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This. Borrow or even hire another cab until you can get it fixed. It's just not worth doing half a job on an expensive cab. You could pick something up on Reverb or Ebay for buttons if you can cope with a heavy old cab for a gig or two.

Presumably Barefaced can replace the driver for you? Anything else will massively devalue it if you ever sell it on.

I've had 3. Status Energy Defretted Fender mex Jazz Zon Hyperbass. I liked the sound but I never got comfortable enough to play them live. Possibly because I was singing as well and I want to concentrate that much! I'd have another J type or PJ though.

Either the Mark Bass Vintage Preamp pedal or the Fairfield The Accountant compressor. Both very good. For guitar use I got one of the UA Tape Delay pedals when they had their big price drop. That's really nice for old dirty delay stuff.

This. For my last gig I actually managed to get everything I needed onto a Nano board but generally I prefer to have duplicates when I can afford it. I don't swap pedals of a particular type very often - at least not for gigging. Sometimes a cheaper but 'nearly there' version of a pedal will do for the board I will use less. But there are some things that I just get annoyed with if they are not identical. Particularly compressors! I do always try to take the smallest board possible as I just don't like carrying heavy stuff.

Fixed it!

To quote Zakk Wylde: "If someone tells you to play something you don't believe in. Tell them to go f*cking die" Bit harsh to be fair, and ignores the concept of being paid enough, but not necessarily the wrong mindset either!

I’ve got a Lionel, but I’ve never played the full scale VS4 so I don’t know if the body is a different size, but the Lionel is a lot smaller than a usual Fender precision. The 34 scale TT4 (jazz) is definitely smaller than a Fender Jazz as well. I’d really like a VS4 so if I ever find enough money maybe I’ll find out!

The restoration of this little bass is nearly complete when I got it the action was really high and couldn’t be lowered much. The neck angle was slightly off. Investigation showed that the pocket was pretty much straight ok but the neck and pocket weren’t quite tight even though it felt solid. The body didn’t just have holes for neck screws, the holes had a thread. So unless the neck was clamped tight into the body the neck plate wasn’t really doing its job. The nut was angled in its groove so slightly out of position too. The stock electronics are shite. The pots are on/off and the poles on the underpowered pickup stick out so far that string contact is inevitable. They went in the bin. Now it has an EMG PX. The X series P is way better than the original EMG P. The action is now very low and it sounds ace. There’s a bit of neck dive that will be solved with some Hipshot Ultralite tuners when I can find a shop with some in stock, or someone responds to my Wanted post. I now have a pair of these. The other has an Aguilar 60s pickup and La Bella DT Flats. The new one currently has Elixir nanowebs. I will be swapped them to some DR Hi Beams 50-110 for a bit more tension. It’s great fun to play!

The central part of the cone is really important. Different size, shape etc all affect dispersion. Different studio monitors and high end hifi have many different designs because of it. I suspect that the alu cones have a particular tone because of their rigidity rather than necessarily what they are made from.

I reckon the Ox was thinking about the laydeeez he had lined up for his hotel after the show. Wanted to save his energy...

Aren't the mods reactive rather than proactive? Or are they going to have to approve every post in advance now? I know you are in China and Ofcom wouldn't be able to enforce a fine against you personally but, but they still could order UK ISPs to block access to BC. And of any UK part owners of BC would carry the entire can - fines for regulatory breach are always 'joint and several' so if there's a massive fine and only 1 person in the jurisdiction, they get pursued for it all even if there are dozens or even hundreds of owners in other jurisdictions. I hope it works out. I love this place.

I remember a similar review of a Steve Vai gig - the reviewer said that the main problem was a lack of tension. Everyone in the room knows that Vai has the ability to play everything and make it look easy. The review wanted raw panic, like the player and the audience had no idea if it was going to work out well!

There's a lot to be said for a good EQ pedal with simple sliders for better visual clues. The Boss EQ-200 for example. Very easy to experiment when you can also see the EQ curve.

Mmm… I remember when Nadine Dorries asked Microsoft when they would stop using algorithms….