Downunderwonder

Of string theory I know nothing, except ime flats are flatter than rounds.

I bought a whole PA set. Borrowed a van to pick it all up from the shipper. Set it up at the gig with the help of a bona fide soundman and the manuals. Boom.

@uk_lefty confused by lingo or concepts?

If you think of a donut as having a surface and containing volume and a holed sock being a planar surface with a hole then they are topologically a bit different. The donut has only one side!

Happy days.

It would be good business if they could knock out the bigger part of the current waitlist without sacrificing quality. They could then carry on taking on even more orders in good faith and still commanding the big dollars. Easier said than done. Why risk it?

Tell that to the old bassist for the Buddy Rich Orchestra!!!!

Lefty guitar players shrink stages too.

Aye, trouble shooting is a precision sport.

Nobody in their right mind is going to disconnect the combo driver and carry it around as an amp for another cab. That's the only way it will assuredly work well.

The only thing an 'iso pad' can do is cut down on cabinet vibrations shaking the floor structure. The speaker making lovely bassy sounds will be entirely unaffected. Play bass laying on the floor with one cab each side of your head 8' apart.

All that is easily achieved with the right preamp pedal and some EQ. Stick with the BF cab and then your effected DI on the really big gigs will be easily amped up by the PA as it won't have any cab compensating colouring in it.

Chops are everything to me. I couldn't care less what anyone's bass says on the headstock.

Could well be. I can't read the labels on the jacks in the photo. It would have to be a really poorly matched speaker that could realise any gain from putting another cab in series. The amp would be throttled back to 8 ohm output level. Unless there's a bona fide matching B'ringer extension cab available I wouldn't bother. It's not a good idea to throw any old cab into series as there are unpredictable consequences to adding random loads in series that include giving the amp the heebie jeebies.

I think even the Aussies have to give the new guy a month before it's his fault.

Sure looks like a pair of speaker outputs on the back of the amp to me. Test the DC resistance of the speaker with a multimeter. If it is around 6 ohms it indicates an 8 ohm speaker. Then you can add another 8 ohm cab.

From the sound of the email forwarded, Alex makes wages for all the hours he puts in. I wouldn't mind betting all the previous 'profits' were ploughed right back into the business as more CNC gear and product development and the new pricing will only cover wages and materials with a small allowance for depreciation if he's as smart as he should be.

They make pedals for that. If the goal is absolute least weight bass on your shoulders that's what you should do. Piezo pickup for the win. Ubass for the absolute win.

What's weird about it? Everyone is having a good time. Job done. Punters occasionally do notice a good bass tone also. The big challenge is in the transition from vocal to full PA in venues that may not be any bigger than before. Then you're really up against it to put rig tone into the PA. It doesn't mean it can't be done or shouldn't be done. It's not even all that difficult to do but try telling that to the average sound guy.

I can imagine how that phone call might have gone... <ring ring> <Go for Brian May> <Air hair lair, I am the chief of organizing The Queen's Jubilee next year and you are on the list!> < sod off, I retired> Not.

A cajon box to the rescue?

Whole different scenario from that, just a bog standard pub gig with a vocal/guitar PA and floor monitors for vox and guitar, drums and bass playing to the room. Same band different pub I was using a borrowed 410. Even worse dispersion than the 215. When I stepped forward I could tell I was blowing up the room but could hardly hear what I was playing when back with the band. No active complaints there either.

We almost fired a drummer. It was a pretty intense jam band and he was 'someplace else' being on time but with no pizzazz for a few gigs in a row. Turned out he was having some personal issues but didn't want to get fired so he pulled himself together and brought his A game back.

I have, in a roundabout way. The lead guitarist with whom I usually enjoyed a great interplay was just too far away and too far back on a particularly shallow stage area to hear a damn note even though I was going for gold and he was 'ampless' through the monitors.

15's are ok for your monitor but they have poor horizontal dispersion of tone for everyone else.