Mr. Foxen

[url="http://www.myspace.com/lydiakaboesj"]This is Lydia, who does [/url] this: That the one you are thinking of? From a different country to the other lady that is playing for Prince. Edit: Prince's new bass player is actually a Japanese man in a dress. Edit 2: And his drummer is at the wrong gig.

What you actually need to protect your speakers is a correctly set limiter, I think it is a voltage limiter, but it is something that comes up in PA, you'd also need to know the appropriate point to set it to, because it isn't the 200w thermal limit that is the limiting factor on where your speakers break.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='1035713' date='Nov 24 2010, 10:39 PM']I know we're all used to it as it is so familiar, but the scratch plate on Rics really irks me - It's ugly utilitarian shape and cheap (looking) plastic. The knobs they use are amongst my least favourite too. I think the rest of it looks super cool though, but I've never played one. People get nice sounds out of them too.[/quote] It is also a major weak point, they break round the pickup and the control cavity. I'm having some made out of steel, should fix that issue.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1035385' date='Nov 24 2010, 06:05 PM']But as I said several posts ago, I'm not defending Rics as a design. I love them, but I readily accept the bridge, pickups, and lack of countours are as old fashioned and flawed as a Morgan Roadster.[/quote] Do you say that because you know Dad makes parts for Morgans? I think the updated Morgan is doing ok though.

That is a nice rig. Worth making an offer to part out. Wish I had the cashes to do that.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1035361' date='Nov 24 2010, 05:50 PM']I agree. I was just responding to someone's suggestion that not making enough was a design flaw [/quote] Not being able to make enough is a design flaw. Choosing not to make enough is marketing.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1035219' date='Nov 24 2010, 04:04 PM']Even if you end up being able to sell them at a massive premium?![/quote] Marketing isn't good design. In fact, they are often directly at odds with each other.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1034119' date='Nov 23 2010, 05:21 PM']Quirk or not, they have a waiting list, so they must be doing something right![/quote] Not being able to make enough to keep up with demand is another design flaw I didn't think of.

[quote name='Mandril' post='1033885' date='Nov 23 2010, 01:56 PM']And what about power amps with the VT Bass? Which one would be ok? I know nothing about power amps...[/quote] On spec they are much of a muchness, a good name is nice for reliability, but aim for 1000w into 4ohm and that is all you'll ever need, can score Peaveys that will do for unde £150 or fancy lightweight jobs for more, fan noise will be your biggest issue with those.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1033780' date='Nov 23 2010, 12:34 PM']Thing is with Rickenbacker that they have updated their designs to take out the quirks (eg the 4004 bass which has a modern bridge, pickups etc) but then nobody buys them![/quote] They forgot to take out the 'massively overpriced' quirk, and the 'no-one started off playing a lookalike and saved up for the real thing' quirk. As for Fenders non-angled headstocks, changing it is a fairly major thing, you either end up not with a 1 piece neck and corresponding, cutting and glueing time, or using loads of wood wastage. Fenders are Fords, the fact that some of them are Cadillac prices does change that.

Boss LS2 and you can mix away to your hearts content. But if you want a simple rig for stage, bring the dirty one, and a DI for the clean one.

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1033689' date='Nov 23 2010, 11:14 AM']I know. That's doesn't negate what I was saying in any way. I was just pointing out that small crap speakers are often sold by virtue of being bassy, and at the low volumes of such systems it matters, if anything, more than with bigger (partly because of the requirement for equal loudness contouring). Plus, on plenty of cheap stereos it doesn't disappear as you turn the volume up at all, you can switch it in and out and clearly hear it. There're also 'hyper bass boost' buttons and a hundred other similarly-named things which EQ small stereos around the porting frequency. But you know this, I really can't understand what you're arguing against if anything.[/quote] Point is, you are constantly referencing cheap crappy ported systems, and those are crap because of the cheap crapness, not the being ported. What I have noticed in studios is that whilst they are equipped with NS10s, they also have other speakers in the room, and they are ported. The NS10s being there as representative of home stereo speakers (since that is what they were designed for) and the other speakers used for the actual production.

[quote name='icastle' post='1032357' date='Nov 22 2010, 10:49 AM']Sound City were the budget answer to the HiWatt kit. There's a whole pile of info about them here: [url="http://www.soundcitysite.com/sc_webpages/sc_home.htm"]http://www.soundcitysite.com/sc_webpages/sc_home.htm[/url][/quote] More Hiwatt were expensive answer to sound city since SC were first and the guy moved on from them to form Hiwatt. The MKIVs are pretty noisy as they have an active preamp, I'm fighting with one at the moment, there are things to do to clean them up, but they are pretty damn powerful. Should be a lot of grunt into a Vintage.

Availability. Since tuners are considered much of a muchness, they are easy to pick up anywhere. I think they predate most of the contenders, meaning they are more available second hand, and how often do you have tuner GAS once you have a functional stomp box? I bought three froma band liquidation early on and homed them all easily with people I knew, no reason to have anything else since.

Rickenbackers. So many improvements can be made and they have stubbornly stuck to a design that has never known an engineer. I think that is where Fender has it, Leo was an engineer and not a musician.

I bought some lemon oil in a guitar shop when I started playing. It wasn't full when I got it, and I've still got a little over a quarter left, I've gone through a lot of basses and done a lot of setups for other people using it.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-KAY-BASS-RICK-COPY-RARE-AND-COOL-/320620972719?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4aa67fcaaf"]Kay[/url]

Using terms like 'time smearing' = BS. Fairly sure your ear ear/brain doesn't perceive much relevant to that in the port tuning sort of frequency band. The term 'transients' also makes me suspicious, but that might be to do with Ampeg's marketing BS. I don't think I've encountered any decent sealed bass cabs.

[quote name='Paul S' post='1032840' date='Nov 22 2010, 04:32 PM']BIN has been removed now! Must be reading Basschat.[/quote] A bid removes the BIN, no idea why some idiots bid on BIN auctions.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1032888' date='Nov 22 2010, 05:03 PM']How about the Ashdown Lomenzo Hyperdrive? It gets some good reviews. [[url="http://www.bassguitarmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:ashdown-james-lomenzo-hyper-drive-pedal-issue-36&catid=39:pedals"]CLICK[/url]][/quote] These are great, but the tru path is running two rigs, clean and dirty, just cut the lows from the dirty to avoid comb filtering issues.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/marshall-plastic-amp-badge-/320620305236?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item4aa6759b54"]This will give your amp all the benefits of a Marshall.[/url]