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Mine look like old solder…

If Farnell or Mouser stock the item you can use their service to create a footprint. If they have not got on it takes a day or two and they can make you a footprint.

So they should. its the only way to ensure everyone is on the same phase.

Neither. Leave the valves until you are sure they are duff and save your pocket money on the power conditioner, they are a con. Mad Mr Furman a lot of money.

True and that complication is compounded when you realise that the 12 has a longer stroke/Xmax meaning that the difference is close to nothing. so the difference really is negligible until the cabinet is tuned.

Most people that slag off buffered bypass are guitarists, buffered pedals that are well designed should not be a problem for bass.

Did you remember to use the cone size plus 1/2 the surround size rather than the overall size? If you look at the Eminence Kappalite 10s, the total of the effective cone area (SD) is 118" sq while a single Kappalite 12 is 82" sq. So rounding very loosely, the 12 is 2/3 of the cone area of 2 x 10s.

IF you remind me before hand I can bring one. I think it says NE5534 but its not clear.

I could not play such a short bass but it does look gorgeous.

The B1 Four is instant. I am impressed if the Turbo Tuner is faster.

Peterson is the gold standard and to be fair, even their app is brilliant.

Over the weekend we had two gigs and continuing my monitor theme, the ups and downs of narrow dispersion have revealed themselves. AS you may remember we had to put the two monitors that we use to the side on one gig bue to the depth (or lack of depth) of the stage. That worked really well and these speakers have a 60 x 60 dispersion angle. As a result our feedback issues all but went away. This weekend, sideways positioning was not possible so the speakers went back to the front and... we could not all hear the monitors. So with narrow dispersion we need more monitors......obviously IEM is the way to go? NO, dinosaurs do still roam the stages of southern England so we need more monitors. I do have a third identical cab but with a powered mixer, we are at our maximum. I do have a solution that still needs testing so I will keep my powder dry for a while but...till then I must leave you in suspenders.

In my experience the X range is now way behind the curve and also needs a thorough update. The mic preamps could be updated and to be fair, they would be better off using only the Midas and Turbosound names for serious kit. Their Behringer DSP Speakers have an awful reputation for reliability.

What is the tension like on the Elites?

I mentioned in another thread that I used to love the Picato Groundwounds. As I remember it these were made at Picato in Wales. I may be wrong but I think they were based in Treorchy. I understand that the Welsh facility closed some years ago and PIcato strings are now made by another UK company? I found this on Wikipedia but it is not really that enlightening. "Picato Musicians Strings has been owned by Strings And Things Limited since the early 1980s when it acquired the business of General Music Strings Limited, the original founders. General Music Strings Limited was established in the 1940s by the Stein family and by the 1970s were prolific British producers of strings for acoustic, classical, electric and bass guitars; as well as banjo, mandolin, ukulele and violin. It was during this period that Tony Iommi lost the tips of two of his fingers in an accident and the Picato company designed an extra low gauge string set (.008" - .032") especially for him.[1] At that time Picato strings were used by many famous rock guitarists and bassists such as Ritchie Blackmore,[2] Roger Glover,[3] Tony McPhee and Eric Clapton[2] to name just four." Any more info?

Have just bought new strings so these would have to wait anyway. Interesting but judging by La Bella prices usually they are a tad high. Like TI's, I am not willing to pay out that much for a string I may not like.

Still puzzled, What was this?

No rounds.

Totally agree, mine is one piece although the protection it offers for the price, if it is the same. Still make it a good buy.

Good call, you will have to pay a lot to better those pickups.

I agree totally. I was just commenting that this is not usual from Sire.

With my M2, the passive/active volume was so close that if you set the preamp flat in active mode, you cannot hear any difference. Maybe it is a new preamp, inexperienced operators or just loose QA from a growing company?

The Thomann one looks a bit weird with the contrast between the body and the neck. I wonder whether this is first shipment-itus. Where the production lines are set up but not run in a production setting. Now the problems with the production line are coming through. At Panasonic, the first run was always used to supply sales companies and distributors with demo stock providing there were no real problems. If that went OK, full production started in month 2.

Mott the Hoople were hyped almost as much as Springsteen back in the day, if memory serves me well.