Stub Mandrel

3dB from the extra piwer into 4 rather than 8 ohms. 3dB from extra area.

You're "internationally renowned". 😎

GRBASS gets my vote. May cause structural damage...

Your question is only easily answered if the cabs have the same drivers, ohm rating, and frequency response. In theory: Double power- add 3dB Double cone area- add 3dB Halve impedance- add 3dB (but only if amp can give double the power. Ten times power- add 10dB. Note: 3dB is typically enough for the untrained ear 'to hear a difference'. 10dB is 'twice as loud' (at mid range frequencies and average volumes). Bass needs about 10dB more to sound louder than just an octave higher (guitar) due to psycho-acoustic effects (loudness curve), which is one reason why bass amps need to be so powerful. The EASIEST way to sound louder is to get a more efficient drivers in a well designed cab, which is why some of the small, light modern cabs sound as loud as old fridge-sized 8x10 cabs.

I have to work out what goes so I can add the Brassmaster to my board

I like my side dots (at fret positions) on fretless, I need them to be sure I'm in the right ballpark.

It's the 150 kV forcefield in between them that really helps keep the drunks at bay 😉

It's a lot of fun. I reckon it will be very giggable with the bass (uneffected) fairly high and a bit of the flat out fuzz just adding character.

Consider: https://www.thomann.co.uk/tc_electronic_bam200.htm Or https://www.thomann.co.uk/warwick_gnome.htm As a head, then pick up a cheap, heavy cab locally. Plenty of people gig with either of those heads and you can upgrade your cab with gig money when it starts "roling in" 😁

Went to see the Rogues last night supporting Cardinal Black. (I'm in a blues band with Rogues guitarist Alex) 😎. The lads were brilliant and I was well impressed by Cardinal Black and their very innovative guitarist Chris Buck. The Rogues Cardinal Black Chris Buck.

Gokko board? I lurve mine.

It's a cab 😁

I think my brother (a guitarist) has sucked in a lot of our gas for us... he's planning multiple acquisitions...

Not really. Loyalty points often expire if not used. As long as no cash other than p&p changes hands I would say it's ok. Like winning a competition. I got this yesterday but paid for it in December so still in!

It's arrived! And it sounds bloody brilliant. Quite a wide range of sounds with the two slide switches. One very 'present', one dark and doomy, one almost an octave distortion effect and one that is a bit meh. The dual volume instead of blend is unusual but works well.

Well done Si!

You need an SM58 for your vocalist 😉

My grandfather taught my dad how to recone Goodmans speakers in the 1960s, using pieces of photographic negative as spacers around the voice coil.

My point was not that it is an expectation, but that one early failure isn't going to tell you anything useful. It could be a glitch on the coil winder, a little short of adhesive, a slight misalignment... but if others aren't failing then it's unlikely to point to the need for a change in supplier or manufacturing technique.

If gear fails well out of warranty (7 years) there's really nothing to learn whatever the failure mode. That's into the lifetime where random failures due to small manufacturing defects become possible. No matter what is said about the level and nature of usage, it has to be taken with a large pinch of salt as some people will be scrupulously honest and others may of thrashed it every night but not want to admit it. The have no way of being sure what the speaker has endured. If BF get virtually no failures and they are all beyond warranty, then there is little reason to change. If it was a 7-sigma, safety critical aircraft component it would be different.

Would anyone like to trial the small white dots?

You don't realise how you use them until you can't see them. I do a lot of big skips up and fown the neck. My AVII has clay side dots on the boundary between a brown rosewood fingerboard and an amber finished maple neck. Under stage lights they disappear. I bought dots online but they were ugly huge things. Ms. S. kindly cut several sets of 3/32 dots out of high adhesive vinyl for me using her Silhouette machine. They have lasted a few gigs without peeling so look like a good solution. No impact on value as I can get them off with IPA. No point in saying which is before and which is after!

On Saturday, after one of my more egregious cock-ups I discovered that I'd reacted by sticking my tongue 👅 out for rather too long...

I can't see how through body stringing affects tension to any significant degree. The change in break angle could lead to a need to reduce saddle height, and perhaps a slight change in intonation. Any change in tuning tension would be a fraction of a percent. I will change my P9 but only 'because it's there'.