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A 15" Ampeg Portaflex pulls a lot more bass out of an Elf than the 2x8. I know because I tried both in PMT before I bought the Elf, and found it weak sounding through the 2x8. Oddly, a year later my brother picked up Portaflex 15 for £50(!) and ended up getting an Elf to go with it. (Yes I know all the arguments against 15s but this particular combination sounds great for the sort of music I play).

Just to add to this for information, I would go for the labella mini P bass flats next time, don’t try labella LTF’s short scale as I did because the E string snapped, I had a set of Rotosound Jazz Bass Flatwound Monel 40-90 Bass Guitar Strings, Short Scale in the drawer and they on mine now and sounding good

The pair I ordered yesterday arrived today and they're excellent. Especially for the price. Very happy chap.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YHJjcnrcU/ A list of the gear and serial numbers etc

Yet again a painless process. Thanks pal👍

On the vast majority of solid state amps the headphone disconnects the speaker output and powers the 'phones via a series resistor. This means your fault is probably, as you seem to realise, a break somewhere in the output wiring, not in the electronics. You have a suitable instrument to trace the fault. Put the meter on an a/c range, perhaps 20vac or more. With one probe at a good ground point, carefully probe from the headphone socket to the speaker leads.

I know I wish I did...

Measure twice, print once...

You might (emphasis on "might") be able to claim it back - https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/what-is-chargeback/

Slave to the Grind - Skid Row

Cad Mad

It was supposed to be mounted horizontally under the rear most top rail, which would have been right at the back. Just before he pressed the print button, as a final proof @rwillett asked me to measure the internal dimensions of the flight case and the biggest pedal that was going on the top deck. He then modelled it, and voila the pedal poked up through the flight case lid. By quite a lot, like most of the pedal quite a lot. Cue muffled swearing and a lot of rethinking to come up with what, we think, is a very neat solution.

https://www.labella.com/product/760fm-p-deep-talkin-bass-flats-mini-p-strings/?

https://www.labella.com/product/760fm-p-deep-talkin-bass-flats-mini-p-strings/?srsltid=AfmBOopnbqRuDijLe-pADcApLqiNXp-aw1DkrCrkFnjbgz4JY0F9Nt0s

Thanks for replying, yeah I’ve tested the speaker both with a multimeter and audio tested it with a different amp. So the speaker is fine, I did try cleaning the speaker out and headphone jack sockets as I figured they were maybe dirty enough to be falsely stopping the signal (as if a jack was plugged in). That made no difference… Perhaps I should have another go! I just expected some kind of result from that and when I didn’t get one, I wasn’t sure where to look next!

Reporting in between sets: - people have clothing that looks like stolen from tablecloths with round prints (70's party) - quite a lot of noise (hard walls) - too many are sitting in their chairs (too many cars outside) - those having fun are really having fun (Yes, tonight it is ABBA, Chic, Boney M, The Bee Gees, The Trammps...)

Don't know what I'm changing yet. I just have the form.......and a riff now. It will probably take me all month if I finish at all!

Oh that’s very clever morning the Harley Benton power thingy

My gig was my 3 people band (me-bass;guitar/vocal;drums) at the local studio. It was meant for 5 different bands each playing 20 minutes. Each band had a teacher for a different instrument. Our band drumer is a teacher for drums. The listeners where their students. Everething was ok.