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Hi I'm looking at the smallest setup for portable use, so using my NUX Mighty Plug Pro and a set of wired headphones. I have a pair of over ear headphones that are very good, Austrian Audio but are a bit bulky. As my iPhone no longer has a headphone socket AND my daughter appears to have lost my rather nice wired Bose headphones, I'm unsure what to get. Also does playing bass need specific ones? I've never used in ear monitors and am unsure if they are the same as wired ear plugs such as the Bose ones above. I can't see me needing IEM's for the foreseeable future, so any recommendations for in ears for practise purpises less than £100 would be very helpful. Rob

From the site, my bold emphasis "You may also need to choose which audio input and output channels you will use for guitar signals, once you have selected and configured an audio device. Many external USB audio devices that have two inputs provide the guitar signal on the right channel only, so you will set the audio input channels to “Right Only”. If your USB audio adapter has more than two input or output channels, you will be offered a list of channels to choose from."

I believe there was a California law proposed that would make the handling of stolen goods over a value of $950 a more serious crime than it currently is and that it allowed prosecutors to get a conviction even if the person had no idea. Not sure that's allowable. Theft under $950 is classed as a misdemeanor as opposed to a felony, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47 for more information. I am not a lawyer, I don't live in the USA and if you decide to go shoplifting, steal $951, get caught and end up in court, please do not come back to me Thanks Rob

How have you stolen my desk and all my stuff? At least it's now tidier than when I had it. Rob

We went to Lancaster Grand to see "The Stadium Rock Experience" in a 360 seat theatre. Not my definition of a stadium but what do I know. An eclectic six piece band called "Trigger" who play 70's, 80's, 90's rock anthems, so All Right Now, Free, Quo etc etc. The front man looks like he would rather be at home organising his vinyl record collection (thats a quote from their website BTW), more dad rock than anything else. A bit like Spinal Tap doing Bon Jovi and Queen and Quo etc. They don't take themselves too seriously and that's their saving grace. It's difficult to find a singer who can do GnR, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi and he doesn't try to. The musicianship was excellent, the bassist and drummer did just what they should do, the keyboard player had more sequins than Strictly Come Dancing, the female singer was very, very good, the male singer looked like me in a pair of tight leather trousers, not a good look TBH. The guitarist was superb. No idea who he was but he was brilliant. Did we think we had seen the bands when we left the theatre? No, did we have a good time? yes. Did people get up and dance? yes! Was it worth £20, definitely. A lot of tongue in cheek humour, they didn't take themselves too seriously, but played very well. The first five mins were hilarious as two out of their four mikes failed to work. Did they storm off, Like Axl Rose? No The bass player, Bob, kept the jokes going whilst the lead singer was desperately trying to fix the problem at the back of the stage. These things happen, it was just like Spinal Tap. Rob

Now thats makes me jealous....

Don't forget the Ampeg 8x10 cab and head as well

As it's raining, I thought I'd look at speaker corners. I brought some from a supplier and they are thin and weedy. So thought I'd design some of my own. Also the front of the speaker is slightly different to the rear of the speaker and a different design would benefit here as the baffle is recessed. The back speaker corners are more traditional These are all 5mm thick and around 60mm x 60mm. Other sizes may be done if enough interest. Mmmm.... after looking at the still printing one, 60x60mm may be too big. Its chunky Happy to print them out for free for a suitable donation to the North West Air Ambulance. I'll post pictures when they are on the speaker. Thanks Rob

Don't underestimate my ability to be fast and inaccurate with even a decent handsaw 😊 I'd much rather design a tool to do it properly rather than me cock it up. I know my limits and they are numerous and many.

Shout if you need any wide ports printed. Easy to change the radius of the outer port, it could be something exponential or a non constant radius. Rob

I saw a video with a plunge saw and thought wow, that looked the business and then saw the price of it. I think if I was making a dozen or so cabs, I'd invest, but for me, not sure it's worth the effort. Now I know you have one, I'll send future ply cuts to you

I did see it in the video, but part of the problem as it was getting colder was me slowing down and thickening up. There wasn't a bowl big enough for me to stand in

So thats this measurement on the right hand side, I would have thought so as well, but always good to check

Hi The plans for the 8" talk about a port length of 64mm inside diameter and 87mm length. I've printed the port and the flange as one piece. Do I include the flange height in the port length OR is it 87mm from inside the baffle board OR 87mm from the front of the baffle board OR is it 87mm from the front of the flange? My assumption is that it's 87mm from the front of the flange, so if the flange is 10mm and the plywood is 12mm then the port inside the cabinet is 87-10-12 = 55mm. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks Rob

If I brought a motorbike in and dismantled it on the kitchen table, I suspect parts of my anatomy may be dismantled as well and distributed far and wide. The ply is nice ply (in my limited experience), the two things I've done differently are: Buying a guide rail for the circular saw. Massive change in cutting wood and it's now simple. Buying an 80 tooth circular saw blade and putting it in the right way. You can actually burn your way through plywood with it the wrong way, so I'm told. I of course didn't do that at all. Nope not me. Also moving the saw blade up so it's only cutting 12.5mm makes it a little friendlier and I can use some old wood as a base rather than my 40 year old Workbench. The second cab will be better again. Also the weather forecast is for six days of constant rain 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️ so this is likely to be the only can this week Rob

Now about half way through. Holes and battens done. I've glued two sides and the bottom. Its now clamped very tightly. These are clamps I use from making the guitars, never thought I'd use them for real wood working. The only reason for stopping was the temperature was falling rapidly and the glue was thickening. So took the whole unit inside the house overnight. Not allowed to do things like this inside the house. Somewhat surprisingly most of the panels seem to fit. Not sure what happened there, normally I'd be out by 10mm or more Its pouring with rain here, enough for waterproof trousers, so I can build and glue in the garage (assuming it's above 5C) but that's it.

I thought we weren't allowed 'racey' or 'adult' pics of a 'suggestive' nature in case children were present. These are clearly 'top shelf' material indeed. Utterly superb. I saw you and your amps at the SW Bass Bash. Loved to have heard them or played through. Watched your build with admiration and awe. Now off for a cold shower. Rob

Some magic seems to have occurred... The observant amongst you will notice the 8" plans. This is the home made router jig and it set up for a 68mm hole. This was some tests I did"just-in-case" This is the baffle board with what appears to be the right sized hole and a 68mm with my printed port set in. The router jig works really well and cost an hour or two of printing and two M5 bolts. As I'm intending to make three boxes, there's an awful lot of batterns....

Ah, that's my super power, I could lose one, two or even three fingers and my bass, guitar and piano playing wouldn't be any worse at all ....

Who is MIRC?

Thanks all for information

Thanks for the offer of help. I will take it up. If it's clear enough for me I should be able to document it for other people. I can solder so that's not an issue. Today's activities are dog walking and cutting holes without damaging myself and ruining the already cut plywood.

The battern is 25mm, the one time I wanted to be sold short, I don't get it 😩. I have a little pack of speakon pieces, plates and pcb's from Blue Aran so will look at that. Today's activity is cutting round holes in plywood and screwing batterns down. I also need to make a jig for the speakon plate. That looks a little difficult.

To me, it's the loss of control that appears odd. Direct sales to customers is, as you say, smaller revenue stream than their customer dealers. Buying into the Shopify model means doing things the Shopify way, that's the Web framework you must use. Now if Shopify provides everything Gibson wants to do, that's fine, but if Gibson wants to do things that Shopify can't offer, then they have to either build something off the Shopify site and link back and make sure it all fits. I can't speak for USA accountancy rules, but in the UK you could get this as a managed service through a Web design and hosting company and get the people costs off your head count. You also get the VAT back and it goes against corporation tax as an expense and HMRC are happy. For smaller companies Shopify simplifies things but for larger ones, I still think it's unusual. Clearly Gibson will have worked it all out and made their call so what do I know 😊 Rob

Strange usage of the word "just" I hadn't heard before 😊