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[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1405671024' post='2504128'] ...if I need more bottom end I'll just have to add a 1 x 15. [/quote] There will be someone along in a minute to disabuse you of this notion

Coin-operated PP3 battery dispenser for the guitarist's use.

Surely that's just an oscillator fed into a delay unit. An oscillator circuit is an easy project build, even if you don't use a VHS case for the housing! The NE555 has been around for years ([url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ne555n-timer-qh66w"]Maplin[/url] flog them for 99p) and there are loads of simple application circuits to be found online.

Ventilation. Or put your double post in the gap

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1405630365' post='2503931'] There is an often told story about a Family man bass lesson. Can`t remember who it was but they turned up all excited at Astons door, ready to soak up all the knowledge that the great man would share. They knocked the door, Aston opened the door and said "Nothing above the 5th fret!" and closed the door. A true story allegedly [/quote] I wonder how he managed to play 'I Shot the Sheriff' then - that goes up to the Eb at the 8th fret on the G string!

Dunlop 1.14mm in purple.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1405538606' post='2502907'] Then they get in an ensemble situation and wonder why they are not audible and keep upping the level to get heard. I don't think bassists do so much of that. [/quote] No, not much! Surely the topic of a thousand Basschat threads...

If there is music playing while I am falling asleep, I can 'see' the pitches of the instruments a bit like that.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1405427314' post='2501777'] Wait til you play guitar in a band. Then all that same sh*t you go through with bass will happen. You'll notice one string doesn't cut through and you'll be dicking about for ages trying to solve that problem. You'll notice your gorgeous cleans don't have the right mids to cut through the band and crap like that. [/quote] This. Plus you 'need' more guitars for different types of gig. I have ended up spending on average £1800 per guitar (and about the same for my gigging amp, and not far off that for my pedalboard) to be in a position where I am confident of sounding great on any gig. The cost of achieving the same goal on bass has actually been much [i]less[/i] per item.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1405429162' post='2501800'] I have found myself playing with some very talented musicians the past few days. It has given me a crisis of confidence, but the work I have put in since Saturday has been more than I have in the last 3 or 4 months if I'm honest. I had become complacent and meeting really talented new people has stuck a rocket up my backside to up my game. Improving is entirely within our own control. [/quote] There's nothing like playing with people from a higher league when it comes to improving.

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1405425670' post='2501757'] I won't promise, but I'll try to get there. Dunno what I'd bring, I haven't got anything that interesting or exclusive. [/quote] You'd be surprised - what seems unexceptional to one person might be fascinating to another. Plus, people always like to compare, in which case the 'uninteresting' bass or amp becomes a handy bench-mark. Also I venture to suggest that [i]you[/i] are unique. These bash thingies are mainly about meeting people. So yes, please come if you can

[quote name='mike_b' timestamp='1405067456' post='2498418'] Not sure if you did manage to get this sorted but there has been a known issue with the MiBass heads, mine gave up the ghost too, get in contact with Andertons and they'll be able to fix it for you as I bought mine from them too [/quote] Well there is a bit of an update as it happens. I have just returned from a long weekend in Madrid, and took along a test meter and a soldering iron. First off, the 'wrong' internal speaker had been fitted, namely a 250W 4ohm driver. There are obviously 2 problems with this: (1) too much amp power for the internal speaker, and (2) too low an impedance if an extension cab is added. Second, there was an intermittent short in the internal speaker cable. I replaced the cable, and the combo now works fine (although I wouldn't want to push it to gig levels). I have been in touch with Lee at Ashdown through this forum, and it is a bit of a mystery to him as to where the 4ohm speaker has come from - not least as one of the stickers on it proclaims it to be a 12-inch unit! He has very kindly offered to send out an 8ohm replacement, for which I am very grateful. It is testament to the roadworthiness of Ashdown kit that the 250W internal speaker has survived a 320W pasting unscathed; and that the head has undergone repeated shorts across the speaker output and still works fine. That's sturdiness of Peavey-esque proportions!

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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1404766655' post='2495593'] I don't bother buying or selling on BC anymore. Too many 'this is just a feeler...........' for me. Despite it's shortcomings i'll stick to eBay thanks. [/quote] Oh wait, you're serious

'No longer available'. Somebody must have come up with the $40,000 then

Hey! Don't diss my bro Will.I.Am!