Downunderwonder

The proper term is clam. Your lines are full of clams, although to be a proper clam it has to be in tune but a semitone out of key.

Dif'rent strokes.

I wouldn't be that dismissive. Once they have had their fill of quiet blues gigs you can go back and rock the joint again no worries.

Btw @uk_lefty your guitar man is correct that a 3dB boost is about all you can get away with before some sound folk will automatically see red that you are "stomping all over their finely crafted mix", while neglecting to notice it actually sounds ok with the missing guitar. On the other hand you could have been stomping over the remaining mix without knowing. It is near impossible to set a 3dB gain by ear and if you did then having two pedals on would put you at +6dB. For this reason I suggest getting them to work at unity or close. If you have access to a mixer you can use your headphones at home and it should be quite representative of what FOH gets from your DI. Assuming you usually DI. You have to bear in mind the lows may come over very differently by the time FOH have finished with them and probably less zing too. Your main concern is tweaking gains rather than intricacies of tone. Hopefully they are still set where they would normally be. Leave them be and put up with the hokey tone. Play away and get the input gain on your mixer channel well up so it is only flicking last green on a really heavy thwack. Don't blow your ears out in the headphones! Probably best take them off for next step if you haven't already... Kick in pedals and see just how bad you are. If you can get them functional only going into red on the heaviest thwack you have got it to 3dB.

There is the Origin Effects Bass Rig take on it. Kinda pricey but they come up used once in awhile.

Two issues here. You probably don't have your pedals under control as well as they need to be. Your soundman has a different idea from you about how much bass should be stepping up when a guitar drops out. If you get the boosts under control first you may not have the 2nd issue but I am picking you weren't all that overbearing so maybe you will. Another way to go about it would be to untity gain all your pedals and have a separate overall boost capability. Is that what you were meaning to ask about? To do that you really have to have gig levels going on for pedals that come alive at volume. Lows jump out of hiding when the loud knob gets employed. Filters don't trip right until driven. You know the drill by now? Can you "thicken the tone" without getting any louder? Is the $64k question. Then you can boost a little or a little more with a Sansamp multi channel set for 3 levels of clean. Regular,+1.759dB, +3.284dB. If the pedals won't comply with unity then you could set up the Sansamp Regular -1.874dB for Naughty Pedal 1 OR 2 -3.587dB for Naughty pedal 1 AND Naughty pedal 2. And if you had a Deluxe version Sansamp you could run Bank2 at an overall boost but otherwise same differentials.

Back up the bus and talk to Alex if you don't believe me. What jollies you are getting from your BF210 and a 5er low B is all 60hz and up. If you pump it full of 30hz you will kill it. It will either turn it into heat or give it conniptions. You should employ a proper high pass. Any PA you are likely to plug into will be highpassed 50hz or so anyway. What everyone thinks of as "low bass" is an octave higher than its fundamental. The problem is when you give a speaker a pumped up fundamental it distorts. That distortion is the first overtone. Your brain assembles that with the other pure harmonics as the tone of the fundamental. Similarly an 810 low E sounds like a low E, ain't no 40hz in it.

Afaik Broughton are still keeping it all in house with mail order. I guess dispatching orders makes a nice change from soldering hour after hour.

Another option, make a "shoe" out of thermoplastic so your pedal has a flat bottom. I am not familiar with your fancy schmamcy pedalboard system but if the feet are getting in the way..... You buy it as little beads and heat it to 50° in water. It turns soft and sticks to itself. You squeeze out the water and hey presto a hot blob of anything you can imagine. It doesn't stick to parchment paper which is just a fancy word for baking paper. I am imagining something more like a "sandal" for your pedal. Connected corner blocks and continuous thin base.

Marty has been around the block!

I thought I gave you a pretty robust set of options that you could use.

Not a silly idea at all. Of course it could already be out of phase somewhat, even 180°, so it would be a total gamble. Still, shaking the riser in opposition to the monitor could get you out of the woods if you got it balanced for power.

How very curious. Will the 2nd one go down the D5 hole never to be seen again? Will both turn up in two days? Either seems just as likely an outcome at this stage.

I once made a very poor living playing. Gigs were well paid but just too few. It didn't take long to go back to 9 to 5. So if I was you I'd work like hell at being saleable as weekend warrior and forget about ditching the regular career.

What are the odds? Never ever saw one myself.

They must have some great bulk deal going with their shippers and pass it on, looking at the modest charges.

You can become the local barefaced Messiah.

Seriously? Under over and mini cable tie it. Make a little caddie for it to roll on roll off? Pocket pen protectors are in Aisle 5.

Under over coiling puts an invisble geometric twist in that is removed when the cable is straightened out, dead straight. The cable itself doesn't twist. Why anyone would deliberately wind up their cable and have to deal with untwisting it every time is beyond me.

Was it sent with you prepaying calculated duty and VAT and the Customs clearance included?

That or Thomman didn't fill in the docs correctly, which would be unusual but if it can happen on the returns end it can happen on the sending end.

Is what it's all about. Jim Marshall would never have got an audio lackie job in a TV production company.

Even a regular guitar cable is way nicer to use when stored per A. I don't have ties though. What is this natural twist you speak of? Cables develop twisting from being incorrectly coiled.

Outdoors, hunting and fishing type stores also carry deep cycle batteries. Figure on twice the capacity to avoid fully discharging as they last longer that way.