Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Walker' timestamp='1354483194' post='1886569'] I've read that cabs can be pretty much anywhere in the room ( for smallish rooms anyway) as the waves Aren't particularly directional? Or is that more Internet nonsense?!! [/quote] For purposes of low end, together is better, not because they are directional, but apart you end up with a mess of cancellations. Far enough apart it OK, but stacked can't go wrong. For the mids and higher, does mean they are all coming from one place stacked, so splitting gives coverage, but in a small pub, all in one place, ideally backed into a corner is best.

How wide is the stage, which bit of the audience?

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1354469502' post='1886329'] point to point wired Hiwatt [/quote] Hiwatt were never point to point.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1354310122' post='1884800'] Is foam better than springs? I suppose it would be as once you set the height you don't really need to move them again. I need to replace the mounting screws on one of my Basses, as they're too long, and I was going to mount them with springs. Can't find anywhere that sells the screws I need at the length I need, though. They're either too long or too short, bloomin' typical. [/quote] If its pickup ring or scratchplate mounted, you need springs or rubber tube. silicon fuel hose from model shop works, and loads less fiddly than springs.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1354465468' post='1886257'] That's a bit of an over-simplification? I have an amp that i like, i just wanted to know more about the internals and how they operate. [/quote] Massively. But need to get specific with the amp to figure how it works, because its individual to models, can run them in different ways even if valve.

All the best stuff about valve amp sound is in the power amp. Also the expensive heavy part is there. Luckily the part people buy is the word 'valve' hence prevalence of valve preamps.

It corrodes metals screwed into it, can be kind of bad for making things, iron goes black, brass greens and disintegrates. Think most of the problems are in other parts of the function and construction than 'tone'. Those need to be got right first. All those examples of making fine sounding electric instruments from wood from various other objects, the common factor is they are also objects that are made from fairly strong workable wood. Don't think it finishes in an especially nice to handle way either, might just be context though.

There is an extent to which not being in perfect pitch with whatever else can be expressive. Thing about expression is not everyone perceives it in the same way. Autotuning everything note perfect chucks the expression in a vocal out the window too. Someone can claim that being out of tune is part of their being expressive, if so, then maybe I don't like what they are expressing.

I used jobs like this, check the size though: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M3-BRASS-INSERTS-SCREW-IN-INSERT-FOR-PLASTIC-QTY-25-/330299021684?pt=UK_DIY_Material_Nails_Fixing_MJ&hash=item4ce75b1974"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ce75b1974[/url] I might have some somewhere. Probably only countersunk allen key type screws though. Edit: not somewhere I can find easily.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1354305954' post='1884734'] I'm suggesting that break-in is not audible in the context of a speaker system. [/quote] [quote name='stevie' timestamp='1354309504' post='1884783'] I don't know what's audible and what's not audible in your speakers, Mr. Foxen. I've never heard them. [/quote] So by saying 'not audible', you are meaning not audible to you personally because you can't hear the system, rather than actually being audible to people hearing them? Or the rule only applies to stuff you've heard? Or "not audible in the context of a speaker system" only applies to speakers where it doesn't, and systems where it does they are 'a different animal'?

Playing it for ages makes for a fast neck.

They break in and the tone changes. But that isn't audible in my speaker system that includes guitar speakers?

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1354301118' post='1884680'] I think a lot of it has to do with the way the paper surround softens up over time, Mr. Foxen. [/quote] That is what break in is, yes. But you are asserting it doesn't happen?

Guitar speakers tend to sound loads different when broken it, guess due to low xmax and large influence of breakup on their sound. New V30s are horrible but broken in ones are lovely.

Old mouse mat is traditional. Washing up sponges work fine.

How loud do you need to be? Do you want any drive from the power section?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/gec-kt88-/330836148830?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Valves_Vacuum_Tubes&hash=item4d075f025e

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1353949549' post='1880133'] I've heard quite a few pro techs recommend JJ - and they certainly have a lot of valve amp users who agree. My Hiwatt is due a revalve & it's JJs for me, to replace GECs. [/quote] Look up Shuguang GEKT88, I have some, pretty close in construction to the GEC, and according to Chambonino, close in spec.

I went to Uni there, lived in the house overlooking Rummers. Was involved in music a lot there, is how I started playing bass.

http://hackaday.com/2012/11/22/mechbass-a-robotic-bass-guitar-that-sounds-fantastic/ Are there some duff notes, or is that how it goes?

Is it just parallel jacks with switching impedance? Really, the answer is no if its jacks, because you have a live end dangling about where it can short.

Where they are made has no bearing on their function.

Sounds like you need a neck shim so the bridge works. Or a proper setup.

I've used the 4x10, seemed fine, not sure if it is a whole different deal as was ported.

Pretty much quality control slipped because no-one that really cares buys valves any more. Making valves is basically banned in the EU and the US because of the necessary chemicals to make them. Economies of scale are a fair chunk of it, you can get good valves, aimed for the hifi lot and super expensive. Some valve manufacturers are on the way back up in quality, I think the old machines and tool they were using got worn enough that the Chinese have made new ones and the tolerances are back up, Shuguang power valves have been pretty good for me (and a few techs like Chambo and John Beer agree on their sites). The pre valves from them are pretty hit and miss still.