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Ignoring the apparent controversy about water possibly damaging the electronics, how much water would actually get into that area anyway? I can't imagine any water getting through the scratchplate and the pots are well sealed under the scratchplate by their locking nuts. The jack socket also wouldn't let in much water if a lead was plugged into it. So, given that the bass is only going to be splashed with water, not immersed into a bath full of the stuff, I can't really see the electronics coming to much harm.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='883446' date='Jul 1 2010, 09:40 PM']You always think 'but I may need them incase ''[/quote] How did you know I always think that? I've got a box full of them, but then I rarely throw anything away. I'm sure I've read somewhere about an initiative to standardise low-voltage dc connectors so we could have a single 'universal' 'power brick', but I've seen no real sign of them. USB connectors are increasingly used for power but really the whole area is a right old mess. Still, it keeps the PSU manufacturers in business.

[quote name='chrisba' post='877352' date='Jun 25 2010, 01:20 PM']I asked Ashdown the same question regarding my Electric Blue combo. They replied that it could damage the amp, so don't do it. This is not true of their more expensive amps.[/quote] I've got an Ashdown Mag Evo II with a DI output, so I checked the manual but it said nothing about phantom powering. I emailed Ashdown asking them if connection to a phantom powered input could damage the amp and received the following reply: [i]The DI output is indeed protected against phantom powering… It incorporated blocking capacitors in each line.[/i] Frankly, I'd have been surprised if the DI output wasn't protected against phantom powering; (a) it's trivially simple and cheap, ('b) it's good design practice to protect any input/output against reasonable abuse and external faults. Pity they didn't spell it out in the manual though.

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[quote name='Alien' post='880545' date='Jun 29 2010, 12:22 AM']but nobody bats an eyelid about the stresses on those solder joints do they?[/quote] Perhaps they should. A heavy cable is just as susceptible to movement and vibration as anything else and should ideally be mechanically fixed rather than just soldered and allowed to flap around. How many people have experienced "socket" problems at some time or another? These are the sorts of construction details that can determine long-term reliability.

+1 to all that. Solder joints are for electrical connectivity, not for securing large components in a highly vibrating environment. Better safe than sorry.

Happy, happy days.

My cabs have jacks and speakons but I use speakon connectors for the good reasons above plus to avoid getting the speaker cables (which should be heavier) mixed up with signal cables.

Thanks for the youtube link. Wonderful stuff. Great songwriter. I must be getting soft in my old age, I seem to have a bit of grit in my eye . . .

[quote name='vmaxblues' post='879554' date='Jun 28 2010, 09:22 AM']How can anyone call Stevie Wonder and The Eagles 'total s**t'? wow[/quote] Quite. I'm not particularly a fan of either but it's clearly ridiculous to call such huge and successful artists sh*t.

Meant to include this link in my previous post: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_%28The_Kinks_song%29"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_%28The_Kinks_song%29[/url]

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='879273' date='Jun 27 2010, 09:54 PM']Somebody said the higher the power rating the less need for a heatsink. I think you'll find that the opposite is true. You can work out a rough guess at the power dissipated by the resister using Ohm's Law but it all goes as heat and if it's a lot you might need a heat sink.[/quote] It's not the power [u]rating[/u] that determines how much power is disspiated. The circuit configuration will determine that and, yes, you can calculate this if you know the relevant figures. My point was that there would be no harm using a higher-rated resistor than necessary and it might be mechanically advantageous. Say the circuit design was such that the resistor would dissipate 1 watt, then it would do no harm to use, for example, a 25W resistor - it would still only dissipate 1 watt and it might be able to do so without requiring an additional heatsink (you'd need to do the thermal calcs to be sure), but it would be physically larger and probably have good mechanical mountings as per the link in Alien's post.

Well, whatever the real inspiration, the words were certainly appropriate, given Quaife's recent passing. I have to admit to a bit of a lump in my throat as he sang them - no-one will convince me he wasn't thinking of Quaife during that performance.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='879351' date='Jun 27 2010, 11:21 PM']It's great but the mix is terrible. No bass whatsoever.[/quote] Really? I've just been enjoying the bass playing and could hear it perfectly. Maybe more of a reproduction problem than a mix problem? I'm not a Stevie Wonder fan but I thought it was good stuff.

Was it my imagination or was he holding back a few tears as he sung "Days"? Hard not to be thinking about Pete Quaife, I'd imagine. I've seen him a few time in recent years and, apart from his undisputedly (surely?) great catalogue of iconic songs, the thing I really like is that he seems so proud of them (as he surely should be) and really seems to love playing them.

Yes, those are the type of resistors I had in mind. Good solid solder tags (as Alien said) but also solid mechanical mountings as well. The OPs resistors might not have mounting holes but don't forget that it will do harm to use a device with a higher rating if mounting holes are important (but keep the ohms the same though!). Also, the higher the resistor power rating, the less need for a heatsink. With a convenient mounting hole it might be possible to bolt the resistor to the speaker somewhere.

Probably a daft question, but why is the ashdown logo on the cabs described as being upside down? Couldn't the cabs be upside down?

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+1 on the mechanical considerations. You don't mention the resistor wattage but they can be quite physically large. The bigger ones will have mounting holes specifically to provide mechanical support and it's a generally good idea to use them but even more so in a strongly vibrating environment like a bass cab. If you're worried about anything burning then use a decent heatsink. If you're really worried about things burning then choose a heatsink with the correct thermal characteristics to keep the resistor within its working temperature range even at maximum rated dissipation.

See? I said different people were, er, different.

Different people are, er, different. What seems reasonable behaviour to one person won't seem that way to another. Put such people together in almost any form of collaborative project and there will be disagreements. That's life. If they want to leave the band, for whatever reason, what is the point in trying to persuade them otherwise? OK, a little chat about how you feel might be in order but ultimately they'll do what they want (assuming they're not under contract) so why get all upset about it? Let them go and start looking for another band. If you all want to get back together when they return from Crete then fine. If not, then fine. Coercing people to do what they don't want to do never works out in the end anyway. Life's too short to bottle these things up, so just move on.

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