Downunderwonder

What did you use in your last band? Give us some clues. Owners responding saying "I play in a loud band and it does fine" leaves everyone with no new information. It won't tell you anything more than you already know. You can't expect fountains of info while giving nothing. Every drummer is loud. Some guitar amps are known for more volume than others.

All bands are fairly loud. Sone will cope with the 210, some will not. I think the best indicator is what guitar amp is in use, and if there is more than one. What style(s). How many sticks does the drummer break in a session?

What's happened to folks getting one over a scammer by getting them to pay for the couriering of box of bricks? I live reading those stories, haven't seen one for years.

Odd question. Fill it. Sand it. Repaint with 'matching' paint. What am I missing? Probably not going to match 100% and look worse than the 'mojo' scrape? There is a technique of using dilute paint and a sponge to apply it. I am not too familiar but basically lots and lots of coats until the gap is filled back to flush, wiping away the paint that overlays the body each pass. If you do it right, no sanding.

I think the ratio of psychopaths to regular people must be something terrible over there. Cops too busy to investigate theft by minor league psycho.

You could rename it "Exit Strategy" and do a couple of gigs a year.

@Merton is that an Elf on standby in case his big bro packs a sad?

For instance there is a NZ heavy metal band who are a bunch of white kids "singing" in Maori. They are most popular in Scandinavia.

How very popular exactly? There's folks here could help you do mini tour and crazier things have happened than the headline "Brit Geezer Band makes Big Splash in Little China".

Re the Trace rig I don't doubt that the mix'n'match combination sounds quite fine. Most likely the tens are quite bass capable so rearranging everything into a strictly hifi 3 way setup would wind up hifi but wasteful and a lot less loud. 15 and tens sharing lows and mids in a two way with the 5's doing the highs all nicely aligned might sound pretty hifi and retain the loud.

Tell that to the seppos! There's 210's up for sale in the classifieds pretty regularly. Tells me they might be just a bit shy of what's needed for the louder pub band. Snag a 210 and see before getting involved with 110's is my advice. If it's only getting warmed up on gigs then grab a pair of the 110's which usually come up singly so you can collect at leisure and flip the 210. You equally might find you want another 210. One man's loud is another's tea party.

Yup. I supspect those people are far too busy making pots of money to be posting about bass toys on the internet. I have owned a few latish model Fenders. Nothing from the last ten years. They had no obvious areas that could be improved. So I am not in seeing value in 5k£ versions.

There was someone asking about 3D printing port rings. Seemed like someone was going to make some. It was probably in the repairs/ tech forum.

Actually I lied. I go commando but all the pedals I buy have the scratchy stuff on them so if I was going to buy a pedal board it would have carpet.

Have you done this? I think it could be a good way to get arrested. Offensive instrument brandished in public.

If you only play a bass at home you might be able to keep it quite shiny and unmarked by playing in your PJ's and always putting it straight back in its case. Imagine how ticked off you would be to mark it after 5 years of keeping it pristine. Taking it out into the world to be used you got zero chance of it lasting 5 years. You are just ticked off that it happened already. Not the same level of ticked off I hope. If it is you have bigger problems.

Mine was probably intended as a school bag. The "lunch" pocket takes the amp. The "main school stuff gubbins compartment" aka cables has a sheath handy for music.

When gains are turned up to no avail either the amp has run out of poke or the speaker is either overheating or distorting, or both, or all at the same time. I don't know that I could tell only from listening where a distortion was originating. My experience and knowledge of gear would guide me. Since the OP speaker hasn't died the OP must be sensitive to the signs or the amp hasn't enough poke. As he is asking what he should do I can't give him enough credit to recognise the signs therefore the amp is lacking the poke at 8ohm to kill the cab. It is at full output with the one cab. I could be wrong. There is a bit of reading between lines.

At least mini skirts are back in fashion.

OP is already at full power with the one cab!!!

You are having the cake and eating the cake at the same time. I put a little delay on it is all. With a class D amp you don't get the double power to go with the impedance halving that used to be the case with solid state amps. So something less than 6dB extra unless TC have gone back to A/B somewhere along the line. Quid pro quo the available 8 ohm voltage is not actually maintained at the rated 4 ohm balls out level.

The corollary is you can't easily add a 210 to 110 and 110 if you are needing to get loud sometimes. You could do a series cable setup for the 110 pair but the haulage would be a phaff compared to 210 and 210 So there is the rub. Carry more than you need sometimes. Or not be able to expand it so easily. Really depends on how often you would be comfy using just 110 and how you value that extra ease.

I was accounting for the actual increased power output separately to the sensitivity advantage.

It's one thing to split. Another altogether to recombine. There's a whole raft of stuff I wrote on this back when I was doing it, so it's all on the other side of the Atlantic centric forum. Short version. Distortions and chorus among others return the signal out of phase with what went in. This is of no consequence when pedals are in series full range. Different story when reblending an effected return with its original low end to send to the amp. At the crossover frequency they cancel one another out. It's more complicated when you run multiple pedals and some return out of phase and some do not and sometimes you have more than one running at the same time. Leaving aside the fact that some pedals are some other degree of delayed than 180°, two phase flippers in series returns an in phase signal. I had a very complicated arrangement of a bigarse blender with phase control on multiple channels so that I could always have a full lush result. Rolls sx21 crossover did the split.

Put your fingers in the wrong place and they could wind up as useful as hooves.