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Your friend would prefer his single 15 for which he would have to buy an amplifier, over a loaner K8 for background music at a cocktail party. There's probably no helping this one.

I have relative pitch. I expect it would be pretty much worthless here. Sight singing? -- doubtful. It's like my granddaughter Sophie (3) told her mother when presented something new to eat at supper, "I'm just not loving it mom. I want peanut butter and jelly."

In my continuous search for an overdrive pedal that can make a clonewheel sound like the organs in this 37 second YT video, I have tried several and none have satisfied. They are all too buzzy and don't produce the soft crunch evident in the YT sample. The latest I have tried (and returned) is a Vahlbruch Kaluna II. It is a high-voltage (250 VDC) tube overdrive with a 3-band EQ. There is failing with many overdrive pedals, the Kaluna included, in that an increase in overdrive is accompanied by a decrease in bass.

I have a 142 and 122. They do make some non-musical noises. Both have audible motor noise from up close. The DC motors should solve that and any motor switching artifacts. There is also the sound of a slipping drum belt that can heard when switching from fast to slow, depending on how tight one likes to set it. It is possible the DC motors could fix that also. I wonder what horn driver it uses? Though I won’t do anything about it,It would be nice to have something other than my aftermarket drivers. One was sold by Goff some years back, the other is a PD-5VH. Both are louder than stock and should be padded for best balance with the 15.

I had cataract surgery in early '23. Everything is much brighter, and colors are vibrant and clear. However, after the surgery, I noticed a white cloud that moves across my vision when shifting my eyes from side-to-side, something which persists to this day. It is mostly visible against bright backgrounds, e.g. reading on a light monitor, driving on a bright day. It is extremely distracting but I've mostly learned to live with it (dark monitor themes, sunglasses). Read up on posterior vitreous detachment. It occurs in < 15% of cataract surgeries and for my particular symptoms even less. Had I known about it, I'd have asked my surgeon what his post-surgery PVD ratio was. I was one of the 50 patients he operated on that day. In retrospect, I'd have preferred someone a little slower.

I wish I could go. Perhaps an audio or video will be offered at some point.

I did lead sheets for Talkin' About J.C. and Luny Tune in '96 using MusiXTeX. talkin_about_jc.pdf lunytune.pdf

It looks like someone got themselves a bunch of Leslie 120s, rotosonic, passive.

There are two versions of these samples on archive.org. Spectrasonics - Bass Legends (KONTAKT) Spectrasonics - Bass Legends (Akai) These are looping samples and must be played in a sampler that observes the embedded loop points. I tried the Kontakt version out in the Kontakt demo version (15 min limit).

5 piece soul-jazz group. LHB —> Roland MBD-1 —> Tone Hammer 500 —> Greenboy 12/6 cabinet. The bass samples in the Roland are the old Spectrasonics Bass Legends samples.

Reuters article here. Reuters prompted the AI music website Udio to create "an Americana song in the style of Tift Merritt." It created a ballad, "Holy Grounds", with lyrics about "driving old backroads" while "watching the fields and skies shift and sway." Merritt responded, "This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all," Merritt said. "It's stealing." These sites are using recordings from popular artists to train their AI engine. "Robots and AI do not get royalties," she said. This is a problem that will be in the courts, and I can't fathom how the law is going to address it. One thought occurred to me though. If one AI can create a song, then another AI should be able to determine a measure of that song's similarity to samples in its database. That sort of detection AI is something that artists might be willing to support.

I've been noticing more oncoming vehicles keeping their high-beams on, and not dimming in response to the corresponding high-beam flash courtesy. Regarding motorcycles, off-road only. Off road, I had a couple of minor ankle injuries. On-road, there were some instances too close for comfort that lead me to sell the bike.

The horn driver is much more efficient than the 15". You might try an 8-ohm L-pad between the x-over and the horn.

What horn driver are you running in that Franken Leslie?

The OP says its a 250W Mark Bass head.