Stub Mandrel

If I had to choose a rig from my collection on tone instead of power...

Luxury, when I were a lad, you were lucky to get a used napkin to shleter from the rain.

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Just back from a Bendricks Rock gig at the Lamb in Newport. Much more room than we were expecting. A few friends as well as enthusiastic locals. We felt a few songs were rushed and/or scrappy. How did we manage to butcher a song as simple as Sex Bomb? But we went down well and the bar staff loved it. Major plus point was finding my cheap and cheerful Thomann powered speakers were more than adequate for a pub gig (4 vocals). Drummer Paul from Bluesfire was there and is practicing with us on monday ahead of a dep in September. After that NOTHING! until September: (

I have the sunburst with matching sunburst(!) Headstock. Not as pretty as a CAR Bongo though.

Buying what is a bad idea? A carbon fibre cab? I'll remember to book my next flight on a deHaviland Comet...

Just a thought, the kinetic energy in a moving object is proportional to mass, so a cab that's much lighter doesn't need as much impact resistance.

Hoof glue for all I know... it is unlikely to be more environmentally unpleasant than the polyester resins used for carbon fibre.

I know I'm comming across as a GRBASS fanboi, but they do bamboo cabs as well....

I just have their lightly padded slip cover.

GRBASS use a laminated construction with a foam between the carbon layers. Presumably this has a big effect deadening resonance. If you tap it it doesn't sound much different from a traditional cab. Odd I thought I was quoting @Chienmortbb... Also, I would say that when my cab finally dies, I'd be likely to go with their bamboo version, if only because I am an environmentalist by profession...

Those of a certain vintage remember them!

Here's a real world experience. Bass dircet warned me a GR bass cab was NOT the eay to go if I was chucking gear in the back of a van. I've now been had my AT212 slim for over three years, gigging for nearly as long. I have had to replace several plastic corners (there was an issue with the plastic being brittle, they sent me a bunch of ones with a more flexible formulation). Also a foot got knocked loose and I used CA to help keep it in place. Otherwise it's in as good condition as any cab would be after three years of rehearsals and gigs, with only one slight ding on the top edge. I have no reason to question GRBASS's claims for efficiency, power handling or response. I have had nothing but positive comments on my tone since getting it, and I typically use my Orange Terror with the tone controls near flat and the master volume at about 9 o'clock. Yes, something heavier could sound as good and would probably stand up to rougher treatment. But I treat it with a modicum of respect and I've yet to hear a better sounding cab. In a cab shootout at the Southwest Bass Bash (2022), most people placed it close to the Lfsys cab, with mine sounding slightly mid-scooped in an A/B comparison. Both cabs sounded incredible with the same range of music across various genres being played through them (not basses). Most of all, the sheer convenience of being able to carry such a good cab in one hand without compromising on sound is worth every penny.

I had issues (windows) but they resolved after a couple of cold restarts.

Fantastic result, well done! Inspires me to sort my tulip properly.

Trusting that a new PA amp and other PA bits doesn't count. Getting dangerously close to some new machine heads or a pedal board...

Interesting. Susceptibility to noise induced hearing loss depends on the stregnth of you auditory reflex [stiffeng up of the muscles inside the ear in redponse to loud noises] do vaties between individuals. Also exposure to 15 minutes of loud but not damaging sound has a protective effdct against potentially damaging sounds for up to 24 hours. So regardless of other precautions, having fairly loud music on in the car on the way to a gig may be a good idea.

I had to be ready to lift my headstock to let people through!

Quality 2 pole fit just as well as qualty 4 pole.

Last night was awesome! Tiny but rammed music pub, the Bush in upper Cwmbran. Some of our Bluesfire fans came but mostly locals, also two guys I know from the band playing there next week. We overfilled the space! We just really clicked, hardly missed a beat, really relaxed. Reaction was great, even got dancing in the tiny space. Lots of 'best band/gig' I've seen here, almost everyone came up to say how they enjoyed it. They were generouswith the 'magic hat' too. Al's guitar always gets praise but this time it was mostly people saying how good we were as a band. Felt like we levelled up last night. You can see how much of a squeeze it was...

Grest engagement with the crowd.

You only need 4-pole for specialist applications. My PA amp needs to be used with 4-pole connectors only when in bi-amp mono mode which uses the built in crossover to send high and low channel output to a sub that then passes the high output on to the tops. A 2-pole will work with any setup unless it is explicitly designed to bi-amp over a single cable. If you buy 4-pole for an ordinary setup the spare conductors are unused and just extra weight to carry around.

Now there's an idea for a band name!

Surely hacking your Mac so it runs a new version of the O/S instead of buying a new one is EXACTLY what Apple don't want you to do, their whole business model is predicated on planned obsolescence.

2,700 amps and 3,112 cabs? Wow I make that nearly 8 ½ million combinations! 😁