Mr. Foxen

The SVT was clean for its day, loads of speakers so they stay in their clean range, loads of power so lots of headroom, a tone stack with an actual flat setting. Guitarists hate the sound of their instrument and playing, so they have different requirements. Transparency is good for practice because you won't get better if you can't hear the mistakes.

I have done it with a small MAG15, I calculated the tuning to be about 45hz, seemed happy. Ports were too small for full power, guess the chuffing would be power warning.

Also avoid custard, you risk summoning Cthulu. Or Akira:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1380722195' post='2229532']
And yet... isn't that what they do when then ship complete instruments?
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So in short, they shouldn't supply spares, and only supply complete instruments. Which is how I recall they worked for a great deal of time (hence licensing other companies to make spares). Its appropriate to when they ship complete instruments, since any other way, they would no longer be 'complete'.

Didn't know Matthew Kelly played.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1380659663' post='2228687']
According to this video, the replacement necks Fender are selling, don't have the nuts filed ready to play. That's very disappointing. I'd expect more from Fender.
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They are going to dictate your string gauge, tuning, playing style, action preference etc. to you too?

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1380720176' post='2229485']
Please do explain! Never heard of that one. Will brown rice have the same effect as, let's say, a basmati?
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Lay the cab on its back, put rice grains on the cone so you can tell how much its moving, sweep the frequency going into it between 30 and 120hz (cab tuning will be in there, really should be between 40 to 60) and the bit where it moves least is the tuning as the port resonance loads it down. If the port is on teh back, this is a bit harder, need to have it a fair distance from the floor if so.

Edit: and regarding cab tuning in commercial cabs, its pretty much going to be in a limited range, with a Kappalite, you'll probably get more than the stock speaker, but there are still limits, and the stock tuning won't take full advantage of the better speaker.

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1380704392' post='2229085']
If he is cleared, they can always do a comeback at a later stage. If he isn't, well best to make a clean break and hopefully comeback as another entity.
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Form a supergroup with Pete Townshend, if he is acquitted. What other band members can they have?

If not acquitted, form supergroup with [font="Arial,Helvetica"]Tripp Eisen, and the drummer from Judas Priest.[/font]

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1380707873' post='2229172']
it might be possible to re-tune the cab to the new driver by adjusting the internal volume and/or the port area and depth but youd certainly need to run some equations.
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don't need to run equations, its convenient to do so, but the cab can be tuned using rice grains and an adjustable frequency sweep. Its advisable to do this anyway, since the calculations miss out of a few factors and can be a bit off.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1380644237' post='2228374']
What's a luthier then?
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They make lutes.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1380629062' post='2228023']
Life is too short! Get out there and do some playing instead.
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Too short to be waiting for mobile deadlines. Go and play the bass you are still waiting on being delivered instead?

[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1380622526' post='2227875']
The magnets in my MM type pickup are 80 x 15mm, but the ones Ive ordered are a bit smaller (62 x 12mm) but will still cover all the steel pole pieces as I measured. The tech guy from AxesRus gave some good advice - he said to dip the new magnets in melted wax thats still warm then place in pickup - the wax will seal them in better with them being a bit smaller size and will pot them as well, which is a bonus.

I got magnets from this site in the end as bit cheaper than axesrus for the alnico set :-

[url="http://www.cermag.co.uk/buy_guitar_pickup_magnet.html"]http://www.cermag.co...kup_magnet.html[/url]
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The coil needs potting, rather than the magnet, magnet isn't made of various loose bits that can move.

All Eminence drivers recommend high passing (where depends on enclosure). This letter is a really long way of saying 'if it sounds bad, turn down'. Be interesting to see if you got the same when toasting a Basslite with much less power since it handles less.

Hanging out in it has got boring now, so the box my Super 15 came in is spare, its so potentially usefully big, gotta give it a chance before cutting it up. Collection from Bristol, BS5.

I've sorted problems on a bass by removing and replacing the strings, they have a kink in, quick and free fix for a problem that lets it carry on. Not a long term solution though.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1380576503' post='2227475']
But why do people always mention the 'poor technique' thing....its quite derogatory. It sounds like people are saying 'my cab isn't coloured thus I'm a better player'.
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Its a pretty big factor. Tone is in the fingers and all. Like making guitarists play clean. My clean cabs show my bad playing, really, really loudly.

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1380571567' post='2227368']
The BF cabs are very well engineeed, they do lightweight, high power handling, high sensitivity as well as sounding great.

I just wanted to debunk the myth that BF went after SPL at the expense of tone.
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Think its more they leave the tone to you, rather than enforcing a tone of their own. They respond to EQ and playing technique, which can result in bad tone for people with poor playing and eq skills, that might rely on coloured rigs with limited EQ to cover those things.

What does it do?

[quote name='skychaserhigh' timestamp='1380491969' post='2226225']
Here we go again , jumping in on my comments and twisting them ! No bias at all , it was just a question.
Jeez , Barefaced really is a touchy subject around these here parts .....
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Are you posting under two different accounts, or, in spite of me quoting someone else right there in the post, decided it was addressing you?

Ha, looks like a vintaged up Dean Dimebag guitar.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1380489361' post='2226176']
Bear in mind also that you’re invalidating your warranty by modifying them. It looks like a design fault: the feet fixings are simply not fit for purpose.
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I bet you aren't, and Barefaced will continue to honour the warranty. But for a made up thing, that sounds quite realistic if you were talking about a company that the majority of the people in the thread hadn't dealt with, so congrats on that.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1380489789' post='2226179']
Having had a couple of BF cabs I suppose I`m a bit biased
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That bias you get from actual first hand experience?

The fact that the standard guitar cab is a 4x12, whilst standard bass cab is a 4x10 is part of why bass needs more power.

I like how their stage dressing backline things look like Ashdown rack amps.

[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1380475035' post='2225864']
I saw an interesting YouTube clip of a guy who tried to prove that wood could have an effect on tone of guitar.

He basically had two capos on the middle of the guitar creating a gap of one fret and cloth muting strings between the capos. He theorised that when strings were plucked in front of capo the vibration of strings through the neck / body made the strings after the capo vibrate on sympathy.

All well and good but the guy had to have the gain up to pick up this vibration and the pickups could have been very microphonic for all I know.

Based on this I would think that if the pickups are also picking up body vibrations due being microphonic, the tone the pickups pickup could be a blend of say 95% string sound and 5% body sound.

Which then makes me think that high end guitars probably sound so good because the pickups are better and don't pickup as much body vibration because they are better potted, better made, etc Therefore wood doesn't get a look in.

Just my theory anyway.

Still fascinating stuff!
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If the pickups are that microphonic, they'd feed back crazily with any amplification.