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  1. fretmeister
    I've never even heard of Electronic Audio Experiments!
  2. fretmeister
    Yeah... but that requires remembering the formula. It's actually easier just to learn the common combinations by rote. 8&8 = 4 ohms 8&4 = 2.67 ohms 4&4 = 2 ohms. There's hardly any 16 ohm bass cabs so no need to remember those.
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    It's not my site. I just put it in my Signature because I thought it would be useful to anyone with an amp!
  4. fretmeister
    There's a link to an impedance calculator in my signature. Everybody should save it.
  5. fretmeister
    Oh - when you've done a performance volume practice save the patch. Then at each venue when you have tweaked it a little for that room, save that patch again as a separate patch for that venue. Then for any places you get repeat bookings you can call up the patch that works at that venue. Large touring bands have been doing this for years - often with a little black book so they can recreate the settings from last time. But modern PA desks / modellers etc can all save hundreds of patches and settings so they now do it that way. It makes soundchecking much easier and consistent. But you will have to do a full volume rehearsal to get going. Even that won't be perfect because a hundred walking bags of meat and water will really change the sound of a room, but you have to have that proper starting point.
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    Fletcher-Munson means that there really is no alternative to rehearsing or at least tone setting at performance volume. Even doing it just once so you learn the device at proper volume will give you far more knowledge than you have now. For the sake of £50 notes for a couple of hours in a rehearsal studio your sound will be massively improved. https://www.first.edu/blog/fletcher-munson-curves-explained/
  7. fretmeister
    I have both and I like both. I also know the audience doesn't give a crap.
  8. fretmeister
    I might need one of these
  9. fretmeister
    I like the black one best.
  10. fretmeister
    I see Thomann have listed the Sandberg Florence Mahogany version at £1279.00 https://www.thomann.de/gb/sandberg_florence_4_mn_brg_565199.htm Lovely thing! If I had the money...
  11. fretmeister
    Has anyone tried the DR Legend flats? I'm just curious about them really. I'd usually go fo 40-100 for flats and the Legends only come in 45-105 but they are round core so I'm wondering if they are more flexible than others.
  12. fretmeister
    An item will either sell or it will not. The only issue for me is whether I personally am happy to pay the price advertised by whoever is selling - be that private or business. If I like the thing and am happy to pay the price - wonderful. If I think it is overpriced then I don't buy it. I see no benefit in thinking about it more than that. I've got better uses of my time. Like practising my scales.... [Might not be true]
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    Bass control on the amp, 60hz on mine, is cut a bit to stop boom but the rest is pretty much all at 12 o clock. Then I adjust the tone on the bass for the songs as needed.
  14. fretmeister
    Good question. I am really enjoying my Mark Bass AG1000 at the moment. It has plenty of thump but always with piano like clarity. It has a massive dynamic range that can be a bit of a challenge if I don’t use a compressor. The EQ is great, it’s lovely having a 60hz control to reduce low end boom when needed, and I can still boost at 100hz for some welly. My Ashdown RM800evo2 is quite different. It’s far less dynamic even with the compression off but it has a solid tone that is always usable. The onboard compression is rather crap so I only use that sparingly. I’ve had loads over the years. Hartke HA3500 Ashdown MAG400H red. Markbass LM2, LM3, F1, Marcus Goldline heads, CMD102 combo. Genz Benz Streamliner 900 and Shuttle 9.2 Mesa Prodigy 4:88 A monster rack system with multiple preamps and a Yamaha P5000S power amp. Darkglass M900 Tech21 VTBass 500 Demeter 800D Ampeg B5R Gawd knows what else. But my favourite amp that will never go is my Roland Bass Cube 30. I love that thing. It’s perfect. I wish they’d do a lightweight head version.
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    I’ve got the official covers for mine.
  16. fretmeister
    I want one of them too! But unfortunately I have 1 child doing a 5 year combined undergraduate and masters degrees, and another child who will be going to university next year. So I am limited to modest irresponsibility rather than doing it properly!
  17. fretmeister
    I rehearsed with it today, just the T cab as I didn’t need the other and it sounded great. I like to adjust my tone a lot by how I pluck the strings, using a lot of flesh on the string for a deeper and more gentle note, or then plucking more perpendicular for an aggressive bite to it and that sort of thing, and this cab seems to show those differences more. Next time I’ll try it with my Ashdown RM800evo2 to see if I hear any difference with that amp.
  18. fretmeister
    Since my Lionel arrived I haven’t even plugged in any other basses. I think I might have to accept I have converted to shorties. I’m starting to think about the unthinkable… selling my Sandberg TT4 Superlight so I can get a short version. I’m wondering if Sandberg would do a 5 string shortie.
  19. fretmeister
    The band leader. However I’ve just discovered that is happening in September. I hope the new person appointed is an improvement or I’m done with it. Me and the drummer are properly fed up and bored at the moment.
  20. fretmeister
    With Amazon make sure that Amazon is actually the seller.
  21. fretmeister
    Or they could be being really slack!
  22. fretmeister
    Perhaps your email is going in their spam folder for some reason?
  23. fretmeister
    He's left it a bit late! These guys are excellent - if they are still available. https://www.fullyfunktional.rocks/
  24. fretmeister

    Boss LMB3

    fretmeister replied to BassAdder60's topic in Effects

    I tried it on 2 boards. One with the good old PP+ and on the other a very silly money Gigrig Power Generator set up, with dedicated isolators. Both the same.
  25. fretmeister
    My cab has arrived. I've only been able to have 30 mins at lunchtime but I like it - paired with my existing One10. With the tweeter control at zero it sounds just like the One10. With it maxed there's a pleasing high end that is very nice for slap and for chord stuff at the dusty end. Envelope filter stuff seems to come through a bit more in the highs too. Some of my drive sounds are now a bit fizzy so I'll have to tweak them. There's nothing brittle or sharp about the highs - I'm assuming that will be party to do with the tweeter and partly to do with the amp itself. The treble control on the amp is 6Khz but I have no idea what the Q is, or whether there is a LPF somewhere to get rid of the horrible stuff at the top. As I stated up there ^ about hissy things, I have had Mark Bass amps in the past that were hissy with MB own cabs. My current Mark Bass is the AG1000 and even with the treble maxed and the tweeter maxed there is no hiss - not even with my compressor on. Very impressive. It's about a Kilo heavier than the One10 but still very light at 8.5kg.
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