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806 after 5 pints. That's close enough for rock'n'roll, especially as I was putting a bit of feel into it. Now to get Mrs Zero to do it, to see whether I should confiscate her tambourine...

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1440134609' post='2848489'] A set of D'Addario black nylons will transform it! [/quote] Fifty quid for a 5-string set - I think I'll give the Status nylons a go.

I use stringbusters.com, good service and I think they're generally cheaper than Strings Direct.

Peavey Grind BXP. Just thought I'd mention it as no-one else has...

I bought the PA (though as Mrs Zero is the singer and we share funds, I suppose you could say she's contributed to it). However, we've finished up using the guitarist's mixer and outboard EQ with my SRM450s (and a pair of Behringer active speakers for monitors). The guitarist also supplies half of the lighting. We all store and transport our own gear and give each other a hand at the venue with unloading and reloading. I never realised just how lucky I was.

I've done Munich and back with Easyjet three times with basses in Hiscox cases. No problems, and they seemed to take good care of them.

Pressing F5 doesn't make it move any faster. Damn.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1440147612' post='2848591'] Good to see you're getting one (almost certainly). [/quote] It's in Koln now, so I shan't start tapping my fingers just yet.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1440060559' post='2847875'] Saw that. Bought that. Let's see if there were any left. [/quote] There were!

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1440062380' post='2847898'] Classical guitars seem quite popular here. Is that because of the common use of fingers between basses and classical? I still feel I want to wait until I find if the Santos series models return. [/quote] I started on a classical guitar (to be strictly accurate, my brother's classical guitar) before moving to electric and then bass. I do have a couple of steel-strung acoustics in the house but not a nylon-strung one so it would add to the sounds I have available, if I ever get off my arse and start recording stuff properly.

Pedantry is a duty, not a privilege.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1439997935' post='2847431'] CG300CE electro-acoustic classical guitar as bought by Shockwave (if I remember correctly.) Back again: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_cg300ce_nt_deko.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...0ce_nt_deko.htm[/url] [/quote] Saw that. Bought that. Let's see if there were any left.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1439991275' post='2847320'] Eh? Looked at counter, said exactly 82,000 views. Wrote "Nail on Head " and it had jumped 34 in 10 seconds! [/quote] Is that why you're being tautologous, with both "over" and "plus" in the title?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1439984615' post='2847233'] There's really only one course of action, in that case... get hold of one and use it at a gig. [/quote] I'm trying to sell a cab, not buy one...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1439982283' post='2847199'] Thanks for posting, I remember that thread. As the OP says it was very likely a Friday afternoon job and it did get sorted out pretty quickly. And it was six years ago. [/quote] Yes, looking back at my first post on the subject, I did say it was for the older generation cab but should perhaps have made it clearer that I wasn't implying that the new ones would suffer from poor QC. I suspect they went through a bit of an iffy patch. It does also seem that the customer service was good where there were faults. Haven't used a Schroeder myself, it was one I've considered and I don't think I was put off by the reports.

Aha, found one of the references, and it was on BC: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/53995-schroeder-cabs-issuesforgotten/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/53995-schroeder-cabs-issuesforgotten/[/url]

Fretless natural 5-string electro-acoustic is back up: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_b_35fl_nt_acoustic_bas_deko.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_b_35fl_nt_acoustic_bas_deko.htm[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1439906907' post='2846649'] I'll have a look for that later. Mine isn't showing any signs of deterioration. It's ten years old, but to be fair it hasn't been toured or anything. I have it on fairly big castors, I don't know if that makes a difference... though it does tend to get used as a trolley for the rest of my gear. [/quote] It wasn't so much whether it would fall apart but the quality of the finishing where it wasn't visible - ragged holes in baffles, that sort of thing.

If he didn't use any synonym for faeces then assume it to be a compliment. Note that the suffix "-hot" is a qualifier which reverses a synonym for faeces into a compliment.

ISTR there was mention somewhere (here or TB, can't remember which) of the build quality of the older generation cabs deteriorating.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1439891040' post='2846450'] Not heavy though, it's a damn sight lighter than both my Wals. [/quote] Is it lighter than just one of your Wals though?

In the ceilidh band I played in, I changed between a fretless Warwick Thumb (with roundwounds), a NS WAV-4 EUB, and an Ashbory Mk I. You might consider one of the Harley Benton bass ukes, just as something rather different and somewhat uprightish-sounding.

[quote name='rungles' timestamp='1439669867' post='2844909'] I've been back and forth on this one but have decided on headless. I think. [/quote] Statuseseses with heads on are just wrong.

All our gigs are for money (charity ones excepted, but they've got to be proper charity, not someone playing at being a promoter). One pub I used to play at would also let you have free soft drinks all night, another couple would give you the first drink, and another one or two did free drink all night. The fact that I can't remember which pub it was that gave us free drink all night does show the hazard of having it (the two pubs I do remember were in Munich, and we're still waiting to get another gig there...).

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1439790275' post='2845697'] I think some manufacturers quote a burst or "program" RMS (which is usually about 2x continuous RMS) and then quote peak as the peak-to-peak of that burst capability, thus their "peak" rating is around x4 their continuous RMS. [/quote] The burst type rating used to be called (possibly still is) "music power" in hi-fi systems, and, as you say, was generally double the constant rating, and it was generally "peak music power" therefore four times the constant RMS rating. There's some "measurement" called PMPO that can be found on some Ebay auctions for PC speakers. As 200W PMPO is apparently 4W RMS, that's quite a conversion factor.