Chienmortbb

I blame Trump!

Fans get a bad rap but without them our heads ( amps not real heads) would be much bigger and heavier. On the ESP Audio Pages it is reckoned that a well placed fan can improve heat dissipation by 4 times. So the heatsink could be reduced in size and weight to 1/4 of passively cooled heatsinks. Many of the amps I see have less that ideal fan cooling. I have just got a Mesa D800 and the fan in that is always on but very quiet. I have yet to use it at a gig or rehearsal though. The truth is that if you want small and light, you need fan assisted cooling.

Thanks, when something hacks you off it is easy to slip into cliches or sound bites so in order to clarify: The Office of Budget Responsibility, the UK Government’s financial watchdog calculates that leaving the EU cost us 4% of GDP that would be somewhere between £20-30 billion. For me I pay more VAT (UK is 20%, Germany is 19%), twice the paperwork as well as a customs processing fee.

Panasonic UK developed a system over the years that worked well, not perfectly but well. Head office in Osaka Japan decided all subsidiaries should go to SAP. The result back to paper for 69% of processes. Total chaos for three months by which time many got hacked off and left.

Nothing lasts any more🤪

This is a way to reduce the life of your amp. A better fan will reduce the noise, and it is unlikely that the fan fitted to your amp is the best. However, most "low noise fans" achieve the low noise level, at least in part, by reducing the fan voltage and hence the speed. This also reduces the air flow.

Not too shabby at all.

As would be a ban on multiple bass drivers!

I would not trust non-soldered cables. I must however declare an interest in that I make and sell cables.

Only just seen the later posts on here. Earthing or incorrect earthing should not have any effect on his, it would/could reduce hum.

Although the amp can accept either a latched or momentary foot switch, you would have to turn around to look at the status on the amp front panel. As long as you check the setting on the amp prior to starting, the foot switch LED will indicate which functions are selected.

Agreed.

Keyboards are a no no for me. Tried three times, but they were all convinced that the band was about them, as was the whole audio spectrum.

You'd get arrested for carrying that on the street.

You beat me too it Dood.

A PLEK'd bass is set up to a set of parameters, these may or may not suit your playing style. Of course, this can also be the case with a luthier, unless they insist in a particular set of setup figures.

Fewer people to disagree with too?

No, but if the underlying tech behind any navigation i do is Google, I probably would not use it for travel to the Gulf of Mexico.

I should say that in my band there are two dinosaurs, and they are the two youngest. It might take a giant meteor crash to get us to a trio very quickly.

I have always shied away from reverb live as I was old early on in my bass adventure that is just helped muddy the sound. Unusually for me, I never questioned it. Any comments?

Duck Duck Go works well as a search engine and does not track you. I have long considered Google the evil empire.

More and more venues are seem to line smaller bands/acts and I recently came across a venue only licensed for up to three performers. Oit five piece is struggling in many ways at the moment but even before the current problems, we list gigs either because of the size of our fee or we were too big. We could drop out fee as a three piece and still make more money but I would need to do more singing. Has anyone else slimmed down this way and what were your experiences?

@bigthumb I feel for you. A year ago we had a stable band, the rhythm guitarist was not the best, but we’re were gigging and getting repeat bookings. The aforementioned guitarist, a heavy smoker, had a heart attack and had gone from barely adequate to … well let’s just say he has got worse. The lady gfeee gigs of 24 were not our best as the great of us dreaded gigs, the last practice at the beginning of January was really hard work. The gig has dried up, first booking in 2025, May and we have about 5 gigs confirmed. All the band know the problem and it might mean reforming under different name. The question is. Who acknowledges the elephant in the room? I think it has to be the poor old bassist that either drops the grenade or leaves. Anyway good luck in your quest to re-form the band.

I commented on another member's comments about how hard it is now to ship things in and out of the UK, and said it was due to Brexit. I was then accused of being political. Can you confirm the position? As someone that imports things from the EU, I know what Brexit has done to business and that is not politics it is counting, and I have the invoices and customs fees and shipping delays to prove it.