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I just mean in the sense that the Mutron was the first (as far as I know!)

I share your puzzlement. My 'new' Trace Elliot cabs have substantial metal grilles on them and a 4"x3" brand badge obscuring one of the 10" drivers. To the uneducated it seems like they would obstruct the sound.

Not every one, there's a few ways to do an envelope filter electronically... the Meatball is a very very hyped Mutron 3 topology. Not that my pedantry matters, as we know from the 6 billion Big Muff varients tuning circuits and a few components being different values can make a massive variation on sound.

The weather here has slightly dropped off, however we have had reports of a bearded bloke collecting pairs of animals, and an awful lot of wood has gone missing. There seems to be some sort of structure being put up on the top of Ingleborough as well, no ones quite sure what's going on, but seems a dumb place to build a boat to me.... Anyway, I might get chance to do a bit more on the cab today after a week in London. I was thinking about a speaker grill and making sure I put some mounting points on, I rather like the metal grills that you can get on eBay. Is there a minium offset from the speaker that a metal grill must be, I look at the metal grill compared to speaker cloth and wonder does it either resonate or attenuate the sound. Clearly people use metal grills and they look great, but wondered if they need to be 10mm (or another minimum distance) from the speaker or the holes need to be a certain size, do you need rubber mounts on them to stop them vibrating? I can still put T-Nuts in if necessary for mounting points, even though the front and rear panels are now glued in, but I'd rather plan for it now than having to take it all apart again. Thoughts welcomed. Thanks Rob

I'm new here (have come back on a new account after about 15 years break!) but what better way to say hello than sharing my rig! (Fender) Sunn1200s, diy 4x10 and 2x15 (2x15 not made by me, but the same chippy who helped with the 4x10). The only rack I had was 6u...could do with filling up the spaces a bit but I am not after a compressor, eq etc...maybe just blank spaces, a drawer and some lights which I'll get round to at some point.. It's effing loud! That said, our guitarist loves volume and so does the drummer, nice to have a rig that keeps up without any stress! Awesome to see so many nice rigs, some very tidy set ups here!

Yes, judging by our outdoor lights (10W lighting the alley by the back door, and 40W doing the entire garden), its 24x3W has the potential to be quite bright. I managed to find a user manual for it. The fancy chases that were advertised aren't really practical for me - they need 50+ DMX channels and that would be a nightmare to programme manually. I'm thinking just the 5 channel RGB mode and have the whole bar one colour and maybe fix it vertically to one of the speaker stands. Edit: when I DJ'd I had a USB-DMX gadget and ran the lights from a rack-mount PC with a custom computer programme - and it managed some quite complex lighting. But I ain't going to attempt to programme a 50 channel unit with my £20 eBay controller!

I foresee one of these joining me in the future; stunning.

I think you'll be pleased with that, it's a lot of light for the money. You'll probably not want it shining onto your faces though, full on it is pretty bright.

You May Be Right - Billy Joel

You could get away with loose screws for most of our gear as the current load is generally small. With a high current load a loose connection creates a higher resistance which can lead to overheating!

A few years back I was doing some home demo recordings here; we had a couple of amps set up in a spare room and stuck Shure SM58 (vocal) microphones in front of the each cab and a Rode vocal mic up away from the amp to pick up room ambience. Sounded fine. Guitarist put a photo up somewhere and got an absolute deluge of comments about how stupid we were, that we didn't know what we were doing and how we should have used <insert assorted microphone types here>. The responses just reflect the world we live in, the results were more than acceptable (we just dialled in the tone we wanted off the amps), the SM58 was the only suitable microphone I had (I used to use it rehearsal spaces rather than catching herpes off the studio mics). Ultimately, any nuances in tone/frequency shift (etc) off the SM58 would be lost once everything else was added (drums, bass, more guitar). Plus, it was a home recording, not Abbey Road. People are idiots.

Thanks, good idea. I know the sound direct from the DI is pleasing enough having tested it a few times at home, but I haven't tried seeing how it varies when I mess about with the seal.

In a sense, every env filter is based on the Mutron. But the Meatball is a different circuit altogether. It’s not a ‘copy’ like the Behringer. Same goes for the 3leaf Chromatron. It takes inspiration from the Meatball but it’s a different design.

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It can, if a part of the signal touches earthing you’ll get a buzz or hum

Like that shielding …

Often the problem is only when it is all screwed together because things touch and the situation is not obvious when disassembled - that might be why your luthiers missed it I found a Jack socket was rubbing on the shielding - I put clear tape over the foil and the problem went away

It’s easier to get eBay to collect tax for them on people selling second hand goods bought from taxed-income than go after the very rich. selling 1000 of new stuff in a year is a legitimate target, but only when you also tax wealthy people