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Thanks, Paul. I thought as much. Saves me a job! 😃

There seems to be two main components to these contraptions - a wooden board and foam. Is the board necessary from an acoustic POV? Or is it just there to create a solid platform? I have a piece of very dense foam about 2” thick that I sometimes use under my bass cabs (2x Aguilar DB112s). It’s just the right size to fit between the feet of the cab. I’m wondering, if I glued a larger piece of carpeted plywood to it, so the cab’s feet sit on top of it, would it perform better sonically?

No, it was my basses, as unlikely as it seems!

Ah, okay. So the solder joints must’ve been dry all along and the heat made them fail. Gotcha! 😁

The solder didn’t melt. The heat caused ‘dry’ joints. Apparently this is quite common in Fender valve amps - the heat from the valves can make the solder joints dry. Maybe it’s down to poor quality solder and/or solder joints from Fender 🤷‍♂️

Tonight: Protect the Beat (I’m doing the sound so this doesn’t really count) Two gigs next week: Roy Ayers at Chinnery’s, Southend on Wednesday and Mulatu Astatke at KOKO on Thursday.

Update… both basses have been fixed! 😃 The heat had cooked the solder attaching the wires to the pick-ups. BTW, I took them into Strings Direct which is just a stones throw from where I work in Southend-On-Sea. Chris Ward (from The Bass Centre) has a work shop there that he works from one day per week. Highly recommended. Thanks for the input, guys. 😊

I'm taking them to my local tech tomorrow. Hopefully he'll be able to fix them.

That is odd! I've tried all sorts of leads into all sorts of amps and it's definitely the basses that have bust.

Would that kill the output too?

You’ve obviously never seen me use a soldering iron… 😝

Not a silly question. Yes, tried multiple leads through two different amps. 🤔

Yeah, both passive. I’ve moved them to the coolest room in the house. Fingers crossed 🤞

UPDATE: They are not completely dead. If I crank the volume on my amp to the max I can just about hear some signal coming through. Also, if I touch one of the pole pieces it buzzes loudly. This is the same on both basses.

I have a voltage tester but not a multimeter 😕