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Why not the Shure Beta 58…..two girls I work with really like it over their Sm58. I think you can get them for a bit over £100 but….do make sure it’s a genuine one, Shure are one of the most faked mics about.

I’ve just completed buying an amp off Chris and very easy it was too. He answered messages very quickly and was great to deal with in all aspects of the dealings and my arrangement for collection from him. Cheers Chris.

There is a delay from power/switching on to signal path open on MB amps but I’m not sure why it would differ between amps.

I had that (almost) exact same reason given by Prudential many years ago “the reason we won’t insure you as a musician is you might be driving Boy George and have an accident etc etc “ it’s all codswallop.

It’s tough finding an insurer…(the Musicians Union will have a company they use if you can find out?) l left my broker after many years as he was getting some silly prices each year to the point where I’d had enough. My wife, being a teacher had her Teachers Union advising use of Aviva. We insured her car as the first and me, as a musician as the second and it was accepted and was half the price of the old broker cost. Look at www.musicguard.co.uk Also if you are in or join the Musicians Union you can get free insurance to £2000.

https://www.realelectronics.co.uk I’ve usually got through on phone okay but I seem to remember the lady who answered asked me to send an email with the info/details of work. I’ve come across a few companies that are currently putting out this ‘difficult to address business is not as usual’ attitude so we have to hang in there best as possible……..good luck but check what they may require to do and the cost.

Visit the shop again, face to face can work.

Terrible shop, they used to use super glue to repair acoustic guitars!

Did they say why they were replacing the pots if there was no apparent fault, without informing you first?

If not already stated…….PLi is a good cover but the person(s) contracting you/us should also have it in place methinks. A bit like a recent gig when our band was asked to have Pat test certificates on our gear, my response was ‘as long as the client has everything Pat tested too’.

Try using as much treble as possible off the bass and a bit more than usual on the amp, then ‘scrape’ with you nails along a string nearer the bridge area and use the cab control to see if there is any difference … if not then I’d check the connection to the tweeter/horn hasn’t fallen off inside the cab, taking off one of the carry handles if possible because they do drop off sometimes!

There are at least a couple of 'speakon' plugs that lock different to each other...Your speakon picture on here may help.

Yes Val and Richard and for a while now with me and various drummers.

Anyone catch Jess Hayes with her band in the Kashmir stage? I recorded her EP last year, Jess is a mighty fine singer/songwriter in the rock stream of music following her mum and dad's footsteps... who have a band 'Bad Influence' that I work in.

I'm not fully aware why the original Fender pups were placed in that original position, whether 'scientific' exploration or simply experimenting with different sounds from different placement along the body. On my self build I generally unless requested, prefer a closer positioning of jazz pickups than Fender and slightly closer to the foot of the bridge. I also bring the P pickup closer to the bridge. Look at Dingwall model with 3 pickups, looks a little overkill but it likely gets all of the Fender type pickup areas covered. The further forward/towards the neck the pickup is, the less 'attack/tightness' string sound is detected whereas nearer the bridge more attack but less 'body', hence two pickups (or 3!) better than one. I also sometimes angle my jazz pups so theres another different look to consider eh?

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