Mr. Foxen

Probably should try some high end valve rigs, instead of bunch of low bidder stuff to compare with a high end SS rig.

Your views aren't worth a damn to anyone until they know who you are to put them in context, and the only way for us to know who you are is to engage with the forum. Right now, mostly what Is ee of you is making excuses for spamming the place up, not building great respect for your position.

Endorsers are for when products aren't so good the speak for themselves. When a product is good enough to speak for itself, send one round so we can try it.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1375473669' post='2162063']
ouch! Like why - now I have no idea at all but would guess if this is car/bike stereo technology (hence the twin input and output) that it would be optimised to roll of most the bass - I mean if you're on a bike I can't imagine you get many low end woofers.... My guess its a typo and roll off at 40 Hz (or around) with the focus on the mids giving a nice hifi clean tone with little low end - a bit like a low fi version of the hi fi monitor I started a thread about last month.
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For recorded music, it is already high passed. Wasn't a typo because it was a graph they posted, because of us techies asking for proper info. I suspect they don't really understand what they posted. Annoyingly the thread got pulled, I assume due to commercial.

[quote name='TomRichards' timestamp='1375475640' post='2162110']
So, then, absolutely no professional player with an endorsement can comment on anything they use with any credibility? Guess Victor Wooten's opinion on Fodera, or Billy Sheehan's opinions on Hartke, or any of the Warwick bass team carry any cred whatsoever?
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Vic Wooten endorses a power cable that improves tone. That says enough. Billy Sheehan endorses Scientology. I've dealt with Warwick some, and not impressed with them either.

Got a bit of fun with the corners too, the edges catch where they don't sit flat on the textured surface. Maybe put the on, or at least make an impression for them, when finish is still soft?

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1375460669' post='2161796']
with some built in power optimisation to get the most out of it...
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According to the spec posted on another forum, the amp goes down to 4hz or something, so pretty far from optimised, what with 4 octaves of wasted power below audible. High passing is pretty key to amps working well.

I've ordered red mahogany stain, but the guitar behind it and the red binding is making me consider raspberry stain.

[quote name='AngelLaHash' timestamp='1375251057' post='2158744']
And I always got nagged to earth every bit of ,metal but was warned that a faulty amp can send power up the earth line
I've not seen that but I'm a noobie to such things happening
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Only an issue if the earth in the amp is disconnected,, it means you and the guitar become the earth path, the idea of the earth if is there is such a fault, there is a path for the current to go and the fuse will blow. The guitar is supposed to be earthed.

Shielding is good, saves copper lining. Might be better off using unetched PCB blank though.

Leeds Roost I had was chipboard, that might have got wet, and be rotting. All the grotty smokey valve amps I've had have sorted out with a good clean. Soap and water and lots of scrubbing outside, meths and swabs inside.

I like the total lack of any specs on the website.

Stanley blades. I should get a cabinet scraper set, but I've been doing stuff with them for so long, pretty used to it.

Worked the middle through to expose all of the through neck, think will make a feature of it, stain it darker to accentuate, but not black like I planned:

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Was scraping it back with blades, more control, but this got the palm sander. I'm debating black stain or natural now. Considering natural came up because I can't find my black stain.

Got a patent number for that patent?

Got this sort of from ebay, turned out to be a BCer, to made alternate arrangements involving less fees. At some point someone had done a terrible refin of the top, with lumpiness and bits of wood showing through. So I figured strip it back and start again. When I got to the middle, interestingly it had no through neck showing, must have a top cap of really boring wood. By the time I'd taken it back far enough to lose the horrible gouges their removal of the original finish had left, I find the through neck:

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More fun to make that not look silly now.

With actual written warning about the specific bass on the sellers account, can't really help some people.

Round needle file. The bigness makes things much easier than doing guitar nuts.

Edit: Chances are you'll have less tension in BEAD with bottom 4 of a 5 string set.

Current owners of the Hiwatt name and the Hiwatt that made the reputation are two separate and basically unrelated entities, so have to be clear on which side of that you are occupying.

Had a count up recently, over 60 amps, mostly bought sub £300 aside from massive ones and big name jobs.

See links in sig. But the LB30 is one, after £350 for mine with a cover.

0 Feedback, one good, one bad. The bad one says:

[quote]Westone Bass seriously bad condition, Fingerboard coming away multiple chips[/quote]

but relisted with no mention of such issues: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/westone-bass-guitar-thunder-3/121150485518?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D16728%26meid%3D179097361264654522%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D7906%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D121150214140%26

Dunno if jap, but has those tuners as per some jap stuff. Mostly amused due to reading 'Hondo' as 'Mondo'
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mondo-Deluxe-Series-860-Vintage-flying-V-fretless-bass-guitar-Black-FREE-POST-/271247406527?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f279af5bf

[quote name='spaners' timestamp='1374943258' post='2155096']
Ahh common misconception. I just bought an output transformer direct from Hammond, to go in my Fender excelsior combo (13w) Its the 1650F upto 25W [size=4]Frequency response 30 Hz. to 30 Khz. at full rated power , just over £60 quid direct from Hammond. Not a fortune in my book. As for the power transform, that seems to have more than enough umph for the job. I have made a few mods to the power supply circuit, larger capacitor just to stiffen up the low frequency's. I removed the two sag resistors (there to mimic the sag in voltage supply with a tube rectifier) Bass notes do need more power so sag not required. and a change of resistor on the board to pull the B+ voltage back down. On the pre-amp I have replaced coupling capacitors with better quality components. I have also been playing with tone stacks as stock there is just a switch. I haven't finished this mod yet but im thinking single tone control ala traynor bassmate yba-2 and a negative feed back loop (switched). I mainly plug into my RS112 (sounds good and loud ) Looking out for a speaker upgrade though for the combo although the original speaker aint to bad at low volumes it dose start to fart out quiet quickly. My plan is to use this amp with a Fender Bass IV (looking for a red one soon as funds available) hence the amp needs to be kind of a cross-over between bass and guitar. Oh I have re-covered the amp too, didn't like the original brown vinle . its red now but the re-cover made little difference to the tone lol. I have also replaced the pre-amp and out-put Tubes with Grove tubes (but who would leave the OEM tubes is any budget amp, and that includes the likes of the tiny terror too) cost wise im still under the price of an Ashdown LB30 or CTM15 . Oh n did I say it sounds great ![/size]
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Fender Excelsior + £60 transformer already totals more than getting a valve bass head. Before considering the other parts and labour.