BassBunny

Are they changing UK distributor, so flogging off existing stock?

Another vote for House of Tone.

Should be no problem at all, as OBBM mentioned, the Shuko isn't even fused. You will probably find a 5 amp fuse would be OK.

Love Fender flats. Tried TI's and for some reason they blistered my fingers. Not so with Fenders and loved the sound.

I would say so.

Some mates of mine, guitar and bass, fly constantly to and from cruise ships and always take their instruments to the gate and hand them over there. No different to a baby buggy and at least it doesn't go through all the conveyor system and multiple baggage handlers. They retrieve them at the other end straight from the hold.

I don't think 4/100 of a Watt will make a scrap of difference. BTW if that is a picture of the fan in question, it says 24v. I'll have a word with our guitarist as he has a PA Hire Company and although tending towards JBL gear he is an ex repair engineer so might be able to point you in the right direction.

If it can't easily be changed as @BreadBin mentioned, I would just use a 240/110 step down transformer. You might struggle to get the right xformer for a 25 year old amp and a "step-down" is likely to be cheaper and doesn't involve any mods to your amp, so no potential Insurance issues.

It's normal to link one cab to the other if you only have one speaker output. Then you have no choice, but having 2 Speakon outs, a cable to each cab is the sensible way to go. As @jrixn1 says, it gives you the extra security of redundancy if one speaker/cable/output developed a fault, the other would continue to work. I wouldn't even consider wiring in series. Apart from the cable problem if any wire goes down, you're goosed, you are presenting the amp with a load of 16 Ohms, severely lowering the output.

I was looking through some memorabilia from when the band first started in 1968. We were being paid between £15 - £17-10s per gig for an 8 piece band. That equates to £221 - £259 today. Not much changes.

That's pretty much our set except 9 to 5 and last 2. Add in: Everybody Needs Somebody, September, Try a Little Tenderness, a couple of 4 Tops numbers a bit of Northern Soul with Do I Love You, Tainted Love and Right Track and we're there.

+3 for speak to Alan. His pickups have evolved over the years and he would be the best person to advise on what each range of pickups can do. One of my ACG's is Alan's own bass that he used for testing everything from hardware to electronics. It has an overwound single coil pickup with a coil tap which is pretty awesome, so some degree of "tweakery" may be possible.

Glockenklang and Noll are pretty compact and both give you plenty of scope for "tweaking", particularly the 4 pot with a stacked treble/bass and separate mid control.

The EMG VMC is only a Mid control as far as I know, so probably not what you are looking for. I guess the obvious choice would be to use a Bartolini pre-amp as you have Bart pickups but my personal choice would be Glockenklang. 3 of my 4 basses have them fitted and as you can guess, I love them. Very transparent, no volume change between active/passive when set flat, easy to fit and very reasonably priced. Other options would be Noll or East both of which I have used.

A few years back my speaker cab went on the fritz and to get me through a rehearsal I used a spare PA cab we had. Quite an oldish one but reasonable quality and i was absolutely knocked out by how it sounded. Had it hooked up to a MarkBass LM3 and i spent the whole rehearsal thinking "should I use a PA cab instead of a bass cab?". It was smaller, lighter and I think it would be perfect for stage monitoring but not too sure how it would be as a back line solution.

Me too. Fabulous Gig Bag, swallows up everything.

+1 for Wembley Loudspeakers. Great service, likely to be cheaper than a replacement and you end with a speaker that was designed to work in that cab.

I had exactly the same bass as this, same colour as well. Only changes I made were new pots and jack socket and changed the bridge for a Wilkinson Vintage one, rest was fine. The pots on mine were Alpha ones to start with, so not that bad but I wanted to install a 0.1uF capacitor so decided to change the lot whilst I was in there. I always use 125 b strings and had a set of Fender flats on the bass which were awesome.

Someone got a bargain.

Well it's a keeper. The more i use it, the more impressed I am.

Agree, that's why I made my own. The cost of an A4 sheet of self adhesive luminous stuff and a hole punch was cheaper than Glowtec and I don't think I'll ever run out. 🙂

I did exactly the same thing with a sheet of Luminous paper. Works a treat and the Luminous variety has a plastic type finish so it lasts.

Excellent idea.

You need to model the cab in WinSD to see which performs best. Just sticking any old speaker in could result in it sounding worse than it does now, or it could sound better but it's a lottery. I'm sure someone could model it for you if you measure the inside of the cab.

Which is about the going rate for MB repairs, between £160 and 200. Good bargaining chip though. At the end of the day no-one can tell you what is up with it without having it in their hot sweaty mits. Fuse blowing is likely to be component failure.