Downunderwonder

Usually there would be a toggling push button on the panel next to the XLR out. "Pre/Post" is the usual label on it. If it is some kind of prototype there could possibly be an internal switch, or it could be hardwired one way or the other, or the label could be missing.

No chance for anything new for £230 that can keep up with drums. If there was a gunfight on you are the guy planning to show up with a knife, and not one any good for sticking in anyone. You really ought to jump on that Trace combo just down the road from you. It's not too big when your budget is so small. Someone is going to "or best offer" more than the opening gambit of that ebay Rumble and turn it into a private auction. You have to move air to make bass. Moving air takes decent speakers and amp power. If you want something you can carry in one hand you want to treble your budget. Get your head in the game.

If you take a small stand the 210 should be plenty. The only time it wouldn't would be a big stage big gig that was short of its own monitoring. If that were to occur you could set up next to the drummer and get by.

Sell your coffee table Polythene plus black tablecloth. Odd looking coffee table that makes bass noises. Reason this didn't rate a mention until now is that is.indeed a crazy low price.

More bass = more better, until it isn't.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/615134514169479/ Basildon.

I had one of those provided for backline once. A real beaut of an amp but it only just kept up with the big band jazz. I don't think it would keep up with too many pub rock gigs. That one has an intermittent fault so hard pass.

Classifieds. You are looking for an old combo with a bit of poke. Trace Elliot, Ashdown, Peavey. 150w and 15" speaker. If your practice amp is in good condition you might not take too bad of a bath px'ing at a shop.

Annual Gear Budget Zero or Less. I am in.

Count me in. I wonder if some honourable status could be maintained if one sold gear before buying anything and maintained a credit gear balance?

That was a breeze. 2025 unlikely to be any better wrt disposable income so will be into that.

On my Kala I feed twine through from the bridge and catch that inside, tape it to the string and pull it back through. The strings are already equipped with ferrules. The Kala access plate makes it easier but if doing it via the sound hole it would be 10x easier still, and using the ferrules rather than relying on knots.

Anyone is welcome to wrap my leads but almost nobody does because as soon as they start rolling them I have to teach them how to wrap them and that almost never sinks in.

Quilter BassBlock does that, and clean clean.

Roughly 8 hours of playing and two restringings before mine were stable. I was making very good friends with my clip-on tuner.

I wound up with ThunderBlacks. The feel is ok for me. They emphatically are NOT able to be installed in one hit "stretchproof". If anything they stretch out more than the Pahoehoe before stability is achieved. The claim that they can be installed without taking off again is BOGUS.

Abbasolutely Fantastic.

Should that be Instrumental blues, no audience requiring a g up between numbers, no frontman required, problem sorted!

AOR, new one on me. Album Oriented Rock, Adult Oriented Rock, Or????

Is this Peavey rehash or a vintage SM?? I don't recall a 100 in either. The vintage sm1000 was an absolute beast and rare.

By that I think you mean an exceptional drummer that can hold the time when everyone is playing around the beat, even the soulful bassist now and then.

I think they would be searching long and hard to find another Howdy Doody. Other bassists have tried to get my spot so I would be very easily replaceable. In ten years I think I only missed one rehearsal for a gig, and one for flu. Both times everyone very appreciative of having the glue back the following week. They might have to get used to playing sans bass if I left.

Do tubes suffer DC offset? That's about the only way 135w can blow a BF woofer while still sounding clean. I wonder if someone else had access to the cab? Either that or it's pure oddball failure of the stuff happens kind.

You are safe then. DD is otherwise known as the Denim or Traller Park Tuxedo ( suit, ie jacket and pants )

He was probably praying to get arrested for the publicity.