Randall was telling us about this blindfold test he had done with
his picker friends to see if they preferred cathode or fixed bias.
These guys are killer guitarists and they all preferred the fixed bias
since it seemed to articulate their playing better.
 
    Bruce Collins had mentioned a trick he'd used to make
fixed/cathode switching more appealing to his customers: he'd set
the idle bias current for the cathode mode a few mA higher than the
fixed mode so you'd get a little boost when you'd switch over to
cathode bias.