Stub Mandrel

I was in this, my first band, from about 1986 or 87 to 1989. Not sure why but the keyboard player didn't take part in this show 'Rock for Life' at Bridgend Rugby Club. The main thing is, this is the first song I wrote that other people performed! (Jon wrote the lyrics). No claims for outstanding musicianship. It does show my old 18" speaker cab of unknown provenance (with the Reichsadler on it), I have no idea what the head on top is, I may have been mine or p[erhaps have borrowed it because I thought I got the Laney around this time.

Metal fatigue.

I remember those! I made a lovely box and stuck two Maplins 100W Piezo tweeters in it with a pair of 10 ohm power resistors and a big wirewound potentiometer. It certainly boosts 'slap and pop' sounds, but it's main function was/is to make my stack look even bigger...

Oh the glamour of big business... I used to be CE of a modest-sized charity. In conversation with a friend who, like me had come up through the ranks to become CE of a related charity it transpired that we both had unblocked our office loos because the staff were too lily-livered...

Let me correct that for you!! 🙂

I think I asked at the Bass Bash, and you made some suggestions (I think woodturning fairs?) but where can a fule like me find nice bits of timber like that for modest cost?

My dad used to rent out TVs until the early 80s. Many were still valve B&W sets!

Maybe I'm wrong. I can't make a proper analysis because my only DSO is a cheap battery powered gadget and combined with an x10 probe it's reading well below the Hameg (which I trust). <edit> FWIW according to the Hameg the peak to peak voltage into 8R if I pop G string really hard is 130V. That's running at a slow timebase and observing first the top, then the bottom peaks, 264W. I really can't be bothered to get another cab out of storage and see if it hits 112V into 4R for a 400W transient because you wouldn't believe me anyway...

Just wanted to use the picture 🙂

I'm sure you're well up to it, Blue, enjoy the gig 🙂

I'm not suggesting folks here are trying to rip eBay off, but there are people who do (I've been contacted by tehm too) so they try and make life difficult for them which has a knock on for honest sellers who want cash on collection.

As I recall they are less sanguine about it now 😦

But not only tree letters long. KLF had big problems when the flew to Brazil and their backline all ended up in Russia...

But eBay's term and conditions do require that in exchange for using their platform, you agree to accept certain types of payment. They know full well that some sellers use a variety of tricks to sell for cash off ebay, then claim the sale never went through in order to avoid paying ebay fees.

Tahnks for the details - interesting! Alternatively the anechoic chamber 🙂

Silly me! I saw brown/gold and assumed you meant the HM-2!

Pirate Studios use boards spaced a couple of inches from the walls with lots of large, different sized, holes in them and a layer of acoustic (I assume) foam behind. Their studios aren't boomy at all.

It depends on whether the category is eligible.

I don't like the way the chicken in the breadpan is looking at me...

Indeed. I can't say I've ever noticed any loss of low end with passive basses, so yes probably an impedance mismatch. They are a bit of a 'marmite' pedal but I like it. Useful for Neil Young songs - I used it for parts of Hey Hey My My recently and back in the day I used to do a couple of solos for Like a Hurricane using it (we didn't have a lead guitarist!)

Today I did a PUP swap in my Ibanez AS53. The stock pickups weren't bad, the bridge one being noticeably heavier with a different part number so obviously 'optimised' not just an identical pair. I put in a Gretsch neck pickup and an 80's Di Marzio that my brother put in his first strat. It sounds absolutely amazing now, and even better balanced between the two pickups 🙂

Is that truss rod arrangement unique to 'Musima'? I made a guitar using a neck with the same adjustment that I found in a skip about 30 years ago. No tuners fitted. Surprisingly good neck actually, not fender shape.

By reverse logic, that means I'm good enough to support the Charlie Daniels Band. Stuff this job, I'm going pro.... 😎

Google is your friend: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/listings/listing-tips/selling-classified-ads?id=4167