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Heard about this the other day, seems like another music shop has hit the wall, Kenny's Music, which has a few branches across Scotland. Had been into their Aberdeen and Glasgow branches through the years. They did have an online presence, but it looks like that's been taken off line.

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Not in theXR18, but I use a dBX DriveRack that can auto eq the PA in a room using pink noise, however you can’t really do this at your average pub gig as I don’t think many landlords would be happy with you pinking their bar full of punters whilst you move a reference mic around the three positions the DriveRack requests. I’ve used it to set up a user presets (one with subs either side, one with centre subs, one with no subs) that cover our usual setups, then select the correct one as a starting point, and correct for any room imbalances using the main eq and my ears.

To be fair much of the public are so exhausted running ever faster on the hamster wheel and getting further away from where they started to be interested in other people getting subsidies (even if they are from war torn nations and have lost everything).

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.

The sellers are having unexpected problems getting hold of these and sorting out who gets them. I ordered one on the 12th Oct with Thomann (exp 3-4 weeks), then two weeks later I checked and it said (exp 1-2 wks) which was on track. Last week it jumped to (exp 8-9 wks). I called them up and was told they have a longer list of people who've ordered them, than what they are getting in. Some will get there's sooner, maybe me too. It seems they've not got their automation sorted, given that they have all the data - and a friendly phone call might be just the thing to ensure that you don't get bumped down the queue, by any carelessness. Still I'm looking forward immensely to getting to grips with the pedal and using it on dep gigs especially. Like others, have considered a bass synth keyboard but my regular bands don't think we need one yet.

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

It's a shame there's no automated method on the XR18. Many years ago I was rehearsing in a terrible sounding room. They sent along someone with a Peavey unit. It may have been called an autograph. It put out white noise and a mic took sound samples around the room. The unit analysed the samples and set the eq for the room. It rectified the sound immediately. This was more than 30 years ago so imagine it would be pretty straightforward to incorporate.

But their model is via their dealer network isn’t it? Direct to consumer must be a much smaller part of that annual revenue. also the shopify costs go on a bit of the ballance sheets that looks far better to investors than taking staff on to manage what could easily become a tech liability.

Is the 25mm batten a finished size. Usually planed timber is smaller than the stated size! The stated size is what the rough timber started as before planing.. I hope that makes sense. Of course the same would apply to the 20mm batten unless the specification uses actual finished sizes! I would also agree with glueing as well as screwing as you get solid contact along the whole length of the batten. most commercial speaker cabs have 2 connectors wired in parallel ( +/- 1s connected together) specifically for adding a second cab.

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Congrats to @Al Nico on his joint win and thanks for the votes as it’s been a while since I was on the top step in any fashion 😁 I’ll give @Al Nico till lunchtime to send me a picture , after that I’ll do the honours

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

Better qualified than me... There is approx 310cm of baton. Total volume of 2.0cm x 2.0cm x 310cm = 1,240cm^3 Total volume of 2.5cm x 2.5cm x 310cm = 1,937.5cm^3 Approx total interior volume of cab = 40x30x27.5 = 33,120cm^3. I know it's slightly less as I should take into account the overlap of pieces but I've only got an iPhone with me and it's hard to keep track from the PDF. So (1937-1240)/33120 = approx 2% change. No idea if a significant change. Doesn't sound like it but what do I know. Rob