Downunderwonder

I thought it was already determined the heist was on the US end?

You either need a backpack for the amp or a gig bag for the bass and you're the next one trip wonder.

Going from 5ths on violin to 4ths on bass did my head in for a long time. Picking up a violin now feels very strange, like I feel I should be able to play it, but the residual muscle memory isn't near enough. I learned to read bass clef some years on from switching to bass. That took a lot of effort to forget treble clef too.

Any half competent cop should be able to get to the original heist with three hits!

Depends on your local market and your marketing skills, available patience to deal with time wasters vs BD's marketing on the shop floor. If say BD can get 10% more than you can privately a lot of people would consider that money well spent in savings on aggravation.

A 100w Rumble was provided backline on a gig I did last year. I was not expecting anything like the volume that came our of it. It kept up fine with 18 piece jazz orchestra. Tone wise it was nothing like the muddy mess I experienced a couple of years previous from older versions. If playing with a PA supported rock band it would do fine for a monitor for me. On a pub gig not trying to blow the doors out it might even do fine. Very good value for money.

What was so difficult about checking from your end? And without checking from your end would you have trusted any payment notice anyway?

The cab and amp I use on less secure locations might fetch 150gbp each. One time I had to leave old faithful at the stage door all afternoon. I was betting nobody would go get a truck to take her away. Nobody did.

Nothing ironic about it. The law says prices can't be fixed, that is all. The manufacturers sell to distributors who sell to merchants who sell to consumers. Each layer under law is free to take whatever margin they need. The end.

You are an interesting cat. Obviously not a bassist at present but that's by the by. I am curious what strain you previously caught and when? Also what your vaccine history has been. You are very exposed to whatever is going around in the gig environment ie Delta, Lambda..... Xray Zulu.... this thing is going to be around for a while yet. In my case I think I got the original back in March. Although I tested negative I was definitely exposed to a positive case and I had a full set of mild symptoms. Looking at the timings I think the guy I was exposed to was likely patient zero in one of our March 2020 outbreaks, before we knocked it down. There was a Brazilian village that got smashed in the original outbreak. Just about everyone got Covid with some dying and the rest recovered. Then months later they got the UK version iirc. It was seven shades of stinky poo again. Keep in touch!

You're a trouper. Being somewhat too old for that chit I might have bunked down in the van but I would have found a motel for the night once the boom boom started.

Being Antipodean I am immune from the siren calls of Bass Direct. Those guys at Golihur Bass in the US however...

The place was built as a holiday home so it may have had the fridge and freezer on the same run as our amps.

Looks like all your amps bar the Marshall are class D. That makes a huge difference in draw, still sounds a bit dodgy with that long list all running off the one lead, as much for the lead and your multibox as the outlet. In our case we had to run a cord from another room on a different fuse circuit.

Doubtful unless your gear is all LED lights and class D amps. Back in the day: 1 50w Marshall 1 Trace 250 1 Fender 30w SS combo 1 Peavey PA and a mixer No lights. Enough to blow the fuse on a 10A circuit if we got too loud!

There's no free lunch with 4 ohm single driver cabs. The attraction is in getting full power out of a tiny amp. Complicating things, the 4 ohm versions are usually built stout which lessens their relative output to power. Given an adequate amp you don't get any less volume from the 8 ohm version.

This. As I recall it was more modern times at the time, maybe late 90's or early 2000's. They were rehearsing for a tour and it wasn't cooking in the rythm kitchen.

I saw a doco on the Stones years ago. The only thing I remember is Keef doing his nut over the groove not being right during a rehearsal. Must have been some temp on bass or one of those 'invisibles' they have on 'extra fill out guitar'.

Meh. If the speaker isn't moving there won't be any sound at all! I think it comes from the rice test. The rice sits on the cone at resonance because it gets a nice smooth ride, not because the cone magically stops moving.

Does a RCD still work if there is no ground?

It's not quite that simple as the back wave starts out 100% out of phase and the port / box system puts a delay on it within the useful range of the port tuning. That was the question, how the heck it works.

My drummist can swing like mad but try to get the bugger to play 1234 without me, not happening.

You've figured out you can drink aperitifs before dinner and shots after dinner, or neither.