Downunderwonder

Is either in you or not. To develop it may or may not be within you. The only way to find out is to jump in and see what happens. You may succeed immediately or adjust to needing to do it, or fail miserably as many do. I encourage you to have a crack at it. On a Ubass there is a lot less to go wrong compared to full scale. My upbringing was on violin so it was a natural thing for me. Sometimes I hear that the frets aren't quite right on fretted bass guitar. I also hear myself playing poorly intonated notes when sight reading or when I haven't done enough practice. Best to keep playing in time eh! Nobody has ever pulled me up on it so either they all too polite or aren't bothered or more simply happy that there is bass driving the bus.

Woooo, office hours in nursing has to be the best bit.

Then Peavey, who phaffed around a bit failing, put it on the backburner, and then directed some serious R&D at it to reestablish the brand.

A year or so ago we had a thread about someone wanting to combify their cab by adding a small class D amp inside with only the front ventless panel on the outside. I was surprised to learn that the lack of any ventilation would not bother the amp as surface conduction of the cabinet would cool the airspace plenty to avoid thermal runaway, barely warming the inside as it turned out. So next room isolation would not be necessary, just put it in a cardboard box to muffle the fan noise.

In the case of home practice you are actually too loud already. Stay quiet enough that the fan doesn't come on!

When push comes to shove that's all your headroom used up in keeping up. The difference between having some headroom and no headroom is more significant than the 3dB that is not there with half the watts. 210 cab shouldn't be much difference in ultimate loudness because 1000w up it is not going to get used. The wrong lightshow is more reliable as an indicator something is amiss.

The traditional additional inducement to play on a big stage in front of a big crowd is a wad of cash. Maybe your bandmates are right and you are too niche for the main stage? Nobody wants to cause exodus. You seem to think you can hold a crowd. You will have to convince them that is the case.

B as in bow or B string? He does a 5 string.

Bit of major overkill. It must have been hardly even idling. Unsafe for anyone's hearing if it had been cranked up fo' shua.

That's why I was wondering about RT's end. Metallica Inc makes a helluva lot of profit out of shows and merch. Gig fees and touring allowances is small beer so for him to be living large he would need some kind of percentage on the profits. That was my point. 1M wouldn't last long.

Can you retrace your steps to figure what loose connection got fixed by your poking around? It's very unusual for a non working amp to come back from the dead, aside from the odd tube reseating and fx loop bypasses which don't apply here.

If I was up for 1M to join a top tier touring band maybe I already made a few quid playing in other projects? As I haven't, that 1M would be going in the bank and I'd still be staying in motels etc. But I would buy some nice shirts to wear on stage. I'd say the 1M was for woodshedding all the back catalogue and making himself available. It doesn't go far once you start spending it like you're a rockstar, so I wonder what his rake for the rest of the work is worth.

The fact that cleaning was done with no complaint made gives the store no incentive to up their game, ie acceptable to ship grime. Get a grip your good self.

By not packing it up and returning it you contributed de facto to making it acceptable.

Yep. That'll do it.

Also stows in bass case or gig bag.

Keep internal dimensions. One good face will be fine so long as there are no defects that buzz under the influence of bass.

Not familiar with your definition. Over here it would be treated with an anti fungal but not necessarily of the kind of knot free structure you want for cabs.

Gig report please.

I spy a potential rattle there, unless your adhesive is the expanding kind, that gap at the front of the top brace may struggle to set solid.

If I had a dollar.....

Today I beat Bassman Paul to the news. It may be a corroded fx loop interrupt switch. Plugging a spare lead into the loop restores signal. Send goes back to return. Or could be a tube but try the patch lead first.

Today's the big day!

I was surprised to learn Keanu Reeves is a bassist in his spare time. Lead actor you would think guitar hero would be first calling.

Mic technique aka Mic Control, very likely lacking.