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Wow, that looks great.

You are correct in many ways, but the basschat designs are well proven, so building them is low risk and relatively low cost. This 8" design is not only proven but at two bass bashes, under blind test conditions, was chosen as the best of all the cabinets. It should not really be a surprise as the driver was chosen for its extended response, meaning that it sounds good without a tweeter. Some, although not all, of the other drivers were bigger and those that, were originally using a crossover/tweeter, were rewired so that the HF section was disconnected. Of course, like many blind tests, it is hard to make them completely blind, but it was an interesting exercise. However, blindly putting drivers in existing cabs is what BFM might calla Crap Shoot and the odds are stacked against you.

Tonight 19th November, Sky Arts, 10pm. Gary Moore : One Night In Dublin A 2005 concert, where he is joined by Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham and Eric Bell.

Slowly Growing Deaf - Mr Bungle

Yes, it will be much easier than printing over the body...

I wonder how much trouble you could cause by taking your professional looking image and sticking on the other bass forum and Facebook groups with "have you seen this - so looking forward to it" type comments ....

OK, had a bit over an hour on it so far. These are my first impressions. Obviously take them with a pinch of salt and do try one for yourselves rather than trusting one person’s opinions. Mostly just played my Fender American Pro II Precision with rosewood board and 4-year-old Labella 760-FS strings. I’ve so far only played it out of the 1/4” output (so no cab sim) into the Shift Line Cabzone Bass and using its headphone output. I’ve run it as-is and with the Shift Line B15 cab sim (the same one that is the stock one in the Ampeg SGT-DI incidentally). I do like it. It’s not going to replace my Grand Slampegg (though I never expected it to; I was thinking this would be more a case of something close but without the reliability risk of tubes). Going from memory, the Fifteen has more bounciness in the string feel compared to the Broughton Fliptop; on the latter, the D and G strings always felt a bit “stiff” above the 7th fret. Would be interesting to be able to compare them directly as I played that pedal as my only preamp for a good couple of years. As the Grand Slampegg doesn’t have a gain control, I had to dial in a fairly clean sound on the BassRig (drive knob around 10 o’clock) to match. Bass knobs at 3-4 o’clock, treble knobs around 10 o’clock. The GS definitely has more “squishiness” to the feel, if that’s the right word (it’s hard to describe); sort of like it makes the strings feel like they’re made out of a different material compared to the dry sound, more rubbery or elastic. (The way I have mine set, I actually find the ‘64 Black Panel seems to feel a bit squishier to me compared to the Fifteen, though I have the former dialled in with drive set to the point where anything played above a medium level breaks up a fair bit. The Fifteen feels a bit more like the Super Vintage under the fingers to me.) Compared to the BassRig, the GS also has a noticeably fuller/warmer bottom end and the attack of the notes have a kind of slight softness or bloom to them that isn’t present in the BassRig. The BassRig does seem to have a certain midrange note that pokes out more than on the GS. Out of the three BassRigs, the Fifteen (at least when set to match the GS) sounds good with both my P basses (the second being the same type of bass but with a maple board and (I think) the stock Fender nickel roundwounds; the way I have the other two BassRigs set at the moment (64 set as above, SV very clean with boosts to bass, mid (@ 220 Hz) and treble) they sound great with the flats but not so much with the rounds. (Maybe I just don’t like the maple/rounds combo much; need to experiment with different strings and using rounds/rosewood and flats/maple to compare.) And just to emphasise why you should take my findings with a pinch of salt, could anyone recommend what XLR cable I need to hook between the BassRig and a Scarlett 2i4 interface? It has combo inputs which take standard 1/4” and some other kind of connector I’m unfamiliar with. Also if using XLR-to-1/4” from the BassRig, could I plug that into the 1/4” input of the Cabzone so I could use the BassRig’s cab sim and monitor on headphones (instead of having to hook up to the computer interface)?

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I'm in too..

Can You Hear Me - Korn

I think i prefer the rosewood board but its between this and the 70s 'walnut' finish (with cream dimarzios) for me.

Looks lovely. Does Gary have the other 4? 🙂

Great. Now I want a Mustang type. Dagnabit.

My NS5CR is also 35" scale.

Regarding the Jazz Bass with a single rear pickup, I think you might be thinking of early-2000's era Dan Glenn. He was/is(?) and L.A-based fretless player who had a beard, looked a bit like Mo Foster and played a fretless Modulus Jazz that had one rear pickup. Could it be you have got the two a bit mixed up/ mixed together?

I sent a new FX block proposal to Ivan from Darkglass proposing a synth fx block idea. It's basically the same blueprint of Entropia but synth engine where you can play around with LFO, Filters, Dirt, Sine waves to achieve classic synth tones. Just like how Entropia has different templates, same with Synthropia where you can achieve song ready synth tones like what you hear on Stevie's boogie on reggae woman, PYT, 24k Magic , moog related sounds and then tweak parameters to further improve your desired tone. The icon I made is just a quick render during my break at work. I just matched the same design elements in the Anagram's fx block icons. I really hope they have something synth related lined up in the future.

We seem to get lumped in with 'darkwave' (recently played gigs with Sisters of Mercy, the Mission, Lebanon Hanover, She Past Away, etc ) but we're not. The greek crowd, well you can see from the audience shot, look sort of goth/darkwave - I don't get the connection. Check out our Spotify and you tell me

It was originally an illustration of Dan Dare from the Eagle, but a glitch in the BC system a few years back deleted all our avatars. I replaced it with the KiteKat tin in a moment of silliness and never got around to changing it.

If you know another one bites the dust you probably could get Good Times as it was inspired by that (John Deacon was in the studio when good times was made), or rappers delight, same bassline, or many many other songs. In fact, on whosampled, 254 other songs. So whatever bucket you are in, you probably have heard it somewhere!

What are you adding a 550W power supply to? Noone can answer if 550W is enough, unless they know what you are powering with it! Replacing the power supply of an amplifier won't do anything unless the power amp output stage was underpowered, which is unlikely, and it would have to be the right power supply so that is no use. And the question about class D or AB makes no sense with a power supply, that is just about amplifiers I have blanked out your link as it is of no relevance to bass players.

Whispering Grass - Don Estelle & Windsor Davies

I'm not sure that these modules are what you're looking for. They are PSU (Power Supply Units...) specifically for powering Cisco routers in IT systems, and have no audio function whatever. They cannot, ever, be connected to speaker cabs, whatever the ohmage. Is it rather a 550W audio amp module or power amp that you're after..?