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So first job, get the original speaker out. Quick job with a drill with screwdriver attachment!

First job, find a speaker! Bit of a google found the replacement speaker that Thomann sold for the HBW80 which is 4ohms, 50 watts and about 26 euros. So on amazon i found a Pyle PPA12 on amazon - 200 watts RMS, 8ohms and £33.33 which is an odd number, but hey...

After much mucking about with DIs, headphones and wires trailing across my living room, I've worked out that the thing that i don't like about my HBW80 amp, is the speaker. It actually makes a really good guitar amp with some drive in front, which suggests its too mid-rangey and bright. It farts out with not masses of bass and needs the treble turned down pretty much all the way! I wonder if they actually put a guitar speaker in by accident! So i decided to change the speaker....

Two. The one I mostly play and the first one I got. Which I still play sometimes so it doesn't get sad. I get attached and anthropomorphise things a lot... I don't think I could cope with having lots of basses, I think instruments die if they don't get played...

I keep mine in a neoprene zippy case thing that i got from Staples when i bought a compaq netbook (titchy laptop!) yonks ago... You can still get the cases (not in staples, i don't think it still exists!) rebranded as being for tablets. Also - beware... i keep saying i'm going to sell mine and then i get exactly the sound i was looking for out of it. I think it listens....

Just heard Ed flipping Sheeran on the radio and the UK lost all its points...

Me too... Within Temptation, Epica, And obvs Nightwish. All together now! OOOOOHHH HOW I WEEEEEEEEEEEESH FOR SOOTHING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNN!!!

Lead bass, rhythm bass, and um, bass bass. Can't see the problem...

The thing is... (White) America never got over the 1950s.. which means they keep re-inventing rock 'n' roll. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. It gave us the Stooges and Guns 'n' Roses. England (deliberately used) has never got over the 1960s which means we end up with stupidness like Britpop, Blur, Oasis and the assumption that jangly guitars held high, shaking your head and going 'yeah yeah woo' is a work of musical genius... My vote goes to Black America. Proper blues, motown, p-funk, disco, rap, house... Disco and rap are pretty much the foundation of 21st century pop. Oh yeah, and metal = Finland for me...

Oh, that's good!

Piers Morgan howling about Greg's doing vegan sausage rolls... I dunno, maybe the band in question had been being Richards for a while and this was the last straw. Bit like the news stories around the last time we were blowing up bits of the middle east that were all 'muslims complaining about the English flag!!' And it turned out it was so much the flag as it was the constant abuse and harassment by the flag's owners... And yay, there's nearly enough of Us to do my idea of an all-trans Ramones tribute band called 'The Tramones'!

Anyone watch last night's Last Leg? They had a 'party band' on as they'd been planning a sort of leaving do for something or other... Had to laugh though, the guitarist had 2 kempers and a pedal board the size of Heathrow airport. The bassist had a p-bass and a di box...

Well, actually... Micky J used to sing all the parts acapella in demo versions because he didn't play any instruments:

HAHa! I know... I have literally spent whole days on TV tropes..

Anyone else feel a bit... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RightBehindMe

I think he needs a longer strap...

www.youtube.com/funnysongsorelse

Ish.. Duo with guitar and singing and backing tracks, but mostly video recorded live. Plus a lot of general mucking about in my living room.. I've made some nice guitar patches too, generally using the Bassman and a 4x12 cab with the SM57 turned up. It takes a bit of imaginative drive pedal layering but it works...

I'd be gouging out my eardrums..

That's pretty cool! What's the pre-amp you're using? I'm just about getting to grips with my B3n after about a year...

Slightly sneaking in under the 25 years, i love Metallica S&M, the orchestra just adds an epicness. I know lots of 'fans' hate it, but they probably also downloaded it off Napster so can bum off. I watch a lot of live stuff on youtube now - Muse live at 2018 Rock in Rio is pretty awesome... See also St Vincent - still super slick but i like there being extra band members and dressing up. What's the point of being in a band if you don't get to dress up?!

Latest iteration... For those 'don't know if i want to use the B3n' moments, plus OCDily flipping back and forth between amps - The A/B/Y pedal goes into the B3n input and the AUX, so the B3N is effectively bypassed And its also a sneaky way of getting a clean blend if i switch to Y mode...

One of the things I find the most interesting on this thread is the extra pedals people choose to use with multi-effects....

A self powered PA speaker, set flat.

I'm probably more likely to use mine live than drag an amp actually..! Just going from the fact that pretty much every gig i've been to, i've had to suggest that the person standing in front of me shuts the funk up so i can hear the actual band... Even when its bastardingly loud! Clearly audiences don't give a toss and go to gigs for somewhere to yak loudly about football or how many times they've seen the band before (and talked all the way through presumably)...!