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    This is the plate on more recent examples (note those for sale are the same MKII version):
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    A pair of large, powerful 2x15 plus tweeter 4 ohm PA cabs. Unfortunately, during covid they stood on a concrete floored garage and the bottoms rotted. I needed a PA, and he gave me these, so I cut off the rotten basses and fitted a new base to each one. The new bases are the same grade of chipboard as the originals, the wadding reattached with staples, bases glued with foaming Gorilla glue to ensure a seal and screwed in place, a new strip to cover the edge of the mesh, then sprayed black. The 'felt' cover material has plenty of holes etc. I have patched some of them up by gluing the felt back down, but those shown below are examples, not all of the tears. I also fitted heavy-duty corner protectors and heavy-duty rollers to make them easy to transport as they are heavy (35.5kg). They roll really well, leant back and pushed forwards. When upright the rollers are off the ground, so safe to stand on a table etc. I have used them for gigging, and they work well and sound great (although I had an intermittent issue with one speakon socket - the other one on this cab is fine) and sound good. The same cabs are used by a local Rehearsal studio and stand up to unimaginable abuse from death metal bands... My only problem with them is that a pair of 2x15 cabs take up too much room in my relatively small estate car. I need to sell them soon as I am collecting a pair of 1x15 cabs on Monday and need the space to store them! These speakers spec plates state 450W Music Power, but this is incorrect. The Thomann Website and corrected plates on more recent ones say 450W RMS, 1800W peak. As my brother ran them very hard on a 600W per channel PA (typically multiple vocals, fully mic'd drumkit) for several years without any problems. These are one of Thomann's top-selling PA cabs. New these would be £410. To reflect the condition, I'm asking for £120, but happy to consider offers/sob stories. The only catch is you have to collect from Barry, South Wales. Equipped with: 2x 15" + 1" Frequency range: 45 - 15,000 Hz Sensitivity: 121 dB SPL max Impedance: 4 Ohm Rated power: 450 W RMS/ 1800 W peak Dispersion: 90 x 40° Input: 6.3 mm jack/ speaker twist combo connector Dimensions: 495 x 420 x 1030 mm Weight: 35.5 kg Questions below, as per Basschat rules, message me if you want to make an offer. Thanks for looking
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    Wow, loads of interesting stories! My first guitar was a nylon one I put steel stings on and destroyed, but I still have its successor, a KT-2 cheap as chips thin plywood body 'SG', much modified. Must have bought it around March 1980 as Running Free had not long charted and was the first song I tried to play on it. My first bass was a Hohner jazz copy (similar to but predating the Arbor Series). I must have bought it in 1986 looking at my cv (which is a bit shaky on dates pre-1988) I gave it to my brother 10 or 15 years ago, but he still has it, the pickguard is faded to an incredible two-tone colour. Secretly, I want it back 😞 I still have my second bass, a Hohner B2 that my brother converted to a lefty, gave to me, and I converted back the "DEATHBURGER". All original except the finish and knobs it has had several finishes - white, then refinned white, then painted with sunset and standing stones, heavily stickered, carbon effect vinyl wrapped, then stone effect paint! Gigged it in the late 80s to 96 when I lost my way, and did all my proper band demo recordings with it as it sounds incredible. Since then gigged (once) and jammed with it recently. Oddly, I don't have any decent photos of it, and it's at my partner's house being easy to tuck away in its custom fit case (bought s/h for a song in the old Bass Centre in Birmingham about 1988/9).
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    Hi Tom, where are these speakers? AH.. GUISBOROUGH! Any idea of postage cost?
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    Inspired by the year of birth discussion, what's the instrument you have had longest? NOT your oldest. Is it the instrument you learnt on, or are you an inveterate flipper and It's only weeks old? Or something in between and does it have a story to it. If it isn't a bass, what bass have you had longest?
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    Well I would love a '62 P and Jazz, but even settling for an AVII P and a Flea Jazz was a stretch for my finances!
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    My Mate had a Stingray IIRC. Recall it not being brilliant. Yes... I remembered it being green like a Trace Elliot. Although it seems to have been a cobra like this.
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    Always a good one, we have plenty of fans in Barry 🙂
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    This. You really don't want a speaker lead failing just because someone caught it under the corner of a cab.
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    Now I have a decent sofa again, I need to do a new pic (or set of pics 😬)
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    Work of the devil!
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    Probably before your time, but does anyone in Leamington remember Head In A Helix?
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    Other way around, I haven't heard his solo stuff but got several Max albums in the early 80s.
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    Decent gig tonight in Blackwood. Took my Thunder 1 and used it for the first set. Was a biker pub so the blues rock went down well. We knew dj on later, and about 20 minutes after we finished the jukebox got cut off a short way into a Metallica song, and awful club music started. By the timecwe finished packing up the clientele were almost completely different. I wore my Ryuk/Deathnote t-shirt I got sent from the USA which always gets more compliments than my playing!
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    Max Webster?
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    I'd enjoy being in a tribute to Gong or Soft Machine (early stuff only). 😁
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    Off to the New Foresters soon. Going to take the Thunder 1 I got from @stewblack of this parish. Just had a quick warm up and it is ridiculously gnarly, the hottest p-bass pickups I have ever come across. Cafind a pic, so here's a gratuitous one of my brother with his Thunder 1A many years ago.
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    I was listening to Ten Years After at Reading 83 (I was there) and realised how much I owe to Leo Lyons, back when I was learning I used to play along to Watt and Ssssh back to back. Leo was/is a serious jazz player, listen to Undead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undead_(Ten_Years_After_album)
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    I used to use leads made up from two-core 13A mains lead (repurposed from a lawnmower). They are all still working 30+ years on! Now I use speakon I'm happy to accept what comes as part of decent quality pre wired leads.
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    Great thing about an SM58 is that if you move on to more specialised recording gear, you still have a vocal mike that will last a lifetime and you can use on any stage in the world without being criticised, with the added bonus that it will serve in almost any other role. The advantage over the SM57 is the rubber capsule suspension which reduces handling noise and will also help if recording at home where you may have to deal with things like less than solid floors or stands. Not many other mikes offer such flexibility.
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    Circa 1990, the band I was in practiced in a large room set up as rehearsal space by a band we knew. In one corner was what looked to be an odd-shaped, ancient and unloved bass coated in a thick layer of nicotine and with utterly dead strings. I paid £80 for it in in instalments. It was only about four or five years old! Now my precious Fender Performer which I gigged solidly for several years in the '90s and have since only gigged a handful of times. But definitely the easiest bass to play I have ever tried.
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    What I like about blues rock is the freedom to improvise within a structure. There's always new things to learn as well. Having a 'set of rules' isn't always limiting. One of my favourite live songs we do a long playout in Em where anying goes, sometimes Alex and I do simultaneous finger tapping 😁
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    Argh... my ocd wants the eq sliders to all be in the middle with the amp in 'waiting for something to do' mode!
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    Not ticketed, but aside from festivals our biggest crowds have been pay at the door events rather than free ones.
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