taunton-hobbit

I use Eminence for bass (thanks Alex), can't see much, if any advantage with these, but I suppose price might be a factor?

I used to get Chris Squire, his bass rig, a drumkit and various other bits in a mini van (Chris rode in the back and winged a lot).

You have a balanced output xlr on the rear of your 550 - this should be ok as a send to the 250- try it and see - you won't blow anything up...........

^ ^ ^ as a rule of thumb - 'the real morons always live at the top of the tree'.

A long time ago I offered to do a friends wedding for free (yup, that long ago). It was in a very posh brand new rebuilt hotel just down the road in the same village....I set up early (around midday) so that I wouldn't be under anyones feet & said I'd be back by seven....then the hotel gets sh*tty because they don't have a music system.....they expected me to provide music (for free) for around ten hours or so....(no, I didn't, before you ask).

Like many on here, I own/use a mix of kit (I voted yes, btw), so it ain't that simple............

I hate to be an old cynic (but I will...) - there to me is a difference between 'liking' what you hear out of a system, and struggling to hear the second cellist on the right picking his nose.................

Another vote for 'don't do it' - just take out the head & fix into a new box - that way if the WEM is worth 'real' money, you can put it back together (& sell it to an American).

I had a pair of Celestion SR1 power speakers at one time - always worked behind them, always had ears that hurt after about an hour or so. These were not ported...........

There is a firm on fleabay that alleges its stuff is serviced & cleaned. I had the pleasure of buying from them once (only once) - what arrived took days to clean the rexine (on a smallish head) and a specialist to sort out the disgusting state of the innards (& replace the caps, which needed attention & had clearly not been checked). This is not what I understand 'serviced & cleaned' to mean..... Caveat Emptor, I suppose........

Your living room sockets must have earth/ground connection - does your man-cave stuff earth to the same point? I would unplug (not switch off) everything in the place apart from the amp, and see if that sorted it - then plug stuff back in until the problem starts up again............

Chris Squires mum used to have a home production line of Paisley kipper ties, everyone in Harrow bought them from Rave boutique (I think) in Station Road.........

I, being amazingly old, am going to bed.

I have Crown (v. light) and I have Ormat (naffing heavy) - I know which I prefer to use....... ......heft, that's the thing..........

I know where there is a very shiny Aston DB5 'languishing' in a rusty tin garage.......

S'not quite the same, but I recall playing Free Nelson Mandela to a tentful of pi**ed white South Africans at an annual gig that I'd done forever....I wasn't invited back..... (I wasn't over-sorry, either, there's a limit to the amount of ar*e licking that I want to do....)

I've hung back on this one and the responses have been fairly predictable (that's not a negative btw) - As a sound system I've been fairly used to doing my own lugging around, but for odd big stuff (& I've done some) I've usually bribed one or two over-keen amateurs into helping out..... If I was doing a consistent(ish) workload of 'proper' gigs I would adopt Blues stance of having my 'assistant' as part of the paid gig. It's sometimes a good idea to stand back & look at what you are doing, and why.........

I'm guessing that your ears are reacting badly to the percussive nature of the signals from your playing - think that making sure you wear earplugs when playing might act as a damping factor?

Yup, the first picture is exactly it - I painted her Victoria Plum purple & left the roof that beguiling orange - we called her Clara (what else does one call an old cow?).....I bought it as near scrap lying abandoned in a wholesalers yard in Oxford -

I don't know how much my gig stuff weighed, but I had a six wheel lwb transit as transport, and it sagged on the back end - police drove it one night and nearly didn't make it around a roundabout...I did grin.....

No-one does Aretha quite like Aretha..............

My usual rule of thumb - 'if something sounds wrong - it probably is'

I thought Parcel Monkey were basically an agency? (I might have got that wrong, but if I'm right,PM are not the people to deal with).

Good luck with that - you need proper contracts (used to be a V A F or M U) and likely a visit to the small claims court. If they can't/won't pay, it's very difficult to achieve much........ I don't think the emails will help a lot, but it's better than nothing. Imo, it's simpler (& cheaper) to walk.............

And tonights homework is to learn (and understand) the equation: Barefaced + OrangeMatamp = Heft. QED