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Well, you've done the sane thing by checking what you can. Worth a double check on the battery, perhaps ? Rapidly sweep the vol control back and forth to clean out the pot ? Otherwise you know there is a fault, and it could be in the PU or in the electronics, can't guess. Any further tests would involve unsoldering the PU and wiring it temporarily as passive, maybe that's not something you are OK with ? If not, it's perhaps best to find a local tech or helpful local BC'er to help find the fault and fix. Soz, not much help..... LD

Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III is a concept album about what can happen if you choose a career in music. It begins with Joe's progress from teen garage band, with fantastic variations of a simple two bar 3 chord song that totally sums up my formative music years. Takes a meandering journey through the totally messed up world of music and ends with Joe doing a deal with the law never to play again. The last song, Watermelon in Easter Hay, is sublime Zappa guitar work, and is imagined by Joe as one last act before surrendering his musical soul. Profound. A whole raft of musical genres and vintage irreverent and offensive Zappa immaculately played as ever. Lengthy, it was a triple album on vinyl (I still play it!)...... Remember : The white zone is for loading and unloading only....... LD

Poly loft insulation (NOT fibreglass) is essentially the same stuff as acoustic wadding, and plenty of it. But panel resonances is the elephant, and wadding can't help that...........brace, brace, brace ! LD

You'll probably be OK concerning hum - it's line level and if you do go for the one mighty tower, the grounds will all be local anyways. Some TE amps have ground lift switches on the rear panel, and for sure that would get you out of jail in the unlikely event of ground hum. Go for it ! LD

Hi moonbass, yup a quick look at the schematic for that Mackie speaker suggests it has a switch mode PSU, and such faults are notoriously hard and uneconomic to repair. LD

Couldn't find an exact circuit schematic for the AH150 but other TE amps have line out post master volume. So yes, what you suggest should work, the volume control of the 1st amp should also control the level of the slave - HTH ! LD

If the amp is unstable, it's really best not to feed it speakers to eat. Thing is, you might not even be able to hear the frequencies involved, being so high..... Just sayin'.......and you know the amp's got a fault here! LD

Making the leap of faith that the power section is class D and the PSU is switch mode, it's possible that the PSU remains ticking over whenever connected to the mains, and the power button is really a soft start. In which case, yes there could be a trace of residual noise in standby mode (off), or the noise could be the PSU itself 'cycle skipping' in low power (standby) mode ? HTH ! LD

The component that fell from the crossover was the series resistor limiting power to the hf unit. The 'thick' wavy line on the 'scope could well be due to high frequency oscillation, perhaps too high to hear even, and that fits with damage to that resistor and the amp lacking power/shutting down/blowing fuses. Seems there is a fault in the amp causing it to oscillate at high frequency. With these clues, a competent technician should be able to readily trace and fix it. However, it's not really a DIY repair, and the fault is likely to be deep within the electronics of the amp, and is perhaps an interaction with those speakers. In the meantime, hooking it up to different speakers risks damaging them, so that seems a bad idea. Best to take the amp and the speakers that demonstrate the problem in for repair. HTH ! LD

I don't think anyone would steal our Hammond........police would search a 20 yard radius from the scene of the crime for it, and A&E for two idiots with herniated vertibrae. LD

Brass used to set those demonic devices off, even unmic'd ! Bass could be loud as you liked I thought they had disappeared from use, all gathered together and ritually destroyed ? LD

Yes, thanks TC. What I mean about nut height is that it mostly sets 'playing action', and what I do is chose it to suit, but also to avoud buzz/clatter which happens should it be too low (in which case it needs packing or rebuilding/new nut). It's best to be cautious when reducing nut height then. There's a temptation to think that saddle height sets action height, which it does to an extent but moreso at the bridge end of the fretboard and hardly at all at the nut end - whereas nut height mostly affects nut end action where many peeps play much of the time. However, I am no expert on setting action other than for myself though, so best to use accepted conventional methods and wisdom methinks. LD

[QUOTE]skej21 said: I'd much prefer a band leader with the musical intelligence to give specific feedback that is actionable... "Every time you play the seventh over that Cmaj9, it's killing the momentum of the sequence, play a third next time'... Even just "what you're playing in that bar isn't right, try something else next time and I'll tell you when I'm happy with it" etc etc [/QUOTE] Yes, totally. LD

[QUOTE]blue said: ..if I screw up come at me like Buddy did. [/QUOTE]Not that they would, but if anybody actually did that on this forum, no doubt there would be sanctions - as in life. It breaks the code of acceptable behaviour, and in any circumstance abuse is is plain wrong. Don't take my word for it, that is the law, presumably on both sides of the pond. In private behaviour, presumably abuse would require express consent to be lawful, but IMO that is hardly normal..... By accounts, near the end of his life BRich asked to hear those tapes; apparently it was not an aspect of his life he wished to be remembered for nor was proud of. If I understand it, the essential proposition of this thread is that it is OK to verbally abuse people under certain circumstances. But actually it is unlawful AFAIK, for good reasons, and it is right that many people here seem to disagree IMO. LD

[Quote]Twincam said: Anyone still using a really old speaker regular? [/QUOTE] 1973 drivers in my bassman 2x15 still fabulous and showing no signs of change or damage. Bona fide sound, the real thing. I'm not the original owner, but from the tolex and grill it has been well used, and only stored in dry conditions I would say. I use that cab at proper band levels about 12 hours/mnth I suppose. LD

Going back some decades now, I used a Warwick Streamer stage 1 (Seymour Duncan pickups with those odd switches), Rotosound Nickel (?) rounds 95 gauge, active preamp (whatever was standard in the guitar), Boss rack compressor, Trace Elliot AH350 mids scooped TE 2x10 + 1x18. Pretty classic growling sound, halcyon days. The other amp I fancied and tried but never obtained was SWR Red (2x10)..... As you say, much of the 'correct' sound starts in the fingers, and timing is everything. After that, it's having proper action and elasticity in the guitar/strings, then the strings themselves, PUs, compressor is key, and a rig that can cope with the top end transients as well as the shear kick drum like impact. I'd almost forgotten those times ! LD

Yes TC and others are right about the neck shim, and a little goes a long way . Best to estimate first what neck angle you need to end up with. Set the saddle at 'sensible' height and check for how much angle the neck needs packing. Angle pulls out a bit under tension, BTW, that's normal. Once the neck angle is correct, adjust the saddle height so that notes above the 12th fret just don't buzz. Adjust truss rod (carefully!) so that notes around 3rd-5th frets don't buzz. Finally, set the nut height so that open strings don't buzz and the open string action is where you like it - this means filing away at the nut groove and is a one-way trip, so be conservative - the nut height ultimately sets the open string action. Lastly, recheck saddle height by confirming 12th fret + doesn't buzz, adjust as nec. This what I do anyways, and hope this makes sense and helps ! LD

Sample the intro, inc drums, and have your drummer play over it ? That should work. Off topic, and embarassing but true, 'The Plan' is not at all bad as prog psych concept albums go IMO. There I said it. I'll get my own coat. LD

[QUOTE]Bilbo said: Duke Ellington was a gentleman and his band 10x that of Rich.[/QUOTE] Yes. By chance yesterday I was listening to a 1957 vinyl recording of Ella singing Duke's songbook with Ellington's bands in various guises led by the man himself. It is sublime on all fronts, check it out ! The only errors I hear stand out on Concert for the Americas were Buddy's, I'm afraid - though they're not clangers. That is also a masterpiece, for different reasons. I trust BR suitably self-flagellated Interestingly, if one listens to the earliest recordings of Buddy as a 'child prodigy' similar slips are there..... LD

IIRC there was more than one 1518.........one was an 18" wedge monitor, the other a 1x15 ? +1 TC's caution about unresponsive sellers...... LD

A 1/4" drive socket of the correct size will prob have thin enough walls. Socket sets are available from most motorist stores and tool shops fairly cheaply, perhaps £10 or so, including a pivoted driver and sockets of various sizes. Be sure to use the exact correct size socket ! HTH ! LD

[QUOTE]blue said: Can the child read charts, manage and direct a band, travel and play 280 gigs a year? [/QUOTE] Perhaps in time he will continue to develop into something very special indeed, but surely not through the methods at issue here on this thread. Point in posting those vids is that Buddy's fills sometimes slipped and weren't perfect, and some of them were worse than Jonah's as a 5 year old and especially as a 9 year old. But pointing this out to Buddy at the wrong time on the wrong day might have led to some Buddy meltdown, I venture.....for all his talent Buddy had problems, and these were not virtues in any way, they were his demons. LD

[QUOTE]Number6 said: Fantastic video.....love it! [/QUOTE] Yup, and that was when he was 5 years old ! Here's a more recent vid of Jonah at 9, giving Dave Grohl a seriously good run on Smells like Teen Spirit: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDljyD01Ue8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDljyD01Ue8[/url] Here's drums only (no backing): [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGUjxcmKSRw"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGUjxcmKSRw[/url] LD

[QUOTE]Number6 said: How would anyone know if Buddy fooooked up? After all it is jazz drumming [/QUOTE] More complex drum fills slip time, for example ?! I would have shown Buddy this video of a 5 year old kid (Jonah) getting it right. That would have brought on apoplexy I think: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4PKBNzmuo"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4PKBNzmuo[/url] LD

Buddy's anger had little to do with care for performance standards - he was off on one and that was in the firing line that day. Usual, by accounts. BTW, does anyone else notice slight time slip (long) during some of Buddy's more complex live solo tom fills ? Concert for America, for example. I would have just had to point that out, or perhaps better to get the trombonist with a beard to tell him !?! No matter what level one plays at, bar band or whatever, it's good to be passionate about playing standards. But not angry about anything: that just goes nowhere. LD