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Well then I guess you're gigging experience is pretty much totally different to most people's! I wouldn't want to put a bare cab in a van with everyone else's kit, nor would I want to carry it through rain, both of these things are a consideration for me on the gigs I do btw and I'm guessing most other people are in the same boat.

Plus if you've ever scuffed a cab with a tuff-cab finish against a painted wall and then spent the next 2 hours trying to remove the tiny but impressively visible specks from the textured finish you'll know how useful covers really are. Also if you have a cat and a carpet covered cab then you absolutely[b] NEED[/b] a cover!

You know when you're storing a cab somewhere it might get dust on it? Stops that. You know when you're walking from the car to the gig in the rain and water might get on it? Stops that. You know when you accidentally scuff the cab against a wall or something and it can damage the finish or tolex? Stops that. That's why you use cab covers.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1397080214' post='2420554'] I have to admit that I really don't like Roqsolid covers. The ones I've seen have fitted their designated cabs pretty well but I've always found them a bit 'basic'. Ok as dust covers and maybe to protect from really minor scrapes but not in the same league as the ones some of the major cab builders sell to go with their cabs. I've always thought it was a 'you pays your money and you takes your choice' kinda thing - my money has always gone elsewhere [/quote] Gotta say +1 on that, it's not that I don't like them (they are fine for keeping dirt and rain off) just that they seem very basic for the money. I never understood the fascination with them on here, they're like the house brand of cab covers or something! It's a shame the SIlverstone guy never sorted his business out, they were the nicest covers I've seen.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1396901056' post='2418618'] These guys in the past were pretty good value...not sure if the prices have jumped up? [/quote] Yeah I seem to remember them being about £40 for a standard cover. IIRC their options could really bump the price up though, they charge quite a bit for basic things.

I would just get your money back tbh, this sounds like a lot of messing about for a cab cover. £75 is also a lot of money for a simple thin cover.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1396613418' post='2415683'] Thanks again guys. Well, as you were saying in the 'Last Gig' thread, one door shuts and another opens. Just found out I'll be playing every day at Glastonbury, and got three dates in Brazil before that, I get a proper fee too. Funny old world init [/quote] Ace!

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1396551988' post='2415080'] Last gig I played one of our guitarists had flogged his Les Paul and I lent him my Telecaster. The improvement in sound was immense and everything had it's place in the mix. No doubt he'll shell out for another LP or similar soon though and we'll be back to square 1. [/quote] That was pretty much my experience with an old covers band. There's a tendency for LP players to overdo the low mids and give everyone headaches IMO, we actually went to the extreme measures of swapping out the guitarist instead of just his guitar though!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1396528495' post='2414661'] Nest thing to do is check the gtr sound does not have more bass on the sound than the bass player. Simple but you will be surprised how many gtrs use a lot of bass... and flood the bass when soloing on boost. Educated gtrs will know they can afford to wipe this off as the bass play is within that sound spectrum and better players will encourage it. The problems with mixes is everyone in the way of everyone else. The band will sound so much better if you respect each instruments zones and parts... and I'd even go so far as to say that you have no chance of sounding any good unless you can get this. [/quote] Massive +1 A lot of guitarists set their sounds up at home and don't think about overlapping frequencies in a band situation, they want to replicate what they hear on records rather than create specific sounds that actually work. Even some who I'd class as considerate regarding volume levels do this, you'll find they stomp on a pedal and suddenly you can't hear yourself any more. The two best guitarists I've played with had relatively thin sounds when heard in isolation but they sounded incredible in the mix every time.

FNM could be supporting Jedward and it would still be worthwhile.

May bob down for this!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1396287926' post='2411886'] Short people have to accept they excluded from certain activities like sex and basketball [/quote] Hahahaha, very good!

I had a custom cover made for me by a small local company called Bacsew, it was for a little 1x10 but only cost a bit over £20 and it's excellent quality with loads of padding. I was looking at the Roqsolid ones but they are expensive for thin covers IMO. Here's some of his work on eBay, he does zip up covers too as well as velcro: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PADDED-CUSTOM-SHAPED-COVERS-TO-FIT-JBL-EON-515-515XT-SPEAKER-NEW-BY-BACSEW-/111291003299?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Access_RL&hash=item19e975f1a3"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item19e975f1a3[/url]

I'm 6'6" and my guitarist is 6'5". Just join a band with other tall people, you'll always get paid at the end of the night!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395736087' post='2405542'] [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it ..."[/i] [/quote] Says this now: [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it and it is handwritten on the end 12-03-82 so im guessing its a 1982 reissue model."[/i] Maybe he is just someone with lots of free money who bought a guitar on a whim, possibly under the same ambiguous "found this in my loft, could be a collectors' piece" sales pitch.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1395302141' post='2400756'] My goodness! All the paint that's worn off has stuck to the back of the headstock. I never realised that's where it went. [/quote] After I read that I checked the back of my head to see if that's where my hairline had been escaping to all these years. No such luck.....

I have an MXR M80 which functions as a volume boost, overdrive and a DI box all in one. Even though recently we haven't been putting the bass through the PA it's still there if I need it.

Winner!

What does it sound like out front, a lot of the time you can have what you think is a bad sound but people in the audience will tell you it really kicks! I've heard recordings of our gigs and I sound tons better than I think I do even with no PA support. Maybe some decent compression is in order, might help with getting that nice tight sound. Also maybe a Thumpinator to tame the excess boomy lows. If you're gigging on hollow stages with no carpet some sort of isolation platform might help too.

To be fair he has some ace Saturn games for sale, you'd think someone with the good sense to buy Space Harrier and Afterburner on the same disc would make better decisions when it comes to bass modding,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-Relicd-P-Bass-Guitar-/121296197541?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c3dd117a5 Totally realistic, can't decide whether the seller thinks musicians routinely put cigarettes out on their scratchplates or he simply ran out of toilet paper. Either way, the results are both harrowing and entertaining. Also can't figure out why he painted the back of the headstock but left the neck, maybe there wasn't any more Dulux Marine Splash emulsion in his mum's garage?

I like it too, I desperately want that through-neck Integra though.

[quote name='Lee-Man' timestamp='1395224203' post='2399835'] I brought one for £30 on Friday. Arse. [/quote] I hate it when that happens!

I have just been looking at that and wondering if it was MIJ or Korean. The old Integras had that headstock but they also brought it back for some early 90s ones, not sure if they've used it again more recently. Some late 80s Integras had the chubby headstock (Billy Gould style) then they went for the slimmed down stubby version for the 90s Korean and modern Chinese ones. The top horn also got a bit longer and sleeker over the years too. I'd be up for bidding on an 80s MIJ Integra but I struggle keeping track of what to look for, they all seem to have different features! Aria seemingly also produced some oddballs and tiny production runs, check out the blogspot for a really rare natural through neck Korean Integra: [url="http://ariabasses.blogspot.co.uk/"]http://ariabasses.blogspot.co.uk/[/url]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/70kg-folding-trolley-n48jq?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=14P3_W4_D4&utm_content=Product-7&utm_campaign=14P4-1 Saw this offer this morning and thougtht some people might be interested. Mapling are doing a £10 discount plus free delivery on their 70kg load sack truck, folds down to a compact size, has an extendable handle and includes free bungee cords! Have no idea what it's like, gotta be worth a shot at that price though.