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And here's some pictures. The two cabs stack very nicely on top of each other. However they are only loosely connected through the rubber feet on the bottom and the holes in the corners. You're not going to knock them over without a push, but a drunken punter would easily push them down. The bottom one looks nicer than the top one as it's all black (IMO). I may retrofit the black corners onto the top one. The top one happens to have a Mod Dwarf on it and without that, would be the perfect place to place a pint. Still got to do a grill for the bottom one. Side angle and the rear. The handles are great., Easy to carry the whole cab with just one of them. And from the rear I'm quite pleased with how they have turned out. Even better when I can change the top Speakon panel and remove the gaskets. Work has got in the way all day today. Rob

Bring it down, I'll use the Mod Dwarf to act as a DSP, send one signal to one Gnome, and one to the other Gnome. I did think if I had the House Jam 6", use the Mod Dwarf as a gilter so the bass signal goes to the 8" and a portion of the rest goes to the 6" speaker. The Mod Dwarf is acting as an active crossover here. No idea if it will work, but this is just the event to try these ideas out Rob

Well I'll be bringing two I have also worked out how to biamp them (if only I had another Warwick Gnome to use). Rob

Yes that's a sensible summary

The rubber gasket around the actual SpeakOn socket was the issue. It just moved the socket far enough away from the panel that the SpeakOn NL4 plug wouldn't work with the twist. The genuine NL2 Neutrik plug did work. Clearly I do not understand all the nuances around SpeakOn plugs and sockets but at least that problem has gone away. Sorry for the confusion. Rob

I think I know what the problem is. I put a small rubber gasket around each SpeakOn socket to reduce air loss. I think this has changed the distance from the plate to the socket enough to stop some plugs working. I'll pull the panel, remove the gasket and see if that works.

But as the sockets are NL4 and the plugs are NL4 something isn't right. I understand the theory but reality has entered the room. As far as I can see, I have NL4 sockets and an NL4 cable. The NL4 cable will not lock in. I push the cable in, pull back on the silver connector and attempt to twist clockwise. I cannot twist it clockwise. The NL2 cables both work fine. However the NL2 cables have 1/4" sockets on one end. I suspect crap connectors on the NL4 cable

I suspect you are right. The spring tag on the cheapo one feels horrid, the Neutrik feels far nicer. I suspect @Chienmortbb might be getting another order soon.

Finally got most of the second cab finished, its nicknamed Goth as its very, very black. It still needs a grill but that next weeks work and I was keen to see how it sounded in a stack, it maybe a small one (where have I heard that before) but it's still one speaker cabinet on top of the other. Checked it sounds OK on its own, stacked it on and the tried to fit the cheapo NL4 SpeakOn -> SpeakOn cable a friend gave me. The dammed cable won't fit in the Speakon sockets I have. I have just checked with Blue Arran and the order says NL4 sockets https://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=TUFF87182NU, the cable given to me has four metal plates inside the plastic tube but I can't twist the cable to fit at all. The centre prong in the NL2 is almost a half moon, whilst the cheap NL4 cable is most of a circle. @Chienmortbb made me two 1/4" Jack -> NL2 cables, a short one and a slightly shorter one and they fit into the NL4 sockets easily and smoothly. The cheap cable feels bloody awful and cheap. Not sure if my problem is that I have NL4 sockets in a single speaker cab AND/OR I have a crap NL4 cable ( @Chienmortbb's cable works fine) or I have missed the point completely and it's something else. Each speaker works fine on it's own with Johns cable's. I just can't join the cables together. All and any suggestions welcomed. Once I get it working and I have the grill, I'll post pictures. Thanks Rob

Just letting people who came last year or the year before that this event is on for 2026 in the same village call. @GreeneKing @nekomatic @doomkeeper @vsmith1 @sifi2112 @Ruarl Thanks Rob

I've made a few guitars and basses with an aluminium backbone and 3d printed body. No wood at all in the body but decent wooden necks. Nobody has yet said they sound rubbish. Perhaps they were being kind. I play them as much as I play the wooden bodied guitars and basses I own. I do not claim to be a guitar virtuoso but they sound different but no more different than my 80's Westone to my MIK Squire Tele to my Strat. My headless bass is different to my Jazz or Bitsa Jazz or Westone Thunder, not worse just different. What was interesting was how little effect the incredibly strong magnets had on the pickups. Given the strength of them, and I laughed out loud at the anvil, I would have thought it would affect the tone but it didn't appear to. I think it was a great experiment, mad but still worthwhile.

There are now TWO versions of Logic Pro, one is part of their subscription model that has recently been released, Apple Creator Studio (https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-creator-studio/) and one is the pay once version (https://www.apple.com/uk/logic-pro/) The Creator Studio has AI stuff that the pay once version doesn't. I have no idea what value this other stuff is. I already have and paid for Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Main Stage, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher along with MS Office (which I must have for work) so for me, it makes little sense to get the subscription. Certainly all my Apple apps get updated at regular intervals so I'm happy with what I have. Rob

Not in my book. I have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX and sometimes (always?) I spend far too long chasing down a sound that only exists in my head, that I can't work out how to use all the presets to get what I'm after and what I should have done is simply turn the amp on, plug in and play. I get too attached to the rabbit holes and I wonder what this does, and what that does and spent hours reading and exploring and then come back to what the original preset was set to. Other people are far cleverer and better players than me, so they may have a very different perspective.

Start with GarageBand and learn the basics first. GB is very very good, and you will avoid some of the complexity of Logic Pro. Focus on playing and recording rather than worrying about some of the more complicated features that Logic Pro offers. You can spend days messing with LP rather than playing and recording in GB. There's so much in GB and as has already been said, one you outgrow GB it's simple to open your work in LP and carry on. I jumped into LP and I should have stayed with GB for longer. Also one is free.

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