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Here's a little audio/video of the SB1 with Labella 760fx stringz6 points
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Better photo tonight. Weird room - for live tracking drums so was acoustically a bit odd…6 points
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The new BB615. Lots of knobs...5 points
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Here's mine, (I know, I know) but I only played at home these days and it does the job well enough.5 points
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I've ordered the passive short scale, sunburst. Been trying to get hold of a "proper" short scale stingray for ages but they're like gold dust. So excited!! Should arrive within 4 months...5 points
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The new BB615 with the BBG5S.4 points
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I like preamp pedals (probably as I don't have a good amp!), they all seem to be quite different from each other as far as features/tones so there's potentially a lot to get through. I've had Sansamp BBDI v2, EBS Microbass 2, DHA VT1 EQ, Bass Simplifier, (and the smaller overdrive/preamp pedals like the Crimson Red and the Solid Gold FX Beta) and all were really good but quite different. The issue I had with all of them if using at the end of the signal chain as a preamp was how they played with other pedals e.g. you can get a great tube type overdrive tone with the BBDI but if you have something like a Fuzz or Envelope filter ahead of it lots of their tone gets muffled so you need to turn down the blend when using them and then turn it back when you want the sansamp overdrive. You can get around that knob twiddling a bit with the Bass Simplifier having 2x FX loops and the Microbass A/B (or A+B) channels and FX loop but there were certain issues with doing those things and I found myself still having to either adjust the preamp pedals depending on what other pedals were being used with them or leave them in quite neutral settings to not keep needing to fiddle about. I've just got a Sansamp VT Bass Deluxe that solves that issue for me: 6x presets all easily accessible on footswitches without menu diving, and a foot-switchable FX loop. So can do things like run an envelope filter ahead of the VT and then have a VT setting to reduce the highs and add a bit of overdrive to it, or can put Fuzz in the FX loop and have a setting so the VT feeds it more mids, or settings where the VT is running a dubby EQ or an Overdrive (it has good overdrive tones). ....probably after a few months something else will catch my eye though!4 points
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Has anyone else experienced the delicious irony of reading this post in the dark theme?4 points
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For sure. I couldn’t make mine break a sweat, and I did really try once. I bottled it before the cab! Bet that EBS really suits it. Way too big and powerful for my needs now, and long gone, but this was a helluva set up:4 points
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Just had this reminded of by youtube, with a 735a in rather competent hands.4 points
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long thread warning.. Hello All First outing with the scrap ply cab last night I loaded the car and looked at this little black box in the corner of my boot and though “I don’t think I’m going to have enough grunt tonight” I play in a Glam band with 2 excellent guitarists who really like to noodle and a solid drummer The cab was plonked on the floor (in landscape mode if that makes sense) and hooked up to my TC BH550. I tilted the cab back very slightly with a high tech lump of wood No pedals – just a lead and a classic vibe precision. A tad of compression on the amp. Low bass turned down a bit to avoid pummelling the pulse 10. Mids and top enhanced a tad I tried it out whilst others were setting up and thought “Blimey - I might just get away with this” Began rehearsing and I got a little lost in the mix. Turned up a little between songs and I was there. I sat right in the mix with a smile on my face. I usually use 2 x 50L cabs with Beyma SM212’s. We rehearse in a steel stockholders, so it’s quite ringy and boomy. The 212’s used to sound very muddy (but sound great outdoors or in a dead room). I think the band used to play louder because of this boom With the new cab, we played a bit quieter (lovely) and my tone was right there. Highs were clear without being obnoxious. Bass was enough for it not to appear like I was using a practice amp Compliments during the break along the lines of “I can’t believe that little thing” The Pulse 10 is quite a little powerhouse. I was dubious as to whether it’d cut the mustard, but I’m pleased to say it does Remember this is a 1 x 10” 200 watt small enclosure so it’s not going to shake your fillings out. It will be easy to transport, make you grin when you look at it and it’ll hold it’s own with a band who aren’t prone to inducing tinnitus So – 1 cab for a rehearsal? For me, yes indeed. Would 1 cab suffice for a gig? Hmmm. Jury is out on that one. Tiny pub? Yeah. 100+ room?…. I’d be wanting a bit more grunt for peace of mind BUT – Given I now have the ply, speaker and hardware for a second one, I think we know where this is going I may make the second with a removable baffle, so I can try the 212’s in a smaller enclosure. Top hats to be fitted too so I have an emergency PA system. Thanks once again to the people behind this thread/design for a great little build I would say to anyone thinking of having a go to just get on with it! There’s loads of helpful people on here. Bring on the next design 😉 Jon4 points
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This pretty much covers the basic idea.4 points
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92 Warwick Thumb Bass. I guess this doesn’t need too much of an introduction, you may already know how awesome these are, but if not please feel free to ask anything. The bass is in great condition overall, but showing wear to the bridge pick-up case, where the thumb has left it’s mark and just above the pick-up. Selling simply because I have stuck with my Marcus 5 string for the majority of gigs as well as my upright . I’m based in the Isle of Man and willing to ship the bass anywhere in the U.K. . Please feel free to ask away... ** Attempted to sell in 2019 so using the same ad to have another go in July 21** Please do shout if any more pics are required, I could even send the odd video of it in use if required. ***Polite notice, thanks for all the enquires - The price is not negotiable, But does include shipping to the U.K.*** Many thanks Alan3 points -
I think i have finally found my string of Choice, Dunlop Nickel Super bright 40-100. The sound, feel and tension of these strings are just exactly what I want. It's only taken me 20 years...3 points
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I've picked up an immaculate condition, hardly used Trace hybrid combo. And I couldn't be happier. I've been after a Trace, I've been thinking about hybrid valve amps.. I somehow got all in one glowing green package. I've wanted a single amp to do my covers band with traditional rock, so a bit of valve drive would be nice for that, but also my 80s covers band where a super clean amp sound or better still a Trace amp sound would suit. I've got it all in this. I don't think I've ever seen one before. The front panel has... Harmonic emphasis in/ out and level Pre shape in/ out Graphic EQ 12 band sliders and in/ out button Valve stage in/ out and drive level Low and high band compression on separate rotary dials with a balance control in the middle Noise reduction in/ out Effects loop in/ out Mute switch I've never seen all these bells and whistles at once in a Trace. I'm bowled over. I've tinkered for about an hour using a Washburn Status headless for super clean sounds and a passive PJ DiMarzio loaded bitsa for valve drive. The valve drive is warm and fuzzy but not harsh like emulated drives can be. It's not going to satisfy people who want really hairy drive but it's enough for me looking for some grit and deep underlying fuzziness to the sound without it overpowering, works especially well with the mids ramped up a bit. What's interesting is dialling back the valve drive but keeping the valve section on and playing clean, it gives a bit more punch. Can't wait to investigate more of what this amp can do on Monday night with the band!3 points
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Having bought this from our very own Hiram.k.hackenbacker, I have to say I am in love. Barely put the damn thing down - Im not usually a fan of Jazz necks, but OMG.. this thing is amazing. Cheers Warren! Well worth the money and the wait! Won't bore you with specs as there are already two threads on this bass, plus some great pics on Classic and cool's gallerywith much better than I can churn out with an ageing iphone.. She has been christened "The Deaky".3 points
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Well I am now down from these 4 beauties (and a couple of fantastic 425s which came and went along the way), following the departure of my lovely NE2 into appreciative new hands today 😢 To this solitary, but very wonderful, beast!3 points
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Yes, with the BC12MkIII. However, that was a much more complex design with extensive bracing that benefited from being CNC'd (and encouraged quite a few forum members to build one who probably wouldn't have bothered). I'm not sure that CNC is the way to go with this cab though, because the assembly technique Phil developed simplifies the way the cab is put together. You just need to get the panels cut accurately, which many wood merchants will do for you at nominal cost. And then it almost assembles itself.3 points
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Back on track, thanks for this John, it's really useful to have an independent personal opinion. I have to say that this pretty much matches my own experience. I also rolled off the bass a tad and found the cab perfectly adequate for rehearsals. the basic sound is just a lovely open honest sound of the bass but I also added a little compression (and grit also). The band loved it. I'd also pretty much agree with the assessment of it's capabilities, 100+ would be beyond it as would anything outdoors. You'll find when you have two for PA it will sound a lot better than the single speaker. I do a lot of critical listening when testing speakers and listening in mono often shows up things you don't notice with a stereo pair and of course the imaging will do so much to the experience. This little speaker has given me a little doubt as to what I'm doing next. I've got the parts to build the 12" BC Mark3. I've been using bits and bobs of prototypes I've been taking to gigs for years and I wanted to have a go-to set up for important gigs. I've been using a couple of Beyma 12 based BC Mark1's for years. This BC 110T is so much better than it has a right to be and is so portable I'm now thinking of just having a second. Then I'll have two speakers I just won't touch for gigs and I can experiment freely with whatever else I have. For £125 and less than a days work it's tempting. Just a question of which one to build next.3 points
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Armour Believer ～ The Monkees3 points
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My modest Trio 82 JV Squire jazz Highway one Fender P bass Musicman Sterling Plus BB 425 for 5 string duties and PJ tone 😁3 points
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I MADE HOLES IN IT Horn aperture is four holes with the hole saw, joined up with the power saw. Port aperture is cut with the 127mm hole saw (I've got this set which I don't think could possibly be any cheaper, but it has worked.) This was a bit necky as my mains drill has no speed control, so it's flat out or nothing! Space on the baffle was even tighter than I expected, so the port aperture has ended up taking a tiny bit out of the transverse brace, and I couldn't cut the right-hand edge of the port aperture so just sanded down the pointy bit with the Dremel. It looks terrible, but the horn covers up my shoddy handiwork nicely… I may need to drill new fixing holes in it though, as the lower two existing ones end up right on the edge of the baffle, where the join with the batten to block the slot port will be. Port aperture is slightly too small for the tube so will need some sanding (as if there isn't enough to do already) but I guess better that than too big… Last of all, one on the back for the connector plate. I put it in the corner so it looks OK with the cab in either horizontal or vertical orientation, and I made it round because that was easiest, but actually I think it looks kind of cute:3 points
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Great amps with all the power you’ll ever need. Although not class D weight , at 22lbs these amps are still very manageable. GLWTS.3 points -
Port placement doesn't matter, as the radiation pattern from a port is 360 degrees. What does matter is the size of the enclosure. Larger enclosures go lower and louder. In most cases the reason for putting ports on the back is that the enclosure is too small to fit them on the front. Boom is also typical of too small enclosures, and it has nothing to do with port placement either.3 points
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As some of you know I’m deeply into the P/flats sound at the moment not least because a lot of the new music I’m discovering features some tasty P action. Latest discovery is below. Phenomenal bass playing; tasteful, groovy, busy, sparse, it’s all there - and the rest of the band are fantastic. I normally avoid any albums/artists with ‘funk’ in the name as they tend to be anything but, but this is awesome. Go on, give it a spin 🎧2 points
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Because it is so hard to find decent lefties in anything other than bog standard colours or pay mahoosive amounts for a relic'd Fender custom shop, I decided to go for a UK crafted custom P-Bass a while back to get my dream bass and support British craftsmanship. Pics of progress so far. It's going to have a black scratch plate and black hardware. Neck will have a vintage tinted satin finish. Can't wait to get it and it will fill the p bass gap in my collection nicely.2 points
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Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. All original ALEMBIC Elan IV, 32 inches, from 1991. Rare chrome hardware. Perfectly balanced. Shipping fee included in the asking price !!! TRADES MAYBE, BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT IT'S AN $11.200 USD BASS (WITHOUT ALL TAXES AND DUTIES) ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £3499 GBP !!! Expect to pay at least $11.200 USD (plus all the taxes and import duties as well as a long waiting time) to get a new one made today... Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. In fully working condition and in excellent overall condition, except the few dings and scratches mentioned (and photographed) below. Here are the specifications : Body : Elan shape, two wings of maple with thick beautiful flamed maple wings over a walnut pinstripe Thru body neck : 3 pieces of maple Fingerboard : ebony with pearloid (plastic) oval inlays and walnut under pinstripe (the sides have been sanded, according to Alembic's suggestion, to suppress the typical frets issue) Frets : 24 frets that all have had their end rounded à la Ibanez Premium and have very very slight wear (see last photo in the link below) Headstock : typical Alembic 4 in line shape with flamed maple top and back and 2 ebony veneers on each side Pickups : immaculate (nothing broken) Alembic AXY4 (like the Stanley Clarke model) - neck pickup moved 1/2" toward the bridge (option) Preamp : Alembic low-pass filter with Q switch Controls : volume, blend, low-pass filter, Q switch Tuners : original Alembic chrome Bridge : original solid brass Alembic two parts, bird type (rare chrome finish) Strings spacing at bridge : 17 mm Nut : original adjustable Alembic solid brass (rare chrome finish) Strings spacing at nut : 12 mm Knobs : original Alembic Scale : 32 inches Hardware colour : rare chrome finish, even the Alembic logo and the truss rods cover are in chrome Truss rods : 2 (fully working) adjustable at the body end with a 1/4 wrench (delivered with the bass) Finish : polyester transparent Sapphire Blue gloss Land of craftsmanship : 100% Made in Santa Rosa, CA USA Serial number : 91 H 6521 USA Year : 14th of June 1991 Weight : 4.280 kilos Action : from 1 mm under the G string to 1.5 mm under the E string at 12th fret (can even go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with an used Thomann Panzer hard case (with a bump near the left locking system : see photos). Non-smoking environment as usual. I'm only selling this bass because I'm thinning down the herd for the reasons mentioned above and even if it's a terrific bass (that neck pickup is just bloody awesome), the 32 inches scale and narrow strings spacing at the bridge is always bothering me. And it looks like a banjo on me. This bass was originally made for Mesa Boogie Germany as a special order. A previous owner had some chrome Flush Mount Dunlop Straploks fitted (see photos) and the strap parts are, of course, delivered with. The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has received a new battery and is fitted with a brand new set of Alembic CX-3/45L compression wound nickel steel alloy strings (45 - 65 - 80 - 105) that really fit the bass to perfection. What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles to see the real condition : almost in new condition with some scratches, the most "important" ones being two dings at the rear (one bigger) and two small dings hard to photograph at front without forgetting the mandatory ones at the headstock. I tried to photograph everything, so please, look at the photos in the link below. Here is the link to the 50 photos in high resolution : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l7WV0jeZy3veqFLmpTmT4tC-2C8y6_F6?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.2 points -
Here it is: I got in contact with Yamaha UK and they're sending out the required parts to make good on the truss rod repair. TBH I'm not sure on the body shape. A couple of options. First is to move it on but this would be a shame as it sounds amazing. Second is to commission a smaller body but I anticipate that costing more than the bass. Need my premium bonds to come in.2 points
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Passive p/j - proper BB2 points
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I am fortunate (?) enought to own a copy of Kenny Everett's " The World Worst Record Show" from which I pluck this gem..... There's plenty more where that came from.....😄2 points
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My SB1 is getting an outing tonight for a local pub gig.2 points
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If you don't have 30 mins to spare, then you could do worse than dive in at 17.35 to hear a classic Yammy BB "punchy growl" on the 735A on @such's video link. Great tone!2 points
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Law came in Jan 2017, no way is this 4 year old stock. I keep a regular eye on GG website, this isn't that old.2 points
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Do you mean for sale or presently manufactured? Do a search for recent 'valve amp' threads and lots of availability!2 points
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Which doesn't excuse them not trying to help him through it. After they had watched Paul Gray die of drug dependency they sack another guy because they think he has the same affliction?2 points
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I'm not sure I'd put it quite like that, but yes. 😄 That's the beauty of it.2 points
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I've actually spent the last hour making you a special theme all of your own, and made the text on the default light theme a bit darker. Sorry I haven't got round to it immediately, I stupidly put my family and job before your progressively less polite request. You're welcome!2 points
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Oh no, I wanted to achieve the opposite: Expect NOT to get it anytime soon, so that if you get it in 1-2 weeks, it will be unexpected, a nice surprise and you will be delighted 🙂2 points
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Sounds like I need to buy one for each bass, just to save faffing around.2 points
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FWIW I use front porting on most of my designs because most people buy with their eyes, not their ears. How a rear firing port works as well as front firing can be better understood if you consider the case of sub woofers, which operate within the same frequency pass band as ports. SOP for those in the know is to aim them at a wall, or a corner. They work better that way than they do facing away from the wall or corner.2 points
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Red all night tonight - was due new strings for 5 basses and “next day” obviously means “not within 3 days…” but it seems the strings I kept as spares to put on the red one still had enough snap for one rehearsal…2 points
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Honestly I doubt that they do sound better, I can think of at least one good reason why they ought to sound worse but none which would make them sound better. There is no theoretical reason i know of that would suggest a difference and i doubt you'd measure any difference at a decent distance from the cab. You are then down to subjectivity/listening tests. The problem is proving a difference one way or the other. You'd need to build identical cabs with identical drivers and then carry out multiple double blind tests where neither the listener nor the operator knew which cab was which. The big problem is that our ears are connected to a big organic computer which processes the input from our ears and often functions to make us hear what we expect to hear. I've spent many hours doing listening tests when designing and building speakers and you'd be amazed how often you can fool yourself that you can hear something that isn't there or fail to spot something that is obvious. My wife assures me that i often fail to hear things which are important to her but rarely miss something important to me It isn't just our sight that is subject to illusions. To me ports on the back look wrong and I tend to avoid them even though I know there is no good reason to do this. The reality is that I've never actually listened to the same driver in a box identical except for the port placement. Maybe you just prefer some speakers to others and as not many have ports on the back it's just coincidence that you didn't like those as much as your favourite cabs So what could make it sound different but objectively worse? Firstly cutting a hole in the baffle weakens the part of the cab you have already weakened with the speaker cut out and the bit you need to be most rigid, you end up with a big heavy magnet fixed to a wobbly board. A weak baffle isn't good secondly the port itself has a series of resonances where the wavelength is a multiple of the port length. These are going to be more directional and could be audible.2 points
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Latest addition to the family of black basses2 points
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You can change strings? I love this forum. I'm always learning new things.2 points
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Joey Jordison is a drummer who got thousands of kids into playing instruments and listening to heavy metal. RIP that man. 🤘2 points
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I get mystified when solo bassists play things like this entirely beyond the 12th fret. No lower than a guitar but with a constricted range and tonal palette, and heavy articulation too.2 points
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