? Gay. Obviously the mighty Precision Bass is the solution. There are nice small scale ones like the Gibson SG bass.

I'm a total amateur but in my limited experience the most useless players are always t-total. The ones that suck will suck no matter how sober they are. The good ones can have loads to drink and still be great. Think SRV. Isn't Roger Daltrey t-total and vegetarian? So it's the same amongst...

True, but then there's ZZ Top, God bless them.

Precisely - or maybe he wasn't holding a violin but a Hofner Violin bass

Ahh, but the bridge pickup on a J has negative value as it only makes the tone worse => P with its superior, correctly placed, pickup wins again. => P > J

I think he was saying you should get a Hofner bass.

Yes. Next.

30 watts into a 1100 W cab is 'underpowering' - it's the most dangerous thing in the world. 1 watt into that cab would immediately blow it up. If you had a 1100 watt head, never turn down the input gain and master volume from 10, otherwise you're underpowering it, thereby running a risk of...

"Class C" in the title caught my attention. I realize it must have been a typo but wouldn't class C sound like a fuzz pedal? Very, very 'harmonically rich' :) Assuming you are using the same loudspeaker in the same room in this comparison, I'm sure the frequency response of each amp and eq...

Yes with a 8 ohm load but this was 4 ohms. And of course it depends on whether it was tube watts, and especially 'RMS watts' which are bigger :)

Deep, man. Plate resonance, that's where it's at. Obviously tubes don't have this problem, as in China, Vietnam and Russia they have sorted it out. How about the fact that "Actually the power is transfered via stray loss from primary to the secondary" as someone pointed out. In fact, usually...

"Its important to know that an "ideal" transformer that would have NO stray losses could NOT transfer power from the primary to the secondary windings. Although its a little bit "contrary" to the science we learn at school. Actually the power is transfered via stray loss from primary to the...

No, No, No. The SVT has a 'warm tone', the tubes are being carefully designed in Russia, Vietnam, African countries and China just to get a warm tone. The whole amp only sounds good because of the premium tube components from the more developed parts of the world. The whole design of the amp is...

Everyone knows that RMS watts are bigger than fake foreign non-tube watts. This is a scientific fact. You can hear it if you compare a real tube amp to a non-RMS transistor amp. Much louder and harmonically richer. RMS watts is real science. Transistors can't do RMS because they are weaker and...