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It does sound good, but it’s not very loud - I don’t think it’d keep up with a drummer and guitarist beyond very polite practice volume. People always rate the Fender Rumble combos, which on my limited experience is justified.

Oh and I’m tempted by the Fairground Attraction reunion that comes here the following weekend, but put off by the thought that it might just be a massive sing-along-fest. I don’t care if people yell their lungs out to Perfect, it was never one of my favourites anyway, but I’m not paying fifty quid to have Allelujah or The Moon Is Mine drowned out by the flipping punters.

To be fair the OP doesn’t say ‘no jazz’, just not specifically jazz. I think there have been some fine recommendations here.

Two very good calls there.

However, since derailing threads has a long and honourable tradition here, I endorse this recommendation.

Well last week’s jazz jam may be the last, as the pub is closing this week. Sounds like the brewery have kicked the landlord out and may install a new one, so it might be back, or might find new premises. Would be a shame if it doesn’t carry on somehow though, as it was a really nice crowd and vibe. I’m told the one at Matt and Phreds in Manchester is good, so might chance that next month…

The Songs of Joni Mitchell at the Royal Northern on Sunday 22nd. Not many tix left, if anyone else fancies it! I’d go to this for either of Jesca Hoop or Josephine Oniyama, so to see both of them ought to be a treat. Oh and Olivia Chaney.

I’m sure a good patent agent could draft something that would cover your design without infringing on or being invalidated by whatever PJB have done, but it’d cost you significant money so there’d be no point unless you were planning to sell this on a commercial scale (and willing to defend your patent against any big companies with big lawyers who took a fancy to it). So now we know you probably won’t sue us for copying it, can you tell us where you got the luggage handle from?

That’s the bunny - thank you! I should clarify that my search incompetence is rivalled by my woodworking incompetence*, so knowing that there are battens doesn’t equal fully understanding how to most easily assemble the thing. * exaggeration for comic effect, but only a bit

Cool to see the plans ready, thanks to Phil, Bert and Sam for making it happen. I plan to build one as soon as I’ve got a couple of other projects off the books (so don’t hold your breath). I vaguely remember a video in which Phil demonstrated how to assemble a speaker cabinet without having to use a million sash clamps. I assume this cab can be built the same way? Can anyone take pity on my search incompetence and remind me where to find it?

Put me down as a maybe…

This is true, but when AWS serves a request I assume the bytes are not being picked by underpaid warehouse staff and delivered by drivers on zero-hours contracts.

Local math-rock darlings Dutch Uncles in the unusual venue of Stockport’s parish church, Saint Mary’s in the Marketplace. Atmospheric but I’m not sure the acoustic did their sound any favours, as the complexities of their stuff went a bit muddy amid the reverberation. Bit different though.

The black thing below the two pots on the top row does indeed look like an LDR optoisolator as used in optical compressors, and the board legend looks like it says OPT1. How does the drive sound, at a low setting?

Local math-rockers Dutch Uncles at St Mary’s Church in Stockport next Friday night. Interesting venue for it. I wonder if there’ll be a bar?

That’s a really, really good tip!

“…in the style of a Bulgarian wedding dance”

I am currently accordionless, having Freegled the second of our charity shop acquisitions a while back as I wasn't really playing it and it was too out of tune and not worth paying to fix. Although we then visited a mate I hadn't seen in ages and found that he's taken up accordion restoring as a hobby, but never mind. However, mrs nekomatic has inherited an accordion from her uncle in Sweden which we believe to be a decent one and we are in the process of getting it over here via her various sisters who live there - apparently it has survived the first leg of its journey via DHL so fingers crossed. Speaking of fingers crossed though, it's a button model not a piano one, so that'll be an interesting challenge.

Depends on the sensitivity of the cabs. The 4 ohm will get more power but could be less sensitive.

Sounds good - there’s nothing wrong with the tempos. Nice arco 🙂 On first listen I was a bit confused by the double-time thing your drummer does on the first tune, which sounded a bit random until I went back and concentrated on it. Maybe something that works better live than on a demo?

That’s quite a lot of power, unless these are valve amps - I wonder if they actually need that much? Anyway I have no clever ideas sorry. Your cheapest option is probably going to be an 8-way mains strip and individual 24 V adapters.

500 mA each, or 500 mA total? Any idea if the outputs need to be isolated from each other?

GET OUT

I hadn't seen this thread before, and big thanks to all contributors for the recommendations - going to be going on a playlist near you (well, near me) very shortly. If I could choose three fantasy bands to be in, one of them would definitely be an Afrobeat band. Also I hope the people on page 1 who tipped the Ezras for greatness back in 2020 are feeling suitably pleased with themselves now. Here's The Fontanelles:

Having listened through good headphones to these (and previously other) examples of ‘upright sounds from an electric bass’, I’m going to say that the best of them do manage to replicate an OK double bass sound… but none of them manages a really good double bass sound, the sort I’d be trying to make if I were a double bass player. I like how that Ibanez SRH sounds on its own terms though, without the double bass IR.