Mr. Foxen

Sounds like you play covers. That's like making copies, but live.

They were definitely working on a small lighweight amp, it wasn't tube preamp though, too close to the Terror bass, I've spoken to them about it. You can still run a Matamp style preamp on FETs instead of valves.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1361124185' post='1981419'] That's not what I said. I was saying was that it is somewhat disingenuous for Twigman to claim that his band's current success is built upon file sharing, when without the fact that Sad Lovers And Giants sold enough records under the old business model to carry on recording they would have nothing worth sharing in the first place. [/quote] It would seem that his records weren't worth distributing under the old business model, hence their lapse into obscurity, until the new improved model brought them back. current success is down to file sharing, regardless of their old success, or intervening lack thereof.

The previous model existed in a different time, that's why its previous and not current. Now you have to do things differently. Keeping doing things the old way is the problem, not the fact a different way exists now.

Music and professional musicians existed before sound recording. Downloading doesn't infringe copyright, because the copying is done uploader end, so in this country, there isn't 'illegal downloading', its the difference between making a burned cd and being given one, making the copy is a different thing to receiving it. If you see proper articles on the subject its always filesharing and uploading that is the illegal thing, torrents come under this because they upload at the same time as downloading. Vast amounts of music out there is totally rubbish, no-one has an obligation to pay for rubbish work they don't want done, if you want to make money from something, you need to do it in such a way to make money, failing to do so is not something you can blame on anyone else. People will check out something that is free that they'd never pay for, so a free listening isn't a lost sale, its a sale opportunity. Digital media formats that can be copied are inherently limited to sound, physical formats aren't, so you can still produce a music product as a saleable item, and its much easier to do so now that it was before, the recording costs have dropped vastly since the music industry became established, so the space to invest in the product outside of the recorded stuff is there, and all the necessary contacts to make such things are easily available due to the digital communication medium, you don't need a labels worth of accumulated contacts any more, you can just ask on a forum and be sent to all of the necessary people to make a product. But making excuses and blaming technology is easier.

[quote name='ashevans09' timestamp='1361110783' post='1981141'] I'm not really that au fait with the physics behind cone dynamics and waveforms and stuff [/quote] Don't worry, Emperor aren't either. Making the cab broader negatively effects dispersion, so the cab gets beamier. Putting the speakers off center in the baffle has a positive, but small, effect though, as it evens response a little from the effect of the baffle, central would mean twice the effect from the symmetrical sides, whereas off center spreads the error out a bit so it has less effect.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1361013807' post='1979721'] the Eminence 3012HO which is not an ideal bass guitar speaker despite Mr Foxen's eulogy). However, they may work better in practice than expected - and I've never used them personally. [/quote] Have heard them, sound awesome.

"Equivalent" doesn't mean much, this kind of dates from when everyone 'knew' a 15" speaker had a sound from it being 15", so equivalence might be no more than that.

Doing that is a whole new circuit sort of job, and won't make it sound like a B15, there is so much more going on. Pretty much all of the idea of a Baxandall eq is that it is flat in the middle, thus isn't a tone consideration unless you tell it to be.

What are you hoping to achieve?

Something I've spotted a couple of times is guys using multi way cabs with mid drivers, and just the woofer is miced, which is going to pretty much ensure just lows making it to the PA. A senior bassist mate went to see Nathan East play and that was going on, bass solo you could feel but not hear.

TAD I've seen appear to be rebranded Shuguangs, so bear that in mind when you look at the price. Less chance of a duff one is what you are paying for, but you can send duffers back if you buy from a sensible place.

Other option is build an enclosure suited to another available driver with known specs, and if that one doesn't work, you can put a driver you know will work in there.

If you use a high pass filter its safer. But simultaneously saying they don't know the properties of the speaker and also making recommendation as to what to do with it doesn't fill me with confidence.

[quote name='bluedoughboy' timestamp='1360702007' post='1975132'] How do I fix that sir? [/quote] Soldering the broken join.

Clean, punchy and warm? Punchy and warm have a tendency to come from various sorts of distortion, unless your bass is punchy and warm at the output. Both of those brands include amps with large amounts of control, so if you can work the controls, you can do those things.

Sounds like dry joint then. Sound vibrates it enough to make contact sometimes.

What are you hoping to achieve?

[quote name='noelk27' timestamp='1360669585' post='1974169'] That's a Greco, most of which were manufactured by Matsumoku and FujiGen. Not a lot of "plywood" produced by either of those factories. [/quote] The black forearm chamfer says its not solid wood, might be block sandwich.

Dirty pot, or a leg of the put pulling free of the pcb and being resistive. Does it feel loose?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXnVlX62fw

Got it. Going to look into making them.

[quote name='longtimefred' timestamp='1360684043' post='1974600'] i thought of that, does plonking your cab on an empty box create any unwanted boom or make it sound crap at all? Its just i have never seen anyone else do it to hear what its like. Maybe a good option if people think its fine to do so.. [/quote] Only downside is hearing more top end can mean you hear the crap sound you are making that you didn't hear before, its a big issue with guitarists.

The board mount stuff needs resoldering, fairly easy job. Ashdowns are made sensibly so you can do it. I've done quite a few of them, better to do it early before it causes other problems. Same issue happens with anything with controls an jacks mounted on pcb, which is most modern stuff. Ensuring the muts on the front of the amp on jacks and sockets helps stop it happening, but ones it goes, it needs to be soldered. Whomever cleaned the controls should have sorted the actual problem since getting at them to clean them involves the same opening the amp as fixing it.

[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1360672200' post='1974237'] thanks for that. Additionally, the orange bulb light isn't working. It was intermittent at the gig on saturday and now nothing. Not best pleased, plus, Orange have yet to reply. [/quote] Its a car type bulb, so auto shop should be able to sort you