Mr. Foxen

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1337084760' post='1655083'] I was thinking of getting an 8 ohm markbass 2x10 to pair with my 8 ohm 4x10, are you saying I would not actually be able to gain any extra headroom? Could I in fact lose some? Cheers [/quote] With two 8 ohm cabs you would be splitting power evenly to them, then within the cab, the 2x10 will be dividing the power between two speakers, and the 4x10 between 4, so the 2x10 is going to hit its limit while the 4x10 is at half power. Plus the 4x10 will probably be drowning out the 2x10 farting out, so you have more breakage risk. Best is to get a 16ohm 2x10 with same speakers as the 4x10 you you effectively have a 6x10 and everything is spread evenly.

[quote name='vax2002' timestamp='1337083855' post='1655069'] I run a Peavey firebass 700w head through 1 4x10 and 1 2x10 giving 4 ohms and it has never not been loud enough for any venue from big clubs to small pubs. [/quote] You are working to the limitations of the 2x10 by doing it that way, half the headroom of the 4x10 is wasted.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1337080973' post='1654981'] I have the opposite opinion, i've had a lot of amp gear and the smaller and lighter they got the better they sounded, IMO and IME! Here's the gear i owned ordered from worst to better sounding: Heads: Trace Elliot GP12-X > Ibanez Promethean > EBS Reidmar > Genz Benz STL9.0 Cabs: Trace Elliot 1x15" + 2x10" > Fender Rumble 112 (x2) > Genz Benz STL-12T > Ibanez Promethean 1x10" (x2) > EBS Neo 112+110 > (waiting for a Barefaced Midget T but i'll bet it will belong here) Appart from this gear i've tried a lot of the other stuff in numerous bass bashes (TC, Markbass, Epifani, Shroeder, Fender, Ampeg, Mesa, Warwick, Tecamp, Glockenklang, Walter Woods, AER, ...), appart from the really boutique stuff there's no other gear that delivers MY sound on stage like my current setup. Every time i had to play with a big rig behind me MY SOUND lost definition and managed to flood the stage with too much lows... horses for courses! [/quote] Sounds like you like the sound of your playing and your bass, so like transparency, rather than a bunch of mess to cover it up.

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1337034801' post='1654546'] Opened her up and found circuit board blackened underneath a 1k resistor,but.......when i multimeter it its value is still showing around 1k could this be the problem,anybody? [/quote] Find what that resistor attaches to, and that will likely be what is wrong. I'd guess a transistor that has died and drawn more through the resistor than it can take. Although working resistor and blackened board suggests it has been replaced, or its an adjacent one that has exploded.

I like the sound of my valve amps too much to want to choke them with the limited output of an 8x10.

Wouldn't massively surprise if Fender sent someone off to the hardware store if they ran short. Post dates Leo himself going off to get them himself.

Big doesn't need to be heavy. Loud doesn't need to be heavy. Output transformers need to be heavy though, I'll keep my weight there.

Acetone won't dissolve metal. Any anything that would dissolve metal will dissolve most metals faster than it would chrome, so either it eats the whoel bridge, or none of it. It cites a source for it that talks about using bleach to dechrome plastic.

Does the BDI 21 need a preamp? The sansamps don't tend to.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1337007685' post='1653865'] Usable Frequency Range: 30Hz - 10kHz (22kHz with tweeter) Recommended Amp Power: 300-[b]1500W [/b]RMS This cab will utterly outperform an Ampeg 810, in every appreciable way, including being heard clearly across the stage (vertically mounted 12" drivers dispers far more evenly than the horizontal pairs of tens in an 810 cab). Oh, and it weighs rather a lot less too. And yes, I've played through 810's and this cab, and this thing is just nuts, absolutely no comparison. [/quote] Jam a Sansamp VT bass through it and it will sound like one too. Also, in this model, the 12s aren't doing anything in the dispersion issues region for an 8x10, the mid covers that, which has the superior dispersion from being small.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1336974513' post='1653300'] I wonder how many of those rubbishing the experience of using a really big cab have actually owned and gigged one. [/quote] Carrying that lot up the stairs: definitely rubbish. Now: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Rig002.jpg[/IMG] Covering for guitar with that too. and with much less power, because thee technology has been updated in that cab.

8x10: Steam engine. Neo box: Modern van.

Doing it too much has made me consider trem bridges for my bass.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1336949732' post='1653227'] The problem there is that small = not very far, loud or low IMO and IME. [/quote] If the speaker can handle it, more power sorts that. Can move more air with a current 15 than the original SVT 8x10, just need a bit more power to do it. Things have moved on. SVT 8x10s don't go very low at all.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1336948721' post='1653213'] In 45 years of playing I have never come across a small cabinet or combo that has the sound quality, punch, low end and [b]dispersion [/b]of an 8x10 or two or a stack or two of 4x12s [/quote] Dispersion on 8x10s and square 4x12s (or two staggered ones side by side) is rubbish. Smaller is better for dispersion, always, unless you want to reduce it (which is useful in various circumstances, but not when it comes to hearing yourself).

Don't think its a pinch, but its doing harmonics with the right hand, I picked it up from this vid: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUcj2qujAxY[/media] about 2.30 in. Except I pull more faces doing it, with more gain. Its not used in a very bass context.

SVT 8x10s are 40 year old designs, stuff has moved on and you can do the same as those smaller because other things are part of it. But scale those up to SVT 8x10 size, and there would be even more.

Those don't look like a set of pickups, looks like one original one and one replaced one. If it is Dimarzio the wiring codes are easy to find. But with one replaced pickup and without 4 conductors on the otehr one, you can get some phase and polarity fun between them, that might do different things to the sound of both pickups on.

Stared at that for ages waiting for the picture to load properly and not be stretched.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1336776360' post='1651064'] How would a simple man like me (let's assume I'm an idiot and you won't be far wrong) know whether fretwork needs sorting, without taking it to a professional first? I'm not asking to be able to fix it myself, just get an idea if it might need fiddling with. [/quote] Kind of need to have the truss rod set right first, and if you had that nailed, probably wouldn't need to be starting the thread. But if its roughly straight, a really bad fret will stand out if you get a short straight edge and rock it over the frets, bridging three, it will make one high one apparent. It might only be high in certain places though. Slightly bad frets seem sort of expected. Often they are apparent from the shop claiming to have set something up and the action still being really high as they've adjusted round the issue.

[quote name='Lorne' timestamp='1336780545' post='1651150'] Just don't throw the ruddy thing around, and you won't get any chips on it, It simply stuns the life out of me, the amount of Widow headstocked BCR's I see on Evilbay with completely mashed headstocks, what the hell do the owner's do with them [/quote] Gig bag that doesn't fit, and throwing in vans seems to be the theme.

Wrong fretwork can be wrong from new, can't assume its good just because it is new. Makes a big difference to how much you can do with the bridge and truss.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/26654-recommended-luthiers/ Price kinda epends how involved the setup is. Sorting fretwork is a whole bunch more involve than a bridge and truss fiddling.

B strings tend to be notirious for being a bit uneven, being aded to a bass scale intended for an E at the bottom etc. So I'd guess if you set everything up for the B to sound right, the E is compromised.

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