Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Jase' post='636998' date='Oct 26 2009, 03:51 PM']The Barefaced gear looks really good.....are they really that light?[/quote] The compact is ridiculously light. I had a chuckle carrying the nomad onein past the band loading out a peavey 1x15 between two of them, whilst I unlocked the door with a 1x15 in my other hand. Also, it was at the top of a few stairs into our flat, when Joe tried to pick it up to sneakily blow it up before I got a chance to try it, he fell backward down the stairs as he expected rather more resistance to lifting.

I'd say get a Vintage, cause I really need some of those hitting the second hand market in maybe 6 months.

I got that when I shorted the speaker. Check for a blown fuse inside in the general area of the outputs. Unplug it before you open it. Or I think you are near where Iam wandering to get my shopping, I'll pm my number, text and I can have a quick look, score fuses at maplins as necessary.

[quote name='BassBen' post='636847' date='Oct 26 2009, 12:52 PM']Thanks for that. So what ohms should the second cab be Cheers?[/quote] Aim for 8 ohm in the combo and 8 ohm 2x10. Might be bet getting a seperate head and a pair of 2x10s though, modular innit. Or a pair of 8x10s, and seperate heads for them. Cause they've got wheels. I like those Firebass heads, trouble was finding cabs that could deal with it.

I reckon make a whole new back with a port is the best plan. Can put the socket somewhere sensible, possibly with a speakon combo socket in it. In fact, instead of holes, make it not quite reach the bottom and put a shelf in, slot port, easy. Length of that shelf to be determined by WinISD.

[quote name='gary mac' post='635901' date='Oct 25 2009, 09:24 AM']For the foreseeable it's going to be string boiling for me.[/quote] Soak in meths, doesn't screw them up as much as boiling, only thing is eventually the end you wind snaps from being straightened and bent so much.

[quote name='pete.young' post='635986' date='Oct 25 2009, 11:08 AM']Monz, would you like to expand on this? As far as I'm aware, there was a connection between Orange and Matamp, but none between Matamp and Dave Reeves or Harry Joyce. Dave Reeves worked for Sound City before he went to Hiwatt. I'm talking about the vintage stuff here, not the 'Hiwatt' made for Music Ground by Matamp in the early part of this decade. To the OP - you might also want to consider the Celestion 12s, they have a range of neo and non-neo.[/quote] Don't mention the Orange connection to Matamp, there appears to be a lot of bitterness there.

Bassbod gave me some Thomastics I think, they are a lighter purple than the Smiths, and funny guages. MAybe you could take a micrometer to them and if its .047 instead of 0.045 then it might be them.

[quote name='NickH' post='635022' date='Oct 24 2009, 12:46 AM']I don't get this whole "through body gives more tension" thing. Urban myth started by someone with poor grasp of physics. A string could be a mile long, mounted to a bridge anchor one end of the street and a tuner the other end. You make it resonate between two points a given distance apart (fret and bridge saddle), you get the appropriate pitch. String tension is higher in longer scale basses as the resonating length for a given fret is longer (deeper note) so requires the string to be tighter (higher note) to compensate. If the length of the string past the nut to the tuner made any difference,we'd all enjoy nice tight crisp notes on shorter scale, easier to play basses by putting a great big long head on it with the tuners right down the far end. Same thing with having a short redundant bit of string extending from bridge saddle to either top-mounted string anchor or a longer bit going through the body. Doesn't affect string tension one bit. To test this, grab an old Strat guitar and a spare thin E string. Replace the fat (bass) E string with the thin E. Tune the guitar up so that both E strings are at the same pitch. The treble-side E string now approximates a through-body stringing as the distance from nut to tuner is longer, while the bass-side E represents a non-through-body stringing. If they're at the same pitch, the tension in the strings will be the same assuming you've got the same gague string as the one already on the guitar. I'm not saying through-body stringing doesn't affect the tone or resonance of an instrument*, it just doesn't affect string tension. * Albeit in a very minor way that doesn't compensate for a higher break angle at the bridge snapping strings.[/quote] Think this was already covered earlier in the thread, the affected factor is compliance. What you can feel under your fingers, which is the important bit. The string is not anchored at the the end of its speaking length as you have supposed when you applied physics here, it is free to move over the nut and the saddle, so when you bend it you are stretching the whole length up to its anchor point. Your physics is flaws by oversimplification.

Ken Smith strings are purple bound. The steel ones keep just the right bit of the bright end even when they are really old. Planning on getting a pile more at some point.

All mine went for 30-35. I never made up my mind if I liked them.

Shaftesbury was the import brand used by the Rose Morris music shop on Shaftesbury avenue. Sticks in the mind because I deal with people working for lloydstsb on that road most days.

I thought infinite baffle was open back, this is a seal cab. Fairly sure no sealed 2x12 will be able to make use of nearly all of 400w. Dunno what speakers though, old or not very expensive ones will probably be a better bet than expensive modern ones that want a ported cab. Or you could put a single modern uber 12 in and use the other hole as a port.

Plenty of the Old Testament is pretty Doom. Demand more backline.

If all goes to plan, a very lovely lady friend of mine is picking my Slave 300 up from the factory this weekend. Gonna pair it up with the Orange PA head and Doom it up some.

Something in the crossover sparking would be my guess. Really is an ill informed guess though. Maybe have it out and put full range to the main driver? Guessing this is a tweeter equipped cab.

Has your tweeter equipped cab turned up yet? Might be all you need. Might look into different preamp valve too. Some are bassier and you might be losing some treble there, cause real bassists don't like treble. Or sling a pedal eq in the back of the rack case.

I've got a 1x18 in a w horn. It doesn't like being in small rooms. Lots of lovely bottom though, my favourite sort.

[quote name='teaser360' post='632964' date='Oct 21 2009, 10:47 PM']how does that work then? i have a 4x10 and 1x15 both rated at 8ohms so that should put it down to 4 ohs on the amp, correct?[/quote] Amp is happy to 2ohm (at least the one I'm tinkering with is) so you can run 4 x 8ohm cabs off it.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='632946' date='Oct 21 2009, 10:34 PM']It's this one. [url="http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1691"]http://www.samsontech.com/products/product...cfm?prodID=1691[/url][/quote] I ran the aluminium coned one for a gig, did an admirable job of kicking out the required bottom end.

[quote name='teaser360' post='632945' date='Oct 21 2009, 10:34 PM']are they alright to run 8ohm cabs on them? watching one on the bay now and im thinking i want it[/quote] Yep, and a handy option for 3 more 8 ohm cabs.

If you can find a Cube in bidget, that will sort you. You can get a surprisingly beasty Peavy on that budget too. All the Ashdowns I've tried have been too big for headphone sockets, but are good amps with rubbish resale value, win for you.

They run for a surprisingly long time on a 0.5 ohm load, before they trip. Ig you disconnect the trip and bridge it, it runs for a surprisingly long time before the power transformer melts. They are built tough.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='632469' date='Oct 21 2009, 03:42 PM']Good luck. Most manufacturers are less forthcoming about the drivers they use than Joan Collins is with her birth date. [/quote] People do have a habit of writing about it on the internet though. Give us the cab details and gogo gadget google.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='632109' date='Oct 21 2009, 09:28 AM']I'm looking at a 2X15 that is 500W @ 4OHMS my 4X10 is 600W @ 8OHMS would the uneven load cause a problem or will it be fine as it is off of 2 separate power amps?[/quote] Find out what speakers are in it, post it up, with some cab measurements, and someone can give a rough idea of how much low end juice it can take.