Downunderwonder

To make it double the volume enclosure it would be less than 1.3x on each side length. Curiously a bigger Elf would need a bit bigger again cooling fan because it's radiating proportionally less heat over the surface than the little one by a factor of 1.3. This might not be too hard because it would have room for 1.3x bigger diameter fan which should be more efficient... Complicated stuff in application this thermodynamics malarkey. I believe sorting the cooling kept Elf from going to production for quite awhile.

Would be much better if it had a steel insert that opens beers.

I am guessing this is one of those GK amps with the 50w tweeter amp and corresponding cab with biamp optional 4 pole speakon feed?

Sounds like the nut is probably stripped of thread or the head boogered. Unlikely the whole rod is turning in place. Maybe the threads of the rod are still ok and a new nut could fix it.

If 200w isn't enough and you aren't wearing earplugs you will be suffering hearing loss before you're done.

When you started out all that was obviously wrong was a buzz coming from the low F fret? Are you absolutely sure about that? If the only way to cure it was slack off the truss rod so far it banana'd then I think there's a problem that isn't truss rod related. But I am far from convinced you correctly ID'd the buzz in the first place. Most people would call it the first fret buzzing on low E if that's what it was. I think you need to ignore that buzz and set it up so the rest of it plays nicely. Then figure out exactly what's wrong. Something tells me it's not the setup if it's otherwise fine but buzzing on the first fret open E. Boogered nut slot, high fret, twisted neck??? Again, you want to be certain of that and then you probably need to go bother a luthier.

Dunno where all the habitual tweakers got to. Stub = heel = the bridge end of the neck. All I know how to do is set up and tweak from "not a million miles away" to get to "close enough for jazz". All of what you're saying doesn't really compute unless it started out as royally fubared and you have done too much. I really don't want to give a full blow by blow on how to do a set up if you already know. First thing is make sure clockwise turning makes neck straighter. A half turn is plenty. Something is way wrong when you say the saddles are up as high as they will go and it still buzzes.

Saddles max sounds like someone may have done a dodgy shim job on the neck pocket. Commonly folk put a single strip under the stub end which puts a bend into the last few inches of neck. I can't tell if you are making correct assessment of the relief or where the buzzing is happening.

Made it smaller. Made it lighter. Made it louder. No mean feat that now you could skateboard to your gig with more firepower than an Ampeg fridge rig.

No. You're obviously not familiar with the skullduggery that is the bass the comes out of an AER. No way you're keeping that with an alternative driver.

Way to land on your feet.

Johnny Cash did U2's One with such magnificent old man melancholy that it lifted the lyrics into wonderful poetry.

Possibly you well over did the fixing rate. When it's grossly out of adjustment it's easy to overshoot as it resettles. If I was you I would attempt to adjust the nut back half of what was put in and leave it for a day to see where it lands.

Trace Elliot TransitB does that along with some pretty gnarly blending drive and a full EQ section that can also be switched in and out.

I'm sure there's plenty that do distortion and fuzz. You need both just right or you're forced to compromise for the sake of carrying one box instead of two. So many tight distortions, so many fuzzes. You may as well have exactly what you want. Tight distortion is in the wheelhouse of a BDDI Deluxe. It also does a clean boost which can be had with or without more drive AND with or without the secondary fx loop enabled.

I was thinking you had clean down, care of the new amp, so two stomps to cover the rest.

Rather than the holy grail I think you would be better off seeking an overdrive and a fuzz that do what you want. Two pedals is hardly a board and it will be whole lot easier to obtain perfection.

The tuner has an aux power out supply point which may save you a potential bad loop. Sometimes the ground reference of a pedal is different after awhile on, or off. I know that sounds like I know what I am talking about but actually not. I had a problem when two particular pedals where both on and not with either on separately. That was how it was explained to me more ot less. Adding an biamp into mix isn't going to help.

No tube, but it does overdrive, that was never a SMX thing. Being a 9v pedal there's going to be some power amps it won't fully drive. You want one with 0.7v sensitivity. Or just use a bass amp with fx loop input.

Power output is assuredly nonlinear to the dial positions. Partly for good reason, volume and power are decidedly nonlinear as well! And partly because all amp makers cheat a little or a lot in making the lower dial sweep add volume faster than the rest.

I make it an average 15mm thick. The bigger size 41cm nets 5.7°C rise.

Not seeing it.

Thanks for that. The opening line is so apt: "I find that there are far too many fins, louvers and holes in this world." A furry carpet coating not accounted for and a sunny day outside might add up to a few more degrees inside but not enough to trip the overheating breaker methinks. Gut instinct overridden by actual numbers. Next question. What's the actual surface temp of a furry cab in the summer sun? I would run it sideways just because everything likes running cooler rather than hotter.

Tbf they probably don't get to make a choice of who they use in the UK. They have a choice to not use DHL at home in Germany but that would be dopey. Looks like DHL UK sold them a pup with their business plan of send a van to clear out a store room when it gets full or some customer complaints their return isn't being actioned. I wonder what will happen to OP's bass in the end. It sounds pretty dire with faults not economic to rectify. Not so long ago Amazon were in the cart for landfilling all manner of return items instead of sorting the defective and restocking the good, or shock horror donating it to a charity who would.