fretmeister

I have L6 G70 and G75 and they are great but discontinued. If I was replacing them I'd go with the Shure. It seems to have a very good reputation. That being said - the block on the jack thing can be easily sorted by using a small cable and putting the block on the strap. Have to do that with some jack sockets on guitars anyway.

I’ve got more bass out of a few different makes of 12 than I ever got from the 15s I’ve had.

Some models of cars and fridges have had production suspended because of the silicon shortage. Amps are just the tiniest pimple on the top of the iceberg. Yesterday Sony announced they are looking to build their own chip factory so they are less dependent on others. That's going to take a year or 2 to build and test, but unless Japan has massive amounts of silicon I don't know about they'll still have to import that or start mining and extracting it themselves. I have no idea if Silicon sand can just be taken from the local seabed or not or even if seabed sand provides a big enough yield, or whether the common approach of surface mining is the only sensible approach. China currently produces 2/3 of all the world's silicon from surface mining. That really needs to be spread out a bit! If I've understood it properly, the process of extracting silicon from sand / quartz etc needs massive amounts of water so unfortunately just building an extraction plant in the middle of a desert doesn't seem to be an option.

Wish I had the money. I've never had a GK but always like the recorded sounds from them. But I just ordered a new cab and marital harmony must be maintained!

That sounds lovely!

That listing says 'brand new, unopened, undamaged' so not B stock.

Often at the end of the chain so it effectively replaces the front end of the amp.

Doubt it - the law is the law. Consumer Contract Regs (that replaced the Distance Selling Regs) allow for 14 days from receipt. Unless it's a custom made item it applies to all businesses.

This. Sometimes I'm playing with just a clarinet. Sometimes I'm playing with 25 brass and wind players and a drummer. At the same show. I'm not taking 2 amps to a gig just to swap them between tunes. And to be frank, the ONLY noise that any modern amp makes should be the sound of the bass. Any other noise, particularly avoidable noise, is a poor design choice.

The C4 will load the Spectrum presets too.

In an ideal world I'd be putting EMGs in it. Unfortunately EMG only make their own dimension soapbars and don't do an easy drop in version for Barts like just about everyone else does these days. I'm a massive fan of their J and JX pickups but the dimensions are wrong in all directions. Would need a lot of routing and a scratchplate to make it look tidy. Shame really. Sometimes I do wonder why companies make it difficult to buy their stuff. Nordy, SD, Aguilar etc all give the option to have an EMG or a Bart sized soapbar.

No. Barts on the medium / short scale fan fret. Alas!

Me neither. My multiple hernia repairs would pop like a puffer fish in a microwave! 110 lb iirc. Easy enough on the wheels, right up until the point steps get in the way. Of lifting it in or out of the car...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274476367261?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dffc40afdeb9b49ccb2912609fe5a1ae6%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D274476367261%26itm%3D274476367261%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DGallien-Krueger&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A698d63ea-2a8a-11ec-8d74-06cdf3adecfd|parentrq%3A6f370a3917c0aaf639377eecfff88e46|iid%3A1 Being sold by the official importers at £489 That's a good ton cheaper than most places and it has the full warranty. Somebody buy it before I get in trouble with the wife!

I decided to go with the regular One10. A simple process in the end, my favourite cab of all time was the Marshall VBC412 - no tweeter. After that I had, roughly in this order Hartke / Mark Bass / back to hartke / Berg HD / Berg CN and every time I turned the tweeter off. The only downside to Alex's continued success is that lead times are now quoted at 4 to 10 weeks. I'll just have to use my Super Twin in the meantime!

Now I've raised the money I can't decide between the One10 and the One10T! Decisions decisions! On one hand I've had One10 before and liked it. On the other the tweeter can be turned off and would make it a little more versatile for when I do have a few too many beers and start slapping. On the third hand, nobody needs to hear me slapping. Mmmm....

Can anyone recommend a good pdf to XML converter so I can scan sheet music and then convert into XML so I can edit it in Staffpad? I only have a few sheets to do so a free option would be very good. ta

I think I’ll do the pickup upgrade first and then see how the existing preamp does with them.

the minute they do that and get actually silent fans in will be the same minute I buy one. I love the sound, but when I’m playing with woodwind instruments etc any noise like that kills the mood.

Not a fault, it’s a feature! 😂

They claim they are barely audible at low volumes but it’s just not accurate!

I wish Ashdown changed their fans. I love the sound of their amps but the fans are so annoying. There are far quieter options and many manufacturers also have reactive units now so that at low volumes they don’t even turn on at all. The only fan I’ve ever heard that was louder was on a Mesa Prodigy. I’m looking into a new amp at the moment and I really want an ABM but the fan noise means they don’t even make the audition list.

It is all silicon wafer supply. Even the FT has done investigations. Computers, fridges, cars, phones, microwaves, and amplifiers are all affected. Lets just hope that used prices of amps don’t go the same way as used GPU cards! Double retail!

I get that they won't want to undercut the dealers - but £130 quid is a far bigger gap than I would expect. It's 18%. It's nearly like not paying vat.