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Just gotta love these guys - tighter than a ducks bottom and really know how to have fun... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U9zplZaZ7g[/media] Just couldn't resist this one - sat here almost crying with laughter... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEI2K7kLmp8[/media]

Sort of. You'll achieve 2.67Ω if you add an 8Ω speaker, so electronically safe. From a practical point of view though, I don't think you'll hear the difference.

It's perhaps a little fiddly to do but perfectly achievable if you have some basic soldering skills. Personally, I'd recommend having a play with it in 'active' mode before going down the passive conversion route - it's not such a big deal really. You just need to treat the tone controls a little more gently is all. Batteries typically last for at least 6 months (and probably longer but I change mine every 6 months to make sure I'm never caught out) with 3 hours playing a day. The biggest single point that people get caught out on is leaving the bass plugged in when it's not being used. As soon as you push a jackplug into the bass the active circuitry switches on. I reckon that's one of, if not [b]the[/b] biggest cause of 'battery in active bass' woes we see here on BassChat.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1330898063' post='1564636'] What about a 4 way going on-off-on-off. OR thinking. (Dunno if possible) with a resistor wired in on one setting. the 3 way with off then two differing brightness settings. [/quote] Yep - on-off-on-off is perfectly possible. 'Of the shelf' rotary switches generally go up as far as 4 ways and 12 poles - so there's plenty of scope for most types of esoteric switching there.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1330795709' post='1563166'] Bravely restrained Sir!!!! [/quote] +1 Even more so when I suspect that it wasn't actually 'mud' he was thinking of...

I used to have great trouble playing bass and singing harmonies at the same time. I discovered that what really worked for me, and indeed everyone else, was to just stop it.

I think stage fright is just one of those things that wears off as time goes on. I guess it's a bit like the nerves you felt on your first day at work after leaving school - once you were there for a couple of weeks you settled into a routine and thought nothing of it. Same thing applies to playing in public - the more you do it the less it worries you. I still remember the first live gig I ever played - I was so scared that all the audience could see was a headstock and a hand appearing from behind a concrete pillar. Four years later and I was performing to audiences of well over 1000 and didn't even think about it.

I chose [i]'I used to be a professional bassist' [/i]only to find I'm in a majority of one! I did reasonably well in the 80's through to the early 90's but woke up in yet another typical hotel room one morning during a three week tour and realised I didn't even know what town I was in. Doesn't sound that devastating perhaps, but it was enough to persuade myself that a new career with some stability was needed.

Most rotary switches have a little 'stopper' (a washer with a little prong sticking out of it) underneath the nut which limits the rotation of the switch. If you just want a minimal on/off swith then just buy a switch with the smallest number of 'ways' and use the stopper to limit the rotation to two positions. EDIT: Something like this has a stopper... [url="http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Rotary-switches-30304"]http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Rotary-switches-30304[/url]

If you are replacing fuses with the same type and they are still blowing then there is either a design flaw or a defect. You really need to direct this question to Ashdown as you can't do anything about the former and should still have warranty to cover the latter. For what it's worth, I'm guessing that there is a fault on the amp - if it were a design flaw then Ashdown would have had thousands of these amps going back for upgrades.

As the guy rang back and apologised when he found out he was wrong, he's probably very embarrased about the acusations he made. I reckon the relationship between the studio and the band will have changed significantly and you'll be on the 'good guys' list now.

[quote name='SidVicious1978' timestamp='1330731276' post='1562451'] im going to fill with wood filler and wait 48 hours the flat sand [/quote] Follow the instructions Mr Foxen gave - if you just fill the hole up with wood filler then it'll take months to dry and will probably just fall out as it shrinks.

Calling all new solderers! Have a read through [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/110170-dull-solder-joint-why/page__hl__soldering%20pots"]this[/url] thread before you start - there's loads of useful tips and advice in it.

[quote name='Dolando' timestamp='1330651474' post='1561146'] As i was reading that i was hoping you weren't just leaving me with 18SWG....haha. Thank you. [/quote] As if I'd be that mean...

[quote name='Dolando' timestamp='1330650346' post='1561136'] This thread has been really helpful. I'm just about to start some electric's for a Jazz Bass I'm building. Got the soldering iron etc, is there a particular thickness of solder that works best? [/quote] I'd go for the 'bog standard' 18SWG (that's about 1.2mm in modern speak) type for general soldering.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1330620074' post='1560544'] Thanks. I've been having a stab at it but I rather suspect you need a bit of confidence to get started, else it's too easy to walk away when the first things that come out of it are rubbish. Confidence I don't really have. [/quote] If I look back at some of the absolute sh*te that I've recorded over the years and got away with... It really is just a case of perseverance building experience and from that, confidence. You can't get a plugin for that. [quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1330620074' post='1560544'] The worst part though was finding out that I can't get a good recording sound out of my Cort. It sounds lovely through my proper amp and speakers, but through my interface (which, I suppose, I'm going to have to admit is a Behringer V-Amp Pro) and straight through the PC it just doesn't, no matter what I do to it. Oddly, my Westfield, with flatwounds on it and stock pick-ups, sounds lovely recorded, which is nice. Handy too because I have that tuned half a step down, same as my main Guitar. [/quote] I've found Behringer kit a bit odd when recording directly from it as well - comes out very flat and dull. If you like the sound through the cab then consider micing it up perhaps?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1330621903' post='1560603'] Carpet on the outside contributes to damping high frequency resonance, but it should be dealt with elsewhere. [/quote] ...especially if you bang the outside of the cabinet and shout 'boing' it seems...

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1330621190' post='1560579'] What about roll on artex? [/quote] Doesn't it make your armpits claggy?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1330595241' post='1559833'] Agreed. The other advantage of speakon cables is that they can't be mistaken for instrument cables. I'd like to see the use of jacks disappear completely from cabs and amp outputs. [/quote] I've slowly but surely been going through all the band gear and adapting it to Speakon - just got the monitor amp and a couple of wedges to go and we'll be totally changed over.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1330596283' post='1559851'] Don't worry. It's all relative. [/quote] I ended my relatives years ago.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1330599567' post='1559961'] I can't see it making the slightest bit of difference to tone. The carpet is far too thin and the sound isn't [i]supposed[/i] to come out through it anyway [/quote] +1 If the covering is affecting the sound to a noticeable degree then the cab is so badly designed that it needs to go into the nearest skip.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1330553958' post='1559476'] I would rather carpet , but the subject of cats is a bit like religion and politics .........it gets very polarised ......very quickly [/quote] That kinda depends on how big a magnetic field your death ray uses...

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1330527802' post='1558881'] ah cool, so I can do it either way, the head has parralel outs as well I have since discovered only one is a speakon one is jack. [/quote] Well the most likely point of failure is going to be the jack output. It's quite easy to pull a jack out while shifting things about whereas a Speakon can't be removed accidentally. On balance, if your cabs use Speakons then I'd be more inclined to go down the 'daisy chaining' route and take advantage of the more robust Speakon connectors.

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1330527710' post='1558879'] ignore me! worked it out, the amp does have parallel outputs. [/quote] Well that gives you two choices Either run two leads from the amp head to the two cabs or daisy chain them as we were talking about earlier. Electronicaly, the amp won't care which method you use - it'll see a 4Ω load either way round. Practically, I prefer to run two seperate cables from the amp so if one should unexpectedly fail whilst I'm playing I'll still get an output of some description - I've never had that scenario but I don't see the point in not allowing for the unexpected.

Nope. Your 'in' and out' sockets on the 2x10 are wired in parallel. The amp output goes into the first cabinet and is simultaneously fed to the speakers in that cab and the 'out' socket.