Mr. Foxen

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zeYV4oN2A[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4EGN2MQjk[/media] The second one I listen to for fun. I'd like to say I do the first, but he played Bristol and I couldn't be arsed.

Cab is going to be a fairly significant amount of colour, standard bass cabs have pretty limited bandwidth.

Hard shiny inside surface is pretty much what you want to avoid, hence lining with foamy/fluffy stuff.

£180 with local guy: http://www.edgeguitarservices.co.uk/rout_serv/

There is a fair bit of length between the peg and the nut, I'd take out the center string, and they'd all have to move only a little bit to even out, the ones that would have to move most would be the new center pair, and they have longest tuner to nut length so angle would be minimal.

If its 7 string narrow, with those individual saddles, you can make it a wide 6 string. Looks like if you do a neat job of blocking the hole, won't look too crazy with one less tuner.

A couple of oversized 2x12s, assuming are guitar cabs will probably do you, 50w says not gonna push lots of bottom, and oversized cabs go bit lower than normal sized ones. Its free to try.

Big sealed cab is the trad thing. What sort of budget? Does at home mean needs to be small and tidy, or cab be big and heavy because won't need moving? Is it the 50 or 100w one?

If your valve amp is fuzzy, it is broken.

If you are assembling a bitsa, really not worth worrying about authenticity of parts.

If it is a depth issue, then probably not a goer, geed as much wood at the neck end as possible.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1345039610' post='1772732'] They'll CNC cut for me too? Now that's going to make things very helpful! Sadly, I don't own a tool shed or the necessary cutting tools. Construction of the parts would be a much easier job for me! [/quote] CNC funny shapes and it costs, you have to sort them with some sort of plan, obviously octobass was weird shapes, so we made a proper CAD file for it. Squares they can do the trad way. They've done lots of speaker cabs so can sort that easy, cutting big round holes for speakers.

Some 70s copies came like that, might be better off trading toward one of those, because the not bucker ones are kind of more desireable. My CMI has enough space to fit one without routing I should think, have you looked under the plate? [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Rickenfaker/P1010938.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='Balcro' timestamp='1345031715' post='1772544'] Hi Dood, [url="http://www.avonply.co.uk/Stocks.aspx"]http://www.avonply.co.uk/Stocks.aspx[/url] 2500mm x 1220 x 15. -- £52.73 + Vat. Balcro [/quote] Avon ply are great to deal with, sorted all the wood for the octobass, and CNC cut it.

Properly serviced heads are fine for bass, can uprate the power filtering for a bit more headroom too, ones with old caps tend to struggle more.

If you keep the box volume and tuning, could probably rearrange it beneficially for dispersion too. Is it lined and such? Part of the colour might come from being unlined and having walls that distance from the speaker, if it is all lined, that is less of an issue to a different shape.

Basically, it isn't the driver size that tells you how it will sound. The 2x12 one will probably be a little middlier, but the driver price is about the same each as the 15, so might as well get more cone area and volume to power. I use a 2x15 with kappalites with not very powerful amps and it is awesome. Got to make the box tuned right an line it though, unlined cabs totally messes with the midrange.

If you make a cab around a Kappalite 3015 right, that should do you, the price of the driver is high, but they are really good.

Think Shockwave might be after that.

What budget and how loud do you need to be?

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1344867554' post='1770326'] I just learned something about airyplanes from that! 'Winglets at the blade tip decrease the tip vortex which occurs as air spills off the tip from the high to the low pressure side of the blade' [url="http://airlineworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/aircraft-winglets/"]http://airlineworld....craft-winglets/[/url] [/quote] The fans in amps and pcs are in a ring so count as ducted fans.

Dying valve could do it. Blown tweeter in your cab also.

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1344855457' post='1770041'] The fan on my Ashton is rather loud which can be a little distracting in a quiet environment. I expect I could unplug it if needed as there's vents above the power valves and both front and rear. [/quote] Not figured why that has a fan, it doesn't run the valves hot or packed silly close together.

Passive cooling is easier to mess up by putting in a case or close to something, or under something, people take the hint from a fan better.