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The cab is really only worth what someone will give you for it. With 3 maybe 4 speakers needing replacing, what you’ll get for an empty not very lightweight cab is purely down to luck. Somebody with the same cab as yours where the speakers are sound but the exterior is tatty may be tempted to buy it in which case I’d guess at say £40 or £50. Unfortunately buying 3 or 4 new speakers for it is probably not financially viable for most folk, (and I’m a GK fanboi too!).

IIRC Qmax stuff was made by UK loudspeaker manufacturer McKenzie. Quite reasonable quality PA cabs back in the day. Right, as you were.....

Completely forgot that on smallish gigs I use my electro acoustic straight into a small PA - Yamaha 512 mixer amp and a pair of old Bose 802’s. Love it.

In the past I’ve used a PA cab on gigs - a Peavey Hisys 2. It sounded fine, to these ears anyway. In reply to the OP, is anyone relying on a stage monitor to hear their bass effectively using a PA cab?

I agree Mart - I’ve always regarded class D stuff has having a shorter lifespan than older designs, probably fuelled by my tech’s comments. It’s just the way things are going generally I think, with fewer items appearing to be worth repairing.

A lot of people I know who are recently retired / early retired are using their newfound freedom to launch new bands and devote more time to playing in general. The annoying thing is they usually can afford the best gear though.....🤣 I’ve just turned 65, been pro for 30 years and do regular gigs all over the UK. Not thinking of stopping anytime soon (mainly due to the crazy cost of living) so will keep on gigging for as long as I’m able. Age really isn’t a barrier unless you allow it to be.

Good call re the charity shop, but for the higher end bass stuff I’m sure you would do better selling it on here and then donating the proceeds to the charity ?

Are you using IEM’s Paul, or the house monitor system? From my (admittedly limited) experience of relying on the quality of the in house monitors, I do prefer ensuring that I get the sound I want/need by bringing my own amp and cab. With smaller and lighter cabs like the Barefaced stuff it really isn’t a problem for me. I have done a few gigs with just a preamp into the house system where it’s been okay, but still felt like a bit of a compromise for me for some reason.

I’ve often wondered the same thing. People spend a fortune on some high end amp and then get ‘their sound’ from the ( often expensive) additional pre amp. Beats me. Just find an amp you like the sound of, or get an outboard preamp and run it into a power amp or FRFR powered cab. *For complete transparency, I run a Sansamp into my GK rig, but only for DI purposes. 😁

My brother ( 4 years older than me ) had a big effect on my musical taste when we were growing up in the 60’s. We both loved The Stones and The Beatles as they were everywhere, but then he got into Motown and soul music which was always playing for a few years. Then (inexplicably) he veered off into folk / rock stuff like The Strawbs and Lindisfarne, and I found Chuck Berry, all the main blues / r’n’b stuff along with the great pop music of the time, which have never left me. Through older friends I found country and country rock, and thanks to my boss at the record store where I worked I discovered some great soul and funk music which would otherwise have been hard to find. Around this time I also discovered Springsteen too, who I still admire. My parents didn’t like pop music, so I was restricted to things I heard on the BBC Light Programme ( R2) and classical music - Chopin being my Dad’s thing. When I went round to friend’s houses, I heard Sinatra and Tony Bennett etc for the first time being played by their parents. Learned to appreciate them many years later.

I find exactly the same ‘dilemma’, and not just when there isn’t a feed to the PA being used. At sound check when playing solo for the FOH guy, I often don’t like my onstage sound much, yet when placed with the rest of the band the sound becomes somehow ‘right’ and allows me to hear it effectively.

Played at the wonderful Harrogate Royal hall last night. Capacity crowd of around 950 in a beautiful room, probably the most impressive theatre we regularly do. Had a good soundcheck but once the show started there were some sound issues for us onstage, which our new engineer did a great job of battling with and eventually winning! This may explain my rather serious face in the pic below - the booming was around a 'C', and you've guessed it, plenty of the stuff we do is in that key! The other picture shows a guy who came to our Sheffield gig the week before - he's a professional Ringo act from Detroit called Michael, and he's seen here chatting with our guitarist Jan after the show.

Unusual pressing, maybe a USA copy? The UK ones were the grey A&M logo IIRC, with some done on blue / coloured vinyl too. 🙂

Ha ha, agreed! Or evenings of Queen and Freddie stuff.....

1970 - you finally finished that time machine Mick? 😆

Tonight on Sky Arts at 7pm there is a Sheryl Crow gig from 2020. ‘Live from the Artist’s Den’ is small gig at The Plaza in New York. Later on the same channel at 12.15am there is a repeat of ‘Jeff Beck Live at the Hollywood Bowl’ from 2016. BBC4 have a load of Sting / Police related stuff starting tonight at 9pm.

I have both similar GK models and totally agree. The RB just has that something extra.

Howie Epstein?

Under ripe banana may come in handy for this.....

He is steady, but not in name. 🤣

Heard this in the car earlier. A great Laura Nyro song, performed by Streisand. Not a fan of hers at all but this is funky as hell, with some great players on it - maybe Joe Osborn on bass.

We played a couple of gigs this week - in Peterborough and then at one of my favourite venues, Sheffield City Hall. For anyone who doesn't know it, this magnificent building was designed in the early 1920's but not opened until 1932. The Oval Hall holds around 2,200 people seated, and we had about 1,600 people in on Friday night. It's the first time we've ever brought in a 'flown' PA system, and it really made a difference. We've just acquired a new desk too (an Allen&Heath Avantis if anyone's interested) and it needed a fair old soundcheck in order to get everything right. Despite our singer fighting off a cold, we all played well and the audience were amazing - definitely one of the best gigs I've done with the band* over the last 13 years. *The ELO Experience

Does David Bowie’s ‘ Aladdin Sane’ qualify? Also think there were some Ozzy Osbourne albums with mild puns - ‘The Blizzard of Oz’ is (thankfully) the only one I know.

Tonight on Sky Arts at 9pm - Jeff Beck Live at the Hollywood Bowl, from 2016.

My PJ Precision Lyte has one master vol along with a pan control. Suits me as I find having to turn two volume pots down ( as per a Jazz bass) to mute the bass is a bit of a pain in live situations.