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That’s looking good! Well worth finishing properly. I built the LF side of my crossover with terminal blocks and the HF side on matrix board, just soldering the component legs together. Get hold of the bits and start trying out layouts and it’ll make sense.

I don't think it'd be remotely practical to have variable components of the values you'd need for a crossover. Variable capacitors you can buy are in the 100 pF order of magnitude, and you need ones about 10 000 to 100 000 times bigger than that! You can simply attenuate a tweeter with a variable resistor, but you'll be changing the load that the crossover sees and that will change its frequency behaviour too… …on which note, I asked about bi-amping rather than using a passive crossover in my own cab thread, and (I think it was) @stevie said it was certainly an option, but the interaction between the carefully developed crossover design and the dynamic behaviour of the speakers forms part of how the system behaves and therefore how the cab sounds. It'd definitely be interesting to try out the passive crossover versus bi-amping with the same enclosure and drive units - if anyone has the inclination and (ideally) the test gear… @GlamBass74 which aspect of building the crossover are you apprehensive about? Can you solder ok?

The R500h doesn’t have a fan.

There are plenty of dB meter phone apps. I assume the numbers they give you are nonsense in absolute terms, but would be worth something as a relative comparison i.e. when measured with the same phone and app, is the SPL in situation A louder than the SPL in situation B.

Ooh, I didn’t catch either of those, will have to put them on the list to look out for. I saw Kojey Radical, Lonelady (brilliant as expected), Mewn and Warmduscher (didn’t know what to expect, both good), Metronomy, Henge (inevitably), Anna Meredith, and Björk who was spectacular although apparently people who didn’t get a good spot up front didn’t have such a great experience. Managed to miss Squarepusher and ACR, booo. Surprise random discovery though was Grove who raps over drum’n’bass beats with huge energy, a pure punk attitude and not very much on 👀

I think Funeral Plans At The Retail Park are probably some sort of stoner metal, but welcome your suggestions

Had to get the young ‘un back to school after, so no, but having shown mrs nekomatic the picture she’s passing it on to her contacts there! Looked like a combo of neck angle, insufficient relief and a bizarrely high nut. It was a medium scale bass too so probably gets inflicted on the youngest and softest-fingered victims 😭

Child 2 is having his piano exam and there are various instruments lying around the practice room. My heart goes out to the kid who has to play this!

You could have a look at CPU heatsinks which tend to use thin copper fins rather than thick extruded aluminium ones? Might have to do a bit of bodging, but they’re not expensive on eBay

Not my sale, just popped up in one of my searches. Of course there is likely to be a reason that each one is no longer in its original cabinet… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314067272560?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=pjnapugors6&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=O0J6pgZgSC6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

That sounds wrong, what are the add-ons you aren’t getting refunded for?

See, this is why music is so great, because you and I can watch and hear exactly the same thing and have such utterly different opinions on it. I mean, obviously mine is right and yours is comprehensively and irredeemably wrong, but it’s great that you have it.

mrs nekomatic once got the kids a pBone for a bit of fun (as they already both played piano and violin) and for a further bit of fun got someone she knows to give them a couple of lessons. Somehow a couple of lessons turned into a full on third instrument, kid 1 let it drop after a while but kid 2 recently got his grade 7, on a King we inherited from my late uncle who used to play in an amateur orchestra in Belgium. Kid 2’s teacher is now trying him out on some jazz, much to his initial reluctance but last lesson while I was working upstairs I could overhear him taking solos on Watermelon Man to a Jamey Aebersold backing track, and I may coincidentally have got something in my eye.

Since last time I’ve watched Blossoms (good effort from my homeboys, I’d be happy to see them live one day), Khruangbin (not at all bad) and Billie Eilish (didn’t blow me away, but clearly gave the crowd what they wanted). What more is there to say about this? It is what it is: clearly not the same thing it used to be once upon a time, clearly a massive commercial machine now, but equally clearly not just mainstream pop, or just dad rock, or just anything else it’s accused of being. And, thankfully, not the only festival there is to choose from, so people who want a festival but not like that can surely find one.

I thought even drug dealers were fully contactless now.

I'm sure Bluetooth is always 2.4 GHz. I think you're getting mixed up with Wifi.

When I was in London in the early '90s I did a bit of volunteer bar work for the Workers' Beer Company at events like the Fleadh and so on. They did the bars (or some of them) at Glastonbury too and the opportunity came up to sign up for that. Would have had camping in a staff area with hot showers. But I was a bit of a wallflower and was nervous about not knowing anyone so I let it pass. I still kick myself.

Cor blimey there's some grumpy gits on here isn't there. I've just watched Róisín Murphy's set and it was brilliant from start to finish, a great show from a proper bang up rock star with plenty of bass action to boot. If this sort of thing is typical for Glastonbury then I'm thinking I ought to go one of these years.

I'm pretty sure it does. You don't notice it on your own posts because you can't bump a post without reading it, which makes it no longer bold.

Well I’ve just started catching up with it all and am looking forward to watching a bunch of the sets mentioned upthread. We saw a bit of Macca last night but didn’t have the stamina for the full two and a half hours. Right now I’ve got Burna Boy on, I didn’t know him before and it looks like a lot of fun to be honest.

On Saturday night Stockport Symphony Orchestra (in which mrs nekomatic plays violin) are doing Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony and the Brahms piano concerto… with Joanna MacGregor as soloist, quite a coup for them as she’s a big name and mrs nekomatic has just come back from the rehearsal with her and reports she is amazing. It’s in the Town Hall, if you’re in the area do come down.

Marshall MB15s show up secondhand fairly often, and sound good.

Honeyfeet at Band on the Wall on Friday night, who were every bit as good as expected.

Nope, playing and drinking don't mix for me - you'd have to ask the audience whether my playing suffers but I really notice the loss of focus and it's no fun. Which is a shame because otherwise I'd quite enjoy a beer or two (not much more, I'm cheap to run) in the atmosphere of a gig or jam session. Maybe I just need to practice more, or practice drinking more, or practice more, drinking. It has to be said that there are alcohol-free or very low alcohol beers now that are actually not bad, which is a revolution compared to a few years back.