Colledge

there was a topic a few days ago talking about getting this sort of thing to rack mount an rh450, not sure who it was but i'm sure they'd be interested.

I think my rig is going to stay like this for a while. i didnt think 280w would do me as previous mag600 never seemed to cut it... but i was very wrong.
small / medium gig and practice rig.

larger / blow down walls rig.

or i can use the trace combo as nature intended if i wanted... but to be honest its just as easy wheeling the marshall can and a seperate head than carrying the deceptively heavy combo around.

I'm quite happy with my handywork on the headcase.

finally got around to taking some (crappy iphone camera) pictures of my rig.
in small / medium gigs and practice mode:

in world domination mode:

as you might have guessed the amp is out of the 15 combo and i made a headcase from 3mm tread plate.

bass wise my main weapon is an atk300

but i've re-fallen in love with my old trusty washburn force 4 since i strung it with labella 760fl's.

i've also got the bass i made for a product design project for my a-level last year
i've finally gotten around to sorting the electrics and am half way thru installing a 3 band parametric eq from artec.
There's also a rarely used tanglewood acoustic kicking around and i'm waiting on the delivery of a boss gt6-b.

i finally got around to getting a set of earplugs. just went for the etymolic er-20's. will have their first try out later on tonight at practice. I look forward to finishing a gig without ringing ears.

heresy!

hows about a scruffy looking v-type combo that i've seen flying about the classifieds? not sure who owns it at the moment.

is this by any chance still for sale?

are you using a preamp anywhere in the chain? the guitarist i work with regords quite alot and his recordings come out really [url="http://www.myspace.com/danleak"]well[/url].

i always assumed that he used a proper usb / firewire preamp but when i recorded some stuff over his house.. i was amazed that he was just using a relatively cheap tube mic pre straight into the imac sound card. as long as you use decent quality cables and a preamp, they can come out pretty well. i've got an imac too but every time i try to record i end up with a lot of noise in my signal, i think its mostly down to the use of crappy cheap jack adapters, cables and the use of a cheapy processor as a preamp.

i doubt that theres such a thing as an amp sim di without knobs because everyone has their own personal preferences and so by making a petal have a set tone / colour then the maker is severely cutting on clients.

+1 on the tiny terror, especually as you don't need masses of volume, the 15w will be plenty.

also agree with the cabs, you want different voicing for bass and guitar so would need dedicated cabs for best results.

you could disconnect the bypass output and wire it in parallel with the muted output, but then it would just be running like a passive splitter so you could get some noise / signal loss.... probably negligible though.




also...
[quote name='cetera' post='950048' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:51 PM']Honestly?!? It's AWESOME!

I have the two 2x12's stacked vertically with the top cab blasting the overdriven, grinding hi mids from the RBI..... and the bottom cab blasting the solid, thick, round & clean lows from the RPM....

Running each on a separate channel of the power amp means I can adjust the individual volume of each to find the perfect combination of thundering lows and grinding highs! [/quote]

WANT! just when i was gas-less.

its no ampeg

i prefer the red rubber rings off a grolsch bottle.

envy.
i'm GREEN with envy.
ha! i bet you can almost taste the tone.

imo a hybrid head would do all of the tube warmth and give more clean headroom. the main reason all tube heads are so sought after when compared to hybrid heads is because its so hard to emulate the sound of an tube power section.

the orange terror bass has the same preamp section as the ad200b but with a digital power amp or 500 or 1000w which might be a better option if you want clean sound but with the tube vibe / warmth.

while playing i can stand it, except for his new china, loudest thing on earth.

its when me the 2 guitarists and the singer are all having a quiet conersation / doodle while trying songwriting and he starts bashing away that gets me.

its got to a point now where me and one of the guitarist (cage fighter) have to literally drag him off the drums. its a bit of a running joke now, but he's literally like a 6year old who just ate too many blue smarties.

[quote name='4-string-thing' post='958888' date='Sep 16 2010, 10:15 PM']Horses for courses I guess, but I don't find 15's woolly, never used 18's but I'd like to. I want to be heard too, but not by compromising my sound by adding top end to cut through a mix![/quote]

+1 i think if you'r boosting trebble just get the high end stuff through mix then i think you'r doing something wrong, low imo to cut through best, its all about low mids.

but on track, i agree with the mantra of cone size not corresponding to frequency response. My harman Kardon stereo has an 8" sub and it sounds great, can really get my desk rumbling.

love the simpsons theme, and everything else. you're transposing skills must be top notch, and ofcourse well executed.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='957806' date='Sep 15 2010, 10:35 PM']Well, I guess some players like to be heard (I do) and some are content to sit in the mix, like wallflowers swaying in the breeze![/quote]
some of us prefer to be felt.

if you don't mind lugging around a bit of weight, you should try out trace cabs, often come up cheap as chips and really cut through.

i'm using this amp too, tone by the bucket load and more power than you expect. Best amp i've had.

[quote name='Phil Starr' post='956784' date='Sep 15 2010, 12:45 AM']Ashdown have probably the most helpful attitude around so email them or ring them for advice.[/quote]

+1, whenever ive phones them about my (ex) amp, they've been really helpful.
ive even heard of reports of them even shipping out free replacement knobs and things like that, so you may be lucky.

i can't wait 'till i get my fretless skills up to gigging standard, my fretless is my baby that i made for an a-level, for some reason ive been inspired lately to finally get the electronics sorted and stop leaving it neglected on its stand. thanks for all the advice / backup.

i think i'd rather slap a bass nut and bridge on a strat, they use the same scale length and i doubt there'd be much in it neck width wise.

i'm having my first venture into fretless playing and i hope to eventually get half decent at it so i can use it in a live situation.

i'm quite impressed with the range of tones i can extract from it, even some nice growly driven MM tones, no doubt mostly due to a beefy humbucker, roundwounds and a rock solid fingerboard coating.

my question is do you think there are any situations where a fretless bass should never be used?
any objections to using a fretless for songs that where never originally intended for fretless playing?