Downunderwonder

Vinyl stretches so if I was you I'd persevere for a bit. Taking off the skid rails, probably not a bad plan unless you are taking off the cover and then skidding it up on stage.

Maybe, but in general they have caught up on contactless paying in a big way thanks to Covid.

Too much power can blow up your speaker or make you deaf. It really comes down to how very loud your bandmates are. Back in the day I had a pretty similar amount of firepower as the GK combo you listed last. It was only just enough for the gig. A second cabinet would have been the solution. Instead we had to play a little quieter than geetarboy would have liked, which was no bad thing as we were hell loud for a bar room anyway. You get a lot louder with twice as many speakers compared with twice as many watts in the amp.

GR is doing well. I would mind the hype. 110 combo as a rehearsal amp, sure. As a gig amp, limited applications.

The old 15's had great sensitivity at the expense of much low bass. You would need a couple to get close to drum set volume. My experience of a Marshall 50w guitar head from the 80's through a single 15 was absolutely uninspiring. A 50w Bassman of the NZ variety sounded great but not enough poke at gig volume. In Aussie you have the Holdens which are very similar. All in all I fail to see the appeal of 50w tube amps for bass unless your band has a quiet stage and a full PA with mics on everything.

Generally louder sounds better until it is too loud. Removing the wall behind your speakers will have had some effect on the low end but mitigated by the room bouncing bass around much more than treble. Soggy though your walls may be they won't be perfect.

Without a switch you are getting smoke. Too late for me to draw you a diagram but someone will. Follow it very carefully or you will get smoke.

The forum doesn't seem to be set up to do filtering.

Call me thick but what's to stop trade items being listed in the for sales?

From your involuntary foot to donkey application?

Correct, swapsies all you like. There would be a lot more if 3 way trades were easier to organise. I think this is the main reason cash was invented.

The market is wide open for anyone to come up with a better product at a better price. It's a hard road to compete with the F though, such is the power of the brand. Buy what you like and disregard the rest is fine by me. As far as I can remember I own 1 Fender and 2 Jap knockoffs. Not in the market for any new basses as my used ones do the job.

Can you gate his sax mic so it only goes live when he plays it? I never got to use one so I only know of gating drums which is a bit of a different animal.

Those must be some very common units over there. I'm guessing no serial numbers or identifying marks?

There's two kinds of bassists who all use distortion / overdrive in various degrees. Those whose tone includes a significant amount of clean mids who will easily hear when a phase correction is in order and have opted for said correction. The rest. I suspect many of this group have never A/B trialled a phase correction to their clean blend.

Meh. They don't want to know. Their loss. They banned BassmanPaul for chrissake!!!!

One mod in particular needs the stick removing from his back passage. Zero appreciation for the British sense of humour. Cannot distinguish nastiness from good natured ribbing, lets fly with the ban hammer. F that noise. Nice to be here.

External blending is fraught with phase problems. Best avoided by using pedals with their own clean blend. Afaik all distortions produce a phase reversed signal, no problem until you blend and your mids come over all muddy. There are blender pedals like One Control that have a phase switch. Fine for one pedal but not for multiples unless you always use the same set. Then there are multi channel blenders like the ones from a Canadian outfit whose name escapes me. They make the Attack Goat, the only pedal I would like to try solely because it has the best name for a bass distortion ever. Multi channels lets you have 180° control over each which is far far better than none at all.

That could well be no coincidence. Either that or combined with fan failure. If GB = GenzBenz it should be a little bit filtered on the sub lows already but a HPF wouldn't hurt.

I think the Quilter BB800 is a bit taller than a GK Mb500 but not as wide. Both properly safety certified.

Weird labeling but dollars to donuts that is what it is. Whatever you do, don't plug the Ampeg into any of the other jacks. That could pop something and it certainly won't sound any good.

Option B, change the pick guard over to tort. Job done. If determined to paint it I would have some fun and go with some custom colour and forget about period correct as it is a reproduction anyway. Pearl forest green.

You can have more volume with more bass, or just more bass, or reserve dynamic emphasis potential. How much of each depends how powerful your amp is and how much power the single cab can handle.

I haven't seen any shiny 3D printer plastic. You're in the right place to find a volunteer to make you a new one with a router. You could even jump in with both feet again and buy one....