Downunderwonder

Sell your coffee table Polythene plus black tablecloth. Odd looking coffee table that makes bass noises. Reason this didn't rate a mention until now is that is.indeed a crazy low price.

More bass = more better, until it isn't.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/615134514169479/ Basildon.

I had one of those provided for backline once. A real beaut of an amp but it only just kept up with the big band jazz. I don't think it would keep up with too many pub rock gigs. That one has an intermittent fault so hard pass.

Classifieds. You are looking for an old combo with a bit of poke. Trace Elliot, Ashdown, Peavey. 150w and 15" speaker. If your practice amp is in good condition you might not take too bad of a bath px'ing at a shop.

Annual Gear Budget Zero or Less. I am in.

Count me in. I wonder if some honourable status could be maintained if one sold gear before buying anything and maintained a credit gear balance?

That was a breeze. 2025 unlikely to be any better wrt disposable income so will be into that.

On my Kala I feed twine through from the bridge and catch that inside, tape it to the string and pull it back through. The strings are already equipped with ferrules. The Kala access plate makes it easier but if doing it via the sound hole it would be 10x easier still, and using the ferrules rather than relying on knots.

Anyone is welcome to wrap my leads but almost nobody does because as soon as they start rolling them I have to teach them how to wrap them and that almost never sinks in.

Quilter BassBlock does that, and clean clean.

Roughly 8 hours of playing and two restringings before mine were stable. I was making very good friends with my clip-on tuner.

I wound up with ThunderBlacks. The feel is ok for me. They emphatically are NOT able to be installed in one hit "stretchproof". If anything they stretch out more than the Pahoehoe before stability is achieved. The claim that they can be installed without taking off again is BOGUS.

Abbasolutely Fantastic.

Should that be Instrumental blues, no audience requiring a g up between numbers, no frontman required, problem sorted!

AOR, new one on me. Album Oriented Rock, Adult Oriented Rock, Or????

Is this Peavey rehash or a vintage SM?? I don't recall a 100 in either. The vintage sm1000 was an absolute beast and rare.

By that I think you mean an exceptional drummer that can hold the time when everyone is playing around the beat, even the soulful bassist now and then.

I think they would be searching long and hard to find another Howdy Doody. Other bassists have tried to get my spot so I would be very easily replaceable. In ten years I think I only missed one rehearsal for a gig, and one for flu. Both times everyone very appreciative of having the glue back the following week. They might have to get used to playing sans bass if I left.

Do tubes suffer DC offset? That's about the only way 135w can blow a BF woofer while still sounding clean. I wonder if someone else had access to the cab? Either that or it's pure oddball failure of the stuff happens kind.

You are safe then. DD is otherwise known as the Denim or Traller Park Tuxedo ( suit, ie jacket and pants )

He was probably praying to get arrested for the publicity.

The BF 10 is a solid 200w driver and BF rate the cab as fiine for 500w so long as it stays clean. Fully distorted a 135w tube amp is 270w of howling misery so not going to bother a BF 210.

Alex will be quite interested in how you managed to blow up anything BF with 135W.

Turn it up until you get to where another bump up sounds barely any louder. Turn it back down a nudge. If that isn't loud enough there you need more cab. Putting the cab up on a chair or angling it up to you from the floor can make a big difference to your ability to monitor yourself with less FOH disturbance.