Mr. Foxen

Switching pops can be suppressed with a capacitor, but need to pick right value, so it doesn't make a filter.

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Or solar power?
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More on the air front, guitar lead to be at a low enough altitude.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1381612211' post='2241495']
On the top of Everest the cab would be quieter and the bass response thinner. The treble extension from the woofers would be increased too. The thermal power handling would be about 25% greater. However, your bass playing would suffer a lot more than the cab at that altitude!
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Don't worry, really long lead.

Get shiny chrome wheel nuts and epoxy putty to make them go on pot shafts.

Valve or SS ones? Never dealt with the SS stuff, but the valve stuff has a big giant flaw in that you can't adjust the bias without modifying and losing the warranty, and that sucks really badly, and their use of racist stereotyping to try and justify it in the manuals really doesn't help.

[quote]Visualize, if you will, a group of sub-atomic Irishmen milling about and in a repellent, negative state of mind. All are scowling and none wants to have anything to do with the other. Now introduce a strong attraction say, a public bar, and you can easily picture an orderly, if rapid movement of the lot in a single direction. This is what happens when a positively charged element called the anode or plate is introduced into the vacuum.[/quote]

The fiddlier amps are badly designed from a service perspective also. Harder to go wrong on the simpler stuff since its all on PCB for ease of mass production, price doesn't reflect that though.

No comms = open up a case. Takes a while for a case to process, so there's time to sort it.

Doesn't sound much like its to do with active pickups. Swap about everything else.

I can give a hand with most stuff. Retuning existing cabs is mostly what I've done. Got the hang of making charts into sounds that way.

Mud is what you get when your rig can't deal with the bass.

http://www.duncanamps.com/tsc/index.html

This tool gives you an eq curve, you can tweak the values to match your amp if you can find a schematic.

Pretty sure the issue was fixed with that one. Same thing can happen on all of them though, the board mounted stuff pulls out of the board. Think it was the jack pulling out of the pcb. Getting it out is a massive ballpain because its made deliberately difficult, basically undo everything on the front panel, and possibly the back one too, resolder it all underneath, and then try and get it all back together without cracking it again. If it is the exact same unit, you'll see a fairly blatantly later addition resistor on the other side of the board to everything else.

Problem dry joints look like this in the middle:

Haven't seen mine since he drank loads of really strong ale and basically ran screaming into the night. Later Turisas turned up and filmed the pub.

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[media]http://youtu.be/EeQyoTSgllc[/media]
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Who's playing bass in that? Suit and glasses make me think Bernard Edwards, but don't associate the sound/playing/jazz bass with him.

How about this guy then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUZh_Cbw6Q

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Aaah sharay reed.
He is most definitely the man!
There are churches with players like this around, particularly in London.
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Those that aren't could do with one.

Being Fender style, necks are compatible with all the others, so cna swap necks easy enough.

Also the steel core isn't the thing about the strings, they are all steel core, its the windings.

I've not been to a Church without hymns. Usually go to C of E ones.

Two opposed pieces of quartersawn is best, can't twist due to opposed. The tone benefit is that warped necks sound dreadful.

Tap up your local church if they want bass played. doing hymns is pretty easy, since they are intended to be easy for everyone to follow. Failing that, going to have a sing in ensemble is good music practice. Best singing I've heard was at a funeral for someone who had been involved in music all their life, so everyone there was musical.

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But anyway, this one is nice, and has to do with bass guitar playing. I still didn't have the patience to get through the whole thing, but it certainly inspires;
[media]http://youtu.be/vQtTpF6IdZI[/media]
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That was jsut him getting the dirt out of his strings to make them sound new.

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Along a similar theme, and to prove the OP's point:
[media]http://youtu.be/Zv2uwdekgKQ[/media]
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This one sounds kind of like Stu Hamm.

Peavey International series:

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1381500732' post='2239948']
Beautiful tone, composition and execution, the antithesis of the video Lowender posted in the OP.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC2i_04z8XY[/media]
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Needs the silk gloves to lose those string squeaks as he changes chords. I use elixirs to lose then from my significantly less fiddly chord changes.

At what distortion level is the thing. Valves are easy enough to check if they are giving the right power or not.

[quote name='Colonel36' timestamp='1381471696' post='2239487']
They're rosewood Mr foxen.
I'm only playing around really but I'd just like a nice near gloss look...well. a nice shine if you know what I mean.
Does what you put on the fretboard affect the sound?
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Danish oil goes as far as the shiny side of satin at best. Got shiny, need to do other things. Plain oil and some rubbing will get you that far on rosewood. What you put on the fretboard can effect sound, mostly by getting on the strings and dulling them.