goingdownslow

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1417284917' post='2618872'] None - it's a cartoon. [/quote] What, they're not [i]real[/i] Americans?

I have regularly seen the fifth string being used only as a thumb rest.

Virgin bolocked it for me too

Last week at a regular small pub gig I was using my Hartke Kickback15 combo. From the moment I switched on and played through it it did not sound right. A thin nasaly tone (like what you my think from a tin speaker) no bass or warmth. No amount of twiddling the knobs could get the sound I normally get from it. Adding more bass was just making it distort. I just had to play with a crap sound and get the gig over. I checked it over the next morning and could find nothing wrong, tried it and it sounded ok. I was scratching my head wondering what had it been. I was using the combo during the week and it was really pumping as it always had done and I was thinking why did it sound so different the last time. It has now just dawned on me, I had used my home made "Gramma Pad" where I had not used it previously. It had been in the back of the car and I just automatically picked it up and took it in. This platform has always done just what it is supposed to do on a boomy box stage, would it have had an adverse effect on the solid floor of the pub. I will try the "with and without" test the next time I am there.

Ahh... I thought you were after an amp tech in the Bogner Regis area.

There is a venue/pub near Ellesmere Port where I have played (not for a while now tho') that has a cupboard at the side of the stage with 3 twin sockets, one on each phase, and a note asking bands to spread the load, ie, lights, pa and backline. No warning of 400v.

It could be the label is indicating that there is 400v between the sockets as they are on different phases. They should not then be within arms reach (no less than 6 feet) of each other but long leads throws all that out of the window. Just make sure your own equipment is up to scratch as any problems will have a greater effect. You could lessen any problem by plugging everything in to one socket but then that will be down to the load you are drawing.

Some self certified spark with a B&Q card may have installed it to run some 400v 2 phase welding equipment from it. A 13A socket certainly does not comply even if it has got a warning sticker on. Do not use it before testing the actual supply voltage.

I have a Thumb Bass with a 2 band circuit, bass and treble controls have a definite usable effect. I was trying out a used later model with 3 band electronics and the treble control appeared not to be working. I bought the bass as it was a good price and thought the problem may be an easy fix. Turned out there was nothing wrong with it but it worked at a higher band than that on the two way and on my amp settings I have this frequency cut so turning it had no effect. I prefer the 2 band circuit.

Obiviously something had slipped and as it all looked fine afterwards it is possible that the ball end may not have been seated properly in the bridge to start with.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1414264458' post='2587761'] I would say that you problem is the excessive number of winds on the tuner. [/quote] I think he is saying it took him 5 or 6 turns on the tuner to bring the string back into tune, not 5 or 6 winds around the string post.

Can't stand fans, it's like standing in a cold draught, gives me a stiff neck.

It looks like the pcb around the 1+ connection on CN2 has been scraped away to isolate it and the capacitor then added. Maybe they have made speakon 2 as an output to a tweeter or some other HF unit...

I let the two Les Pauls go in 1980 when I packed in playing which lasted ten years, big regrets. [attachment=172061:My Gibsons.jpg]

I quit in 1964 right after my first go on a ciggy and coughing my lungs up. I couldn't see the point in it. Still can't.

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"Goin' Down Slow" by Free is not your standard 12 bar either.

I opened the Laney pa amp we use at a local jam night to find why it had gone dead half way through the night and found this... [attachment=169899:Laney 2.jpg] Cracks have appeared in the output transistors allowing the smoke to escape. I think I could fill the cracks with some hot glue but am wondering if I was to get some smoke from a smoke machine and refill them would it be ok. Has anybody tried this.

Some leave a greasy/oily film on equipment.

It's not a real shock unless your skeleton was exposed.

[quote name='Jonesy64' timestamp='1402843098' post='2477163'] Getting on great with mine....had its 5th gig last night. I have pretty much settled on the bass around 2-3 o'clock, mids and treble at noon, the mids selector on the second click, [/quote] Having the mids on noon doesn't cut or boost anything so it doesn't matter what the selector is on.

I use Pledge Cedar Oil, 99p from Home Bargains, on my Bubinga Thumb Basses. Leaves no build up and a silky smooth finish.

I find people to be biased towards their own opinions.

Only watched a couple of minutes but it looked like she was using all five of them.