Downunderwonder

If I need backing tracks I play them through cans quietly and the bass quietly through the amp. It all hits my ears mixed just fine.

Tech21 make the VT based 500w just for you.

If I would rather leave gear overnight unsecured I sometimes cart out the old stuff in preference to setting up twice. One time I left my 80's 215 outside where anyone with a good back could have thrown it in their car and made off with it all afternoon.

The amp supposedly does 480w per cab channel with 8 ohms per channel. That's your lot. It would be pretty well equivalent to a BigTwin with a 1000W amp. That's got to be crazy loud enough for most people! Even one channel 800w split to two cabs I doubt you could hear a whole lot of difference because each cab will be making almost all the noise with the first 300w it gets. Unless you have too many and try to use all of them all at the same time, or too few.

Actually the damage is all permanent, just incremental. If you are lucky you go deaf. If you are unlucky you go deaf with permanent tinnitus accompaniment. Pick the other door labelled earplugs.

I took 'girly notes' to mean the high pitched ones up the neck.

From the side it looks like a trapezoidal wedge.

The LPF section begs to be after your fx. That way you won't be sending any clipped highs that give conniptions to any tweeters in your rig or the PA.

And OP is currently catching a case of tinnitus while using same! The mind boggles!

Usually it is one of two reasons and/or a conspiracy of sorts between the two. Guitards. Drummers. Guitar player wants to hear himself louder than everything else but with the cab down on the floor he is missing a lot of the screeching and howling great tone so cranks it. And/Or he's getting his tone from 50 or 100 watts worth of power tubes into 412. One way or the other he's tens of times louder than needs be if he just had one 12 and 5 or ten watts and aimed it at his own head with a mic to feed the PA. Drummers like to hear their kit and it is easy to make it hard to hear with a Marshall stack right by their right ear. So smash n bash becomes the order of the day with super large tight drum heads and massive cymbals. The feedback loop of drums and guitars makes for an argument over who started it and who is too too loudest. That's why I suggested having drummer balance with vocals before adding bass, then guitars.

Somehow I posted in the wrong thread, Edit, and got the syntax all backwards and opposite ie wrong, now fixed!

I can draw some more but the original became kindling when I sold the cab.

This works when you have the power. Typical guitard will complain it guts the lows out of his precious tone. In actual fact this is the tone he is blasting into the room that is missing his ears when the cab is on the floor.

If you are getting ringing that means you are sustaining damage every time you play with those guys. Must be stupid loud to do that through plugs. You best hop to getting your custom IEM molds made and get some over ear muffs to bolster the plugs in the meantime. See if you can get the guitards to stand opposite side of the room their rigs at next rehearsal. Start with the drummer and the vocals, add bass, then bring in guitars at sensible volume.

Any cab pointed right at your head and just loud enough to hear should do the trick for when you are getting FOH bass. My double laminate corrugated cardboard fantastic wedge: Cab sits with tail on the floor. Weight of cab jams the wings in position thus making everything rock solid. Cost = zero save depriving the recyclers of some cardboard. If your cab has a slot port that's where to stow the 'wedge'. Make the folds down flat then cut down in one fell swoop so when spread out ot gives you a good slope. You can eye it in by spreading out your folded card next to the propped up cab and marking the low and high points then refolding flat and joining the dots with a straight cut.

My 1518 is from Kaman SMX years, battleship grey diamond textured tolex, no red stripe, MDF, and Trace branded Celestion. 'Regular' size coil dust cover 3.5'' ? Iirc Gibson started using black tolex and then went back to green rat fur, with red stripes making a comeback somewhere in there. Before Kaman there were some Fane drivers in the mix but I think the 1153 came along with SMX series and Celestion complete with Trace branding.

Edit turned into double post. Shagging forum upgrades.

Give yourself a week to put together a band for the Jan gig before canceling. That gig is your trump card to recruit real players quickly. Singers and drummers are usually the hardest to find. I'd take a so so singer way before a dodgy drummer.

That's plenty enough reason to give this 'band' away, even if he was on course and pleasant.

There's going to be at least one with some spare time soon!

There must be plenty of bands available in January. Better to let it go now when guitar hero shows zero inclination to fix his lack of appreciation of form. He isn't going to come around so you would be serving up trainwrecks if you persist.

Not really. Outrage is a strong word. Why not back it up with some real numbers to clarify where you might start to get miffed?

Hyperbole by lack of maths? I wouldn't be too interested in a gig that only paid 200 anyway. A 500 quid gig that they wanted 125 out of instead of 100 I might feel left out depending what else I had going on.

For my money I would just put the Elf in a cupboard to damp the fan noise.