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When I was a lad, we didn't have speakers..... sorry, wrong thread. Seriously though, when I studied reliability, the bathtub curve explained it. The diagram below show the likelihood of failure and the longer you use it the more likely a failure BUT. The start of the End of Life failures to the peak can be several years and assuming your blown speaker is at that start, you may get several years from the other one. You might find it blows next gig. However, a new driver could fail in its infant mortality phase at the start.

The venous has Bar Stolls so should be oK. The ligament is not a Cruciate but a Fibular collateral ligament. Thanks for all the advice.

I tore a ligament I. My knee at the weekend and have a gig tomorrow night. I will not be able to stand all night so any advice on how to get through the gig?

As for the B1 Four being great value, I have to agree and would not let mine go. Although I have bought one, I also agree that the B2-4 is priced too high. *Sadly, I have strained a ligament in my right knee, not ideal for testing a stomp box of any sort. I have read the aforementioned Guitar review. I probably won't read his reviews again. It reads like he is a frustrated writer rather than a guitarist. In saying that, he does have some valid points. The screen could be better, but let's be honest, the screen does not affect the sound. Secondly, I agree that the arrow key cluster looks like it is difficult to change with your foot *see above, However I would not want to change banks mid-song and try to arrange patches so that the ones I need are in set list order. I will look at the other points later but will say the that B2-4 is a dedicated Bass multi effects unit whereas the Nux, Valeton and even Helix range are not.

They are quite different on first listen. My feeling was that many of Zoom's patches on the B! On and B1 Four were a bit extreme. The B2 Four has patches emulating the sound used on classic recordings and are much better starting points for your own patches.

I am sorry, I don’t know.

Yes there are four controls like B1Four but, but being black, they hardly show up on photos.

My first impressions Re that the stock patches are a lot more usable than previous Zoom pedals I have owned. No wacky patches that scream, I have effects and I have to I use them. Tge oatcged all have song titles that are fairly easy to guess plus a year and those that I know sound fairly true to the original recording. I like the real foot switches tge paddle ones on the B1 ranges are not ideal for big feet and little stages YMMV. I like the fact that an expression pedal. Can be added but to me the best bit is the connectivity. Real DI out and a Zomm have realised that almost no headphones now come with a 1/4” TRS connector. I addition the headphone out it separate from the mono out. I have only had a few minutes playing through it and have not yet had a chance to go through the software and apps, To those that scoff the moulded polymer case, they are build like brick outhouses and nut B1 Four has done well I’ve 200 gigs without a hiccup. The faux carbon fibre finish is about the same as that on my car dashboard. That is not too convincing but if you are looking at that you should be playing.

No, the preamp is not open source, although I might do one that is soon.

It has been work in progress for far too long, but now I have to finish it.🤒

Horrified to see I am not on the list. So I WILL be there, and as to what I am bringing? From, Basses Fender Aerodyne/Sire Marcus Miller M2 Amps Bugera Veyron M1001/Ashdown Retroglide 800 and possibly home build 500 watt bass head based on one of @passinwind's pre-amp designs. Cabs TBC but one of the LFSys designs. Effects Zoom B2-Four, Zoom B1-Four

Rock n Roll?

Any suggestions how to persuade some old dinosaurs to go IEM?

Where did it come from? What I mean is the component reference i.e. C1-C302 etc.

The GK combos usuallu use 4 OHM dtivers fro memory

Mine was due today but just heard from DHL that it will be the 11th. To think thaty DHL was once tge fastest courier on earth.

I think latency ( more properly called propgation delay) does depend on whet digital paths are selected within a mixer so probably safer to say 2mS. Apart from that and in my experience, about 10-12mS would be OK but then that is as much as I have experienced to date. Adding 12mS to that is probably a daal breaker but I would have to do some tests before making a definitive statement.

In computing this is called the “wet ware”.

When I was a lad in broadcast TV, we had two categories of equipment for news gathering. One was portable, could be used by a single person on the shoulder, the other was transportable. Transportable was a two person lift. The QSC KW153 are a nice speaker but way over the recommend one person lift, in the terms above, transportable. Fine if you have roadies a mechanical handling equipment. To some degree you cannot get away from the fact that big is best but in reality it is the biggest you can manage or get away with sonically.

Bu**er. Had another piece of equipment fail at rehearsal last night so had to do a Thomann order. Guess what accidently slipped into my basket? Zoom B2 Four on its way to Dorset. Hopefully in time for nexr week's gig.

It has an expression pedal input an Zoom do an Expression pedal so it may not come.

The 200W combos are really an MB200 in a cabinet so will be no upgrade. The MB200 or as I call it, the MB170 uses the ICEpower 50ASX2 module, rated at 170W into 4 ohms and 100W into 8 ohms.

ZoomB2 Four now in stock at Thomann. My trigger finder is itching....

I have used elixirs on an acoustic and the drop in tone was not compensated for by the extra longevity. Om my bass I have Rotosound Nexus and they take some getting used too but they look great being black on a black bass but more importantly are easier ad nicer to play once you are used to them. I would buy Nexus again but Elixir do not work for me either.

Nylon is a very good lubricant so would probably avoided the fret wear noted above. When you fret a wound round, the point of contact on both string and fret is quite narrow, although there will be a difference between narrow and jumbo frets. However a wound string is not just a long piece of steel. it is likely that the constant compression caused by fretting compromises the integrity of the wind. So the nylon will both hold the wind together as well a cushioning the impact of string on fret meaning less fret wear. I have three basses, one strung flats, one round and one coated and I realised recently that I use bends and vibrato more with the coated strings.