Mr. Foxen

Well cut nut over badly cut nut makes more difference that a metal nut vs another suitable material, like bone or hard plastics. Plenty of bad material nuts about though. Phosphor bronze is about the ultimate because its hard, and self lubricating. Ali is probably a bit soft and makes your fingers go black if you touch it much, although that depends on the alloy.

Sometimes I come across people that say 'I've been playing guitar for 20 years', and it turns out, the best thing they have to boast about from that 20 years playing guitar, is that they've been playing guitar for 20 years. They aren't looking down on you because you are 19, they are looking down on you because you dress stupid, and can't grow a beard, and are probably on their lawn, like all the other young people.

Means its worth changing that one to see if it fixes the problem. In itself, ringing when yo tap it isn't an issue if you aren't in the habit of tapping your valves whilst playing., but it can get bad enough to cause problems, had one new one that was bad enough to feed back on its own when you turned the volume up to sensible playing level.

Fairly easy to check, plenty else in there to make noises though. Valve changing is easy.

Watts tell you nothing about a cab, and very little about an amp, so best ignoring them, and anyone who stresses the importance of the relationship between the two.

Maybe its an experiment in the Dunning–Kruger effect, if you've auditioned bunches of guitarists, you'll find it pretty common.

That's the internet equivalent of an ad in the newsagents isn't it?

Overdriving an amp is a bit irrelevant to it overpowering speaker coils. If it puts out more than the speakers can take, they can't take it, whether or not the signal is distorted is pretty much irrelevant., since the speakers will be distorting anyway, so it will still sound distorted. distortion pre power amp can contribute to speaker damage, since that distortion covers the speakers distorting, which is the warning to back off your volume.

Also line the cab with knobbly foam, makes a difference.

Ding the valves with a plastic chopstick, especially the pre ones, one has probably gone microphonic, and you'll hear the sound coming out the speakers.

No dealing with BTA, but dealings with Ashdown aplenty, if I didn't have massive valve amps in floor to ceiling stacks, and wanted one, this would be something I'd consider.

If definitely fits in the same hole, and same screw holes.

Isn't the bridge the major giveaway?

Measured up the box internal volume, the speaker, and the ports, stuck it into winISD. Tuned it by ear to sound better for the purpose it was being used for, which involved lengthening the ports.

Rockbass mind.

Totally don't remember, it was higher than the 45hz that tends to be about right for the Kappalite, based on calculation, didn't do a frequency sweep and such.

I've put a Kappalite 3015 into a MAG 1x15 box, the tuning was a little on the high you give a midbass bump for the crappy driver, which doesn't benefit the Kappalie, so extending the ports did help a bit.

Kind of a taste call. If you can be bothered, try both and make the ports telescopic. Doing stuff like that is how I figured matching the graphs to sound.

Extending the ports lowers the tuning, with the MAG 1x15 that might help a bit, but the main limiting factor on those is they are small, so two more the same, and extending them all is the ideal.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1348063607' post='1808722'] Yep, that's the sad truth, a lot of sellers bid their items up in this way, the only time to bid on an auction is at the last moment. [/quote] That doesn't stop it, since they can still put a shill in first to stop it selling lower than they want. Since they don't know your max anyway, make no odds when they time it.

Tried clearing your cache and stuff. Ebay cocks about a lot with that. If someone has entered a higher maximum bid, it will just show as outbidding you by a bit every time you bid, because that's how ebay works, it doesn't go right to the maximum unless it needs to. Also listings can be madeprivate so bidder IDs are hidden, but I don't think it shows up like you describe. Edit: Also my currently bidding list constantly rearranges itself according to ebay's whim, sometimes it includes finished items, sometimes it doesn't

Bought an amp from Pob,arrived in overkill packing, very happy with it.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1347640318' post='1803545'] Those little trickles of moisture on the scratchplate:[list=1] [*]Sweat? [*]Piss? [*]Jizz? [*]Blood? [/list] [size=2]Copyright Warren Zevon: 'Play it All Night Long'[/size] [/quote] Probably thinking of GWAR's bassist.

Fails at step one because you don't know the mid point of your tone controls. 3db isn't doubling of perceived sound, 10db is doubling perceived, 3db is what you get from doubling power or speakers. Distortion is an integral part of many tones. Doubling power is 3db increase. What you call it does matter if you want to actually be able to talk about what is going on.

you only set a max bid, however high the max you set, it will only beat the next highest bid by a relatively small amount of the total price, depending on a sliding scale.