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Knob removal. Oo-er missus.


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I am fed up with the gold knobs on my Mark Bass. They are shiny gold with little gold indents in them.

Cannot see the settings unless I'm about 3 inches from the front panel and even then if the light is wrong I have to use a finger to detect where the indent is.

If anyone from Mark Bass is on here - seriously, give your head a wobble and change the design a bit.

 

But, I can't get the knobs off! I've given them a good pull and they won't shift. They are installed slightly into the control panel so I cannot get anything under them.

 

Any ideas? Or am I going to have to just use pliers and risk chewing up the knobs?

 

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13 hours ago, HazBeen said:

2 strips of cloth. Slide under each side then cross the strips and pull?

I've seen something similar on YouTube (can't remember what video it was now) where they used a flat (rather than a round) shoe lace to wrap around the shaft below the knob and then pull the lace up slowly but firmly to remove the knob. Is there room to squeeze a flat shoe lace around the recess?

More innuendos are available on request. 

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3 hours ago, Osiris said:

I've seen something similar on YouTube (can't remember what video it was now) where they used a flat (rather than a round) shoe lace to wrap around the shaft below the knob and then pull the lace up slowly but firmly to remove the knob. Is there room to squeeze a flat shoe lace around the recess?

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No - it's really tight.

 

I might email MB and ask them. And tell them how stupid the knobs are. Anything reflective for use in a stage light environment is stupid.

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29 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

No - it's really tight.

 

I might email MB and ask them. And tell them how stupid the knobs are. Anything reflective for use in a stage light environment is stupid.

Failing that, what about marking the daft knobs with some tippex, a marker pen, a sliver of electrical tape or something similar? Something that can easily be removed should you decide you don't like it or wish to sell the amp on? 

But yeah, shiny knobs and fascias might look cool in the shop but are useless on stage. 

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2 minutes ago, Osiris said:

 

But yeah, shiny knobs and fascias might look cool in the shop but are useless on stage. 

 

There's an Ashdown RM500 head in one of the rehearsal studios I use... ugh. Nice sounding amp, but that mirror face... whose idea was that??? It's great if I want to retouch my make up, but it's a pain if I want to read which knob does what.

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Likewise, I recently picked up a Fender Downtown Express pre-amp, it's a cracking sounding unit with a great EQ and drive section but it's a shiny anaemic gold colour, that subtle shade of yellow you only see in the contents of discarded plastic pop bottles by the side of the road. And as if that isn't awesome enough, the font is white. On a shiny washed out gold background. Really?

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6 hours ago, mcnach said:

 

There's an Ashdown RM500 head in one of the rehearsal studios I use... ugh. Nice sounding amp, but that mirror face... whose idea was that??? It's great if I want to retouch my make up, but it's a pain if I want to read which knob does what.

Maybe that is why they changed to a matt escutcheon on the RM500 Evo Mk2.

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