Jack

You can't take anything they say in interviews seriously because they're a parody band. They are playing the characters of entitled white guys that think it's cool to make racist and sexist jokes with no consequence because it's a parody. I really have to contest the assertion that lots of audience members aren't in the joke. I have never, until now, met anyone who didn't get that someone so blatantly offensive could possible exist in the real world. Steel Panther take the worst bits of hair metal such as sexism, being too image-focused, having too-long guitar solos, being famous for looking right rather than being talented etc etc and they turn it all 'up to 11' as Spinal Tap once said. No-one believes this is real. On the off chance that someone out there does then they'd have to be only peripherally aware of Steel Panther, certainly not an audience member. Have you ever been to a show? Everybody there is standing, jumping, dancing, laughing, playing air guitar. Not one of them is taking it seriously. You may well be the only person I've ever known who doesn't get the joke if you believe them when they say they'd have played the inauguration. Please, be very offended by 3 Doors Down, who actually are serious musicians, who take themselves seriously, who expect to be taken seriously, and still played the inauguration. Please, please, please don't take this man seriously.

All irony aside, I actually find that a little offensive. I've seen Steel Panther twice, once at Download and once by themselves. They're great, they're funny, they can actually play, their shows have a really cool atmosphere about them and they take the mick out of the ridiculous bits of a genre of music I actually quite like. On a broader note, there's a long history of comedy bands and satire comedy in general. They help to keep the serious people in check. An actual, real, Motley Crue these days would be a little out of touch and certainly sexist by today's standards. Comedians remind us of things like that. Don't insult me because you don't agree. Steel Panther have probably sold more records than 99% of the people on this board, they're doing something right.

Hi guys, I know the old Hardpunchers (anyone know what years they were made between?) are quite well-regarded, what are people's opinions on the modern reissues that are on Ebay? There appear to be 2 models, the TBP (around £300) and the TPB55 (around £850). I'm interested in the sunburst and maple TBP for a new band that is starting to play out, but for the same price as a new Tokai you can get a second-hand MIM Fender. Thanks Jack

I bought a 3 pack of Prodipe TT1 Pros for £67 on Amazon and they're brilliant. I first got wind of them on PSW where all of the soundguys were raving about them. Brilliant choices.

I can confirm that Steel Panther have many female fans. Fiancée was on their, erm, 'breast camera' last time we went. This is not necessarily relevant to the discussion, I just enjoy mentioning that and bragging whenever I can.

Ok, that makes sense. It does seem as though many of the mods being talked about here are permanent or at least very involved to put back. Gutting the old amp seems like a viable choice, or even making a fake one from scratch. But rather than ruining a perfectly nice micro amp by modding it into an old shell, I'd still be tempted to hide the new amp behind the cab and just set the old one up on top. That way the new head at least remains unmolested and re-sellable. Left field. Make a 4U rack from wood and cover it in tolex to match your cab. Get preamp , tuner and poweramp of choice*. Rather than a front rack door, use grille cloth with the same logo as your cab. *GED2112, Korg Pichblack, QSC Powerlight. 🙂

I think the issue with putting a class D amp in a bog wooden box is that, whilst lots of the weight in a head is the transformer, the psu, etc etc, LOTS of the weight is actually the wooden shell. I wonder if all the effort would be worth it. Do you reckon that just a (period-correct) cab would look ok for backline? Like, do you need a head? I bet most people couldn't tell. What about like hiding a modern head behind the cab where no one could see it and then using something like a sansamp? For that matter, how feasible is adding a plate amp to your current cab? That way you can just use a pedal preamp and no one would be any the wiser IMO. EDIT - Or this.

Venue booked us for a Saturday night show. We're a slightly-harder-than-average pub rock band, think Queen and Greenday through to RATM, Sabbath, ACDC, that kind of thing. We show up and it's clearly a proper night club in a very wannabe geordie shore area. The 4 bouncers on the door are very courteous and nice, until I hear them telling a couple at the door that "it's ok until 9pm, then the bands are always stinky poo, but come back for 11:30 and it's always great". As we're setting up it's pop and chart music, everyone's dancing. We play the first set to silence and ambivalence, then the set break DJ has everyone up dancing again, followed by a second set of us being actively heckled, followed by the DJ and a dancefloor so full of people we have trouble loading the cars. The bar owner said we were great, paid us £20 extra and tried to book us again. Miraculously, we couldn't agree and future dates. A mate of mine who works the doors around here says that apparently the owner is just insistent that he'll have the bands HE wants to hear regardless of the clientele.

I was waiting for the picture to load for ages.

I put (ha, no. The bass doc put) one of those in an old Hohner Jack when the original died. With the caveat that it wasn't a Stingray it sounded great.

Do people not get that they're a parody band? A petition has actually been created and signed to remove a parody.

I've been looking for a cab-buildng project for ages and I saw this one frist time around, it's great to hear your review Phil. Some quick questions, if anyone has time: Would making one 2x12" that's double the volume be acceptable? Essentially two boxes permanently vertically stacked but with no divider between them. I'd obviously remove 2x the plywood thickness from the height to account for the top of one cab and the bottom of another. If I did this, would I just double the number or ports? Is the Celestion Pulse 12 still a good alternative speaker? I'm doing this partially because I'd love a tall, thin cab on wheels to use with a micro head but mainly because I just fancy a project, so if I can save some money that would be ideal.

I second this. I think the B3 was the firsst multi effects unit that sounded and worked as well as 'proper' pedals.

Fwiw I talked PMT down to £1300 for the rack, the control and a few assorted cables. Is it higher than even that now?

Yeah the prices were lower when I started looking compared to when I bought mine. Shame. I think it may be related to the fact the Line 6 have repeatedly (and rather believably) said that they have no plans to replace the Helix hardware for quite some time. Fractal have a new model out every 5 minutes, Line 6 and Kemper seem content for the moment.

Yey, a treble booster...

If it's really just for home use then I had a great play on the laney duo the other day. Surprising bass response at home and I'd imagine giggable on other instruments.

Rock, trebley, grindy, cheap? All of this screams Ashdown MAG surely? Not a problem to find 300W heads, 8x10s and 4x10s all for that budget.

I fear I may have made too much of an issue out of this. I too miss a manual volume control but it's not that bad. I set it to +15 for live work (where the hiss is not at all noticeable) and 0db for home use. There's enough gain in the helix, a Behringer Xr18, a Behringer MIC1000 or my Soundcraft Notepad to make up for any changes within the realms of 'loud' and 'quiet' that its not as though I feel the need to sit with a laptop and tweak "nono, this is a small gig, so I need to set the FR800 to +11db rather than +15". If I didn't use one of them at home I would never move then from +15. Next time, something similar to the QSC back panel please, but the current ones work fine.

It does sound a little but more like an overdrive, can you see still get dod 250s for cheap?

Me too. My first real amp was an Ashdown MAG full stack and if I had to buy an amp tomorrow it would be the ABM rack mount head. The cabs are too heavy for me but they do sound great. I noticed that your slap design didn't have ducts. I'd have assumed that his bass cabs would have but I suppose you're right they wouldn't be strong enough. I didn't understand the science behind it though. I mean, I still don't, but I might be a little closer so thanks anyway!

With product descriptions I always wonder how much of it is bad engineering (likely lots of it!) or just marketing speak (probably just as likely). He's put the ports on the side so they make handles (hey, it's a good idea and Bill does a well-executed and well-explained version in his SLAP) and then thought to himself "how can I spin this so people don't think it's weird?" and then written something that isn't technically a lie so that the great unwashed accept it, think it's novel, and buy his cabinets. If I was going to make a bass cab I'd make a 4x10" and a 1x15", because outside of Basschat that's all I really see around here. Then I'd fill the 4x10" marketing descriptions with terms like 'punchy' because everyone knows a 4x10" is punchier than a 1x15" and the 1x15" would be all 'bassy' and 'low-end'. The terms 'comb filtering' and 'bad off-axis response' don't really sit too well on an ebay advert. This is why Ashdown will have outsold all of the boutique makers that we care about on here put together this year despite the fact that regardless of preference a BFM, Greenboy, Barefaced, Audiokinesis, etc etc etc cab is inarguably technically better. It's sad.

You could pm him and ask what speaker is in it then you could plug the box into winisd and make an educated guess.

It works fine in Virtualbox for me. Linux Mint 18.3.