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[quote name='Major-Minor' post='512005' date='Jun 12 2009, 12:01 PM']I'm not quite a pensioner yet - not far off tho'[/quote] Ooops! Sorry! Got a bit carried away. Played my first paid gig in about 1962 before The Beatles.

Welcome and try not to think about age. There are a few of us pensioners here who are still gigging regularly.

Is that the cover you from me Alan? If so it was made by [url="http://www.coverovercovers.co.uk"]Cover Over Covers[/url]

Welcome Greg.

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='510721' date='Jun 10 2009, 10:43 PM']I have to admit that I was not really aware of this ( heard they were different but not THAT different ) Can someone please advise me as to how to tell one from the other ( i have two boxes of leads that I use at gigs, home etc and not entirely sure which are which ) On a similar note ( and this is good timing ) I want to give all my leads a good check over to see what is working and what may be faulty and wonder if a simple test by an avo meter would do ( I am assuming that some form of resistance/comtinuity test will determine possible internal problems ) Many thanks[/quote] Firstly the obvious in that many mass produced cables actually have printed on them what they are -Speaker Cable/Instrument Cable. Next, if you can unscrew the cover, have a look inside the jack and see what sort of cable is connected. If there are two identical sized conductor, individually insulated (red/black, brown/blue) then it is a speaker cable. If the cable is co-axial, the insulated centre conductor soldered to the jack tip while the multi-stranded screen conductors are bunched together and soldered to the jack sleeve then it is an instrument cable. Finally if you can't get into the jacks and there is no printing on the cable try measuring the resistance. If tip to tip and sleeve to sleeve measure the same then its probably a speaker cable, if the sleeve to sleeve is lower than the tip to tip then its probably an instrument cable as there are more conductors in the screen. Please note that this is only a rough guide and there is no substitute for seeing the actual cable.

I once put a Trace 4x10 on fixed castors and it sounded awful as it lost all coupling with the ground. Dolly is preferable. Finding a suitably attractive dolly could be difficult as I'm sure Mrs OBBM would have something to say on the matter.

Agree 100% with all that's been said. As an example a typical instrument lead has an central conductor of 7 strands of 0.2 sq.mm. cable. This equates to a total conductor diameter of 0.5mm. The maximum recommended current for this size cable is around 0.6 Amp. Many solid state amps have a voltage swing of around 100 volts. Power = volts x amps = 60 watts Simply put you shouldn't use an instrument cable with anything more than say a 50-watt amp. I think I got that right. Anyone care to comment?

[quote name='ashevans09' post='507337' date='Jun 7 2009, 01:43 AM']I was just floating around the John Henry's website a little while ago and something struck me. Practically every used cab they were selling said "speaker missing". How the hell do you just lose a speaker? I know they rent stuff out but come on, what kind of strange, debauched antics must these cabs have witnessed in order to pull that off?[/quote] In a word. Canibalisation. Robbing one piece to mend another. Their prices are a bit steep too.

Excellent. Looks just like a Cutlass. A sort of Statlass.

Has anyone done this? Who is the best courrier? Any problems?

Just spent an interesting couple of hours with Nick. He brought over his UL212 for me to try with the Orange and his Shuttle to try with the NV610. Orange with UL212. Lovely. Shuttle with the NV610. Hmmm. Very nice but would be difficult to get NV610 up the stairs to his flat. Tried Epi UL902 with UL212. Very Nice. Tried Epi UL902 with UL212 and UL310. Also very nice. In fact very, very nice and fuller than 2 x UL310 Concluded I only really need 1 xUL310. Traded my second UL310 for Nick's UL212. Nick is now back with a UL310 from whence he came a few weeks ago. As always a pleasure to do business with him.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='503635' date='Jun 2 2009, 11:43 AM']you are early if anything! The only posts are by the guy who created the site, so early days. Looks USA based, but I will probably keep an eye on it.[/quote] If you go to the store you will see that the owner/first poster also writes tuition/transcription books so it's probably a marketing exercise for him to sell his wares.

[quote name='lee4' post='503226' date='Jun 1 2009, 07:40 PM']It's in the right place,but I'm concerned that the UHU will give way.[/quote] Take it to Joe White in Farnborough.

[quote name='joshua' post='501166' date='May 29 2009, 06:42 PM']hi, Im just wondering if the cable length has any effect on power? Basically, I have a head, then a VERY long speakon cable connecting a cab, then a much shorter speakon cable connecting another cab to the previous cab. Am I losing a lot of wattage by having a long speakon cable? And am I doing any damage by having two very different lengths? Cheers for the insight[/quote] You won't do any damage, you'll just not get the best out of your rig. By using a long cable of insufficient capacity you will be losing both power and low end tone. You need cable with a minimum cross section of 2.5-sq.mm., ideally 4-sq.mm for the best results. Cheap PA/Disco cables generally tend to be 1.5-sq.mm. or 2.5 if you are lucky.