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No help in getting his tone other than understanding where it was coming from. Go back to the 1950's and there were no proper musical instrument speakers in the UK though Fender and others were building guitar combos inthe States. Materials used in building loudspeakers were still primitive, magnets were weaker, speaker coil often wound on paper formers and glued on with domestic adhesives. Amps were all valve jobs and usually limited in power. the first Fender amp was 7W and drove an 8" speaker. PA's were designed for public address rather than music, usually column speakers and adopted by bands. The real problem was volume, just being loud enough to be heard at all. The vox AC30 was a revolution followed very quickly by other companies including Marshall. You'll notice tha 30W was seen as a powerful amp and the AC30 needed two 12" speakers to handle the power. 25W was the handling of the typical 12" speaker in the sixties because the heat in the coil literally burned the paper formers andbroke down the glue. Because of the magnets lack of power the cones were made lighter to get more volume and the magnet gap was limited to increase the efficiency, meaning excursion was limited and there was little bass output. If you used a single 4x12 Marshall you'd need to pair it with a 50W amp if you wanted it to last very long. We suffered many blown speakers then and re-coning was pretty common. 1970 was a bit of a turning point, ceramic magnets came into wide use, heat resistant adhesives and formers increased power handling and the money generated by bands meant specialist music speakers were being designed. The first 100W solid state amps were recently introduced and though unreliable they were a bit cheaper and a lot lighter than the old valve amps. Power available was about to take off. The USA was a way ahead of the UK but both knowledge and physical imports were trickling in. Just as importantly Thiele and Small published their papers on speakers and we finally had some solid mathematical theory to bring to cab design. Free would have known nothing of this. Most UK companies were still building gear using 25-30W 12" speakers with a few 15's and 18's used for bass. Celestion, Goodmans and Fane dominated the British market. That's waht you are hearing in the Andy Fraser sound, bass is limited by excursion and lightweight cones, the lower mids are boosted to give a semblance of bass and to bring out the bass and make it sit just below the guitars. Those thin paper cones would be breaking up and giving a boost in the mids but very little output at high frequencies and they wouldn't have been using horns at this stage. Few bassists would have been using ported cabs in the UK as the theory for designing them just wasn't there, we could tune a cab but not match it to the physical and electrical characteristics of the speaker. One of the things that struck me last night listening to the live recordings is how well the bass works with the guitars in the mix, musicians in those days used their ears to work within the limits of their gear to create a great sound. Now that is creativity They were so young too!

For the above two threads there is a line 6 bug forum and an ‘ideascape’ might be worth posting in. Again I reckon they will be concentrating on Stadium but who knows 🤷‍♀️.

Edison’s Medicine - Tesla (double whammy)

hahaha, they are extras that I have that is not currently used for the big board. I really dont have to use the distributor but I already have it so might as well plus it makes the board looks full. 😁

Tesla Girls - OMD

High Voltage - AC/DC

33JJ0821825 was the case number, heard at 10am on 10th September 2025. https://courtlistings.co.uk/magistrates-court-listings/leicester

Oh bum! Hopefully it's not going to be an unpleasant trip with a sad outcome. All the best for your family and safe travels.

It's a nice looking bass, far nicer than that weird Ric-a-like thing they brought out. I just couldn't read all that dross though, just give us a table of the specs like body woods etc. and leave us to it.

That’s an intense power requirement for four mini enclosure pedals! Your power supply probably takes up more total real estate than the pedal themselves

Yes I was never a fan of the colour on these historically, so working in the joinery coatings industry, I’m sure I can make it more palatable. It’s not even really the colour, it’s just the way someone has just brush applied some fence paint to it with no care at all. Any road, we’ll see where it goes.