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I have had an Alpher build done a few years ago. I'll dig some stuff out when I get home later tonight.

Still from 'When the Levee Breaks, Playing for Change Vid. Stray Wallace Amp and owner found playing in Kew Gardens!

Thanks for the replies guys! Problem is I'm getting serious gas for the Minimark. I've never tried 8in drivers, and am just really curious as to how they would work. I'm in a weird position in that my health has been bad recently, but finances fairly good, so I'm looking at the present and future in a "hope for the best, prepare for the not-so-great" type of spirit - ie a year or two down the line I could be in better health, but may have less money. Things are uncertain on both counts, but am itching to play more. Currently I can afford to splurge a bit, and my Fender Rumble 30 has a knackered speaker (damn looper pedal!), so now seems like a good time time to look at options. I've been thinking about the https://www.markbass.it/product/new-york-121/ as an alternative to the Trace 10in option - a single cab with the Gnome. This cab seems to get a lot of love on the internet, is fairly light and compact, and could form the start of a small stack in the future, so I wouldn't be wasting my money. But still can't get the Minimark 802 out of my head!

Another shout out to Jean Jacques from me

What? My local "The Welly" passes a full blown wellington boot about for the cash and have a card tap attached to it, AND the beer goes up by 10% at 8pm whenever musicians play as a "help the starving musician levey" which is clearly advertised and no one balks at it cos free entry for ever.

+1^^ for me. Very happy to recommend the Nux. Sounds like a great approach and look forward to your findings!

Chase Bliss Blooper would do it. For more than a Tensor!

You don't adjust parameters from the device; you use your phone to do that. It is very convenient.

Pino Palladino's stuff with Paul Young, loved that tone, wore out the C90 of that album. That was a gateway onto Mick Karn, then Geddy, then Doug wimbish. Jonny

Sorry, spelt his name incorrectly. . . . still isn't Emilio Castillo. . . . he's not black. Doesn't look like Doc Kupka either, but this was a long time ago, so I'm less certain about that.

Same here. A lot of bass players make the mistake, imho obviously, of pushing too much LF. If you let the kick drum supply the oomph and concentrate on providing the notes on the bass, the result is much tighter and more musical. It does depend, of course, on the bass and kick drum being in sync.

A 2 x 8 cab wouldn't be enough for me. I did a duo restaurant gig last month, with a guitarist singer, and I took a 110. With a drummer the smallest rig I'd use would be 2 x 110's or a good 112. I also use one or two 110's at home. You can always turn down, but turning up doesn't always work.

100% And the parallel is that AI can't fake a live performance by a human band, which is what audiences want. They can already listen to a Jukebox if they wanted. So whilst I fear for the future of the aspiring song writer in my band, who's working on his 4th album, I'm very glad we can be out at gigs each week doing something we love.

It's bizarre, isn't it. Their tape measures don't even have cm/mm on them...

Loving that, amazing

A major university in London started to move towards course work instead of sitting exams. Now they're moving back to the exam room due to the amount of AI students were submitting as their own work!! We're also seeing smart watches being used for cheating in exams, alongside multiple phones secreted in socks and anywhere else they can think of. I guess technology has always been used for cheating, but these days it's being used by students on an industrial scale. AI is a powerful tool for good and bad, depending on the person using it.

If, for example, AI had written At Last for Etta James to sing or Can't help falling in love performed by Elvis, would we have listened? Will the audience care who wrote the song if hearing it gives them joy? Or is it just taking us back to the time pre Beatles when 95% (I'm guessing here!) of leading performers had their song material provided for them? And 100% of covers and tribute bands do today. Is the situation different to Henry Ford inventing the production line and taking work away from skilled workers who could put a whole engine together from scratch?

The Molotovs at the Black Prince in Northampton. Energetic 3-piece playing short, sharp punk-pop tunes infused with elements of the Jam and the Libertines. The long-awaited album finally comes out on Friday. Third time I've seen them and they are a real tight unit. Always stick a cover or two into the set, this time Bowie's Suffragette City and a superb Martha and the Vandellas' Heatwave.