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Absolutely superb, that looks mint! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼

Thanks for all the responses. To answer the various questions: I don't know if it's the right foot switch for the amp - it came with the amp, but it was an estate sale so there's room for error The problem seems limited to the foot switches, it works fine when I just use the front panel switches None of the switches seem to be latching, they are just momentary Our best guess is that as @Sparky Mark says, the foot switches need some switch cleaner and a bit of use In other news, I had a friend stay over Christmas and she's an electronics engineer, so we took the amp apart to look at the front panel illumination. Inside the amp: Confirmation of the age: It turns out it didn't need great electronics skill. The front panel is connected to this board, and there is a 2-pin connector on the board (yellow ellipses) which has its own tap from the mains transformer (yellow arrow). So the panel and its drive circuit have been disconnected all this time! I had worried that maybe the panel was disconnected but the driver had still been live and was possibly damaged. I re-plugged the connector, and voila! Mmmm! While we had the case open, I took a photo of the power supply capacitors. There's a bit of 100Hz hum on the speakers and we're suspecting dried out capacitors. There's a bit of work to do to remove them though.

Quick review?

Russians - Sting

I owned a later 715 peavey era GP7 amp with the BF-4 foot switch ( there was also a BF-6 for GP12's, both with the DIN multi cable). I seem to recall that the best way to set up was to connect the foot switch before powering up and also ensure all the switches or buttons were in the off/out position on the amp front panel and not to use the front panel buttons at all while things were powered on. Slightly off topic but the same thing applied to Ashdown's remote foot switch for ABM heads, always connect before powering up and leave all front panel buttons in the out position.

I got the MXR Bass Synth! Chuffed!

@police squad

Turn to Red Leb - Killing Joke

Let's jazz things up a bit. 8/4 & 6/4 Larry Coryell - Low-lee-tah | Bass: Danny Trifan

£414.70 including buyers proetection fee. Thats a steal for at twice the price rig like this (with a proper foam suspended case for the head as well). Yes of course its too big and too heavy and you'll probably never need to turn it up anywhere past ten o'clock but still, what a machine. It's kind of like a Harley-Davidson. Utterly unnecesary but really quite wonderful. Or I suppose thats how motorbike owners feel about them? Not one myself so theres an element of speculation there...

I tidy cales away using the 'figure of eight' method; I finish by lifting it up from each side (left and right...), and put a Velcro band around it to keep it as a loop. No tangles, no twists. Works with all types of cables, and garden hoses. Hope this helps.

Possibly. Peavey are marketing it as a pro amp (complete with extremely expensive speaker cabs with built-in “road cases”), with the much less powerful Elf as the consumer-level version. They need something in between, but I’m not sure they’re selling the numbers of the TE-1200 to make the business case for it. Also, Peavey’s distribution in the UK is pretty bad these days. It used to be that literally every music shop in the UK had a big pile of Peavey gear, and every rehearsal room had a TKO or TNT combo in the corner next to the drums. Not any more. They’re not nearly as ubiquitous as they used to be. Peavey has never been cool, but it’s always been solid, reliable (if a bit vanilla-sounding) gear that will still be in full working order for the cockroaches to play through after a nuclear war! I love mine - it’s got a “weight” to it that most Class D heads don’t have. It doesn’t sound like a Class D, it sounds much closer to a proper old Trace with a big toroidal transformer. I have a few small-ish issues with it, but it’s never given me any problems and I hope Peavey continue to do good things with the brand - it’s got a legacy that it needs to live up to.

Roach Clip - SACK

Around half the pedals in my collection invert phase, so you could still potentially have an issue if you’d ever be turning a boost pedal on or off for example on one of the boards.

Having a quick search I’ve found a few on the Rick Resource site that are listed as AutumnGlo from 1982 also. So I’m really unsure what colour it actually is. This one is listed as a December 1982, which is exactly the same as mine. I wonder in the weird and wonderful world of Rickenbacker if they did a special run of colours. https://www.rickresource.com/register/viewitem.php?id=17392&bl=%2Fregister%2Findex.php%3Fsearch%3Dtrue%26model%3D41%26strings%3D0%26special%3D0%26finish%3D4%26def_state%3D%26country%3D%26year%3D1982%26month%3D%26sn%3D%26celebrity%3D

I’m looking at finding a bass chair in a tribute act. I have: Kit ✅ Chops ✅ Huge gigging experience ✅ Learn fast/read tab fluently ✅ Is there a password/inter-sanctum initiation that has to be overcome before the opportunities become apparent? The ‘usual’ musicians wanted sites seem to yield close to nothing… Anyone with advice/knowledge/password, willing to share wisdom? Mark