As a science nerd I get the need for knowledge, but hard to justify the expense for little return (as yet). Also hate the idea of space mining and colonisation so we can go and ruthlessly fuck up other planets, rather than solve our issues here (although I’m having doubts about that atm).

Not ...

Iancee wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 7:29 am

twelvepoint wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 9:12 am re:Egg Hunt
I wonder if Ian ever got that hole in his bathroom ceiling fixed?

I think about it every day…

I’d 100% watch the show “Punk House Home Repairs with Ian”

OK, but can you send each string and pickup of your bass to completely different spots of a contemporary line array PA?
Can you?

Kidding aside, I'm reading a book called 'Loud and Clear' all about The Wall of Sound it's it's pretty fascinating.


Really want to read that. Also I follow an insta ...

How good would the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound compare to a contemporary line array PA?

I fear our “return to sensibility” will be Karl Rove dictating policy to President Newsom or some similarly awful Overton window nightmare

Is this Switchcraft #151 the correct part to use? It seems like a little wimpy to put 300 watts through.


300W RMS into a 4 ohm load is about 8 A. The switchcraft 151 is rated for 1 A. I know these get used all the time for these applications, but you're much better off using something like ...

Thanks Tony! It is weird because there’s nothing that would indicate there was ever a plate attached, or that there was a larger hole that was filled. A plate solution would definitely need a bigger hole drilled in the cab. That’s probably ok, and definitely preferable to having a short or open load ...

I was playing bass the other day with a friend at his place. He has an old Ampeg 8x10 (cool!) but it was intermittent (not cool!). Wiggling the 1/4” jack seems to be the culprit.

From the outside, it looks like the cab uses a long barrel jack like this:

https://a.co/d/0a7SeuZc

There’s another ...

No because mine, even before sending it out, didn't have the white-with-yellow-stripe wiring and it came back with a black jacketed wire. Also the customer's phone number on the yellow post-it note on his bench is not mine!

Mr Fralin did mention he'd rewound TB pickups before mine. Looks like this ...

Lindy personally rewound my TB 1000s bridge pickup and was super nice on the phone with questions. Not necessarily an endorsement for p90s one way or the other, but I was impressed with the customer care.