Dan Dare

The baby LFSYS is excellent and hard to beat, imho. As you have a PJB amp and want a clean sound with a fretless, I must (as a PJB user) suggest you also check out a PJB C4. I have a couple and they sound clean and open and are surprisingly pokey. One would certainly do a great job for pit gigs.

It's a slippery slope/vicious circle. They play too loud, cause damage to their hearing, turn up to be able to hear themselves, cause more damage to their hearing, turn up, etc, etc... Guitar players who wear earplugs are just as bad. They turn up because they can't hear themselves because of the plugs and wreck everyone else's hearing. If the rest of the band wears plugs in self-defence, the volume goes up even more because nobody can hear themselves properly.

True, but you don't even need to go digital. Modern multi gain stage amps can give virtually any sound you want at any volume. If you desire speaker distortion, rather than amp distortion, use a lower power cab and cane it.

Smart move. Leave them to go deaf and don't join them.

Happy to help. A couple of points to consider: With four 8ohm drivers, your choices are to wire all in parallel, giving 2 ohms total (probably not good with your amp, which likes to see 4 ohms minimum), all in series, giving 32 ohms total (would certainly not risk blowing the cab', but might be a little quiet), or series/parallel (which is how PJB 4x5 cabs are wired), giving 8ohms total. The TH500 puts out 500W into 4 ohms and around 300W into 8, so I wouldn't worry about blowing up the cab, especially as you say it will only be used for low volume jobs.

Bass players. Someone had to say it.

Tattoos.

It sounds as if you have the earlier Suitcase (in the 4B cab), rather than the later one, which is a C4 with built in amp. The cab sizes for both combos are identical to the plain cabs, so volume, porting, etc are already correct. You just need to mask off the hole where the amp panel was and you're good to go. I'd take Bill's advice and wire them series/parallel. Those PJB drivers are 8 ohms. The 4B is claimed to be good for 300W and the C4 for 400W (I have both and think 400's a little optimistic. The drivers are the same, so 300 is safer). Your Tone Hammer will be fine to use with them, especially if it's the 500. The 700 might push them a bit at high volume, but it'll be obvious from the sound if they're struggling.

David bought a cab' from me. Sound chap and a pleasure to deal with.

In Arizona, I see. Must have used it for rounding up cattle.

Acrylic "providing a resonance that enhances its sound quality"? So a sort of dull click, then.

"it has been kept in a smoke free house when not used on gigs". No smoke in the house, but just about everything else...

Flem (yes, I know that's not the way you spell it)

This is very true. However, the guv'nor of one place my then band played in gave me an interesting slant on why he favoured certain styles of music. I had asked him for a return booking and he declined, saying he thought we were good, but not for his venue. I asked why and he explained that he tried to book bands that women liked and would come to see, his reasoning being that if the place was full of women, plenty of blokes would turn up. He had a point. We played tricky proggy stuff (this was quite a few years ago) that you couldn't exactly dance to and our audience was always predominantly blokes.