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[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1446227462' post='2897977'] I didn't know AMPBand provided cover for any sea creatures.... [/quote] Well, when you're talking about pubic liability, the topic can stray a bit.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1413565944' post='2579712'] ... and may continue to do without, hoping to never have to need any of the services. One may hope; that's free. [/quote] Depends which bit you're referring to; I hope you're not listing MU merchandise as an "advantage"? Some of the more useful benefits listed such as PLI are available elsewhere for less than MU membership with PLI for free. As for advice and support I gave up ringing the MU for contracts advice years ago as I always got contradictory advice, I even charged a ridiculous sum for a session once on the specific advice of the union, then when the client told me to f-off I rang the union and got a totally different answer to the same question about how much I should have charged... tbh it's sometimes been more of an impediment than a help. The chap on the end of the phone is always super-friendly, that's nice. Someone asked about a PLI certificate from the MU, yes you get a proper document certifying you're covered for £10m. I'm wondering about going with Ampband for £49, and losing the £40 discount on my instrument insurance. I'd be £110 better off, which is why I'm looking at that list of benefits and thinking hard about which of them actually apply to me. It might work for you, but personally I'd find it a bit late to start with careers advice and training! If you regularly do theatre work or school teaching I think it's probably more useful. If I go further into why the MU is largely irrelevant to me this'll become a whole other discussion, but in short it seems best suited to regular gigs with an employer, where "salaries" and "pensions" and such exciting stuff can be argued about; a freelance "bar rocky jazz-head" (as someone recently described me), doesn't really experience such pleasures! The long and short of PLI is that if I did injure someone by clonking them with my bass headstock or dropping a speaker on their foot etc. I'd want to be able to do right by them, and I certainly couldn't do that out of my earnings.

[quote name='Balcro' post='1055891' date='Dec 12 2010, 12:04 PM']From looking at the Eminence .pdf and at usspeaker.com, it would suggest that this unit is mainly intended for use in multiples. The latter suggests it would be good in an Ampeg 8x10. On it's own it will be loud but not stunningly loud. Only 100w power handling. There's also an 8 ohm version available. Balcro.[/quote] OK - I think I'll probably go for a high sensitivity neo PA driver instead then. Thank you for the reply.

Eminence BP102-4 Anyone have a cab using one or more of these? If so, any opinions? I'm intending to make a 1x10" cab to use with 250-300W amps, not intending to use extension cabs therefore 4ohms. It's rated at a rather weak hifi-esque 90.5dB/W/m but I've compared the freq curve to speakers rated at 98-99 and most of the usable frequencies are only 2-3dB down, and there's a big dip in the 500-2k range, which I normally filter down with EQ or an unorthodox crossover that leaves a dip to compensate for where a speaker tends to "honk" (often around 2-2.5k). A higher sensitivity speaker wouldn't be effectively any more useful if the gains were in that middle range where I'd just have to get more creative to filter those frequencies out... If the consensus is that it kicks out plenty of welly per given watts then I'll get one.

Got the replacement diaphragm as mentioned above for £15, fitting it is as easy as something unimaginably easy, and hey presto, working tweeter. Thanks for the replies!

Hey thanks for the reply! 25H273 - yes that's the one. The cab looks fairly old, it's a Goliath III and the horn looks the same as the one I had in a Goliath 2x10 I bought in 2004. Also the same as I have in an Ampeg 410HE I bought in about 1992! I found a replacement at Thomann, and a couple of suppliers in the US - but knowing what happens when customs get hold of a package from the US, I'm not keen on that option, especially as Parcelforce add another £8 charge for what they call "handling". What I might do is get a replacement diaphragm - e.g. [url="http://speaker-repairs.co.uk/shop/diaphragm/n30.html"]http://speaker-repairs.co.uk/shop/diaphragm/n30.html[/url] - unless someone tells me it's a risky thing to get into. I've done many speaker repairs, including the odd re-cone and re-foam, all successful I hasten to add, but never done a tweeter yet. It's £15 rather than about £40+post from Thomann.

I've been given an SWR 4x10 with some blown drivers - one of them being the horn - I tried the horn from my ampeg 4x10 in it (looks identical) and it works fine. So I'm wondering where I can get it as a spare, or if there's anything commonly available that would fit. In another bass speaker that didn't originally have a horn I fitted an APT150 - works superbly but in the SWR there isn't space for the large rectangular horn. I could fit an APT80 in there (same driver) but I think the dispersion probably isn't as good, and the flare is a bit too small so I'd have to make up a plate for it to go on. The best solution is if I can find the correct horn - any ideas? PS - the flare is 110mm square, the hole the driver fits through is a 95mm circle.

Servisol - seems expensive but you don't use it that often so a can will last years.

I reinstalled it all, it's the same. The amp comes up as "new hardware" on teh desktop but the editor doesn't seem to know it's there. The first menu has upload and download, clicking these results in "you must be connect first!" - yes, the amp's on and connected. When I open a saved patch the upload and download options are greyed out. Both options on the "action" menu (a misnomer if you ask me!) are greyed out. The midi control tool is the only thing so far that's recognized the amp - it comes up on the midi device field, but as I mentioned the EQ patches aren't being transferred.

Thanks tauzero - I tried USB and the PC wouldn't recognise the amp at all, so I used a midi cable and then at least the amp came up as a "midi device". Via USB nothng happened at all - the amp didn't appear as an external drive or anything, simply the same effect as not plugging it in at all. I did set the switch on the back for USB or midi by the way (took me a while to notice it!) I'll try reinstalling the editor.

It's good that they didn't make a fuss - in that sense things could have been worse. But the point is, did you end up with something you can't use? Interestingly (well, only a bit interestingly...) mine squeals on one of the speaker outputs, but as I mentioned it's at a frequency on the edge of my hearing - dB-wise it might be quite loud but to me it sounds about the same volume as the mains hum, which isn't too terrible. On the other output it's totally quiet. The first amp I got was horrendous - a really loud square-wave boiling kettle! ...though it didn't occur to me at the time to try both outputs. Totally different issue - I can't get the PC editor to send EQs to the amp. I midi it up to the PC and send EQs on channel 1, click "send" and the patch number comes up on the amp, but the EQ LEDs go flat (i.e. all a t 0dB), and there's no audible EQ. My interest in the software EQ is to change the centre frequencies and bandwidths - e.g. to set the lowest one as a rumble filter, and to get a couple of good "honk" filters in the middle. So far no luck with that. Has anybody else used the software EQ?

"Ashdown were very helpful in trying to fix it. I just wasn't happy with the end result." - If they were helpful but you still ended up with a squealing amp then in what way were they helpful? I just got the replacement today - so far so good. No square-wave boiling kettle. It does squeal but only very quietly, and somewhere around 15k, so it only sounds to me about the same level as the rest of the (quite significant) noise. Anyway, not enough to spoil a gig. And in every other way it sounds great.

Ashdown are sending me a replacement direct. Only remains to be seen (heard?) whether it works...

The Tascam's pretty good. The slowing down thing's a bit crude, it simply chops up the audio and pastes it all back together slower... with the resulting chopped-up-ness in the sound, but still good enough to use.