Stub Mandrel

It has a lot to do with American pride and the reality is based on Fender making more 'elite' spec models in the USA, rather than better made ones.

Seems to combine the worst of Gibson and Rickenbacker onto a Fender body.

If you aren't a cork-sniffer, you could do worse than a Sire P10dx for about £1,300.

Having lived in Tamworth for some five years or so that stretches my imagination.

Serious suggestion 'I couldn't turn up because the foh sound was good'. Start with your onstage level noticeably higher tonight before foh levels are set. And make sure your bandmates know that you struggled lasg night and that was because you couldn't hear yourself properly.

Feeling a bit out of sorts tonight. Tail end of Covid and stuff. But the gig went ok, not packed but reasonable, the audience liked it. The band were new to the place but I've done several gigs there before. I put my cab upside-down* on the bench rather than on the flags to reduce boom, and I still had to brighten the eq. Got caught out by a couple of arrangements that don't follow the originals, not that anyone else noticed. Tuned to drop d for the wrong song, so had to go back up to E for the next, then down to D and back up again... all by ear as without my tuner, which had fallen on the floor. Also managed to pull my lead out of my head while spinning round looking for the tuner. Was to boomy to use the Squier Jazz with mutes on it, but it does look pretty. Amazing tort scratchplate for an ebay cheapy! *updide down ment the ports weren't blocked and it sat on the flat top, not wobbling on three legs.

It puts me right off buying a vintage instrument.

Only if you have a grip of steel and press the strings right down to the fretboard.

Effective cooling needs turbulent airflow. That means if you have to shift lot of heat, it will be noisy unless you have huge heatsinks or heatpipes served by multiple low velocity fans.

It's ok, people sometimes ask a question in a deliberately provocative way in order to fire a heated discussion (i.e. fishing for comments, trolling by comparison with fishing using a lure).

A well organised and attended outdoor festival. Ideally? Something like Wacken.

No. Is this a troll?

Well that's almost as silly as this:

Maybe, but the rest was clearly a jape. It was a big AVR, I've had other Atmel chips usually in antistatic bags or boxes.

Exactly how I feel. I find flats uncomfortable.

Having done dome rapid research, f-holes work better than round holes az the airflow is (non-intuitively) proportional to the perimeter, not the area (because air velocity is higher the narrower the hole).

After two leads failed at one gig due to jack disintegration, my three main cases all have cables with Neutrik connectors in them (switching type at one end). I have couple of Sommer cables but also happy to upgrade favourite well-perfming cables with Neutrik connectors if the old jacks are dodgy. I have a Chienmort cable which is very nice and noiseless, but use it at home as the braided cable is rather stiff for stage use (he does more flexible ones). For less critical uses such as on my practice amps or even for pedal board to amp, I use less expensive cables: Kirlin gel are nice. The more expensive incarnations of Tourtech and Stagg using 'Neutrik-like jacks' are usable but not as durable. I have a couple of Fenders but wouldn't trust them for stage use as the stress relief seems very poor.

I don't think he's read the thread title 😁

There sre no right answers as it all depends on what you want to achieve. I suggest you try a compressor before and after your pedal board and see what happens.

Call their bluff. Book a gig.

FP rehearsal. Drummer used his own electric kit rather than the tatty one. No ear protection needed. Went well.

Problemnis many amps have s conservative power consumption that may apply for everyday use, but not continuous gig volumes. My Orange Terror 500W hybrid head head is rated at 650 Watts, so 1,300Wh for two hours. But that would be going flat out, I'd guess 3-400W on average?

I'd prefer a loop or ideally a recording at a clean instrument level covering a few styles. Probably should be a p or j. Music isn't a good test, as FRFR cabs will probably sound best for that, but not a good indicator of what flatters an instrument. Also, much difference in taste.

You could book some name bands for that.

The cabs could be chosen by a third person who has no communication with phil or audience except to say when a change is completed.