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This.....

Yeh that was another factor. The 32mm height didn't quite go under the pedalboard either but the 30mm height cheaper one was fine

I think the finish is called Burnt Apple.....its pretty rare

30mm according to the advert - its stuck under my pedalboard now I looked at this one too but it was bigger and did more than i really needed - its 32mm high https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Fame-DC8-Multi-Power-Supply/art-GIT0038973-000

I recently grabbed one of these Fame ones and it seems pretty good so far - no noise and nice and compact. Oh and a proper kettle lead rather than an adaptor too :-) https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Fame-DC-Junior/art-GIT0040359-000?campaign=PSM_UK/kelkoo&ProgramUUID=MrLAqJarZEUAAAFobL.P7Dz7

Cheers buddy - much appreciated! I never get stressed really in the band - we all know what we're doing from load in to load out and i don't tighten up when i'm playing. My gear isn't heavy either. I had a car crash about 12 years ago and the doc said i would suffer a bit when i'm older so i think its just that along with a job that requires me to be stuck in a car for the large part of a long day. I can just imagine telling the guys that they'll have to unload the van whilst i do my stretches for 30 mins :-) but i'll have a go and see what happens.

I'm 55 and there isn't a single bit of me that doesn't hurt after a gig. I'm ok thru the gig but it usually starts with my lower back during pack down and escalates from there. By the time i arrive home i have to chisel myself out of the car. My thighs, shoulders and more lately my hands will be killing me. And it takes 24hrs to recover. I'm just resigned to being old and broken but will keep at it as long as i can. Getting old is poopy.......

I haven't experienced very many 'bad' gigs but there are 2 that immediately come to mind. One was a new one in a bar in Hertford - the gig was fine but as soon as we finished at midnight it seemed like 300 kids came in and completely blocked any way out. We just physically couldn't get our gear out, the staff were absolutely useless and didn't help in any way. If they had just cleared a small route out we could have been done in 30 minutes. Finally got away at 2am after fighting through rugby scrums with the gear. They were trying to rebook us on the night but we declined their kind offers! The other one was a local to me pub. There were a couple of drunk and aggressive blokes in there when we arrived and they just got worse as the night went on. They were crashing around everywhere knocking punters over and spent plenty of time staring me out too. There was also a drunk girl who kept jumping up onstage and groping the guitarist while he was trying to play. I could feel my temper rising but kept it under wraps until about half an hour from the end. (the landlord just kept filling them up with more drink - he had no interest in sorting the issues out). I just stopped playing mid song, everything ground to a halt and I took the mic and announced nothing more was going to happen until the landlord had kicked the idiots out. Took about 10 more minutes to sort them out but we got there in the end. We cancelled the 4 future gigs there on the way out......

We use an old GoPro Hero and a gorilla clip/mount. Copes with low light well and has built in sound compression to deal with volume fluctuation - it works pretty well for us. And it's beer proof and drop proof in its little plastic case thing. The added bonus is you can stick it pretty much anywhere - on the guitar headstock, PA speaker handles, anywhere in the venue where you can get the gorilla stand to clip to really.... And sometimes we just chuck it out into the crowd for them to go walkabout with - they usually bring it back and we've had some 'interesting' footage from that. Here's a crowd shot video from a low light and loud gig a while ago - I wouldn't trust any of this lot with an iPhone and mic.....

I think they're cut only from wide open

A used Sandberg or a used G&L L2000 would be my pick 😊

Spot on... One extra box with a small footprint, one lead, 1 minute getting a kick level and sound, half a verse of Rosalie and we're good to go.

We use a Mackie SW1501 powered sub with a pair of old Peavey UL12 Black Widow tops with a Peavey XR1220 powered mixer at every gig. Vocals and kick drum and occasionally snare and a couple of overheads at louder gigs. A couple of Barefaced cabs and a gutsy amp usually fools the audience into thinking i'm through the PA so i don't bother running through it unless its a really big room. The sub really adds to a big drum sound and it would be hard to play without it now. Everything builds from the drums at soundcheck and i can sit the bass in nicer with a good kick sound.

We try to be a bit lean about wasting time or cash on rehearsals. We do about 6 rehearsals a year roughly. Its a rock covers band and we're doing about 55 gigs a year on average so rehearsals are only to whip a few new songs into shape rather than tidy current stuff up (a couple of gigs covers that bit). We pick about 6 songs at a time about a month before a date is set, send WhatsApp video/audio round to everyone so we're all listening to the same version and then wait for the singer to agree he's OK to sing them after a few days of him practicing them alone (so the key is good for his voice and he's comfy with the idea of the song). At that point the other guys learn their bit at home - this is so there are no surprises at a rehearsal after you've put time into learning songs. We always book 2 rehearsals within a week of each other so everything gets finished properly and make sure we gig any new songs immediately at the next couple of gigs to bed them in (or kick them out if they bomb live). We'll know within 10 minutes at a rehearsal if the song works for us and we're brutal about it - if anyone's feeling weird about it we bin it and move on. Of the 6 songs we would expect to get 3/4 results from them over the 2 rehearsals.

It will do exactly that fattening up thing. It'll add weight to the notes as well as volume compared with a 'normal' class D amp

Me neither.....until i had an ABM600. Totally different animal to the older ABM stuff. Its not all pillow and whumpf - you can get sparkle and definition out of it. You're welcome to try my Quilter if you're ever local to me.

I think the power stage is the difference - all the other class D's I've had just get shoutier as you push them (Gallien, Genz, Mark Bass). Loads of noise but they lose their definition and push. The Quilter doesn't - it just stays clean and and warm. Its probably closer to an Ashdown ABM600 in terms of sound.

Its the sound more than the size. I've had loads of class D heads and this is the only one I've found that has proper slam to the sound - its got real girth,warmth and shake to it. Slightly unusual controls but after you've spent 10 minutes tinkering with it everything becomes easy to understand and dial in quickly. Its a bit treble shy but it's stupidly loud whilst staying clear and just getting bigger as you crank it up. I love my BB800. Oh and it fits in the front of a gig bag too....😉

Its appalling! 😂 High quality my donkeys bottom....

Yep - we wont do them. Our singer can set them off without a PA!!!!

Yeh try the Warwick Red Stainless ones. I prefer DR Hi Beams or Dunlop Super brights but the Warwicks are half the price and not far off sound/longevity wise for me. I get about 3 sweaty gigs a set from them and i like zingy strings.

And another one here....singist had a bad throat that night though