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Bugger it, I've picked up a used like new Auralex for a little more than the HB. I think ill throw the bendy pad in the bin. Forget the question, the feet are returning, ta for input all.

You don't know the half of it! I'm guessing that you never played northern working men's clubs in the 80s or 90s!

Well obviously it's grim up North as well.

So what they are effectively saying is that if your bass is made solely from Paulownia (as some basses were) it isn't very good and lacks 'bass'! LOL Sorry but the tonewood thing is a minefield and while interesting, isn't the be all and end all. Some basses sound good despite being made of (what is considered) inferior types of material and some basses made of top quality materials can sound conversely poor. Personally if a bass body is made of wood it should be well seasoned and resonant... though it doesn't have to be so resonant (for me) that it rings too much.

Thank you for the suggestion. Fortunately, it was just a little damage to the ply where the feet were located: the two on the front side of the cab, so I was able to inspect it thoroughly when I removed the drivers. The only internal bracing is the internal baffle board assembly, as far as I could see. There is certainly nothing loose inside. I reinforced the area where the ply was damaged with some rectangles of 8mm ply, glued and stapled. I am pretty sure that is not moving and the buzzing is not coming from that area. TBH this cab always vibrated a lot at volume. I guess that is what comes from the lightweight construction: 10mm ply throughout. I always put a non-slip mat on top when gigging it. The buzz is something I hadn’t noticed before but I haven’t used it for a while. I have been using my LFSys Monzas, which are made of thicker ply and don’t vibrate as much. Now I have heard the buzz, I can’t un-hear it. I probably do need to consult Alex but I wanted to get an impartial view first. Unfortunately, the cab isn’t insured and the incident with the feet happened a couple of years ago.

I don't know about casting a shadow (except perhaps in a metaphorical sense) but at least one of the fret ends has blown clean through the binding. You wouldn't accept that on a £500 Epiphone.

As I said in my post above, I don't find that to be the case. There are parts of the north that are far more miserable! Probably why @BigRedX's goth bands do so well there! 🙂

I think people's expectations are just higher in the south-east around London. Plus we are a miserable bunch. The further you go from London the more relaxed people are.

I found this photo of me playing my Overwater Original some time in the mid to late 90s. As you'll notice the strap button position doesn't seem to be a problem at all:

Maybe some of the internal bracing was damaged when the foot incident occurred? Sounds like more than a damping issue to me. Could send it to Alex for an assessment then claim on insurance?

Afraid i'm not on Instagram and it wants me to set up an account. Dave

Now I think of it, the list is probably quite long! I started the list with Boss but will need to get back to it for all the others when I get time/memory! Boss AW-3 Auto Wah Boss BB-1X Bass Driver Boss BF-3 Flanger Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus Boss GEB-7 Bass Equaliser Boss GT-1000 Core Boss GX-10 Boss GX-100 Boss LMB-3 Limiter Enhancer Boss LS-2 Line Selector Boss OC-5 Octave Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive Boss RC-5 Loop Station Boss RE-20 Space Echo Boss RE-202 Space Echo Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer Boss TU-3 Tuner

Hopefully you'll get some decent work from it Daryl. All the best sir. Dave

The Warwick Gnome and TC heads are pretty widely used (and not expensive). I have a Gnome and it works great for DB. I use a PJB C2 cab but there's somebody either here or on TalkBass that uses one of these amps with a Barefaced 110....

The geographic thing is also linked to genre. I've played a few less than well attended Goth gigs in Scotland, but Yorkshire - Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Whitby and York are consistently great. The few times that I've played Manchester the reaction has been very favourable, but getting the gigs themselves has been unnecessarily difficult. When it comes to selling merch, over exposure can sometimes go against you. In the last 12 months we've done a few gigs where the audience reaction has been fantastic, but we've sold almost nothing afterwards, because most of them already have the T-shirt and CD.

The bass looks really poor, I have to say. It's not just one issue here but several, which is what tends to convince me that the overall workmanship is poor and the builder doesn't care. Letting a bass go with one flaw and hoping it wouldn't be noticed is lazy and unacceptable but to send something out with a number of flaws like this, all of which are quite obvious, just shows contempt for the customer and the £2300 spent. The binding is stained. The paint is flawed. The fret ends look ridiculous (is one of them casting a shadow in one of those photos?). The scratchplate looks like it's been hand cut with an old tin opener. The neck and bridge are out of alignment, and the OP didn't even notice that! I am guessing the OP is in the UK given that he stated what he'd paid in £. I do often wonder if UK customers now are given short shift at times because of their apparently meek nature and the additional issues and costs with shipping in and out of the country. In this case, we once again see an OP tip-toeing around the issue of naming this botch-jobber in the hope that this would give him some bargaining power to get the bass fixed, unaware that bending the knee at such an early stage just signals defeat. FWIW, I wouldn't want such a sloppy bass back; I wouldn't want an ornament of insult sat around my house reminding me of the episode. OP, you're the customer and you're supposed to get what you want when you're spending the thick end of two and half grand. Grovelling and hoping the builder will deign to fix his issues is just... not what I would do. It reminds me a bit of the Letts bass saga, or the handful of posters on Talkbass clutching at straws and hoping Joe Zon would finally build them the bass they had paid for a decade ago. We've had it here before with dodgy builders like Cristian Grosu and Grosmann basses, where builders were named for sending out subpar instruments and it saved the community plenty of headaches in the process. Not here, but on Bass Upfront and groups like that, I was able to warn a few people to read up on some of the horror stories about Grosmann including one on this very site. I'd like to think I saved a few people some cash and some disappointment. OP really should name the builder in this instance to prevent others going through what he has had to put up with.