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So to follow up ive started looking at "smaller" Peavey 1x15 BW's Im hoping with wheels on it wont be TTO much for me....Will update in due course

Bodhisattva - Steely Dan

Yeah it was a great tone, was only in a pub covers band and to the volume of the drums but the depth of the tone was awesome. The guitarists also used valve amps & 412s so the sound of the band was very full without needing to be overloud.

Around 1969-70 I was invited, with others, to the home of a girl I knew. Her father was chief flautist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In the loungs, was a very nice turntable next to a Leak amplifier and in two corners, two horns atop concrete plinths rose up from the floor. I asked about them and were told that they were Lowther drivers, set in concrete. I believe they were 8". Of course the father played classical music on them, but we played Hendrix, Cream etc along with some electric folk. I have never heard any of those albums sound better. I have to add the caveats that it was a long time ago and maybe my ears were not a well-trained then (I later worked at the EMI record factory and EMI research labs). However, this was a stereo amp giving 30 Watts per channel and those speakers were so sensitive. You must also add that in those days we never heard the lows of the base owing to the equipment at the time and the quality of the playback equipment. Being a Flautist, I assume he (or rather his speakers) had some kind of tweeter in each side, as I do not remember any lack of top end.

I think, thank goodness the finger noise is gone.

Des bought some pickup covers from me, a very smooth transaction all round. Deal with in good confidence! Pete

Mine came after a fortnight. From Italy.

Buddha of Suburbia - David Bowie

I’m 58 years old and started playing bass when I was 15 I think and just learned that volume reggae trick maybe a year ago. It totally works.

I fitted one to a Combustion 5. They are definitely an improvement on the stock bridges, but I felt the design was a little off (e.g. very close to body edge on B side) as well as the semi-visible routing hole where ground wire emerges seemed odd to have not designed away by after test fits.

Totally agree regarding that line up. I was lucky to see them play on the old Jazz stage at Glastonbury '93. They were on just before The James Taylor Quartet who headlined. I danced a lot that day! Nick Van Gelder left to form Akimbo with Simon Bartholomew from The Brand New Heavies. Loved his drumming with the early Ozrics too 👌

Also... I've been on the Analogman King of Tone waiting list for 6 years now. Still not at the top! But you don't pay at the beginning for that. Only pay when you confirm you still want it when you reach the top.

That`s the very one I`ve been umming & ahhing over

This. Since Covid I've managed to reduce some of my back problems by regular daily workouts. I'm working on all muscle groups, rebuilding muscle mass and strength. Unfortunately, all my good work is being undone by an arthritic hip which doesn't respond to any treatment other than pain killers!