John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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Intellectualism, bombastic style, excessive taste for abstraction often hides a poverty of thought or a desire to appear more intelligent than we are, right? I always found it suspect.
Boileau said "Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement".

Now you're older and smarter, you might find MPP interesting.

When I was a student studying Phil in the Anglo-Saxon tradition back inthe 1960s I found him to be a breath of fresh air. But not an easy read, that's for sure.:eek:
 
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This won't lay shite. Bill this is beyond my limit of eccentricity, sad if you know the whole history (few do).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRcgQ_e3w4g

Interesting. It's not something I would 'goto' but I feel embarassed that I don't have enough of an appreciation of the late 70s-80s underground bands that birmingham, sheffield and manchester spawned. I was either too young or too mainstream at the time to appreciate them, but as I mature (slowly) I realise that an understanding of where it all came from does help.

Aside: sod all on TV last night and experiment 626 wasn't sleepy so we had a WB cartoon marathon. Fascinating looking at the differences in style between the years and how abrubtly it changed between '41 and '45. Late 50s was getting a bit too experimental for SWMBO until I pointed out what the historical backdrop was. Had also forgotten how good the early Taz was :)
 
Back to some quality music.....I worked this show last weekend operating follow spot from a tower directly above FOH....IOW right in the audio sweetspot.
For a few songs I was able to ditch my cans and take a proper listen.
The sound (Clair i5 and Amcron) was seriously hifi....bottom end bass and drums to die for, wonderfully clear and present vocals and guitar, highs a touch overly crispy but never fatiguing,.......and groove factor through the roof......right in the root chakra.
My filter device was (secretly) on the multicore.....Scott, I reckon, you would have enjoyed this sound big time.

Fleetwood Mac - On With The Show - Perth - 2015 - The Chain

Listen from the beginning, Aussie gold at it's best !....the commentaries are funny as.
goto 4:00...."Hear that bass......fuken ooresome" hahahaha rotflmao.

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way - Perth 30/10/151

The camera is far stage right pretty close to directly under that side speaker hang, so most sound pickup is that side speaker hang with a bit of on stage sound.

Dan.
 
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