Downunderwonder

No exact about it. You implied leaving it on standby while doing the whole teardown.

I feel for you. Head case MD won't admit any fault. Not much you can do in that situation except plug away and hope he gets his kaka together. It might pay to get another simple DI pedal like a Sansamp as backup that you can sub in.

Doubtful. Standby is there for the purpose of activating the heater circuits of the valves so they are already hot when the preamp juice hits and the magic happens. I reckon the valves would be a fair bit more cooled down if you turned it off after a minute of fan cooling down from war volume and then the natural convection minus further heating.

Hit an open mic as drummer and bassist. Who's the singist?

The Rolling Stoners.

Grab a couple of tripods for the Mackies and then you might need some longer cabling to plonk the subs together somewhere useful. That should do the trick. Finding a good spot to park subs is complicated by venue requirements which is why the default is the pole under top. If you get a chance to set up and sound check while a joint is empty you can set up a single sub in the middle of the dancefloor. It doesn't have to be loud, play some bass heavy tune and go round the likely perimeter spots where you could actually put your subs. Listen for where the bass blooms the best. Then when you put your subs in that hot spot you get the boomf where you need it on the dancefloor.

Weird. Something I read some time ago made me think he had jumped the pond. Obviously not.

How long have you been kicking around Blighty without coming across a ''Farm Animal & Traditional Tool Item''? There was a chain of ''Animal & Firkin'' pubs that used to sell some pretty good ales. A firkin is a ye olde size of beer barrel. Never heard them mentioned on here. I hope they didn't go bust.

There's a joker on your cross Atlantic forum who does 5 string conversions on 4 string Rics. I think you worry too much. You could sign up and he would help you get your luthier to do one for you, if you dare coping with the reduced string spacing.

Far from unique. SWR were doing parametric in the 90's. Ashdown might be the only surviving major bass amp maker that was doing it but there's a few fancy modern digital modeling amps and preamps these days with parametric up the wazoo.

Where's Mort?

I had to climb down from my usual reading position.

Sounds like this is the voice of experience with this amp. Either way it will serve very well in diagnosis.

That's very insightful. I saw one of Akker Bilk's last gigs in London. It was a freebie at a community art centre. He was lame. I am guessing he really did need the money the city paid, otherwise he was long overdue someone telling him to take up bowls.

^ Pay close attention to this. If it's not this then something is broken, possibly a result of said low EQ abuse. There's an easy test you can make on any cab with a 1/4" input jack. 9V battery applied across the exposed cable end, tip +ve, will make the speakers pop out when the -ve hits the cable shaft. All going well it will give you a big fright with the bang it makes. If one or two stay still or move backwards you have miswired or broken speakers.

This. Possible your cabinets are incompatible with one another. Plug in the 410. It should be plenty plenty loud all by itself. If adding the 210 makes it less loud or less clear you can forget that plan.

It's branded TE by Peavey made in China so the link is mainly green. They sound pretty good with good heft for 200w.

1st order of business, take the compressor and tuner out and see what bass into amp does. Generally it takes a lot of experience to get to where DI bass through PA to fill a room is going to be better than a decent cab with 500w behind it, no matter how many toys you put in between. With bass a 'blend' very quickly turns to muddy stew out front.

A whole row of bass drummers to keep everyone in step. I'd be surprised if what you hear on the telly isn't basically whatever the TV sound crew gathers up live from their microphones.

No makey sense to me. 4kHz = an undisclosed hearing aid gone bezerk?

The Eatles. /thread.

It's hard enough putting the boogie in the low end being a quasi extra drum and a chord element at the same time, just playing one note at a time on the bass. Keyboard bass and guitar bass can fill a void, but it's not the same.

Aye. And 410 as a monitor is crazy town overkill unless you're on an outdoor stage.

And yet I have made great milage out of knowing where 'flat' is on various amps before plugging in. The basses and pedals are constants Absolutely it is a point of reference!!! That's the whole point!!!!

The point of knowing where 'flat' is found is that you can plug in your preamp pedals and minimal tweakage will have you all set.