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Giverny - Chris Rea

Hi I have the MarkBass MB58R 122 8ohm cab rated 800w and also MB58R 102 cab rated 8 ohms 400w is this stack unlikely to work or sound odd ? I’m aware of power spread not being equal but is it a mistake using a 12” cab and a 10” cab together and why ? Better is two of the same I know but I own both and tempted to try at rehearsals if folk think it won’t sound awful!! The 122 cab on its own is awesome so this is just getting a cab nearer my ears more than anything

Wow, back on the bleeding edge of tech again More incentive to finish the second cabinet then. If I had a free day or two, I could get them finished for the weekend, and even painted but sadly paid work has to be done this week and I have a show-stopper problem at work to resolve. I only have a Warwick Gnome V2 which apparently puts out either 280W or 300W at 4 Ohms, I assume this is enough to drive both speakers? Local temperature had moved up to the giddy heights of 7C so I might have some time later this evening to do the routing for the handles and SpeakOn panel. Lots of small things to be done before I glue it back together. I do appear to have misplaced two of the rubber feet. which are 38mm x 10mm. I can buy them for 20p from Blue Arran but P&P at £3,50 is 17x the cost of the foot which doesn't quite feel right. If anybody has two, I'll happily buy them. Rob

OK, everyone calm the flip down please. If you want to argue, do it via PMs. Not here. Your luscious, pouting mod team would hate to have to lock the thread, but if it descends into acrimony, it's toast.

Again thanks for all your input. It's been super helpful as always

I'm a volunteer delivery driver for FareShare. FareShare is a registered charity which coordinates the collection of food and other items from supermarkets, wholesalers, logistics companies, and distribution to food banks, churches, schools and other charities. One of the things we do is collect the items donated into the Tesco donation boxes. Besides the items donated by generous customers, the store uses the boxes as an efficient way of getting items to FareShare which are nearing their 'use by' or 'best before' dates. We weigh all collections and notify the stores, and they are able to display a thank-you message with this information on the boxes usually stating how many meals have been donated at a particular location in the last month. What annoys me is not the boxes but the thankfully few members of the public who use the boxes as a dumping ground for out-of-date produce when they clear out their cupboards. Last week at one store there was an item donated with 'use by' date of 2021. This just wastes everybody's time. Why they don't just put stuff like that into the normal recycling/waste collection service I have no idea. The donations add up, and some of the bigger stores in wealthy areas contribute a lot of stuff, by far the biggest source of donations is direct from the supermarkets themselves to the FareShare depots. I would estimate we get 60-70 percent of our donations directly from the supermarkets we work closely with, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer. The public doesn't see this side of it. As others have said, none of this should be necessary in an ideal world, but the food distribution model in the UK is fundamentally broken. Efforts by organisations like FareShare are a sticking plaster over the cracks, but from what I see of our end customers, the need is real and growing.

From the Thomann web site. These were I believe first introduced for 2009/2010 model American Deluxe Fenders.

I generally get into something new to me somewhat late in that band's career. This time I'm not too far behind. Totally absorbed with Henge. So not my sort of thing but something clicked. The drummer really grooves and the shonky synth sounds are ace. AND, there is proper bass guitar in there some times. Bonus! Oh and a plasma ball hat? C'mon! This is the one that grabbed me first. The cheese is strong but good

In my old punk covers band The Dave’s we were sure we played everything correctly, until we needed a new drummer. The new guy learned the songs correctly and we found a good few we played differently, with no ideas as to why the changes had been made. Maybe this happens in other bands as well?

You're at it again aren't you? Lecturing me on how to be an adult and telling me off for not fitting in with your world-view. Value system? I don't have one. Not least of all because neither know or care what one is. I'm not pedalling stereotypes, I'm telling you what happened. Evidence to support my assertions? Should I have filmed it on my phone and then conducted interviews with those concerned? I was doing my shopping, not making a story for Newsnight. And as for northern stereotypes, I am a northerner, born and bred. I come from generations of northerners. That's why I know what I'm looking at when I see it. I don't take lectures from the likes of you on being northern.

Wow, at that price I’m game. Looks like a long wait so I’ll get on with life for a few months lol.

Thank you for the thumbs up!

Tearing down after our third Gig with our new EV ZX G2 PA , After a pretty decent by all accounts gig Saturday evening , One Guitarist is working the left im on the right ... he comes over, "ERR cant get the cable out of the PA" I suspect a case of feeble guitarist hand is to blame but indeed the XLR cable is Stuck fast ... no amount of twisting cajoling pressing and releasing etc will help. I mutter much profanity at it but its closing on 1 am, so I wrap it up like Pig in a blanket ( long XLR cable ) to deal with sunday at home .. NO luck , I take the panel off and see if i can access the back , of course the neutranic connectors are totally sealed units .... I try every form of prying and even sculpting tools imagine really sharp lock picks (pinched off my other halfs desk), I give up and decide to call Andertons , They agree that there's not more to be done by me so it's going to have to go back to EV for replacement/repair. The pro audio manager , while very torn can't just swap it out especially as i've binned all the boxes etc its 50 odd days old and yes its been turned on 6 or so times is brand new visually ... from the store's POV he has to send it back to EV, our issue is they quote an up to 6 week return window we have gigs in feb. On a positive customer service note from our Andertons man , He has arranged a loaner unit for me for any gigs ,( not something i was aware Andertons could do) Including any last minute bookings , should we get to squeaky bum time, I can head down ( im 20 mins away) he will pull one from stock , Very good of him and had me feeling like they definitely gave a crap. Anyone experienced this sort of thing .... im now worried about our other unit ... is the solution to buy some super high end Short XLR's "tails" and daisy chain long cables ... to avoid cheap connectors ?

The Diamond - Sutton in Ashfield. A great live music venue with a lovely family feel to the whole thing. It was an early Sunday afternoon gig but there were still 70+ Cheap Trick fans in attendance despite a £10-£12 entry fee. Taxman.mp4

We grow our own apples, pears, plums, strawberries, rasberries and gooseberries and we also go blackberry picking. Most of it gets preserved as chutneys, relishes and jam except the strawberries which get eaten immediately. Other than that I don't think we ever buy or eat commercially available fruit.

Maybe a move back to the original topic of 'playing for charity' which was both useful and informative......

I suspect the change to digital will lead to Sansamp licensing their sound to Line 6, Neural etc which I would support whole heartedly!

I've known plenty of people for whom eating fruit is something between taking an unpleasant medicine and a punishment. What I will say is that fruit is expensive. Good quality fruit is very expensive.

Ah okay, thanks that helps me see what's going on, that is unscrupulous! Using the term 'charity' in bad faith is pretty low, and that should be 100% called out!