Downunderwonder

It's obvious how this is going to pan out.... Fully refurbed stack of doom with two new drivers and the old good driver flipped for 20 quid.

I may have missed it but have you tried a different bass and amp before condemning the cab?

If there's jamming involved I prefer the right side for a righty guitarist and left for lefty so I can see what the chording hand is doing. I can't actually read guitar chords I do it by osmosis.

I have a problem. Technically my Omni bass IS an electric cello, strung as a bass. Dammit.

Tempo problems can be very much more subtle than "player X is rushing causing everyone to speed up". In anything that has a swing to it there only needs to be a slight disagreement over how much swing is the right amount. If the lead swings in ahead too much for the drummer's liking they may 'catch up' to correct the amount of perceived swing. The bass hears that as "everyone speeding up" and all of sudden the next swung note has done the same and you're off to the races.

Don't carry your 210 cabs. Put them on a hand cart.

I took to indicating the tempo with my foot and swaying so the drummer can pick up on it subliminally. It seems to be working. He used to be all over the place but since I started my little routine he almost never gets it wrong.

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Big call. How do you know the 212 isn't loaded with some higher sensitivity drivers that lay waste to your 2 112's regardless of the wattage difference?

Yamaha used to make a blue cone thing with the LED at the peak iirc. A little bit retro vintage for good measure?

Don't point the mic at the speakers. Don't have the speakers too close and aim them across the room to opposite sides so you catch enough to get by. Small guitar amps mic'd into the PA. No monitors makes life so easy. If you can't hear x or y, too bad! Only works when everyone is on the same less is more page.

Powered sub ftw then.

Get some really good earplugs. Get another 212 same as the other one. Stack them tall. Assumes the first cab is 8 ohm. You seem to think it is but worth checking. If it is 4 ohm you are SOL. In case of 4 ohms you could add a powered sub and line out of your fx loop to it and have it return the highpass back to your fx return.

Always hook up the speaker before powering up the amp. Always power down before unhooking the cab. Having this as your routine is to prevent an occurence of amp on with no speaker attached = death to amp.

I put verge of breakup because it's only a matter of digging in and and I get some choice wild hair on. But it's clean if I don't dig in. Such is the joy of preamps that can do that thing with ease these days. Maybe I should have put clean as a clean thing?

Good luck. Having heard so much boom and clank rubbish out front from other bands I just send them my effected signal. At least they are starting from something decent. I still get the odd grumbles it's bloated in the lows. It's the hall and the PA. My cab is full range and the lows are turned down already. Tune your fine PA to the room!

Be sure the desk has phantom power off. Trace never isolated their DI afaik. 18v up it and no more DI. Then they tell you your DI doesn't work!

A few years ago my bro sent me.a YouTube from some dude who must be doing ok selling shows. Never heard of him and can't remember his name. Dude doing country music with a jazz band backing him and making it work. Very listenable. Ace trumpet player etc doing jazz solos over cowboy blues.

Except it didn't stop with muting the strings. It could still be the singer's monitor and mic but it's vocal frequencies doing it because it stops when she stops. Must be a right Shirley. HPF aka low cut her mic and see how it goes. Get away from the vocal monitor and any amount less of crankage will help.

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I'm with you in that there's no way I am forking out for new Mesa gear. But I wouldn't go around calling it overpriced stuff I wouldn't buy and by the way I like some other brand better so Mesa can do one I wouldn't buy it anyway. That's not cricket, and completely unnecessary.

One Thousand Pounds, cough splutter, thankyous for the trade might suffice.

I see why they made it 16 ohms. It's so someone can plug a 500w amp into it and not blow it up only turning the amp up "halfway" putting "250w" into it.

You're all over the place in your description of what you are trying to do. Really. Start again with what gear you are currently using and what problem you have that needs a solution. [ I very much doubt that what you have on your mind is going to be that solution. Maybe it can be, but not the way you seem to think it would go ] Over to you.