Mr. Foxen

[quote name='henry norton' post='502102' date='May 31 2009, 09:32 AM']I've used two 100w Marshall heads and an Ampeg and they've all gone down to 2 ohms, but having said that I haven't looked that closely at any other vintage amps - I just assumed they all did the same! On that note, I wonder how easy it would be to modify an output stage so it could drive a lower resistance?[/quote] You'd need a whole new output transformer, and some remodelling as it would likely be bigger. Also, its lower 'impedance', rather than resistance, means it's alternating current and varies with frequency. One of my vintage bass amps only has choice of 8 or 16.

Depends on the parts, if you buy all the parts second hand, then you stand the same chance of losing out as if you bought a second hand bass. Plus you can mix and match for your next project. Pretty much all my Basses are bitsas to some extent, might just about be able to cover the cost if I sold them on, but certainly could cover it selling off the parts, just lose out on the tinkering time, and the cost of routing. Can't put a price on learning though. Kind of depends on how well you know what you want with regards to hardware, I did mine to learn how all the different parts sounded. I did find you can work round a dodgy neck joint fit by using the metal inserts and machine screws method to attach it. Decide if you like P basses of Jazz basses, since those are the ones bits to fit are easiest to find, means you can keep moving the parts onto the next bass.

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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='501608' date='May 30 2009, 01:47 PM'] Roll on incontinence...[/quote] The deodorant choice of senior citizens the world over.

Are those two different drivers in each cab? Especially in the 2x10.

[quote name='danlea' post='501635' date='May 30 2009, 02:16 PM']Or one with two 4 Ohm outputs?[/quote] Ifs its dual power amps like a Little Giant, then one will be running at 8 and one at 4, with the three cabs, so would be unblalanced. I haven't omce across anything comparable to the Shuttle that does 2ohms, has it got a preamp out so you can run a slave amp?

Bought a beasty distortion/weirdness pedal, arrived fast, in spite of the post office's best efforts. Well chuffed.

Well, I have Kent Armstrongs in mine, not sure exactly which, but they seem pretty trad jazz, a totally non-musical friend commented on the different sounds I could get out of it. I think a fair bit of the difference a tone pot makes is in the pot and the capacitor, as well as the newness of the strings, more treble to roll off. Wizards are great by all accounts but far over budget, pretty much end game pickups and gonna resell fairly easily. I'd pm Prosebass about the ones he uses, they are cheap, can't remember what they were. Other low budget seemingly good ones are ToneRider, GFS/guitarfetish and Artec. Not tried any of those myself, but Tonerider strat pickups are a noticeable improvement to a Mexi strat, and GFS made a nice humbucker.

No, don't do it. It looks awesome.

I think EMG Select are' meh' pickups, trading off the good name of EMG. Think there are plenty of good pickups out there at good prices, with more inspiring tones, what sorta sound are you after?

One on ebay for 550: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-VBA-400-Bass-Amp-Head_W0QQitemZ120427191972QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item1c0a051ea4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50"]VBA 400[/url]

Have it refinished like this: Or, refinish it in candy apple red and sell it on Ebay.

[quote name='bassmeg' post='500387' date='May 28 2009, 11:03 PM']What is your bass? That headstock is a head turner. Is it a frankenstien lefty neck right body thingy? [/quote] Yep, my first accumulate parts and assemble them into a new instrument project. Figured lefty neck from ebay, Johnson body, brass inserts and hex head machine screws holding the neck on super rigid, Kent armstrong pups, stack knobs and a super adjustable Gotoh bridge. Some stuff doesn't quite fit together, but everything that needs to be mechanically strong is super strong, so it sounds kinda pianoey.

Anyway, don't refin it, just get a new body and swap all the hardware. The colour is fiesta red, in addition mine had be hung in a shop window for ages till it went lighter, the original fingerboard had gone pretty much grey.

I think it looks awesome, and I will cheerfully trade you my salmon pink 'custom' jazz for it. Its like a crackle finish without being 80s and something that Shockwave would buy.

[quote name='Kongo' post='500077' date='May 28 2009, 05:29 PM']Now THAT is an idea worth working on! You can have dual channel heads...why not dual channel cabs? LOL imagine a 4x10 with channels for the top and bottom 2 so you can fire a fair ammount of highs into the top 2 and normal sound to the bottom 2. You could even do the dual channel distortion / clean thing too (I think that's what this thread was saying too). I think you should try this on a Barefaced cab as a prototype. You seem to be doing things very differently from anyone else so why not? I still would love to test one of your cabs one day...just due to time preassure with my band I couldn't wait out...Love the thought of the Big One still. [/quote] Ampeg 8x10 already have a stereo option, some at least. Rewired my 8x10 as a pair of 4x10s as my old valve head only goes down to 8 ohm. Claber, if you did a split Vintage, would you have to put the speakers in seperate chambers?

Not 'hardwood', its 'hard wood', so not balsa. Although I want to make one out of balsa just cause everyone uses it as an example. [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='499183' date='May 27 2009, 07:04 PM']i wouldn't want a bass that sounds like that. Looks like a 30" scale - in the pic with the case the bass is too big, but not much so it must be a guitar case. Looks like fun, but 'hardwood' body doesn't inspire confidence. Technically Balsa is a hardwood, but I wouldn't want a bass made of it no matter how much reverb it creates.[/quote]

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