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  1. Mottlefeeder
    Won in a raffle, but not my kind of sound so I'm moving it on. £20 including postage to mainland UK. Five controls - Distortion / Output level / Bass / Treble / Voice (more trebly or more bassy) Condition - very good, Velcro'd, but original feet are still there too. Comes with a fresh battery, but no power supply and no instructions. Compatible with standard 9v pedal power supplies. Well designed case using only one screw to access the battery Will be shipped in bubble-wrap and boxed, 2nd class post. Any questions, please ask David
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    Yes, you've got it. However, the bootlace / red line will not be straight due to the weight of the bass - it will form a shallow inverted V with the strap fixing at the point. David
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    I use A, but keep the cable ties separate from the cables when playing. When I pack up, I know how many cables to collect by the number of cable ties that I have. David
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    Yes I have used it on both a neck heavy 5-string Corvette with a light-weight swamp ash body, and on a 5-string Hohner headless, to move the fretboard two frets to the right so that it sits like a horned bass. The only down side I found was that the bootlace makes an uside down V. But with a dark bootlace and a dark strap, that is not noticable. I have seen advertisments for a commercial product that uses a rigid bar instead of a bootlace, and that gave me the idea. David
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    Depending on how severe the neck dive is, your cheapest non-permanent fix might be to tie a black boot lace to the bridge end of the strap, and tie the boot lace ends to the existing strap buttons, so the strap end is behind the bass. It has the same effect as making the horn longer, and is quite discreet. David
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    Market demand? 4R is mainly for cars, 8R is mainly for HiFi etc. or something along those lines. And as for 4R neo 5" or 6" - I have not found any yet. David
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    My experience is that 4-plugs won't fit 2-sockets unless they are speakon/jack combo sockets, but 2-plugs will fit 4-sockets. Most budget scrapped speakers that I have dismantled had 4-sockets with terminals 1+ & 2+ connected together and likewise for 1- & 2- . David
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    I've done a quick check, and all I can find under 'gainclone' is class AB. For battery use, class D would be a better option - if they exist at kit level. Thanks for contributing. David
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    Thanks for that - I had forgotten about gainclones as a search term, and it does bring up pcbs for through-hole components. I'll have a read and see what sort of bridged power you could get from about 20v of lithium power-pack, or a pair of lead acid batteries. David
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    I started that project with a cheap class D module, and ended up buying a car audio amplifier instead. There are some nice one-chip amps out there, but the marketplaces are full of cheap, badly designed Chinese modules using them, and that overwhelms Google's search engine. I wouldn't be surprised if there were pcbs for diy amps using those chips, but I don't know how to find them. Anyone have any ideas? David
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    If you are in the market for another amplifier, can I suggest that you consider this, or its rivals https://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/6331/s/kenwood-kac-m1814-400w-class-d-4-channel-compact-digital-amplifier/category/37/ Ignore the marketing department's power rating, the CEA2006 standard defines RMS power tests into 4 ohm loads. This has a SMPS feeding 4 Class D amps giving 4 * 45 W into 4 ohms, or as two bridged pairs, 2 * 45W into 8 ohms or 2 * 90W into 4 ohms, and it runs off an 11-15V supply. It is purpose designed for harsh environments (car boot on a sunny day) and seems to be pretty much bomb proof. It also includes a variable HPF. I get about 3-4 hours of use from a 7AHr lead acid battery, at outdoor market busking levels with vocals, guitars and electronic drums going through the PA. You only need one channel, but you could use the other for a second cab as and when required. David
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    Nice
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    You could use a switch to connect the speaker to either the in-board amp or the speaker socket. That would be fairly foolproof. David
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    My comments were intended for others contemplating this route. Your solution sounds fine to me. David
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    I had a plan like that, using speakons, but in a hurry, in a dark stage, I managed to connect the output of a stand alone 500W Ashdown MiBass to the output of the built-in 20W RoC amp. The MyBass won. For the benefit of anyone else considering this, whatever you do, it has to have no option to get it wrong, because if you can, you will eventually. David
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    'Building Walking Bassines' by Ed Friedland looks at filling the gaps between roots using several different melodic approaches. You don't have to go totally chromatic if you don't want to. The book has dots and tab, and the CD has keys and drums in one ear and bass in the other - fine on speakers but you need to mix it to mono for headphones. If you want to check out content before purchasing, he plays several of his exercises on youtube. David
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    I've heard that some members of Talkbass are happy to buy kit for you in the US and ship it here as a 'present'. The alternatives are the Vong kit, now out of production, or a home brew build of the FDeck - there is a stripboard layout for that on the web David
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    There are a number of integrated circuit chips that provide stereo, so having 2 x 4ohm speakers maximises the power output from the amp chip. That may be why the likes of Roland/Boss went that way with the cube range. David
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    Also safely home and loaded in. Many thanks to Peter and Richard for organising a great day. David
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    I thought I'd be otherwise engaged this weekend, but I find I can make it. I'm mainly a busker, so I'll be bringing: A modular 1x10 battery / mains combo + extension speaker. A couple of battery powered amps. An 'even-briefer-case' 2x5 battery powered combo. An Ibanez EWB205 - 5-string ABG. An Ibanez EHB1265 - 5-string, headless, fanned fret bass. David
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    For cricket-bat style basses, there are two grades of Warwick padded bag by Rockbass. The cheaper has thinner soft padding and failed to protect my bass when it slid out of the car boot. The replacement bag was a Ritter, better, stiffer padding but it has very small pockets - none big enough to hold A4 chord sheets. David
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    Agreed - that's the main reason I'm posting this David
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    Just a quick update on this - the seller is still sitting at home saying that the package has yet to arrive, and in response to my raising a dispute, AliExpress suggested I negotiate with the seller... I raised a dispute via PayPal and they said that there was no mechanism to claim postage costs from the seller or AliExpress because that transaction did not involve them. They then offered to reimburse me as a goodwill gesture to a frequent user. Kudos to PayPal. In summary, buying KZ ZS10 Pro earphones from their official store is a real pain if they go wrong. David
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    OK - I'll leave that to others David
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    Quick question - are you in to DIY, or just looking for a pay and go solution? David
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