Downunderwonder

I would leave the patina be also. It looks really nice as it is. Polished up would not be my cup of tea at all. You would never get it all back to shiny brass and it would look all wrong 90% shiny and 10% not.

They do sound very tubey but there's a reason for that! Does a tube preamp with Class D amp count as Class D?

1st see if Aguilar supplies reconing kits. Then find your local recone specialist.

Best, yet another preamp. Worst, yet another preamp I didn't really need. The trouble with preamps is they don't take up so much storage space and they tend to breed on you while you aren't looking.

Flat battery in active bass?

Boundary effects of walls and ceiling in the vicinity of any cab can play hell with your low end but otherwise a well placed cab is a well placed cab and will always be more lows up close to it than across the room.

How horrible? If you are exaggerating the horribleness you may be ok. It's possible that at home you can't get the output stage into the sweet overdrive mode @4 ohms because it gets too loud before that happens, leaving you with clean tone.

Remind him it could have been a whole lot worse!

Just play it with fingers like I do. No compression required.

Go down to your recycling centre and grab 20 cardboard boxes. Flatten them out properly. Laminate 2/3 them with a pot of adhesive and you have a slab of 2ft x 3ft. Cut a slightly oversized outline of your bass out and line it with an old T shirt or three, with a backplate The rest of the boxes make a prop that strategically slots onto your outline so it can lean back. Spray bomb it matt black and it will look like a bought one. You'll figure it out.

@bassbiscuits I presume your cab is for monitoring. Have the courage to point it at your ears, because ideally that will better inform you what FOH is putting out front. If it it's playing to the house then best stand right in front of it so your treble doesn't make it out there.

Undoubtably this.

"Should be", implies he well could be..... Doubtful he knows my secrets as I am a secret squirrel from outer space.

Bartleby should be employed by Europol.

My band has a set of active Alto plastic fantastics that seem to handle a bit of electric piano and vocals ok. If you're on a budget I'd say you could do a lot worse.

They sent you a box full of packing material????

Shipping from UK not worth your while on a used old 15, even if it was free and you only had to pay for the shipping. If a courier dropped the box it could wreck it.

Limelight at least put their own serial in sharpie on the back of the headstock. I can see the day someone refinishes the back of the headstock and fakes an authentic looking Fender serial and pawns it as Fender Customshop.

There's a limit to how much roof raising you can do with a garden variety 210. Amps with the same 'rating' have no trouble blowing them up.

Two words. Supply. Demand....

If the Chinese knockoff something designed by Behringer, for a change, is it a lie?

UK date format methinks. Eg 2/11/23 is 2nd November around here.

For live, as close as it will go and still sound good. This means it will pick up relatively more bass and less drums.

Sounds like you have proven the maxim "if it sounds like it's about to blow up, it probably will", by actual test.

Does it not have an endpin? Not sure if you want a free standing stand mount for playing a la NS EUB or a set stand for breaks a la DB.