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Knock Knock - Who’s there Shirley or Karen - Shirley or Karen who Shirley or Karen expect me to pass up this obvious setup for a joke

I’d start with your local trading standards department, they should be able to advise what to do here. Are Selectron simply not answering their phones? The next step might be to write to them by recorded delivery setting out what you want and by when, e.g. either to agree a repair cost and timescale with you, or return the unit and anything you’ve paid, or pay you a fair sum for the value of the unrepaired unit if they can’t return it. Of course if they’ve actually gone bust you’re probably out of luck. I don’t think PJB have any legal obligation to you but they might be willing to help try and sort it out with Selectron from their side.

I discovered Benson by randomly picking up a copy of Shape Of Things To Come, so that’s my favourite of his, and one of my favourite jazz guitar albums.

My cancellable bass take is that I like sunburst, I like tort, but tort+sunburst?? Noooo… Single cutaway and relicing are also both just wrong, obvs.

I have made exactly the same mistake in my time 😁

Like the colour ultramarine refracted through a pentaprism of unfulfilled desires.

I think their original drummer moved away for uni (or too far away to come back for gigs), yes.

I’m at the Tynemouth Social Club seeing the Samphires, in which mrs nekomatic‘s best mate’s niece is the guitarist. They are really, really good - easily up to the standard of bands I’ve seen at small festivals. If there’s any justice they’ll go far.

I don’t see why that circuit wouldn’t work off 24 V for a 24 V fan. Bump up R5 to 750 ohms ish, and maybe R6 and R7 to 2k each.

Yes indeed!

It would be perfectly possible for a pedal power supply to use an external mains adapter and still have isolated outputs, if it uses isolating DC-DC converters for each output I don’t know which if any do that though. Where people have found problems with noise when using non-isolated or daisy-chained supplies, did one of the pedals use digital circuitry? My guess there would be the digital one injects noise into the power supply which an analogue one is not very good at rejecting.

Some of you may know Ruth Goller from her furiously energetic bouncing at the back of Melt Yourself Down (and if you didn't, you do now) but this is one of her other projects, which could hardly be more different:

I voted for Dolly partly to wind up the sort of people who don’t think Dolly should be in it but mostly because any ‘hall of fame’ without Dolly in it really doesn’t deserve the name. Cool that people are finding out about Fela though.

I hadn’t actually noticed that mine had a longer horn than others…

It’s a late-’80s/early-’90s American Standard. What makes it “boner”, or shouldn’t I ask? 😳

Lined… …and loaded, grilled and cornered: It's done! A labour of love and no mistake: it would have been way less effort to build a new one from scratch, and probably no more expensive (I'd have needed to buy a few clamps, but on the other hand I've killed a battery on the cordless sander in the process of doing this one), but it's really satisfying to know that I've given the original cabinet a new lease on life. And I'm really pleased with how it sounds and looks! If I can make it along to a Bass Bash at some point I'll be sure to bring it along. Thanks once again to everyone involved in the Basschat designs and the valuable discussion around them, and everyone who's helped me out on here with advice, information and components: I somehow feel I have an extra incentive to do the thing justice now by playing as well as I can and as much as I can through it On that note, here it is with the amp and bass, which I hope will be seeing lots of each other:

I only vaguely remember the F1 theme but I just hummed my guess at the first note to (very musical) mininekomatic1 and asked what he thought it was. He said A. I checked on the piano and it was a slightly sharp B flat. There may be something in this!

Just for pedantry, by no means all components are made in China, although I'm sure almost all commodity parts are made in low-cost countries. Nexperia make MOSFETs in Stockport, although I don't think they're the sort you'll find in your bass amp. On-topic, everyone seemed to have Trace gear back when I started playing out in the '90s and I never thought I sounded good through it, although the quick-witted will note there could be more than one explanation for this.

Painted and Tuff Cabbed: I went for the Brown Black (or is it Black Brown) colour in an attempt to make it look slightly more furniture-y around the house and slightly less of a big ugly black box, but it's very nearly black anyway. I like it though. I didn't get the finish quite perfect - the roller from Blue Aran had an annoying tendency to start sliding rather than rolling, and I should have made sure to have better lighting on each side I was painting to spot the imperfections, but I'm sure nobody but me will ever notice. Crossover completed and installed: I'll glue those inductor leads down before final assembly. But now, let's put the speakers in and try it out: I spent entirely too long just playing music through it off the iPod, very loud (sorry neighbours)! First impressions: it shows up that my amp makes quite a lot of hiss, independent of volume settings, so this pairing may not suit for quiet practice after all, but I can't imagine it'll be a problem for rehearsals or gigs. I would say the high end is a bit harsh for actual hi-fi, but would serve perfectly well as a PA speaker. I might just probe the wiring of the crossover HF side though, in case I've made some mistake that's thrown the frequency response out. And last of all, the bass! Well it sounds great - I'm not sure if I was expecting it to go a tiny bit louder, but it's almost certainly all I need for the foreseeable future - except that it faithfully reproduces every detail of my terrible technique, which really needs to be the next project to work on before I contemplate any more amp or speaker related tinkering. All that's left is to stick some wadding in - although I can't say I can hear the need for it - glue the port in, and put the grille and corners on, and this thing may be finished.

I'm sure it was a previous thread on here where I learned about the RIDC car database which has boot length and width for lots of current and past models. Since every useful fact must be balanced by an amusing anecdote, a drummer friend used to get her entire kit into a Sunbeam Alpine.

On the stuff I’ve used in the past it gets wider when you push it, so after the first half a metre or so has gone in you can work a ‘bulge’ along from the sleeving end. I wouldn’t want to do it for a several meter cable though! Does it have to be cotton mix, or that specific sort of retro pattern? If I search eBay for ‘braided sleeving’ and filter on location UK only there’s quite a lot of choice otherwise.

Sounds like you’re looking for a Bass Pod XT Pro then…