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[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1328832165' post='1533620'] From what I've read about these cabs, all they have on the back is one 1/4" jack plug socket. Amazon review: "I bought this cabinet for small acoustic gigs as well as home practice. It has the Eden sound in a very small package. It's great. A very nice balanced tone. I haven't had any issues with it's handling for my needs. My only complain is that it comes with a single 1/4" plug with no daisy chain option, nor does it come with speak on outputs." [/quote] Could very well be. I couldn't find anything to tell me one way or the other so just worked on the assumption that they'd have followed the same format that just about everyone else does. If it's a single 1/4" jack then that's a pretty big oversight by Eden. Even if they wanted to avoid using speakons, they could have added a second 1/4" jack socket less than £1 during the manufacturing process...

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[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1328775552' post='1532369'] It's not a martial arts film master/pupil thing... :-) [/quote] ...hammer on....hammer off....hammer on....hammer off...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1328821333' post='1533359'] I think it's a lazy cop out. But then I suppose it does allow a radio DJ to mix in the next track. And yes, you do have to invent something if you're going to cover a song with a fade out. Not something novel, though. If you were that creative you wouldn't be in a covers band, would you? [/quote] It's more artistic licence than anything else I think. if the 'original' band played that tune live then they'd need a way of finishing it just the same as a cover band does.

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1328818543' post='1533285'] Isn't that the cue for falling over backwards with loud clanging noises off? [/quote] Only if you didn't clear a path earlier.

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1328818561' post='1533286'] Now that is cool [/quote] Well folk nights can have a tendency to get a little tied up in self indulgant seriousness and I take great satisfaction in pulling that apart from time to time. The biggest problem is that we have a lot of familiar faces in the audience so thinking up new 'stunts' and making them appear spontaneous without duplicating them takes more effort than they are given credit for.

First thing is to avoid using the jackplug option if at all possible. Most cabs these days have two speakon sockets on the back and I can't find anything to say the the Eden EX112s are any different. So, the easiest solution is to feed the output from the head into the first cab using a speakon to speakon lead. Run another speakon to speakon lead from the extra socket on the back of that cab into a socket on the next cab and you're sorted. The total load seen by the amp (if you are using two 8Ω cabs) will be 4Ω.

I did a fade out on a folk cover a few weeks ago - I just walked slowly backwards and played gentler and gentler until I was behind the back stage curtain.

Tortoiseshell is more of a description of the effect rather than the colour - in theory you could have cerise pink and lime green combined in a tort pickguard...

Excellent news If that's two wires gone simultaneously then it'd be well worth getting your local tech to take a look at the remaining ones and make sure they're not on the verge of falling off.

Too many variables going on here. Some parts are obviously Fishman, some parts are potentially EMG and both companies make an OEM range that is supplied to manufacturers only. Reconnecting the link wire between the two batteries has got you closer to where you are supposed to be but there is something 'else' going on in there as well. EMG often use a solderless solution (little push on connectors) so my best 'blind guess' is that perhaps one or more of those connectors has managed to become dislodged. Pull the battery cage out of the cavity and carefully inspect the rest of the wiring and make sure it's all seated properly and nothing is flopping around disconnected.

[quote name='Steve G' timestamp='1328734484' post='1531989'] Really nice guy too! [/quote] ...even if his head has dropped off...

There are obviously certain similarities between a bass guitar and a 6 string guitar, but not enough to make the experiences of one translate seamlessly to the other without a lot of hard work. I can nearky always pick out a bass player who's actually a guitarist, and I don't mean that in a nasty or snobby way, it just generally doesn't quite 'work' is all. In all fairness, I guess that the way I play 6 string guitar would give me away to a dedicated guitarist in exactly the same manner. If you're gonna spend hard earned cash on lessons then it's really in your own interests to find a bass guitar teacher who specialises in that particular field as opposed to a guitar teacher who plays a bit of bass as a sideline.

Probably dead easy to diagnose and fix, but I've hunted high and low and just can't find a circuit diagram for it anywhere. Does anyone know if the NS5 has a bespoke preamp or if it's one made by a known hardware supplier?

It's been a long time since I made the transition from 4 to 5, but the biggest problem I can remember was that I kept forgetting that the uppermost string was a B instead of an E. Like most thing though, it does eventually sink in and I don't even think about it now. I've found that basslines that would have had me flying up and down the neck, like a demented imp on speed, can be played across the neck with little effort. I still use some 4's and a 6, but my 'go to' instrument is always a 5.

Unfortunately, I lack Tony Levin's height to be able to look cool like that. If I tried it then I'd either be tripping over it or be unable to reach first position without help.

It reminds me of the typical 'pimp my car' exercise that a lot of 18 year olds do. It's got loads of flashy exterior but underneath, it's still just a VW Golf.

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4Ω + 8Ω = 2.67Ω (in parallel). So you can use that combination of cabs on your head that goes down to 2Ω, but not on the head that goes down to 4Ω.

I only ever use standard tuning for two reasons: 1) I've played that way for 30+ years and know where the notes are without having to guess or relearn from scratch. 2) Once you go below a low B then all you're really doing is attracting earthworms.

[quote name='TRBboy' timestamp='1328562171' post='1529232'] Did you make sure you held the back of the pot whilst you tightened the nut on the front? When I worked in music shops, I saw it so many times where people had tightened the nut without holding the pot, and just turned the pot round and round until the wires break off the back. The problems you're describing sound very symptomatic of this. [/quote] SNAP!

If you're having trouble with the knobs working loose then paint a tiny smear of clear nail varnish on the thread of the grubscrew before you tighten it - it'll stop it from working loose but will still undo if you need it to (turning the grubscrew will fracture the nail varnish). The barrel type jack sockets always fail far more frequently than the traditional skeleton ones - doesn't matter if it's a top of the range Warwick or a bottom of the range Ibanez. Thing like having the instrument setup to allow you to play it comfortably aren't indicative of a general failure or 'wearing out' of a bass, it's just something that needs to be done. I bet I know what's happened to your missing output as well. When you tightened that volume control up using a wrench at 4am in the morning... Were you holding the back of the pot while you were using the wrench? If not you can pretty much guarantee that the pot was 'spinning' inside the body and one (or more) of the wires have snapped off...

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1328480314' post='1527929'] Me neither. I suspect it's just a combination of sloppyness, laziness and metrication. The electrical/electronics industry has resisted metrication quite well really. Thus, 1/4 inch plugs, 19 inch racks, 0.1 inch pin spacing on ICs (less now of course) were 'metricated' to become 6.35mm plugs, 482.6mm racks and 2.54mm pin spacing - i.e. nothing actually changed. [/quote] That's very true. If someone said to me that they needed a 482.6mm blanking panel then I'd have to stop for a minute to translate it into something I can deal with. I'm surprised they haven't tried tampering with 'u' sizes as well.

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1328479591' post='1527911'] They're buggers for it! I only glanced into it recently and i found a few at 6mm and left it at that with a sigh. More research is needed. [/quote] Well if you're geared up as a jack plug manufacturer then you'd pick the industry standard sizes to tool up all your jigs and presses and whatnots (be honest, you can tell I'm not a mechanical engineer can't you? ). I bet you can't even buy machinery to make anything other than 2.5mm, 3.5mm and 6.35mm jack plugs.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1328467556' post='1527565'] You know me too well [/quote] I actually re-worded that three times to make sure you'd not take it the wrong way!