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We recently took our old powered Peavey floor wedges to the guy one of a Guitarists uses for setups in Surbiton ... turns out he has a little sideline in amp repair mainly older stuff , as sadly no-one wants to be told you need to replace the whole Integrated PCB... for much the same price as a new one . The thing was making farting noises at volume , i'd guessed the whole speaker was delaminating .. turns out the tweeter was blown , He replaced it with a similarish size one .... but also remarked it used to be easy to get peavy spares to order/ find like for like but instead had to scrounge one from his " bits"

Interestingly I've seen that as a major issue with Pirate we rehears at earlsfield ... its a great space until ..... anything breaks , or something is forgotten or you need a spare . They dont have anyone to ask or to loan out at all I understand staffing costs and the 24 hour nature of the place but a vending machine that sold Jack cables, XLR / power cables and picks would go such a long way. We have these at the office for self serve so they definatly exist .. Instead you sit on hold on the phone and they cant help you ... The suggestion to knock on some doors and ask if anyone wasn't using all of theirs didn't amount to much ... who answers the door mid Solo. 🙂

Don't forget the old smoothie ... Arguably the best of the bunch , 😛 im not Bias at all gov This is the 40th Anniversary "Old Smoothie" StingRay, A reproduction of StingRay prototype #26, with a custom 2 band , wider custom humbucker , where the pole pieces are adjacent to Strings rather than directly under them , but uses the modern profile 42.5mm neck rather than the vintage slightly more narrow one from the "classic's" Basically a less barky stingray that can get pretty close to a P bass thump when you need it to

funnily enough I reached out to Andertons for an update on monday " i got radio silence " I will be giving them a call next week ...

I would really try to find a older used CMD121p Combo, I went down this route for a long time before I moved to an ampless setup , The cmd121p is perfectly loud enough for a 50-100 person gig... at perfectly giggable stage level volume with just the combo part ... but you can send a XLR line out to the PA for even more volume ... Or add any cheap ... or matching cab later down the line to use the full 500 watts of the Little mark head unit. I'm not sure what they are going for used these days £350 - 400 ? But would foot the bill

That is significantly better than i'm getting out of mine , I suspect there's variation on pickup tone / position to i'm guessing you gave this the best possible scenario ... Good strong neck pickup tone ? I'd have loved to hear it bypassed to see how much its sucking out of your tone... I do agree though there's a lot of problems that come from being able to hear your sympathetic strings , creating a chorus effect , even when im using the Anagram my solution has been " volume" .... the issues disapeer at rehearsal + levels of sound when you cant hear your unplugged at all.

Obviously im comparing an Apple to a Bowl of marks and sparks Organic overpriced fruit .... but i've previously A/B it against the pitchshifter in my Anagram .. Its quite bad ...

A Fair shout ... but at this this price point ... your weekend warrior has more options than ever ... this combo amp is the price of a shitbox car , but it feels to me that they could have liked to have seen a version of their "500" or " 750" head not a 300 model. Hopefully we see some people with the claws on A/B it against a like priced seperate setup.

I'm just not sure if id bother lugging that bloody bastard around for it's 300 watts .. it's a vibe for sure but I think they mention in the video that you can't put a expansion cab on it and kts tuned for the full power out of it's setup. It's going to fall into the too small to gig without pa support and too expensive to make sense for smaller players .

While The little screws undo ... ( small security torx ), they did not seem to loosen the mounted connector inside the unit , some of the cables also appear to be hot glued to the PCB meaning while others are on fan header type connectors , it means Theres very little room to work , it was at that point I decided to cut my losses and take it back .

Unfortunately, when I took the back of to try this very thing .... it seems on this EV PA and apparently many current model PA's the backs of the Connectors are fully enclosed. I confirmed this with the Andertons Rep , as i was hoping to avoid dragging the thing down there . I fear it may be the whole amp module that they have to change to repair this issue 😐

Because it's funny , because it's friday and because the basschat community is always looking out for other bass players who might fall for some kind of scam .. This smells a tad off ... and sadly It won't be the first one in the industry nor the last , To me it sounds like this person needs a performing musician but doenst want an equal member of a group , totally fine ... but perhaps doesn't want to pay directly them for that time instead ... with equity in a company ....the corpo equivilant of exposure ;-). " Who knows what " crazy terms could be including in contracts as part of "Reclusiarch Records Ltd co" . .... " ... I for one am not interested in paying imperial Tithe ... a heretic like me .... they'd have get the "HEAVY" flamer out .. ( Warhammer joke)

I don't think anyone can really be sure until it's all opened up , right now the release button is not releasing the XLR ... we have two identical cables and Cabs one for each side , EV's and Andertons brand "Rean" XLR's ... one side released fine the other is stuck in the cab. The XLR release presses the xlr budges a bit towards you but the cable will not , no matter what you do come out, The google based " wisdom of the internet" Suggests using a poor quality cable could cause this sort of issue but could equally be a failed coupling release . Either way Andertons have both and when i go to collect I expect to get the XLR back for " Analysis "

I suspect that Andertons might argue .... That at a maximum of "6 weeks" is a reasonable repair time, for an item to be shipped back to a supplier ... repaired then shipped back .... The provision of a loaner for any gigs is removing my " inconvenience". Thank you for the info, good ammo to have if the repair drags on or i have problems post repair getting a loaner I will definately be citing this and getting shirty.. I fully intend to take a test XLR with me when i collect the thing ... if there's any signs of tightness or problems i will kick off, suggesting they have just removed the offending Andertons cable and returned it to me ... Do we have any recommendations for "FULL spec compliant" ... known good XLR Neutranic compliant cable ... I've never experienced problems before with anything good bad ... but i feel like i'm going to be significantly more careful with what i put it in from now on. I'm also considering twin cables .... E.G https://www.terralec.co.uk/audio_leads/audio__power_cable_dual_xlr_and_iec_combined__various_lead_lengths/35769_p.html

Shouldnt be " cheap cables ... i very very much doubt that andertons could take that line as the cable itself is Andertons own ... so they couldnt exactly blame it https://www.andertons.co.uk/stagg-nmc3r-male-to-female-xlr-Rean-3m/ I did look up the terms on their site and they are quite clear , our chap in audio was able to stretch to a bit past the 30 for goodwill but at double that .... I suspect its more than his necks worth

Tearing down after our third Gig with our new EV ZX G2 PA , After a pretty decent by all accounts gig Saturday evening , One Guitarist is working the left im on the right ... he comes over, "ERR cant get the cable out of the PA" I suspect a case of feeble guitarist hand is to blame but indeed the XLR cable is Stuck fast ... no amount of twisting cajoling pressing and releasing etc will help. I mutter much profanity at it but its closing on 1 am, so I wrap it up like Pig in a blanket ( long XLR cable ) to deal with sunday at home .. NO luck , I take the panel off and see if i can access the back , of course the neutranic connectors are totally sealed units .... I try every form of prying and even sculpting tools imagine really sharp lock picks (pinched off my other halfs desk), I give up and decide to call Andertons , They agree that there's not more to be done by me so it's going to have to go back to EV for replacement/repair. The pro audio manager , while very torn can't just swap it out especially as i've binned all the boxes etc its 50 odd days old and yes its been turned on 6 or so times is brand new visually ... from the store's POV he has to send it back to EV, our issue is they quote an up to 6 week return window we have gigs in feb. On a positive customer service note from our Andertons man , He has arranged a loaner unit for me for any gigs ,( not something i was aware Andertons could do) Including any last minute bookings , should we get to squeaky bum time, I can head down ( im 20 mins away) he will pull one from stock , Very good of him and had me feeling like they definitely gave a crap. Anyone experienced this sort of thing .... im now worried about our other unit ... is the solution to buy some super high end Short XLR's "tails" and daisy chain long cables ... to avoid cheap connectors ?

In our household have poor precedent for names ... but like @WinterMute suggests that TS Elliott would argue that a cat would never tell. Our first cat was called Catbert ... after the Dilbert comics " evil director of human resources " We now Have , Sebastian and Ryan ... who are ginger brothers ... and Misha who is a Huge white Siberian forest cat ... ( "Misha russian for little bear) Do you want to go with a music related name ... maybe " capo" ... because its always in the way when you dont need it but never around when you do 😉

Interesting , i wonder if the heat issue is why they went " G2" .. on the EV's ... i've not noticed any heat issues whatsoever ... usually feel stone cold at teardown after a 3 hour gig , but it is winter and while the stages are warm im a sweaty bugger while performing combo of nerves and frantic dancing around, the venue's usually aren't .. I'm not sure we need anymore bass out of ours if i'm honest ... 😮 ... We used a set of the equivalent ( identical looking) Mackie thumps this NYE as we rocked up the venue and they were already mounted up on the stage in the only suitable place to run them .... soundchecking them our guitarists were complaining that they were having to adjust all their EQ's it was " TOO bassy " ( the mackies were set to live ) which looked to be the most Flat response from their 4 EQ presets. I was told we sounded great and it felt good on stage but even i decided to turn my cab sim off as the bass with it on was quite thunderous in the smallish venue in uxbridge.

Were totally in love as a band with our new EV's we went with a pair of EV ZLX 15P G2's were running full band , fully ampless with mic'd drums into it and it doesn't bat an eyelid ... were playing pretty loud punk rock shows and they are run at +2 the thing goes to from -12 +12 , We've totally kicked the idea of Subs to the kerb as if were playing anything we'd have venue front of house. Its got all 3 flavours of Modular , Darkglass , Quad cortex and the new fender Tonemaster , stuff.

Thank you for the offer but I ended up taking it to the recycling centre on the clean up for Xmas , I felt bad but its been recycled at least.... we're using the surviving one as a side fill as it's got a smaller footprint than our current wedges.

I bought a "cheap" classic vibe p bass to play my own wedding over in Latvia to save me travelling with my ray , Sometimes, Ive taken it to gigs which need two tunings .. and a quick swap. The last time I We giggled I didn't swap I retuned the p to standard and kept going as it sounded immense .. I was quite literally dancing with another woman Infront of my rather outraged .. Stingray .. ... Even the photos look like I'm having more fun. I'm considering doing it again ... Especially as I've now got an anagram which removes the need for two basses as the pitch shifter is great....Send help or a good divorce lawyer

I actually use a old cheap Noise gate pedal to do this for my own personal Bass Mix ,into my IEM's headphone amp you might have one laying around to save you buying the behringer one. but its super cheap ... so maybe just go that route and then she doesnt need a dedicated IEM pre-amp

Dean never seem to help themselves , they have so many types of " EDGE" , but then don't mark them on the blooming truss cover. There's an Edge "1" , 2 , Select , Premium , special models , Edge Pro , its almost as bad as saying " P" bass" hey even made a european model in the spector plant >.< . That looks like one of these to me , if its definitely Passive , it is still a Korean model .. so good Qc and build but definitely closer to entry level than one of the upper edge models , giveaways are the Die cast turners , and a basswood body , obviously yours's not in Trans red 😉

Im in west byfleet , So near Woking .