Downunderwonder

It used to be fairly common that DI on amps was a perfunctory excuse for a DI that would indeed pop its clogs with phantom 18v applied. You should see your manual for the words 'phantom power' and 'protected' in the same sentence as 'DI'. In any case there's no reason his DI couldn't have been fed from your DI or your fx loop. I have always found no milage in pub size gigs having FOH for bass. The whole band has to be onboard with low volume everything or you wind up with a hot mess.

I helped load in one of those cabs up the stairs, once. It would have gone through the wall at the bottom if it had gotten away from us. Imagine no speakers in a box but half full of concrete instead.

The hardware builders suppliers have a mess of cheap waterproof tool cases but they look a bit nasty to go with.

Max cases from Italy cheap as chips here MAX Cases - MAX235H105 - Internal Dimensions: 235 X 180 X 106 Mm. About 40GBP. Next size up about 55.

Eh?

It wasn't something as simple as changing the pickups from series to parallel?

Alex is covering his end by insisting that the eventual tone is clean(ish). That way the speaker can't be easily overdriven as it would then not be clean. There is still a risk that someone could high pass the pish out of the signal and send that at max volume melting the drivers.

Yet when a compressor is well engaged the overall volume RISES!!!!!!!!!

Bugger. There was a thread not so long ago about a courier (DHL???) waylaying a Wal on its way to the US. It took heroic efforts from the, UK or EU I forget, sender, going up the chain of command a very long way and never taking their word for it that it was gondburger and eventually it was found and delivered. So keep at it.

... and a nice soft pick up near the neck would help, if it comes to it.

One time exposure is relatively unlikely to result in immune system mayhem. You are one of the 95%, so far. I am one of the 5%. My system has settled down but it has taken over ten years. Trust me, nobody would go down that rabbit hole voluntarily.

Have you not seen the ''air guitar, tonewood" YouTube?

We've been round the bases on that alread. Rehashing it won't do any good.

I expect the SCR does a fair mess of compression in doing its thing.

Seems like nothing has sunk in from all the advice you got in your previous thread. You can use a 500w RMS or 1000w RMS or even a 2000w RMS. Any will work. All could blow up your cabs if you let them. Go back to your old thread and have another read.

Super glue is great until you develop a sensitivity to cyanoacrylate and it buggers up your immune system causing all kinds of disturbances to your chi. Alcohol dries out blisters. A little bit often enough to have an effect is ok but if you wind up with cracks you'll be sorry! A couple of days rest should fix the soreness and it'll probably hurt less after the gig. Then you'll be done hardening up. Use plenty of gain and you won't have to pluck so hard. You can only pluck so softly with control as a beginner with the fingers so don't overdo the gain or you won't have any dynamics.

Surely a used chain would be free from a bike shop.

You want the bridge to line up with the neck. Presumably the spacing of the holes is entirely appropriate for the width of the neck. Then you want a pickup that more or less matches the string spacing where it is going to go, not biased to one side as it was. It looks like yours will be ok once centered. Forget about wrangling the strings at the bridge to match the pickup.

There's a Mex P Deluxe in the classifieds which has your name on it. P and J pickups on a slim P body with a slim almost jazz neck. 18V preamp as well. Not exactly 'high end' but for 650 quid it's a bargain performer.

Can you name any mainstream manufactured 410 115 where the 410 doesn't have at least+5dB of sensitivity and twice the power handling of the 115?

Whatever fits that does good things with the piezo pickup. Alternatively you could go direct out of the jack to a pedal but not having a working volume knob would be a bit naff.

Wot, no break? The neglect, the neglect.

Got to run but if you read back it's all there where the bridge should be. The pickup isn't aligned either???

I see you at least won out on soundchecking at the venue on the night, in front of the punters.

3 hrs of so far so good? Talk about the suspense!