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I find him to be one of the nicest, most down to earth, not gone to me head, musicians on the planet.

Fans arrived and now mounted. Dear cliff these things are quiet. I had to put my ear right up to them to hear them working. What a difference. The originals could wake a house of lords member. Not totally in love with the speakers, now the originals are back in.

And for good measure, Guy aged 22 with Aussie synthers Icehouse playing a cricket bat. Anyone else see Icehouse at Milton Keynes Bowl supporting Bowie in the 80's ? I must have seen Guy without knowing it

Another Pratt lover here Awesome bloke. Fab interview here, although a bit short. Eye opener was the bit about Gilmour playing fretless bass. Apparently all the fretless bass on The Wall was Gilmour https://www.musicradar.com/news/guy-pratt-the-80s-music-business-was-this-ludicrous-theme-park-awash-with-money-all-you-had-to-do-was-get-over-the-fence

Yep, DD have already done the cleaning, hence the photo above, and there was some dust on the sink fins on the fan side, but not a great deal.

Wait till there's a nice storm brewing , open a window and hurl the offending footwear outside, and write a song about it. You could call it ' sandal in the wind ' I do beg your pardon

I favour the natural Greek Honeycomb Sea Sponge. It looks a little obvious under the strings, but hell, ..works like a charm

Likewise, the heatsinks on the amp are at the back of the chassis

Having now checked the fans, they were blowing in onto the heat sinks, and judging by the dust on the fins of the sinks, that confirms what you say Bill, although it wasnt a huge amount of dust But since Ashdown designed the fans to blow in and not extract out, i shall be mouting the new ones to blow onto the heat sinks

Excellent point Mott

Yes Phil i did use the SM110/n drivers in my two 2x10 cabs at the time Those in your link look great, but i'll wait till my new fans arrive, and check what the combo sounds like with the originals, as they're now mounted back in. I wont be upgrading unless its necessary

They were both facing the same way, so either both blowing or both extracting The red wire off each were joined and the black wires were joined as well

Thanks and will check them, but its which way they were facing that i dont know, because i pulled them out before checking

Beggs hams it up

I think that might by the heavy flanging effect

One question regarding the fans on the back of the amp, something i should have checked before pulling them out, do they blow inwards onto the heatsinks, or extract the air off the heatsinks and blow it out the back of the amp ?

Indeed, and i think the Jaco one is a new-ish one

Nick's homage to Jaco

Bit more of Nick demoing how got the sound on the single i posted above

He played some awesome stick on Big Bubbles No Troubles with the band Ellis Beggs and Howard. I still have this track in my collection. Fab stuff. A friend of mine lives in the same town and often sees him around and says hello. He's a totally nice and down to earth chappie

I had my doubts

Followed advice, originals back in for now, but right now i'm waiting for a pair of quiet fans to be delivered, because the stock ones are too noisy, so the amp is out of the box. I have been mulling over other drivers , just maybe for the future, and like the look of the Beyma 10G40 at Blue Aran https://usspeaker.com/beyma 10G40-1.htm

I cant find anything about them. I thought SICAS were blue coloured, at least when they supplied them back when , so they may not be SICAS. I tried googling those numbers on the back in the photo, but google threw up nothing.

Thanks Bill, yes. I may not have the tech savvy, but i do take in what you and the other guys say about simply stuffing any old drivers in a cab without a second thought. I think i will remove them and put the originals back in.