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Ha Ha .... i lost a fair bit of weight between my other half designing the rings them being made and ahead of the wedding .. weirdly my hands were affected the most . It's fairly loose if I push it out Ignore johnny dibble .. the ring is safe on my left hand ... but bulky enough that it feels " odd" and affects my left hand dexterity ... probably a mental thing , we do play punk and it could definately go flying off the right finger . Resizing the ring isn't an easy option i the uk it's engraved in latvian inside and out .

So as recently married person i've been struggling a bit to adjust to playing with my wedding ring on ... in fairness it's a pretty chunky affair stylistically ( no fancy gemstones ) just Big ole silver with engraving. Most of my bandmates are married too , The answer from both girls was ... move the ring to your pick hand .... which i've been doing , but for gigs i'd be terrified it would fling off , my solution so far has been an eggcup on my desk I'd lose my head if it wasnt attached So asking the wider community ... who plays with rings ... left right , wedding fashion ... should i just try to adjust ? Am i being foolish ?

We recently took our old powered Peavey floor wedges to the guy one of a Guitarists uses for setups in Surbiton ... turns out he has a little sideline in amp repair mainly older stuff , as sadly no-one wants to be told you need to replace the whole Integrated PCB... for much the same price as a new one . The thing was making farting noises at volume , i'd guessed the whole speaker was delaminating .. turns out the tweeter was blown , He replaced it with a similarish size one .... but also remarked it used to be easy to get peavy spares to order/ find like for like but instead had to scrounge one from his " bits"

Interestingly I've seen that as a major issue with Pirate we rehears at earlsfield ... its a great space until ..... anything breaks , or something is forgotten or you need a spare . They dont have anyone to ask or to loan out at all I understand staffing costs and the 24 hour nature of the place but a vending machine that sold Jack cables, XLR / power cables and picks would go such a long way. We have these at the office for self serve so they definatly exist .. Instead you sit on hold on the phone and they cant help you ... The suggestion to knock on some doors and ask if anyone wasn't using all of theirs didn't amount to much ... who answers the door mid Solo. 🙂

Don't forget the old smoothie ... Arguably the best of the bunch , 😛 im not Bias at all gov This is the 40th Anniversary "Old Smoothie" StingRay, A reproduction of StingRay prototype #26, with a custom 2 band , wider custom humbucker , where the pole pieces are adjacent to Strings rather than directly under them , but uses the modern profile 42.5mm neck rather than the vintage slightly more narrow one from the "classic's" Basically a less barky stingray that can get pretty close to a P bass thump when you need it to

funnily enough I reached out to Andertons for an update on monday " i got radio silence " I will be giving them a call next week ...

I would really try to find a older used CMD121p Combo, I went down this route for a long time before I moved to an ampless setup , The cmd121p is perfectly loud enough for a 50-100 person gig... at perfectly giggable stage level volume with just the combo part ... but you can send a XLR line out to the PA for even more volume ... Or add any cheap ... or matching cab later down the line to use the full 500 watts of the Little mark head unit. I'm not sure what they are going for used these days £350 - 400 ? But would foot the bill

That is significantly better than i'm getting out of mine , I suspect there's variation on pickup tone / position to i'm guessing you gave this the best possible scenario ... Good strong neck pickup tone ? I'd have loved to hear it bypassed to see how much its sucking out of your tone... I do agree though there's a lot of problems that come from being able to hear your sympathetic strings , creating a chorus effect , even when im using the Anagram my solution has been " volume" .... the issues disapeer at rehearsal + levels of sound when you cant hear your unplugged at all.

Obviously im comparing an Apple to a Bowl of marks and sparks Organic overpriced fruit .... but i've previously A/B it against the pitchshifter in my Anagram .. Its quite bad ...

A Fair shout ... but at this this price point ... your weekend warrior has more options than ever ... this combo amp is the price of a shitbox car , but it feels to me that they could have liked to have seen a version of their "500" or " 750" head not a 300 model. Hopefully we see some people with the claws on A/B it against a like priced seperate setup.

I'm just not sure if id bother lugging that bloody bastard around for it's 300 watts .. it's a vibe for sure but I think they mention in the video that you can't put a expansion cab on it and kts tuned for the full power out of it's setup. It's going to fall into the too small to gig without pa support and too expensive to make sense for smaller players .

While The little screws undo ... ( small security torx ), they did not seem to loosen the mounted connector inside the unit , some of the cables also appear to be hot glued to the PCB meaning while others are on fan header type connectors , it means Theres very little room to work , it was at that point I decided to cut my losses and take it back .

Unfortunately, when I took the back of to try this very thing .... it seems on this EV PA and apparently many current model PA's the backs of the Connectors are fully enclosed. I confirmed this with the Andertons Rep , as i was hoping to avoid dragging the thing down there . I fear it may be the whole amp module that they have to change to repair this issue 😐

Because it's funny , because it's friday and because the basschat community is always looking out for other bass players who might fall for some kind of scam .. This smells a tad off ... and sadly It won't be the first one in the industry nor the last , To me it sounds like this person needs a performing musician but doenst want an equal member of a group , totally fine ... but perhaps doesn't want to pay directly them for that time instead ... with equity in a company ....the corpo equivilant of exposure ;-). " Who knows what " crazy terms could be including in contracts as part of "Reclusiarch Records Ltd co" . .... " ... I for one am not interested in paying imperial Tithe ... a heretic like me .... they'd have get the "HEAVY" flamer out .. ( Warhammer joke)

I don't think anyone can really be sure until it's all opened up , right now the release button is not releasing the XLR ... we have two identical cables and Cabs one for each side , EV's and Andertons brand "Rean" XLR's ... one side released fine the other is stuck in the cab. The XLR release presses the xlr budges a bit towards you but the cable will not , no matter what you do come out, The google based " wisdom of the internet" Suggests using a poor quality cable could cause this sort of issue but could equally be a failed coupling release . Either way Andertons have both and when i go to collect I expect to get the XLR back for " Analysis "