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Try an email to Barefaced? I'm sure Alex will know..............

I'd get an amp tech to look at them - if you have a cooling fan running at full chat, suggests an internal clean might be an idea?

Go to the Peavey website (Google Peavey hysis)) the Hysis manuals are on there in PDF.

[b] Quick cut & paste from Barefaced website:[/b] [b] 12 or 4 ohm impedance?[/b] [color=#333333][size=3]The 12 ohm version allows you to use up to three cabs with a solidstate amp with a 4 ohm minimum load. Many solidstate amps will run four cabs because the resulting 3 ohm load is easy enough. When using one 12 ohm cab you'll get 2/3 of the power you'd normally get into an 8 ohm cab but unlike most small 8 ohm cabs the Two10 will handle all that power without distorting so will usually play louder.[/size][/color] [color=#333333][size=3]With valve/tube amps you should use the 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap with a single 12 ohm cab, 8 ohm or 4 ohm tap with two cabs, 4 ohm tap with three cabs, 2 or 4 ohm tap with four cabs, 2 ohm tap with five or six cabs.[/size][/color] [color=#333333][size=3]The 4 ohm version exists for two reasons - getting maximum power out of low power amps if you intend to only use one cab or for using with valve amps whose highest impedance tap is 4 ohms. Two cabs can be used with amps which run down to 2 ohms. If you wish to add more Two10s and need your 4 ohm cab to run at 12 ohms then it be converted from one impedance to the other by replacing the wiring loom, crossover and rear panel - a simple job as it's a complete modular assembly with no soldering required.[/size][/color] [color=#333333][size=3]It's easy when you know the answer.....[/size][/color]

mmm-grew up wIth the Marquee (Wardour Street) when one D Bowie was dossing in an ambulance in the mews at the back.....Everything changes...what I thought 'really neat' when I was 17 (meat pie chips & beans at the Ace on Friday night) is merely a memory of something gone... Things move on...things that are 'liked' by the Modern Generation' (like we were forty years ago...) are their memories of 'back in the day'..no-ones right or wrong here - its the march of time - if I want to live in the past I can play my Dennis Brown at OBSCENE volume.....If they flatten the lot, it will eventually re-emerge elsewhere, because if there's a real need, it does...... .

Barefaced have gone off 15s - why I don't know - I've used 15s for bass (& Mid...Tannoy HPD15, back in the day) for ever - used to buy bathroom-type handles for the cabs (from Isaac Lord, High Wycombe, if you care...) - I don't believe that you can shove ball-crunching bass (pardon to any maiden aunts out there) through itsy-bitsy 10" or 12" drivers, esp if you use original Ormat amps or similar....look around for some Barefaced 'original' 15s - they really move air........

I'm thinking that this problem seems to arise a fair bit in 'our' industry. I'm not about to name-call, but in the recent past I've had dealings with a pro-audio amp company, a loudspeaker manufacturing outfit and an audio-engineering company, all of whom have been small to medium in size, and all of whom have been less than wonderful at doing what they say they would on time. At the other end of the scale, the current day-job involves dealing with one of the largest names in the world, which seems to consist of a multitude of Departments, none of whom know the meaning of 'communication'. (sigh)

Umm - at risk of continuing the Roqsolid appreciation thread, they made me a perfect fit for my non-standard Matamp in about three days - would not hesitate to recommend them - you get what you pay for (and they look good!).

And then there was (were?) Stock, Aitken and Waterman - now there was incisive political comment and social interaction if ever there was.........

So, back in the day....Klooks Kleek (Railway Hotel, W. Hampstead) - Refectory (Golders Green) - Railway Hotel (Wealdstone)- Taggs Island (London/Surrey) - Cellar Club (Kingston - ok, it wasn't a pub, but a bloody good music venue) - Star & Garter (Windsor - the original Ricky Tik) - music was harder to find then, we valued it more; outside of Caroline/Radio London and the local juke box (anyone remember the one in the metal cage at the Ace cafe?), music was hard(ish) to find. Times change, and we move on - Ah so we say.....

So, around 1965(ish) I used to chuck Chris Squire in the back of my minivan and take him (& the band kit) complaining loudly, all the way from his home in Kingsbury to the Graveyard venue opposite North Harrow Bowl (after they quit the St Andrews church hall venue). The band then was The Syn, changed to the Selfs- I have a good memory of Chris screaming 'Heatwave' into the mic at the Harrow TA centre- around this time, Joanne (his mother) played me a studio dem of the 'new band' (Yes) - must admit it wasn't my thing.....the last time I saw Chris was when he and various members of his entourage tried to ponce entry into a Geno Washington gig that I was promoting. I figured that he was (then) worth the odd mil, so I offered them reduced rates, seeing I had expenses to meet - the response was less than charitable, and that was that..............

Gigged at the Refectory, Golders Green with John Mayall, -Bruce and Clapton were in Bluesbreakers for that time (Worlds best scratch band?) Was working the Blue Moon Hayes for one of Creams first gigs - very loud - very busy night. Eddie Norman (promoter) looked happy..... RIP Jack, the world is lessened musically by your loss............... .

Barefaced foot problem - I'd use a wood batten the width of the cab (painted black, natch) bolted in to place - but, then, I'm that kind of bloke - btw, my dubsters don't seem to be inclined to the foot problem, as yet...........

See, the problem is that 'these days' we're spoilt rotten..... I remember, back in the day, Selmer gave me a Stereomaster amp and two speakers that they wanted some feedback on. Said cabs were about four foot high, two foot wide, 18" deep, and chipboard.....with NO handles/grips/holes of any sort. These days I have a couple of Dubsters and everything is good.........thanks Alex!

As someone who once tried an emergency stop in a Ford Escort with a trailer-load of logs attached (not good, before someone asks) - I don't think I'd care to risk an amp and bass to a cycle trailer on a steep hill....but that's just old age kicking in, I guess......

Ok, old story but...I had a mate, an English-born British Pole, who went 'back home' to 'collect' his new Polish wife. She was allowed in, but he was detained for about two days, courtesy of some lemon at Heathrow, as a suspected illegal....you just couldn't make these people up........the 'Level 42' tale causes no surprise around here.........

As always, EBay is your friend .... you want Steampunk Comics...they've got (I looked it up without even knowing what SP was, but life is a learning curve, so they tell me).

Gotta say I loved the pic but some of the posts were getting a bit much (imo) ....this is a family show (supposedly).....Don't know what your mum does, but mine never - tails of -, kettles boiling and I've got choccy Hob Nobs (which might just take us back to Abbey Clancy...surely not).

Oh dear - s'Bowie, (still) off on one, mind you, gotta give the geezer this, the voice still sounds very close to Space Oddity and he's got a bit of petty cash these days so I guess The Boy dun Good...........?

Just did a bit of a fly round Google - looks as though the said boxes will handle 200 watts and down to 20hertz - just what you need for the average pub....I have to say that I think your vocalist is being a tad alarmist?

Had another type of these cheap fold-away trucks at about the same time as Noah painted the ark - got about five years serious daily use out of it shifting stuff in & out of pubs - great value - only traded up for a 'proper' sack barrow because I couldn't find another at the time when the little one finally self-destructed,,,,

I wouldn't even try and 'fix' a neutrik - if 'wiggling it' makes a difference, I'd grab a new (genuine) one off EBay. Worn used plugs are always trouble long-term.

You can feed from an amp to a home-stereo, but you will need a tech to install a phono/jack socket from your preamp chassis to act as a 'line out' facility (if you don't have one already) - not an expensive or difficult job. If you already have effects send/return, you should be able to feed the 'send' line to your home stereo 'aux' input.

I've used this simple rule for years: 1) The amp output in ohms should equal the specified ohm rating of the loudspeaker. 2) If your ears are bleeding, it's all probably got a little excessive. 3) My amp goes up to 11, so it's louder than yours....right?

One of the better (& loud) Jamaican/English sound systems that I stumbled across in the '70s, was a simple valve preamp tied into four large transistor chassis amps, about 250w each, powering a number of Tannoy Golds & 18" bass drivers. The amp chassis replaced an equal number of KT88 driven sets, and the difference was impossible to spot when the system was fired up at a gig. ....Just sayin'......