BigRedX

To the OP. The simplest thing to do is to take the price of the item plus the cost of the shipping and then add 25% to the total. Is it still significantly cheaper than buying from a UK retailer? My rule of thumb for buying from outside the UK is don't unless it is something that is extremely difficult or impossible to get through the manufacturer's standard export channels. IME anything that looks like a bargain compared with the UK price won't once you have added shipping, VAT, import duty and the carrier's handling fee. Also if something should go wrong or it needs to be returned it could end up more hassle than it is worth.

IIRC the threshold at which VAT in particular applies is higher on goods brought back personally as opposed being sent by a delivery service. You need to go on the relevant Gov.uk pages and check what these are.

Are you intending to run both amps at the same time or is the second simply there as quick backup should anything go wrong with the first? If both are going to be on simultaneously you may need to increase the ventilation in the case.

I doubt I'd have recognised Jason Momoa, and if I had it would have been as Aquaman rather than a bass player.

I didn't even recognise the band, and after doing a reverse image search I know why. A band I had zero interest in back in the day and even less now.

If you make a narrower enclosure you will need to put adequate ventilation grills both sides and the back. Take a look at the owners manual for you amp.

Looking at the manual for this amp it appears to be exactly 1U high and requires 4" either side for ventilation which means it may have been designed to fit into a standard 19" rack case. Were rack ears ever available for it?

The unfortunately it's not a rack case, as the format is strictly 19" wide.

Nothing stopping you trying the guitar version. There are usually good reasons for not putting bass guitar through guitar amps at gig volumes but if it's modelling you can't break anything. The worst that can happen is you won't like the sound. Remember that a lot of "classic" bass amps are simply a guitar amp with a different name on the front and maybe the EQ frequencies shifted down. Apart from the Dark Glass pre-amp model, I don't use any bass-centric amps or effects in my patches on the Helix, and I do use a few guitar amp and combo models all of which would probably break if was to use the real thing at gig volumes.

You'd be surprised how many musicians can't even manage this. On the occasions that The Terrortones had to use dep drummers or guitarists, the instruction would be that ideally we'd like them to wear a black leather biker jacket, black T-shirt, black jeans and black boots, but failing that, then a plain black T-shirt and jeans with no obvious visible band or brand logos would suffice and no trainers for the guitarist. The number of people who either couldn't or wouldn't follow this simple instruction was staggering.

You can't hide away in Theory and Technique with your deleted post.

This is exactly what I was going to say.

Is this what you want?

Going to see a new band in a small venue does take me back to more youthful times. Going to see a band who are now just a pale imitation of everything that made them exciting back in the day at some enormo-drome where they are so far away that I would have to rely on the video screens to see them does not.

If you want to relive your youth, go and see some new bands at small venues where you can get up close and personal with them.

New Hurtsfall gigs for October and November: Saturday 5th October as part of the Oxjam Beeston Festival. Hurtsfall are playing at The White Lion at 6.00pm. It's only £11 for a ticket that gets you access to over a 100 acts spread over 17 venues and the money goes to a good cause. Thursday 10th October we're supporting Byronic Sex & Exile at The Chapel at The Angel Microbrewery. Also playing are Jan Doyle Band Tickets £11.55 Tuesday 5th November were's supporting Aurelio Voltaire and Lesbian Bed Death at The Chapel at The Angel Microbrewery. Tickets £19.80 Apparently there are only a few tickets left for this one so get in quick! Saturday 23rd November as part of the In The Bl4ck Midwinter Festival at Shakespeare's in Sheffield. This is a 3 day event from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th. Tickets for the whole weekend are £38.50 and for just the Saturday £22.00 Sunday 24th November as part of the Rock Against Racism weekend at Saltbox In Nottingham Tickets £10 for both the Saturday and Sunday events.

Yes, I've never got why people would like to dress up as if they are about to take a serious hike across the moors in inclement weather just to nip down to the shops or the pub... Or appear on stage with a massively successful band.

No MIDI, which makes it useless for anything I want.

TBH I could probably get away with looking like I was playing and the majority of the audience would be none the wiser. Having said that I don't know what people do to their basses that is likely to make them fail. The only equipment problems I've had in 50 years of playing in bands are a few string breakages, mostly down to faulty manufacturing of the strings and why I never change strings unless I know I'm doing at least 2 rehearsals before I'll be using them at a gig.

From what I've heard the music itself is pretty conventional, it's just the way she's promoting herself that is "modern". 25 years ago she'd have probably ended up briefly in Prince's backing band.

Except that in order to make most gigs worthwhile financially we need to fit the whole band plus our instruments into a single car. It's a good job we don't use any backline because we'd never do it. Personally I'd rather take an extra box of T-Shirts to sell than a back-up bass. And before anyone says that if the band band didn't play we wouldn't sell any merch, you would be surprised. We sold stuff to people who didn't arrive in time to catch any of our set at festival gigs before.

When I try and install it I get a message saying the disc image is corrupted. This is a download from Brave's own web site. Not exactly filling me full of confidence.

Could you provide some YouTube links that don't have 5 minutes of ads in front of them? I supposed that's the price for fame? The only things I could find where I didn't run out of patience before the ads had finished were her and a drummer with some pre-recorded synth noises.

All my band's gigs are paid. The spare basses come out for those where we are being paid more than just expenses and aren't local. I check all my gear between gigs and practices and luckily I've never needed to use the spare for the Hooky at an actual gig. But where do you draw the line with backup equipment? I notice that although plenty of people on here have a backup amp very few have backup cabs and IME cabs are far more likely to fail than amps. And what about the PA? I turned up at a gig on Friday at 4.30 expecting to load in and sound check only to find the house PA in bits and the engineer frantically rewiring things. It took until 7.30 before he even got a sound out of it, and we didn't get to set up and sound check until 9.00pm, and after all that the sound for the most part was appalling, I felt embarrassed to be on stage, and TBH wished that the PA problems had turned out to be terminal so we could have all gone home instead. Sometimes you just have to accept that technical issues have conspired against you.

She's attractive albeit in a fairly conventional way, although generally conventional is more palatable for mainstream success than anything even vaguely extreme. She knows how to make the most of her image which I can see will upset a forum of mostly middle-aged men many of whom wouldn't know an image if it slapped them around the face and seemingly most of the time can barely dress themselves. The music itself is the problem because from what I've heard IMO it's the sort of thing that mostly appeals to other musicians, and the sorts of pseuds that think a bit of showy technical ability is more important than having a memorable tune, and again the majority of these are men. And good on her if she's been able to persuade Fender into making her a signature bass. I'm sure that there's plenty of people on here who would like a (free) signature instrument from their favourite manufacturer. What happens next will depend on what she wants to do. I can imagine that after being a TikTok/Instagram/YouTube star, joining a gigging band might be a bit of a come-down.