nekomatic

Way back when I used to read the Bottom Line email list (anyone else?) the generic name for these people was ‘proctologists’.

I am declaring the woodwork done. Cross brace: Corner ears because the recess isn't deep enough for the grille, and blocks to fix the grille to: And maybe unnecessary, but because the handle screw heads aren't recessed I got worried about them scratching some hypothetical uneven floor, so a sort of bezel around the handles: And a load of filling (with 50/50 wood filler and wood glue, as recommended by Blue Aran) and sanding. I think I've done enough sanding for a while. Crossover under construction: point to point wiring for the LF side, components soldered to matrix board and point to point wiring for the HF side, and Wago lever terminals to connect to the input and drivers because they're supposed to be more secure than screw terminals? I can almost believe the end is in sight!

Most of this (excellent) thread has had me either wincing in pain or smiling wryly, but at this paragraph I roared with laughter. Chapeau! I was tickled to learn that Artic Monkeys played the Truck Festival though...

Nothing I have is a patch on any of these but since we're here… my student jazz-funk band was asked to play someone's house party. We did some originals and some covers ranging from current (Corduroy) through well-known (Chameleon) to fairly obscure ones. We get there and this guy says oh, I play keyboards, is it OK if I join in with you? We look at each other uneasily. Sorry mate, our guitarist says, but, er, we've got arrangements and stuff (subtext: and we've rehearsed them). Turns out he's the DJ and gets us back after our set by playing the original of every tune we cover, to show how much better the original was than our version (which to be fair, was true).

The transformer @funkyjazz linked to looks professional, but I’m pretty sure it’s an autotransformer not an isolating transformer. That means it’s possible that up to 240 V AC relative to earth could appear on one side of the 120 V output under certain fault conditions e.g. live and neutral swapped in the socket, or neutral gets disconnected. That won’t blow up the vintage amp by itself but it might be a hazard if you touch something that’s not adequately insulated for the higher voltage. I was also wondering whether a ‘site transformer’ as @RhythmJunky suggested would be a good alternative, as they isolate the output from mains and (as I understand it) tie it to earth via a centre tap instead so that the maximum line or neutral voltage on the output is only 55 V relative to earth. But when I looked one up I found a comment that they aren’t suitable for powering US kit because it might short out one of the 55 V windings. So in summary I don’t know and would wait for someone with actual experience of vintage US amps to comment 😁 I’m sure this subject has been covered on coughTalkbasscough though, it might be worth searching or asking there. Also re the safety of the vintage amp itself, apparently there is something known as a ‘death capacitor’ that you need to make sure is removed - again I’m sure a forum or web search will tell you more.

Aha, thanks!

That sounds great btw - and as a bonus you've put Irresistible Bliss on my afternoon playlist Is the preamp just the one in the Promethean, or something else before that?

Stockport is so proud of Blossoms they’ve put ‘home of Blossoms’ on the road signs as you drive in. Where we live is close to the border with Burnage in Manchester though and apparently the Gallagher brothers used to be seen in our local from time to time. I grew up in Southampton which boasts Craig David and, er, Benny Hill. (that’s still a better line up than Pompey though!)

Now recycled to a fellow Basschatter!

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that. So bending notes doesn’t really work either then?

Same here, although I don’t know where I’d expect to find them in stock…

If you tag @No. 8 Wire they should get an alert about it, in case they aren’t subscribed to the quite old thread any more. In any case it sounds as if it should work, as long as you can feed a hot enough signal to the amp’s ‘audio in’.

Ha, I’d forgotten the rest of his website was still up and running after the forums finally went down…

I don’t want to be a miserable git on Blue Monday of all days 😁 but your link literally explains that it’s complete bullocks invented by a PR agency and even the guy who originally put his name to it now campaigns against the thing. By all means listen to some New Order though.

Which prompted me to go listening to some other jazz guitarists, and so find out that Ronny Jordan died back in 2014 😢 However that led me to rediscover this

The precociously talented Rosie Frater-Taylor

Low mass, high stiffness: what’s not to like?

As I read it @nige1968 knows which terminal is which on the new speaker, but not which of the wires in the amp to connect to them. If the amp has an output for an extension speaker then I’d expect a multimeter to show continuity between the wire that should connect to speaker negative and the sleeve of the extension out jack, no?

Calm medics are bewildered by vaccines, or Jabs faze Zen Drs

I’m going to put a vote in for Me’shell Ndegéocello. Prove me wrong…

I’m going to use Tuff Cab for the outside of the cabinet, just not for the baffle. I’ve used it before and found it very easy to apply and get a decent looking finish, using the rollers that Blue Aran sell. There’s a blog post on their website about how to use it which includes some handy tips.

I thought that sounded familiar - I know this version:

Marion & Sobo Band - Die Badewanne voller Bier

Well that’s just a silly example. I mean, you haven’t even said how big the pieces of pizza are.

NUDE PIX The baffle didn’t need sanding back to bare wood as I’m painting that black rather than Tuff Cabbing it and I’ve tested the black paint on an offcut and it seems to stick fine over the horrible, horrible Hammerite. Next up, final woodwork, and getting started on assembling the crossover…