taunton-hobbit

Don't be a wimp - I drove to Bristol to pick up the Worlds best known Matamp 300 slave (the green beast with the iron crosses) - currently being fitted with new sockets/input caps and KT120s - face south-west and pray people! Yeah, the mighty shall walk amongst us...........

I loved the one who asked me to do some Queen (I run a DANCE sound system) and the pub owner (masturbatory fantasist) who walked around trying to present my semi-installed 1k system as his own to potential customers - fell flat on his tight, sancitimonious face when he got back from holiday and found we'd removed the bloody lot, staples 'n' all...we did larf.....

Try roll of carpet felt in the bottom of the cab - might sort it....

Rep to me - 'you should stock a load of other brands so that customers can see what great value our kit is'. me (thinking deeply....'that'd cost about 30k and we got our sales up 20% last year without that stupidity') S'bloody dear wallpaper - some people..........

Always worth a try - Alex will have 'em back if you don't like the sound (you pay carriage) - I think that's a very fair offer & gives you the chance to get to grips with the kit in a Real World situation............

I had Geno & the Ram Jam Band a week after the California at Dunstable and some pillock agent tried to threaten me, allegedly 'cos Ms Green The then owner of the Cali was hacked off - I told him (& her) to do one...............

Slightly off-topic, but I'll risk this - I was standing on a green patch in Uxbridge in around 1971 when a council-hired jcb went deliberately straight through a row of 16th century cottages and flattened the lot - I could have cried......

No wife - no problem (right arm aches a bit)

I'm with the Space Oddity vote - it was the song that did it for him (puts on tin hat) and, way out on the left field (& not that easy to sing properly) - London Boys..........

Fabulous - I belong to a generation when the Beeb wouldn't look at Black music - Musical apartheid in action - I ran one of the few Black dancehalls in London for a few years - best years of my life!

No-one can seriously mourn the passing of the Hammersmith Palais? - it was a dingy converted tram depot with a leaky roof and crap pa!

The world, has moved on.....Festivals were a big deal, back in the day. (so was the Crystal Palace, before it burned down) - most of us are old enough to have seen the movement of music from vinyl to cd to internet....the world around us changes and we mourn the Good Old Days.....every street used to have 3 or 4 aspiring bands, but that was then. I wonder if the audience really cares, or indeed exists to support the financial leviathan that grew out of free milk and camping in Glastonbury - I am beginning to think that even I might live longer, but we shall see - anyone who really knows where this is headed will make a lot of wonga..........

^^^ You were lucky - most firms forbid the handing out of 2nd hand boxes in case they get done if the box ends up dumped illegally - cost one little shop 15grand in fines/fees................

Just an observation, there being some [i]very[/i] nice stuff here - but most of it is 20+ years old. I relate to all of it, being a soul 'n' reggae freak; but I'm [b]old[/b]- what happens with those that follow us on, where is it going, and with whom? I was lucky to be starting with Bowie, Clapton, Chris Squire, Peter Green, Brian Auger, Jon Hiseman, Matt Ross, and many other fine (and forgotten) heroes - I worry that I'm not seeing this calibre of talent emerging today - somebody please tell me I'm wrong!

Have a look at Matamp? Their stuff does most stuff, and better than most..........

^^^^ Nice product - I'd be frightened off asking how much.......

A couple of simple rock 'n' roll short numbers - Great Balls of Fire/Long Tall Sally?

Yup, had a feeling I was wrong...... Kettle, teabag, biccies......

Talk to an existing setup that (for a fee) might let you piggy-back their existing model?

According to my Google search these appear to be new in 2008?

Ahem - might it just be that the pub, for whatever reason, didn't want you? I've told bookers that I didn't want to work for, that I was booked up for the next twelve months......

If I buy anything like an amp as 'pre-owned' it gets to see my amptech before I even think about using it. I've just had as call about an amp I bought recently that 'might need the output valve sockets cleaning, 'cos it's been standing empty, y'know dust 'n' that'....... Even as I type, tech is replacing the whole set of output bases, one of which has evidence of flash-over.....he'll check the caps as well as electrical safety while he's in there....live long & be happy....

The side handle idea will work fine I used this trick on much equipment over the years and a Roqsolid cover should do everything you need, unless you're planning to airfreight the bloody thing.............single top handles on heavy kit are an idiot feature............

Barefaced Generation3 pdf extract: 5b. Woofer break-in The 12XN550 drivers have extremely high power handling and maximum excursion. This requires very tough suspension to support the cone and consequently this suspension is tight when the woofers are brand new. As the woofer is used the suspension loosens up, resulting in significantly increased bass response (both depth and fatness) and the speaker becoming easier for an amplifier to drive, as well as the mids and treble becoming cleaner and smoother as the ability of the surround to damp the cone vibrations improves. This change occurs in a reverse exponential manner, so the change is most rapid early on, particularly in the first five minutes of loud use. It may take a number of gigs or loud rehearsals for your cab to settle into its long-term parameters (and thus tone and performance). The midrange and treble response will also improve as the softer suspension allows the cone to move as designed, both in its pistonic behaviour and the multiple bending modes, giving uniquely even power response for such a large high excursion driver. Note that we test every cab before it leaves the factory, and part of that process is a frequency sweep from 100Hz down to 20Hz and back up again, at fairly high level - this brief test alone does about half the breaking in, so you will never hear the full break-in change with one of our cabs.

Barefaced stuff takes a while to 'burn in' - give it some wellie - don't be scared of it, some great kit comes out of Brighton!