Downunderwonder

''All seemed fine" = no speakon polarity issue. Surge in volume tells you no problem with speakers at least. Mucking around with preamp kicking off the surge says probable dud cable there anywhere between bass and amp. It's either that or you futzed your Helix settings somewhere along the line.

Try playing metal lines on a EUB and get back to me. Then I'll ask you to audition for half a dozen metal bands and see how far you get.

Pretty much, but some practicalities and bowing to sensitivities will always prevail. I wouldn't turn up with anything 'pointy metal' on my jazz gigs. You won't see too many EUB's on metal shows. Some Country band leaders won't accept anything other than a P bass strung with flats and sporting a tort pickguard, and no shell pink! But in general, 'rock what ya got' is a good maxim.

I don't know that the Feel is quite there yet

Fashion.

Rare birds your guitarists!

4 ohm Trace cabs are rare. He got them after advertising here so pretty sure they're standard 8 ohms unless modded.

Might be the only one in this thread qualified to wield a drill or saw.

Ashdown are good guys. You might find the schematic attached on the server at Talkbass in one of the Team Trace threads. Sometimes they misspell Elliot with two tt and one l.

Were your 210 cabs together on the floor / stacked flat: O O O O or stacked tall: O O O O????? One time I sat in on a pub gig with some guys that usually had the drummer's girlfriend on bass. She was unavailable but her rig was in the van and I happened to have a bass with me. Halfway through the gig and I must have turned up mids two or three times as well as some volume. Still can't hardly hear myself and it's LOUD. I go out front and I am way way louder than needed but I can hear myself. Thanks for nuttin' 410 shishkebab dispersion.

Once upon a time you could have gone into a music store and cone out all Ampeg. More lately Trace Trace Elliot and Peavey. Maybe Peavey still? You could have mail ordered all Carvin until a few years ago. Yamaha. They could put out Ampeg branded basses now they own it. Fender. Any more?

At least you didn't invade Afghanistan. My first gig I did with a 6'' speaker and 50 wall watts. My next gig might be with a couple of 8'' speakers and 50 audio watts. Does that count?

What makes the difference is how you go about turning straight cable into a coil and having it uncoil into a straight cable again. I don't know anyone who doesn't wrap it into a tidy coil, but only about half do it correctly. The other half get the OP mess when they take it out.

Yerp. Search 'over under cable wrapping'. And get a velcro cable tie. As to jumping about, you want a right angle plug into your bass and a healthy loop of cable tucked into the strap. If it won't stay by itself use the velcro tie.

Used is the way to get best bang for buck.

That's geetard being geetard. I'd lose my rag and tell him to come run the sound or behave. If you've got all those spare aux channels you can tell him to buy his own mixing monitor amp and mix his own send at his end.

There's most of your problem right there. Even if he powered it with an Orange Tiny Terror on the 7w setting it would be quite loud enough for a tiny pub.

That virtually guarantees hearing loss in both ears. Your brain can't process the different levels so you have to crank the bejesus out of the IEM to bring it up to the exposed ear. If there's still live drums you're stuffed. Room mic going back to the IEM's. For the OP. Use smaller amps. Point them directly at the heads of the owners with stands. That will get your stage volume down. As for idiot singers, can't fix stupid.

He needs to sue the band to pay for the tattoo removal at the urging of his very expensive psychologist.

First order of trouble shooting is try another amp keeping everything else same.

Surely if you go high enough up the chain at NS they will have one for you? Failing that, it would be way easier to braze it to fill in that knackered Allen key hole with brass and cut a screwdriver slot, rather than make a new one from scratch. I'd be looking for a scale steam enthusiast.

A guitarist buggered that up first but yeah, I I got them mixfuddled.

He used to be 'the old man' in the band when the rest were teenagers. Only right that he kicked off first.

As tempting as it will be to avoid ''muffin top'' by stacking low you should stack end on end to best share your tone with your fans.

There's a YouTube of their 400w SS. I don't know that the tube one could sound any better. Have at it.