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Some better pic's of the Short Scale ACG Krell

Picture from my daughter of us playing at her wedding last Saturday.

Ha ha I shouldn't have gone to the gym, now it's got complicated, but everything people are saying is about right. mains in this country (UK) and across the EU is 230V nominally, but that varies depending upon where you are along the power line. Our house averages at 242V. So theoretically 230w is 1A but the general calculation that 250W is 1A is good enough. There's two considerations here; you don't want to trip the fuse and you don't want to set the internal wiring alight! Most household fuses are slow blow to avoid them going every time we turn something on, most stuff in a house takes less power as it warms up. Steve browning has asked the crucial question, what is my amp using when it is on 3? That's amazingly tricky to work out. If you are damping your strings properly there's a lot of time you aren't putting out any sound, all your notes start loud and then decay etc. The 300W or whatever are simply the top limit you hope to never get near. Then again the amp isn't 100% efficient. Switch mode power supplies are better than transformers, transistors better than valves. Modern electrical appliances now have to have an estimate of average power, have a look on the back of your amp if it is recent. My 500W Peavey says 160Wh electrical consumption so that's an average of 160/230 of an amp when it is run quite hard, about 1/3 of the 500W max output. The next issue is the inflated watts that are advertised, for calculating currents you need good old RMS watts (that's where the square root of two comes in, RMS=root mean square) Most single speakers only handle 300W as a rule of thumb so that 1000W Yamaha PA speaker is actually only 500W at best and needs less than 200W of electricity an hour. SO add up all the watts of all your amps/lights and so on and allow 4amps for every 1000W. If you are using solid state amps class D or otherwise and LED lighting then I really doubt most pub bands will be using more than 3000W. You don't need a lot of headroom, as in my Peavey I doubt you'll be running at more than 30% for anything longer than a few microseconds. You only need a second socket if you go over 3000W and that gives you a big safety margin. If i have to go for a second socket I look for a twin socket. In a double socket the two sockets are connected by big copper/brass strips so they are properly earthed to each other by design. I don't trust electricians I haven't met as I've worked on building sites. Most are safety conscious but people make mistakes. If I have to split then I run one circuit for the amps and a separate one for lights and make sure no-one can touch the lights. Your mics are earthed through the PA so you need that plugged into the same earth as the back line. The final thing is to make sure your mains leads are in good condition. There's no point in trusting a single socket if anything you bring in has a broken earth. That's where a circuit tester will help, and use the RCD on your single socket if you think there isn't one elsewhere, though most venues will have regular checks for insurance purposes.

I've had a good few back now and I can't put into words how happy it makes me. I reckon my face here at Legends Festival in Henley with the George Michael show I play with sums it up!

Have some hi rez pics of the new ACG Krell

Hi Christian, If it's for the bass I sold you, I can send you an invoice from private seller to private buyer with a copy of the proof of payment. This way you'll have the proof it was yours before all this bullsh*t happened.

The best advice I could give is accept it and make sure you do not give a chance to get any worse. Proper earplugs are imperative.

Apparently he is as replaceable as the parts of a Lawnmower according to Morrisey. He doesn’t go on to explain why 90% of his own solo career sounds worse than a lawnmower with faulty parts though.

Source Audio Spectrum filter. And a big surprise, the Boss BC-1X compressor. Ive sold my expensive ones and kept the Boss. The X stuff really is excellent.

This is the fretless from my small Gillett Contour collection. Probably about as rare as the ACG prototype though.

Ta da!!! New driver courtesy of @Chienmortbb. Plan is to add a new front baffle with port, pop a vintage looking cloth grill on and polish up the cabinet so it looks lush. Now to put it in a corner for another 6 months before I muster the drive to complete it 😂

'64 Embassy: It was defretted and the brass nut and fabricated wide-travel bridge added in the 70's. My intention was to refret it but whoever did the work REALLY knew what they were doing. It plays and sounds so good as a fretless I had to leave it as is and actually ended up selling my F-Bass BNF-5 in the classifieds here as a result.

I've loved her for 40 freakin years.

My 3 leaf audio octabvre mini has been a staple of my board (although the oc-5 and new octabvre III have tempted me from a curiousity standpoint) Also the combination of a source audio C4, way huge smalls pork and pickle and darkglass Alpha omicron have squashed all of my drive/fuzz/synth bouts of GAS Issue I have, is now these searches are done, I've started going through compressors, gone from xvive bass squeezer to a spectracomp and now eyeing up the ampeg opticomp 🤦‍♂️

Just in case anyone was following this… I got the excellent Charles Collis to do the work - he’s done a brilliant job. Super easy to use and really secure. He also made me a new extension and set the bass up and it’s sounding great. Can’t recommend him highly enough!

My room (plus my son’s I guess… that’s his Alesis kit…)

@gobasserkThat's brilliant, thank you so much. 🙂👍

I'm in a lightweight kinda mood -

Pay for my flights and I'll go get them! Or, as the gents say, the 'form' is the right option... but that doesn't get me to Italy does it!

Reckon I’ll be booking one of Jon’s courses in the new year, maybe just after my birthday

Yup - it was de-drugged for Musical Youth................. 😎

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I note that after some delay, Henley Regatta is back shortly, which reminds me ......... A little while ago (1983, I think) I was gigging on the 'Trade' bank (opposite the posh stuff) About 8pm some local posh bird (about 20 & out of her skull) drifts in wearing nothing but an open trench coat ...... She was swiftly removed by the hostess, who clearly knew her & her reputation. So far so good. About 9pm the wonderful nearly new heavy duty silent generator dies. Cue loads of phone calls (remember this is Saturday night), my boss obviously knew the number for someone very high up & an engineer turned up about ten, looked very forlorn and went off to get a bit of some sort. Barbeques & booze in the fading light of an English summer evening can well be described as 'interesting' (Especially with no music, my set needs that sparky stuff - so do the tent lights ) After the midnight fireworks, the lights finally came back on about 12.30am - the more observant of you will notice that's a gap of about 3.5 hours. Most of the audience had whizzed off & those that were left were distinctly 'in drink' (nice turn of phrase, that) And that is how I landed up playing Pass The Dutchie to a group of Henley rozzers, who in truth, were plastered (in full uniform) on duty & demanded I play the bloody thing at least 3 times ..............

I think we’ve had the curly locks riddim before, but this is a nice Bassline on this Lee Perry track

I bought Appetite the week it came out and watched as G 'n' R shaped my generation. Since then I have marvelled at how they have gotten worse with every release. I guess when you start on such a high, where do you go? (where do you go now?) I clicked the link, played the song. It's okay. To damn it with faint praise, it's alright but I wouldn't buy it. I enjoyed the autobiographies and usually click any news stories about the original band members but I think my fan club membership metaphorically expired in the late 80s.

Origin Effects CaliCB FEA labs Opti-FET Tech21 DP3X Tech21 PSA 2.0

Theres a thread somewhere where I posted some clips. If you can't find it. Or I deleted it. Then I can re-reccord some later.

Is your receiver on the floor or behind you? If it's behind you you may want to mount the transmitter on your strap behind your body. Your body does quite a good job of absorbing RF so, if you have your transmitter in line of sight to the receiver behind you (e.g. directly by your amp), you may find yourself in a better position. If in doubt, always carry a cable.

The Three Leaf Octabreve and the OC2 are both killer octave pedals. Search over! Source Audio C4 is insane as a synth pedal. Search over! Empress Compressor is brill for bass. Search over! There’s still a few pedals to try out but basically my pedal GAS is currently at an all time low.

The Source Audio Aftershock made me stopped looking at dirt pedals. I have one more overdrive and two fuzzes, but the Aftershock was the last one and it has every sound I want and need. But the true pedal killer has been the Line6 HX Stomp. I don't feel the need to have any more pedals.

Not as a VIP but I saw Pearl Jam in Hyde Park at some point in the last 15 years... Best live band I have ever seen. I am not a die hard PJ fan, though Ten was a massive inspiration to me as I was starting out on bass. Best gig I have ever ever seen. I would also consider the VIP thing for this reason, which is also a reason to absolutely not do the VIP thing depending on your slant. When I saw them it was at a Hard Rock Calling event, festival without camping type set up. Saw some of the earlier bands and was quite near the front so just stayed there. Just before PJ came on ten thousand more people came in. As they hit the stage it was like being in the sea when a much bigger wave than you're expecting comes behind you, I was pretty much lifted off my feet and carried forward. Some kids was crowd surfing from back to front and I didn't see him coming, so my hands weren't up and he landed on top of my head, breaking my sunglasses and knackering my neck for days. However, I saw the best concert of my life and being surrounded by die hard fans somehow made the experience better, a bit like being a footy game where everyone is excited and nobody is being a n0b. Towards the end we moved to the side and got a great view and a bit of a calmer experience, but it wasn't the same as being in the thick of it. I am now conflicted about Pearl Jam. I'm scared if I ever watch them again they won't be as good. But I've seen other bands multiple times who just got better and better... Massive conflict!

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ACS moulded plugs all the way. Initially tinnitus drove me crazy. Distraction methods were a waste of time in my case. Instead I used mindfulness techniques, where I would go to a quiet space and pay attention to my tinnitus, thereby becoming more acquainted with it and diluting its impact. This allowed me to dance with it, rather than engage in a wrestling match, where I was always going to come out the looser.

Yamaha,Fender and Roland also were named in the UK's price fixing case last year. Fender admitted their involvement, cost them a cool £4.5 million fine🙂

I like the Smiths, but not enough to post them in threads like this. Morrisey's solo material is not so great.

Yes. I used mine as a monitor taking a line out of the back to the desk. So bass > HX Stomp > QSC K12.2 > desk. At gigs without PA I would use the QSC as backline.

Actually id recently said, I was was going to stop buying/trying different pedals for the sake of it. But there are so many flavours and trying them is addictive. You see something different and curiosity always gets the better,and unfortunately I'm not in a financial position to have drawers and drawers of pedals I don't like/can't use. As a result I no longer own many on the following list,that were my favourites. My top picks Compression - EBS Multi comp (owned 5) 3 Leaf Pwnzor Cali76CB Diamond BCP1 Nemphasis VT bass Octave- Boss Oc2 COG T 16/65/70 (many) EBS Octabass (owned 3) Digitech BSW (Octave setting) IE Subterranea (owned 2) Fuzz/OD/Dist EHX Bass Big muff nano Cog Grand Tarkin Cog knightfall 3 leaf Doom Zvex Mastatron (owned 3) Crowther prunes n custard Tech 21 VT bass Tech 21 Red Ripper Filter - Big box EHX Qtron 3 leaf Wonderlove (v1) MXR M28 BEF (owned 3) EHX Bassballs/ Mooer sweeper Chorus- EBS Unichorus (owned 3) MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe (owned 2) Flanger Boss BF2B MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe (Flanger setting) Phaser- MXR EVH phase 90 EBS Dphaser Source Audio Lunar/Gemini Preamp/DI 3 leaf Enabler EBS Microbass 2 (owned 3) Tech21 VTDI

Wait.. You guys stop buying pedals?

Neck join sorted thanks to a local cabinet maker... Looks good at the heel... I drilled the neck and screwed together... Fitted the 19mm spacing bridge to the marked holes... String run looks OK, E should be better under proper tension... Getting there... Machine heads next...

More pics in from the workshop.

I love Epiphone basses. My two Rivolis (both in the Classifieds as one needs to go 😩😞 My previously owned archtop basses: I’ve also had an EB0 in the past which was great fun.