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The outs are balanced yes but balanced needs 3 signals : positive, negative and ground. If you use a ts (just positive and ground) then it's not balanced even if the physical connector on the other end is an xlr.

No risk, but it wouldn't be a balanced signal that you were sending. Might as well just use a regular guitar cable.

I can say with some degree of certainty that the best place for your effects is in front of your amp. Normally effects loops don't suit pedals and vice versa. They're all expecting different levels and impedances and such. It can work great with certain rack units or multi effects units but for old school pedals it'll be better to go in front. What's a bit more subjective is pedal order. No rules here unfortunately. If two pedals aren't being used at their same time then their order doesn't matter. If you plan on using some together then order is going to effect the sound. For instance, having an octave pedal create and octave then have that be distorted by the distortion will sound very different to the other way around in which the distortion creates loads of harmonics and flattened waves and the octaver has a lot of work to do trying to 'octave' them all. Personally I'd go: tuner (first so that it's always getting a clean signal without you having to turn effects off to tune), octaver (wants a clean signal too), synth wah (I'd rather wah and octave than try to octave a wah as it'll confuse the octaver), distortion, delay. But that's just me. Other people wrong people will have different ideas and it's really up to you to see what works best.

Theres a local bass player (not on bc) that has a pair and they're great. They seem a little... standard though. So many of the things that Dider makes are unique products, but I suppose you have to do a 1*12" and they're as good as any.

RightOn do a vegan range if that's a requirement.

It's slow but inexorable. I've got a guitarist in my hard rock band who's really old school: no ear plugs, nothing in the wedge apart from vocals, too much stage volume, the works. In the 9 years we've been in a band he's gone Marshall DSL50 with 412 > Vox AC30 > AC15 > Vox MV50 with a 112 > MV50 DI with no stage cab. If he's downsizing others are for sure.

I use an Aldi wheelie tool bag for everything apart from my basses.

I saw that you'd tried as well! Id noticed a suspicious comment (last one in my screenshot) and assumed something was going on but I'd never have thought of that, makes sense.

I should have paid more attention, turns out it was £400 but still. The exact phrase that was used was 'abandoned in a rehearsal room'. The seller is very well known the group though, as is the buyer, so I'm sure we'll find out if it all goes south. My point was simply that, if priced right, plenty of people will still buy the heavy stuff. I tried.

Someone on a local Facebook group put an AD200B and matching cab up for like £300 the other day, I got there like 37 minutes after he posted and it was already sold about 15x over.

In their defence I have a XR18 mixer that does a sterling job mixing for both bands and both systems, so I'm not anti-Behringer either! Whilst I've not actually owned the gigging PA speakers, based on my experience with Thomann's own brand stuff (including my beloved Six Mix) I'd probably try the Box Pro stuff if I needed a super-cheap PA. Thomann have a habit of punching well above their weight. The dsp enabled 18" subs are only £322, you can have a pa with a 1kW 12" top and a 800W 18" sub per side for like a thousand pounds total and I'll bet it's decent enough, Thomann stuff always is.

But do you want to? I remember the thread and voting for Alto as one of my bands has an all-Alto system and it's great. Seriously, the other band uses all RCF and I have 2 qsc k12.2 so there's plenty of good pa in my life and the Alto is good by any standard and great by its' price standard. Most people don't say the same about behringer.

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+1 on the RightOn straps. They're the only ones I've used that don't get longer through the night, that adjustment system is perfect. The rest of it isn't bad either. If you're reading, Bradley, I had mine BEFORE you made them cool. Although admittedly I've never played live with Lady GaGa so you win on that front.

The problem with putting other stuff in the rack as well is that there's no rear input on the Ashdown head, leaving you with a trailing cable if you want anything before the amp like a wireless. Tuner is a good shout though.

Doesn't that '+6dB' logic only hold true if we were talking about 1x 12R cab being doubled to 2x identical 12R cabs though? I think what's being lost in this is that, if only using one cab, we can use the 4R setting to cheat the impedance/power game a little. I guess the real question is: what's the volume difference between 600W into a 2x10 and ~400W into a 4x10? Which after all that doesn't really change the answer, it's going to be the 4x10.

195 x 125 x 35 (body) or 70 (feet and knobs) mm. It will fit on a PT nano if you turn it sideways, but then with the jacks on the two ends there's not much room for anything else. If you are happy with output jacks hanging off the board and you can use low profile connectors for the input side you might make it work. I mean, it's a fantastic box and I really do like it a lot, but when you consider it's actually a bit bigger than the hx stomp it does start to feel a little silly. If this was Sansamp-sized and center negative it'd be perfect IMO.

I will measure one tomorrow, I even have a pt nano to check for you. My gut feeling is 'no' though, the studiospares is roughly the size of an imperial star destroyer.

£22.49 in the autumn sale!

Also the TC Electronic BG combos. There are 12" and 15" models depending on size and weight requirements. Welcome to bc!

I have the same Thomann DI box. Whilst it does have a speaker setting, I'd be a bit scared of something that cheap with such high voltage. Countryman Type 85 is the answer.

I'd strongly encourage you both to see past those beautiful American pearly whites and give Goldfinger a go, one of my favourite bands. Feldman is a great frontman and there's some nice bass parts too. Punk rock is a lot prettier than proper punk.

You're paying for the dentistry not the electronics.

I take a good di to gigs (eh, what are they?) where there's external sound because it's just not worth the hassle. So that's an unbalanced ts plug using one leg of a balanced trs socket, to a di box to balance the signal again. Whatever, saves the phantom power worry anyway.