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Will try and sort some pictures out if the weather ever improves!

Another 20 years? Seems expensive for what it is. I have a second-hand golf trolley which cost 15 quid plus a longer bit of webbing and some 1/2inch pipe insulation for padding, and the wheels are big enough to cope with a typical UK folk festival grassy field.

They seem to go through here around 400 - 450. Sold mine for £15 quid in 1975, what I paid for it!

As an alternative, don't put the straplock onto the strap. Put the strap onto the button and then clip the straplock over the top.

I'd be asking for some better pictures of the heel neck/body joint - this is what usually gives up the ghost on these. This one is 1964 by the way.

Hi Robert, Think you might struggle with replacing those. The drivers in the VL110 and VL108 were custom drivers made by Eminence and the cabs are transmission line cabs designed around the driver specifications. I managed to source a recone kit from EA some years ago, but they were not very forthcoming about driver specs and it's hard to find the best match, particularly for the woofer, without. You could try emailing EA and asking what they suggest. If the crossovers have gone too I don't know how you'd go about replacing them.

Interesting that - all the ones I've ever seen have been bolt-ons, and P/J 5s are fairly unusual. Got any pics?

The procedure is on page 23 of the manual that you can download from the link Mudpup posted. You'll need a USB cable with the right ends.

Mk1 Yamaha TRB5P would fit the bill.

The way that Ariana Grande handled what happened in Manchester means that she is beyond reproach as far as I am concerned.

Me too too. Great performances all round.

@elephantgrey, I'm pretty sure it won't be the Niall Horan version :-) Thanks for the replies. There's a preset which chains the phaser with a bass booster, which puts back some of the tone sucked out by the effect, so I might go with that. Or suggest they use the 'live and dangerous' version, which has guitar on the intro.

I think if you're trying to sell your own amp you should be upfront about it, and maybe confine yourself to the for sale forums. I mentioned the Reidmar because OP had expressed an interest.

There's a Reidmar 750 in the classified ads at the moment.

I'm still using an LM2 and think they're great amps. Have you thought about the TTE501 or 801, that's what I would be looking at if I had enough regular gigs to need a new amp.

You could start with the thread 'Obscure Musical Backwaters' or somesuch, I think it's in the 'Bass Guitars' section of this site. Of course many of the photographs will be photobucked but the information should still be there.

You could bypass the EQ by using an effects return for the mixer input.

Yeah, that's a very good result, these are well-made and great sounding basses even if the shape is a bit of an acquired taste!

Fixed that for you!

Mark, a.k.a. bluesparky. RIP.

Not Norfolk, but Peter at ME Strings at Monks Eleigh can probably sort this out for you. Don't know of anyone nearer, sorry.

I've just been asked to play Dancing in the Moonlight for a dep gig I'm doing in the new year. Does anyone have an MS60B patch that gets close to the effect? I'm guessing it starts with Phaser, maybe a bit of EQ and Chorus?

That could definitely do it - if you had any pfl buttons down (stands for pre-fade listen) it takes the signal upstream of the EQ and faders and routes it through to the headphones / monitor socket. The monitor sockets on the top are intended for when you're using the mixer in a recording control room and want your playback through studio monitors. Hope it helps, when I started out I knew nothing and people here helped me a lot, so what goes around comes around.

Great mixers the MG Series and I find very easy to use, but I have one so am biased. Probably Aux bus weirdness as Cheddatom says. Pete's rough guide to MX series mixers:. This doesn't include the digital effects, if you have any. Start with: All channels switched off. All channel faders down. Group bus faders ( dark grey) down. Stereo (Master) fader (helpfully coloured Red) down. All EQ's to 12 O clock. Pan r/l to 12 O clock. Compression to zero. All 'pfl' buttons up. All 1-2 and 3-4' buttons up (if you have these). All 'ST' buttons up. All the aux channel sends to zero (the ones with blue tops). All Aux master volumes to zero. Connect everything up. Power on mixer, amps, powered monitors in that order. For each channel: Turn on the channel and press down the pfl button for that channel. Get someone to speak or play and adjust the 'gain' control until the output in the VU metres is occasionally reaching 0, in green. Put the pfl button back in the 'up' position and turn the channel off. Lather, rinse, repeat, for all the channels you're using. Set the monitor/phones switch to 'Stereo' (up) and turn on 'On' and 'ST' for the channels you're using. Bring up the faders on individual channels and get a rough balance on the headphones. When you're ready, bring up the Stereo fader gently until you get FOH. Optionally, increase compression but don't overdo it. If you want to adjust EQ, try and cut rather than boost. (ie cut mid and bass to boost treble) If you're using separate monitors, connect them to one of the 'Aux' inputs on the back of the desk (not the 'Monitor' sockets on the top of the desk next to the headphone jack). Usually you want Aux1. If there is a pre/post switch set it to pre. Turn up the Aux Send master for the Aux you're using to somewhere between 12.00 and 3.00 and then turn up the individual channels Aux Send to get a monitor mix. Hope this helps, good luck and have a great gig. If all else fails, read this! https://partydj.be/PDF-files/Handleidingen/Sound/Yamaha/yamaha-mg166cx-manual.pdf

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