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Hahah you beat me to it! I was working on my jazz bass when the mrs starts yelling come quick! Ace!

Nice one, I shoulda chased em when I was in doublecross playing Warwicks in some hi profile places. :-/ ah well. I'm on the background of the frefx website lol.

Haha don't worry. That was a dumb and short lived idea!

Yeah I use polipods under the shuttle and a grippy rubber mat

Yeah putting amps on a big vibrating box does seen like a bad idea

Yeah. I reckon I'll get some solid feet to put under em I don't wanna ruin em

I freaking love that avatar! (the centennial thunderbird? '76?)

Lol get you McGuyver

I'm keen to hear about these too. If you flog em on drop me a line lol

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Funnily enough fellow basschatter davemuadib and I spent a geeky afternoon A/Bing cables back to back. We did obbm, (klotz) monster bass, elixir, zaolla, generic cheapo and hotlines. Long story short monster had a VERY obvious, pronounced low mid hump which made em sound deeper and punchier but at the expense of top end sparkle and clarity. Zaolla sounded superb, very neutral and open but with depth and solidity. Obbm sounded very similar to the zaolla, slightly less zingy and airy but very close nonetheless. Just not quite as 'expensive' sounding. The elixir was also good and very flat sounding but a tad uninteresting. The hotlines (old academy of sound cables) were still great I remembered why I liked em. Very punchy and forward sounding, a bit like a loudness button going in. The zaolla, monster and elixir were thicker and the zaolla felt the best made. The hotlines and obbm cables felt lighter and thinner. Since doing the test I've retired my monster cables to back ups and bought all obbm's which I'm very pleased with. The transparency goes well with the berg cabs and they are cheaper than zaolla! Also the zaolla crackled at a gig once. And for me that failure onstage once is all I need to drop a cable/bass/amp/pedal from the gig bag! I still rate monster and never had any issues with them. People that say there are no differences between cables should def spend an afternoon doing some A/B listening to a few brands. It's pretty big differences in some cases, less in others. The biggest difference was the monsters bass boost/(treble cut) to my ears. Maybe Dave will chip in ? But the differences are there for all to hear! Simply no doubt about that. But onstage with all the rest of the band going ? Well there lies the real debate ;-) I just like to know my stuff sounds good and is reliable. :-D

Cheers all. I reckon I'll take a shot at screwing on some side feet. Ill get a gramma pad too when I can afford it

I like the vertical stacking of my berg 210's on their sides for those tight spaces but I don't want to put them straight to the floor and I'm pretty unsure about screwing into them to add standard rubber feet. Ive got some sorbothane polipods that I've put between them but they are soft and squishy and this means the stack is less solid. Would a wooden or metal hi-fi type foot be a better idea? Obviously a gramma pad would be best but it's not something I'd always want to carry extra. I was thinking about squishy feet under the head (reduce vibrations going to the electronics and valve base and crucially stop it slipping around!) then some metal isolation feet separating the cabs and under the bottom cab keep it off the floor. Is seperating the cabs acoustically a bad idea though? They don t neatly lock together vertically, but it's a nice alternative configuration. Faffing around with loose feet under a cab at set up/strike is probably a silly idea so maybe I should either A) stfu just carefully screw rubber feet in anyway. (tricky to judge as the baffles are recessed) Or C) just stick it on the floor Or D) just use em the way they are meant to be stacked! Thoughts good people! Polipods, solid feet or abc or d!