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We appear to have had two miracles this weekend, the England rugby team managed to wallop the All Blacks and we have had a day of non rainy weather. So I've managed to warm the glue as its rather cold, Cut down two panels for two cabs, I have two new cabs and one slightly not-so-good-not-as-neat-as-I-would-like-it-now-going-to-become-a-spray-booth-cabinet. practise makes perfect or in my case, slightly better than the last one. I've cut down the first cabs baffle so it's going to hold the 3d printed blue air filter. I've also assembled and glued three quarters of one new cab and that's all clamped up waiting for the glue to dry. As it gets dark quite early here, I didn't get around to the second cabinet, but now the pieces are cut, I can do something’s indoors. Still need to cut the holes for the loudspeaker but that'll have to wait for next weekend now.

So that's where all my electricity has gone...

Brilliant, that looks great. It makes me feel a lot happier about me doing it. Was the blade a coarse one (e.g. 20 tooth) or a find toothed one (circa 80 tooth) or something in the middle. Also why isn't it raining where you are? Not fair. Rob

As I'm an idiot I pasted this in the wrong chat. This is one way to cut a sheet of plywood down from 1440 x 660 for pieces for the 8" Basschat speaker. There are others but this does it in six cuts if you can stack the pieces, click on it to expand. If you have your own guide rail BUT it's not 1.3m long, you can also use cut 3 first, then cut 4, place them on top of each other to do cut 1. Still the same number of cuts. Apparently my circular saw will do 66mm of cuts with the blade at 90 degrees. It's a relatively cheap Makita (for Makita) https://amzn.eu/d/j6vA5Sf My guide is only 1m long so I do the same cut pattern as @tauzero. Your local timber merchant may have their own way to cut this. my local one has a sign adjacent to the very large table saw, saying this is highly dangerous equipment and under no circumstances tell the operator how to do his job So 24mm of plywood should be no problem and neither should 36mm of plywood (mmmmm...). It has an 80 tooth wheel on so it does very nice fine cuts and I have absolutely no idea if that makes a difference or not on the depth. If anybody can say for certain it's OK to cut 36mm of plywood without it destroying the 80T blade or motor? I'll have try when the weather gets better. Currently we appear to be doing our best to emulate Noah's flood in North Yorkshire. One day of decent weather and two weeks of rain and another week forecast. My poor dog never seems to have enough time to get dry from each walk

I have a feeling this came up a year or so ago. Might be a different one though. Stromness is as difficult to get to as can be and the chances of somebody actually going to collect was minimal. I replied and said I was in the area as I was diving Scapa Flow for the WW 1 German wrecks, I was a scuba diver and have dived Scapa a fair few times so if they asked any questions I could answer them, and would love to see it. Never got a response. Ping them and ask Rob

Now I'm confused. What are you losing here? The USB on the PreSonus is connected to one of the four USB interfaces on the Pi 5 (or 4). So you still have three USB interfaces left on the Raspberry. The other interface on the Presonus is in use as it's doing the I/O to the Pi which is what it should be doing. @tauzero wants to use the Presonus interface What am I missing? Rob

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Havana is very, very nice. Lovely architecture, very friendly people. Well recommended. I reached Havana via Houston.

Fair point so I'll look a little earlier for dates in April as well and we'll ignore the last week of May

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OK. Let's speak off line and work out how to it technically as this may bore people 😊

Hi, I'm looking at doing the third annual NW and Scotland Bass Bash and Petting Zoo for 2026. This would be at the Clapham village hall in Clapham https://claphamcumnewbyvillagehall.org.uk/ We are on the NW tip of North Yorkshire, 20 mins from the M6. Parking is easy and we would have the whole hall again. Currently the following days are available, so I'm trying to work out which ones to do. I've moved this forward to avoid clashes with the Midlands Bass Bash Saturday April 4th 2026 Sunday April 5th 2026 Sunday April 18th 2026 Sunday April 19th 2026 Saturday April 25th 2026 Sunday April 26th 2026 Saturday May 9th 2026 Sunday May 10th 2026 Sunday May 17th 2026 If I can workout a poll, I'll do this to make it easier. Rob

That sounds sensible.

So if I build two cabs they're twice as good 😊?

I'll redo my quick cutting list so it's a little clearer and tidier. @Bassybert how do you want to incorporate a suggested cut list? I can send you it it in Fusion 360 or I can try and find something else. There are a number of ways to cut and if you have a long cutting guide rail, that's one way and a short cutting guide rail a different way. Or Should I just create a separate PDF with my ideas in? Not fussed either way. Rob

Wow. It's that bad with bassists in Wokingham you need door staff? Sort of "You can't come in here with that guitar, too many skinny strings" Didn't know that. Stay safe. Rob

Have fun all. Post pictures

I've just looked at the plans again as something was bothering me. I was wondering why the 274mm measurements on the sides and top and bottom aren't 276mm to make cutting easier. Changing that measurement to 276mm merely extends out the front pieces beyond the baffle by 2mm so it's 12mm rather than 10mm. It has no impact on the volume but it means all pieces can be cut from a strips of ply 276mm wide. I think it also saves at least one cut and possibly two. No more fiddling with a 2mm difference.There are a number of different ways to cut it out of a sheet 1440 x 660mm.My topology skills are limited so I couldn't work out all the permutations. Anything that simplifies things seems a good idea to me. I'm sure I have this wrong but where have I misunderstood? Thanks Rob

We went to the Wheatsheaf in Ingleton, a little bit smaller than the Barbican. Two Hoots were playing with @vsmith1 doing an excellent job on his rather nice Marcus Miller bass. A lot of fun with 60's, 70's and 80's covers. The only table available was right next to the ProSonus PA speaker. I can assure people that the PA does an excellent job and is very, very loud. Thankfully we brought ear plugs which made it all rather bearable. They played from 20:30 to nearly 23:00 with a short break. A good time was had by one and all. Well worth the free gig Rob

If i didn't have a Nux Mighty Plug and a Bighead headphone amp, I'd be looking at this. I still might have a look. Perhaps the phone app makes the interface usable. However given IK Multimedia haven't got the world's best UX team, that might be a forlorn hope. I suppose they could have contracted the work out? Rob

@Sté I was trying to understand the differences between a pair of consumer in ear headphones such as the Bose ones and IEM's such as the Thomann ones. The jack plug is the same, but is there any other difference? Everything I have read seems to indicate there is little difference, e.g. https://www.rtings.com/headphones/learn/earbuds-vs-iems and https://producelikeapro.com/blog/iem-vs-earbuds/ Which seems to indicate that its the seal against the ear canal as opposed to any difference in the technology. So passive noise cancellation vs active noise cancellation such as Air Pods. However I'm trying to check if I can. If no difference, I'll just get a pair of cheapish IEMS and use them Thanjs Rob

@Sté Thanks for this. So are IEM's the same as 'ordinary' in ear headphones? Rob

Hi I'm looking at the smallest setup for portable use, so using my NUX Mighty Plug Pro and a set of wired headphones. I have a pair of over ear headphones that are very good, Austrian Audio but are a bit bulky. As my iPhone no longer has a headphone socket AND my daughter appears to have lost my rather nice wired Bose headphones, I'm unsure what to get. Also does playing bass need specific ones? I've never used in ear monitors and am unsure if they are the same as wired ear plugs such as the Bose ones above. I can't see me needing IEM's for the foreseeable future, so any recommendations for in ears for practise purpises less than £100 would be very helpful. Rob