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Instrument cables are designed to carry signals of millivolts and milliamps. Because the signal is so small the cable is co-axial i.e.a central conductor with a surrounding grounded sceen around the outside to prevent unwanted intrusion of inerference. The conductor sizes are small. Speaker cables are designed to carry signals of volts and amps. The conductor sizes are large to handle the hefty signals but there is minimal chance of interference so the cable can be simple twin-core. Connect a guitar to to an amp with speaker cable and you will get a load of microphony and feedback due to the lack of screening. Connect a speaker to a bass amp with instrument cable and you run the risk of cable melt-down and the resultant decimation of the amp output stage.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1333531408' post='1602849'] What you don't want to do is to use a stereo-to-mono cable because they will just short the outputs together. [/quote] A proper stereo to mono cable should have mixing resistors. 22K is a good value, one in series with each of the stereo ouputs.

Definitely the pedal board. All I can suggest is to disconnect all the pedals and then reconnect them one at a time into the chain until the problem occurs. Then you have the culprit.

Watford Valves

Excellent. Might see you at Swanfest.

Although you're in my area I'm a bit too old for punk and anyway I'm already gigging in Aldershot on the 14th Aopril. It might be worth your while popping along to the Jams at the Unicorn in Aldershot on a Monday or the Lion Brewery in Ash on a Thursday to see who's available.

It happens here as well. Last week a BCer was talkng about route notes. Aren't they something bus or rally drivers have?

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1331812019' post='1579196'] Cool. Time to jump on the curly lead bandwagon obbm [/quote] I looked into the possibility about 3 or 4 years ago. Firstly they have to be one standard fixed length as the ends need to be straight for the connectors and secondly I would have to invest in a huge quantity in order to get a sensible buying price that it wasn't financially viable for me. .

Great news Clarky. Congratulations.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1331634806' post='1576114'] Lots of love on BassChat for our own Dave (obbm) and his truly excellent high-quality instrument and speaker cables (among other things). I notice (rather belatedly) that his website 'basic-bits' has now become 'rock-wire': [url="http://www.rock-wire.uk.com/"]http://www.rock-wire.uk.com/[/url] Is this a 'Snickers' and 'Marathon' moment, Dave? Or possibly 'Sri Lanka' and 'Ceylon'? Or even 'Iceland' and 'Bejams'..? *babbles incoherently* Anyway I thought I'd give it a plug, I'm always up for promoting quality products at the right price! And if you happen to be in the market for some new cables, I (and lots of others on here) can certainly recommend obbm with no hesitation. Top quality, great value and brilliant service and comms. No-brainer! (Can I have that tenner now please, Dave?) Mark [/quote] Thanks for the plug Mark. Bassic-bits has always been the trading name, especially on Ebay, but has never been the company name. Last year I decided that at some point in the future I might want to fully retire and sell the business so I needed to separate the company name from my own name and Rock-Wire seemed more appropriate. It's a good name on which to build a brand. I run both bassic-bits.co.uk and rock-wire.uk.com web sites concurrently with exactly the same information and prices. Bassic-bits will stay as the Ebay trading name but eventually, all cables will carry the Rock-Wire brand name however I suppose that here they will always be known as obbm's cables.

[quote name='RandomProddy' timestamp='1331565150' post='1574890'] Where did you find a TU-50 from?!?! can't find one for love nor money - have an SE-50 and she needs a buddy [/quote] From a fellow forum member. They are very rare.

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1331499588' post='1573871'] That really is "mini" Thats a really nice job there How much does it weigh ? [/quote] Just put it on the bathroom scales and it's 14.7Kg Not featherweight but easily manageable because of its size. It fits nicely between the two cabs in the car boot.

I've just finished my MiniRig Mk2. It was gigged for the first time last weekend and worked fine with a pair of Aguilar SL112s. The rack case was made to my specification by Flightcase warehouse and I can't praise them enough. They shaved days off their quoted delivery so I could have it in time for my gig and it was dimensionally perfect. The spacing of the rack strip was such that I could fix several rack trays which came from a Gator wireless mic case. The Boss Tuner and dbx compressor are screwed to these This mean't that the overall width was just larger than the GK Fusion Amp which is secured from underneath by bolts into the feet holes. Note the extra hole in the side for the GK cooling fan. There is still nothing in the top 1U tray so I've been wondering about fitting a small UV light.

European, or Shuko as they should be called, plugs don't have fuses in them. Fuses in the plug is UK quirk. In the UK the fuse is only there to protect the cable from the plug to the appliance. A 13A fused IEC power cable will be just fine.

[quote name='Bobo_Grimmer' timestamp='1331052239' post='1566902'] 2 8x10! wow that's a good idea lol thank's obbm that's exactly what i was thinking i just wasn't to sure. [/quote] You'll need to put the Output Mode switches into Biamp and Stereo which should give you 500-watts Low Pass and 2 x 250-watts High-pass.

BFC is the equivalent of 3 x 4-ohm cabs AH-1000 has 3 x power amps, each of which is minimum of 4-ohms so you can power 3 separate 4-ohm cabs from it.