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Nothing so grand as a festival for The Rebbels, our first outing as a four piece at Christchurch Con Club, Saturday. We have had no rehearsals for 8 weeks, and so I am a tad nervous, but that is what makes it fun! The lead guitarist and I are having a get-together tomorrow to work on beginnings and endings and other fun stuff, so I may feel better or worse by tea time.

The spring is free, but my fee is...also free.

I have asked them to send the spring.

I had a reply from Tech21: ” Do you know which specific unit your customer is referring to? It looks like it might be a Bass Driver Programmable or Deluxe. If you can provide the serial number that would be helpful. Something is up. The one spring appears too short and possibly the TACT switch separated from the PCB. It's easy enough to test the TACT switch by depressing it with your fingernail. If it functions, you can try to stretch the spring a bit so it comes in contact and or reattach the switch to the PCB. If you can't make the spring work let us know and I will have the office send you one.” I

In this instance, any switch or contact cleaner will not work. Those tactile microsites are sealed and do not work in the same way as a traditional electro-mechanical switch. There may be a need for some lubricant in the actual stomp button to keep is moving freely. As @Phil Starr says, you can experiment with foam or felt pads between the springs and the switch, but be careful. Firstly, the switches themselves are not that robust and secondly, too much pressure may lead to the switch being activated permanently, as though your foot was always on the foot switch. Use the rubber end of a pencil or even a cotton buds to make sure that the switch itself is still operating correctly.

Ir looks like the foot switches just push a microswitch on the PCB below. After mechanical switches, microswitches are one of those components that are not that reliable. However, that fact that the spring is not con physically connected to the microswitch. It looks like the spring has about 2 coils less on S1 than S3, although it does not look as though the sporing has broken. I have contacted Tech21 support for advice, but unless the PCB has moved away from the spring, it looks like a new spring may be all that is needed.

I swear that guitarist was miming for most of that clip.

Put the amp head in the freezer, it will give all enough to fit. However, assuming it does not split the case as it expands, it will never come out.

It’s almost counter~intuitive but HPF is the bassists and sound tech’s friend.

Is it the Programmable BDDI? I will admit to being ignorantly of the circuitry involved in the Sansamp BDDI, I will contact Tech 21 for more info. Some questions, when working normally, does the switch normally give a definite click when pushed? If not then they use some form or electronic switching. To stay true to their analogue circuitry, they are probably used IC based analogue switches. In the early days, these were frowned upon by the HiFi fraternity but they do allow simpler all along designs and the use of momentary switches rather than mechanically latched ones. This should improve reliability. I am based in the Conurbation (Poole), so happy to have a look at it.

Try the factory library settings. I have not tried the female singer one but when I sang through the CQ20 on Male Vocal setting, I sounded like a singer, surely a miracle. Of course you can tweak from the factory setting but it’s probably a good starting point.

Did you do the Burn era? IMHO one of the best Rick albums ever and the best DP

Sadly that Beyma went dome time ago. The 12CVM2 is a close alternative but not an exact replacement. I have a Faital Pro 12PR320 neo if it helps or @Phil Starrmight have a Beyma.

Does this make sense?

As a 4 string player, I would ask a question. When I did play a fiver it was to allow me to get to a D below low E. I never needed to play the the Low B as it is to far into the “muddy waters”. If you go through a PA, a decent sound man will HPF your sound to about 70 Hz, which means almost no output via the PA playing an open B.