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Ashdown are really good at supporting their customers so your amp is in good hands. Let us know what they find please.

I bought a Celestion BN15-300x from Matt. Great product and a very easy transaction. Thank you

It may be a combination of corrosion on the socket contacts, loss of contact pressure or a bad joint on the board. It may be worthwhile removing the board, taking the sockets off the board and then removing the connections from the socket body. They are a firm push fit and you don't need to get them all the way out just enough to inspect and clean the contact area and bend them down to increase the contact pressure, or at this point just fit new high quality replacements. When re-soldering them it is also worth cleaning any coating from the PCB tracks around the jack solder pads and spreading the solder connection a bit wider. This with help strengthen the join and mitigate against any track breaks which are most likely right on the jack solder pads. Having done all the above you should have eliminated most of the likely causes of the problem. Good luck

Same experience here removing carpet from a big bass combo cab. A hot air gun helped but I still ended up doing lots of sanding then finishing using tuffcab paint applied with a foam roller. Looked like new when finished and very durable.

OK if that is from the manual of your power supply then you're good to go!

It all depends on the design of the power supply. If you have a commercial multiple output power supply it might be worth contacting the manufacturer for their advice.

It's unlikely that this will work unless the power supply specifically has multiple individually rated outputs. Often pedals don't actually run at the rated current so may be worth a try if you must, checking for the power supply overheating or strange behavior. Power supplies are not expensive though so maybe to be safe just get one with a higher output?

Indeed I do. I am based in Wookey Hole, so not far from Bristol. I would be happy to have a look to see if it is cost effective or possible to repair it.

Thanks. that makes sense. What cab volume have you used?

I've belatedly started to follow this thread with great interest and have tried to reproduce your frequency response curve in WinISD as above using the fane data and assuming 20l enclosure and 62Hz tuning frequency to establish the same baseline for some tweaking for interest sake. But it does not look the same so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong or missing, maybe some of the speaker parameters not provided on the Fane spec sheet? I was also thinking that with these small enclosures the volumes of the driver, bracing and the port itself may have an effect. Do you subtract these volumes from the internal cab volume when calculating?

My experience is similar to above. These sockets are also fitted to good quality Warwick basses. The contacts inside the barrel are very thin and I think they loose their springiness over time and then don't make a reliable connection. They are impossible to repair effectively unlike the old school Switchcraft chassis types With an active bass the connection of the power can give a mighty loud band out of the rig! It's hard to tell the quality of replacements as the cheap Chinese ones look just the same as any other. The good news is that the "cheap" ones seem to last just as well as any others. I always keep a spare one in stock, knowing I will need it sooner rather than later.

I agree that Samsung seem to have no interest in developing the Ui series, in fact the development team have all moved on. Having said that the functionality it already has is well worth the money. They are also so compact for live use. As time passes I'm sure that the availability of hardware replacements for repair will be the death of the Ui series which will be a shame. Fingers crossed I have had no issues with either my Ui16 or 24. The Ui24 is incredible value for money and using the ASIO USB interface to the PC (I use Reaper) was easy to set up and configure. That's not why I originally bought the mixer but is now its primary use! For live use the ability to record the individual tracks is great either with a suitable fast USB memory stick or SSD. You just need to use a powered hub because the internal PSU wont power much on the USB sockets and can cause the mixer to lock up or reboot, so I'm told. A & H always seem to produce good gear. I've used their Qu desks, although they are considerably more expensive, especially if you factor in the remote stage box. The A & H desks are also fussy about what USB drive you use and they need to be dedicated and formatted to use with the desk.

I'm a big fan of the Soundcraft Ui series. For most live gigs I use the Ui16 which has 12 mic inputs and 6 aux outputs, which is plenty for the 7 piece band (2 vocals, 2 keys, bass, guitar, 3 horns, 2 drum mics). Effectively the mixer is the stage box and all the HMI is on any browser (up to 6 at once). Either hard wired Ethernet or wi-fi. I tend to use a laptop hardwired in at the side of the stage and an iPad for general mixing. The singers can have full control over their in ear monitor mixes on their phones as well. The mixer has onboard reverb, delay, compression and DBX feedback suppression automatic notch filters on the outputs. The Ui24 is a whole different beast. I use it as a 24 channel audio interface in the studio and also live. The extensive patching and matrix options make it very versatile. All the Ui models get flack for the perceived weakness of the built in wi-fi hotspot but this is easily addressed by either scanning the venue to find a relatively clear wi-fi channel, using ethernet or an external router for the wi-fi.

I'd never seen one of those neat 10 way switches until the SW bass bash the other day. A great way of increasing the switching options without seriously irreversibly modifying the instrument. Although only a few combinations are likely to be used, it is interesting to explore which ones work for you and inspire more ways of playing.

So, if you don't mind me asking, what did you buy this time? ) 🙂 Another great day and I second the thanks to all those involved in the organization and to everyone who bought fantastic interesting gear to see and try.