taunton-hobbit

I have Crown (v. light) and I have Ormat (naffing heavy) - I know which I prefer to use....... ......heft, that's the thing..........

I know where there is a very shiny Aston DB5 'languishing' in a rusty tin garage.......

S'not quite the same, but I recall playing Free Nelson Mandela to a tentful of pi**ed white South Africans at an annual gig that I'd done forever....I wasn't invited back..... (I wasn't over-sorry, either, there's a limit to the amount of ar*e licking that I want to do....)

I've hung back on this one and the responses have been fairly predictable (that's not a negative btw) - As a sound system I've been fairly used to doing my own lugging around, but for odd big stuff (& I've done some) I've usually bribed one or two over-keen amateurs into helping out..... If I was doing a consistent(ish) workload of 'proper' gigs I would adopt Blues stance of having my 'assistant' as part of the paid gig. It's sometimes a good idea to stand back & look at what you are doing, and why.........

I'm guessing that your ears are reacting badly to the percussive nature of the signals from your playing - think that making sure you wear earplugs when playing might act as a damping factor?

Yup, the first picture is exactly it - I painted her Victoria Plum purple & left the roof that beguiling orange - we called her Clara (what else does one call an old cow?).....I bought it as near scrap lying abandoned in a wholesalers yard in Oxford -

I don't know how much my gig stuff weighed, but I had a six wheel lwb transit as transport, and it sagged on the back end - police drove it one night and nearly didn't make it around a roundabout...I did grin.....

No-one does Aretha quite like Aretha..............

My usual rule of thumb - 'if something sounds wrong - it probably is'

I thought Parcel Monkey were basically an agency? (I might have got that wrong, but if I'm right,PM are not the people to deal with).

Good luck with that - you need proper contracts (used to be a V A F or M U) and likely a visit to the small claims court. If they can't/won't pay, it's very difficult to achieve much........ I don't think the emails will help a lot, but it's better than nothing. Imo, it's simpler (& cheaper) to walk.............

And tonights homework is to learn (and understand) the equation: Barefaced + OrangeMatamp = Heft. QED

I use a Mathias 300 valve slave to feed a couple of Bf Dubsters..... Sounds a bit like Brian Blessed doing The Voice of God thing.....

Thanks 3 Below - currently my Dubsters are living in my lounge, along with a couple of Mackie C200s and some Ormats....I can frighten people at about 1/4 mile distance (with the windows closed).........

A - My handles have never fallen off........... B - 2 x Dubsters........ .......wanna fight?........

I've tried kit that trialed very well - the cr*p only surfaced at a real-world gig..............

If I were actively gigging with mine, which have the 'tuff-cab' type finish, I think I'd be looking at a couple of Roksolid covers as insurance.....light and quite tough, flightcasing kinda defeats the weight advantage.........

I have Gen1 Dubsters.....they do what I want/need..............

I'm with Conan - this is hair splitting try it/don't try it - I can't get excited about the detail - some people dislike the Company (why, I'm not quite sure, and care even less) - and a lot of people feel the other way - it's life (& bass cabinets)..........

Just thinking aloud, but I wonder if the Orange might benefit from a bias/general checkover? These are a very good amp, should be easily capable of shattering eardrums.......

Nah....you mean OrangeMatamp surely?

I joined about the same time as here, visited twice & thought it wasn't my thing - hence I've never posted over there (as far as I can recall). I like Basschat, it's fairly friendly and mostly not 'up itself'. Mods are good too - I've been on some sites that I won't name - Mods can make or break the thing.

For their time, the noise/distortion was negligible, I was using them flat-out as a fill in a soul disco club (I had a 200watt OrangeMatamp for main grunt). Heft was, in retrospect, a bit lacking.....but they did the job for years without complaint (& I used them on mobile gigs).

I had a couple of Vortexion monoblock 100watt amps in about 1968 - they were transistor & billed as indestructible. Much to Vortexions embarrassment, one blew up on its first gig...oops....they fixed it, took the boast off their publicity and I still had them in a workshop (& working) in 2003....... probably one of the first solid state high power amps.

I can't see a problem with any of the previous points -^ 1) No business is going to chuck xhundred quids worth of stuff out to an unknown customer without payment, not in the real world. 2) £30/40 to send it back is very fair - try hiring good kit for thirty days for that.......... 3) Alex is quite right to require customers to discuss their needs (I used email) - otherwise he could be on the end of a load of 'retail regret' returns. I found Barefaced to be honest, straightforward and keen to 'get it right'. OK, I bought something I like very much, so there is some bias here - -I realise that the sound/design/handles aren't to everyones taste, but Alex must be doing 'something' right !