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Which Harley Benton supply is it? That might help us suggest what would work with it. 

Assuming you don’t want to solder anything, something like this ought to be suitable. It may say 12 volt input but the small print says it works down to 8 volts. 
 

Be aware though that if you plug in a phone that draws 3 amps from the USB port, that gadget will need about 1.7 amps from the 9 volt supply, which would be quite a lot for a pedal. I couldn’t quickly find a similar item with a lower maximum output. 

Well the bassist made it to the gig and (presumably) back again, so however they did it it must have worked. Thanks again for all the help!

I have several of the rollers spare and would be happy to post a couple to any cab constructor. You’d need your own handle but I think that’s a standard size. 

A recital of piano music by Anthony Burgess, played on Anthony Burgess’s piano at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. A musicologist sat next to us warned us to expect ‘second-rate Walton’ and I think he was being harsh, but Burgess definitely a great writer who could also compose rather than (as he apparently wished to be) a great composer who could also write. 
 

Pleased to report I didn’t viddy any ultraviolence and also slooshied no Ludwig Van, although there was some Ravel in between the Burgess. 

Thanks! With luck I will not need to make an emergency trip to Knutsford in the big car this lunchtime then. 

Is it likely to fit? Asking for mrs nekomatic who has booked a bassist for an orchestra gig this afternoon and trying to figure out who they can get a lift with…

Dunno what the bass is but it’s a 2011 Corsa!

Game on! Looking forward to seeing more of these nifty little cabs coming to life. 

4 hours ago, neepheid said:

Well, I have (admittedly this example is at the device side, not the plug side)

 

To be fair, that particular piece of kit has to be a good 40 years old.

Model A or B, btw?

On 11/11/2025 at 12:00, BaBaRe said:

Thats me on double bass in a piano trio:

 

 

That's very nice indeed! Listening to the oud album on Bandcamp now.

4 hours ago, BaBaRe said:

I do a lot of original music, a fusion trio, a harp and double bass duo, a world music group and also sideman work with singers, and a 50's r'n'r band. I've composed four full scores for theatre and continue to explore different avenues of expression with multiple instruments and diverse lineups. 

This sounds great, please feel free to share recordings/videos/links!

Hotcha, from the north Stockport / south Manchester border!

3 minutes ago, Owen said:

What a bunch of absolute geeks. 

🫡

18 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

But now here's what I hear and I hear an F as the first note, not a D

Yes the original key is F.

28 minutes ago, BassTractor said:

My problem (apart from not remembering the track) was me being old and slow ... and taking the 180 tempo to mean something like 117. 😄

I was being optimistic with 180, it actually goes at about 240!

What I'm kicking myself about is that in my memory the piano part did a much heavier chord on the 1 of each two-bar phrase, like BOOM! da-da-da-da-da-da-daaa, BOOM! da-da-da-da-da-da-daaa-daaaa, and how much more McCoy Tyner than that can you even get? NONE MORE MCCOY TYNER.

GOT IT

Thanks but nope. Definitely a sixties sound not bebop. I’m sure you’d get it instantly if you knew it, but maybe it’s more obscure than I thought. 

I should have said, it's over a pedal D chord (in the key I've written it, which is probably not the original key obvs). 

Thanks, I did try Musipedia which gave me a lot of what looked like trad folk tunes and some other you-hum-it-I’ll-recognise-it site which reckoned it was Dua Lipa 😄

I’m sure someone will get it soon and I’ll kick myself. 

I've had this as an earworm all day and can't for the life of me remember what it's called. I'm fairly sure it must be by some mid-Sixties quintet or bigger band, someone like Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter / Joe Henderson / Freddie Hubbard, but I've had a scan of their likely-looking albums on Apple Music and not come up with anything yet. This would be the A section, it does something else after that that I don't recall. Anyone recognise it?

Well I'm still on page 11 so no pressure from over here…

It's a secret (oops!) long-held ambition of mine to play these on bass one day, but setting up an instrument in 5ths specially seems a bit like cheating to me 😄

I guess one could play around with the D’Addario string tension calculator (there seem to be various string tension calculators online but as far as I can tell they all acknowledge D’Addario’s data), or just try some out. If you started from a standard 5-string set you could do BFCG using the B and G strings at pitch and the E and D strings respectively tuned up and down a tone, or from a 6-string set EBFC in a similar sort of way.

I do possess a 5-string fretless that I haven't settled on a stringing for yet, and a variety of secondhand strings, so I could have a go at some point and report back. I haven't properly started trying to learn fretless yet though, so I won't be sharing any attempts at playing Bach on it for a while…

Emma-Jean Thackray at Band on the Wall last night. Absurdly enjoyable. Matt Gedrych doing crucial stuff to the low end. 

Apart from the baffle, the screws in the 1x8 and similar designs are on the inside - from the battens into the panels. 

Reading the links from that site, it looks to me (and I’m absolutely not an expert) that you want to avoid the band being seen as a separate entity from its individual members. So possibly keep a record for each gig that your fee was £x each and the person who receives the money directly pays out that £x to each of you, rather than say deducting any expenses from ‘band funds’ first. 

On 30/10/2025 at 02:23, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

your knees, which can't hear them, rather than by your ears, which can. 

How do you know that the OP isn’t a grasshopper?