LukeFRC

Quite a nice setup to have sat arround in retirement!

No- Jameson used to go straight into the desk ...

Seeing the Rob Allen Mouse is a somewhat specialist bass, and because you’ve stuck that picture there, how does it sound with the Ibanez?

I think one odd thing is that people will waxlyrical about a bit of gear, but saying what they use it for is less mentioned - a once a month metal band is different to a cruise ship jazz band is different to a indie rock touring band is different to a ... and so on. If you were in a band where it was not that frequent but it was a very much enjoyed hobby to pull on the tight Lycra a play some great 80s rock classics you might justify the SVT and 810... whereas the wedding reception band probably want something quicker to load in and out

Everyone posts positive reviews, goes out and buys the shiny new thing, post even more positive reviews - then there’s a lull and their for sale post has even more positive reviews “best amp I’ve ever played , but....”

Situation I was in a few years ago we used a electronic kit - sounded amazing in FOH big odd to play with as the tiny latency, plus reflection off the back wall of the venue meant you couldn’t watch the drummer and needed it in the fold back - IEM would solve the problem which I guess is the point of this thread. also to the person who is about to say it must have been an old or low tech kit that was years ago as they don’t have latency now.... thanks, but I’ve preempted you!

I approached the problem from another direction on my bass build the problem you’ve got is the MM and J bridge pup need to be in different positions - and they overlap in such a way you can’t have both even with the fancy Delano pickup. The other problem is that a jazz - even an active one (normally) has both pups going through a passive volume or passive volumes and blend before the preamp. The stingray has the pickup going straight into the preamp and the volume is adjusting the output of the preamp. So you can have a stingray that you can add another pickup too - if you want you can have a single coil mode which sounds kinda like a jazz - that’s what my build was or you can have a jazz that you can get a fatter more humbucker type bridge sound out of. Lakland and sandberg have good examples of these. but they will never sound like a ray. My suggestion- have two basses.

What kind of amp power would you recommend? Edit: I use a walkabout so only have 300-400w into 4 ohms

At least 8 Bugera veyrons...

I doubt they will sell to the UK

What? Solo bass jazz or where you playing another instrument?

What are you powering the cabs with? And how much power/how sensitive are they? I was always tempted to build a fearful - but was kinda put off by the whole tendency for folk to use massive high wattage amps

Is that driver used in off the shelf electric bass cabs!!! Ones mortals can afford

Nice cheap driver there Bill!

Well that love affair was short lived

Just go and listen in my n @Frank Blank s test on Friday

“That kid in again?!” ”yep” ”you letting him tune everything for you?” ”yep”

I was looking for one of them for an age, ended up going a different direction with a will lee sig rather than a Roscoe beck sig (both players I’ve never heard) it looks awesome - you have some lovely basses walshy

Read this and got me wondering about poplar ply ...according to the web my local Woodyard stocks something called Banova plus which is balsa plywood with hardwood outer -designed for lightweight furniture and trade stands it seems - no idea how much it costs of if suitable but sounds light! Edit: not as stiff as poplar ply, but stiffer than mdf https://d371dyuip757b1.cloudfront.net/downloads/Banova-Technical_Processing_Guide_V.online-download.pdf

So if you had to get a powered speaker for bass guitar (and we ignore the super super high end PA stuff) would you get the RCF745 which is a pretty good mid range PA speaker, or the bare face FR800 which is designed as a bass cab tweaked as a PA option? Note your own designed cab cab isn’t an option at this point!

But you have tried them, I think it takes some people a while to get there... I found the beauty of basschat is I could sell/trade something I had and then reinvest the money (and some extra) into an instrument I was more excited about playing. Not counting the great jazz bass spree of 2012 and the random extras, my Status Shark went to a Warwick SS1, then another SS1. My Fender Japan 57ri turned into a JV squire 57ri into a early Thumb bass into a Sadowsky Will Lee. And the Yamaha SG guitar I found in my aunts bin was traded into a Yamaha BB1200 and then into a G&L L1000. Best thing I’ve ever found in a bin All 3 are probably worth over the £1k mark but often the upgrade trade for me included me adding only small amounts over many years.

So I was looking at this thread... Which is really interesting thread where a load of our more engineering experts, semi led by @stevie are designing and building a bass cab - it's all quite good stuff... anyway the discussion is about how the hf driver they are using is fairly high end and retails at £80 or so, lots of discussion on high end drivers, the one on the Barefaced stuff and so on. I look up the one on the RCF Art 745 that's been mentioned as a very top end FRFR solution.... apparently that compression driver retails at £200+ ... So I keep looking at the specs - that speaker puts 500w RMS to the low end and 200w to the high end, with all the cleverness of the DSP and claims max SPL of 133db (ie loud). Costs a fair bit at £1200. But then compare that to bass gear - and the Barefaced FR800 goes a tiny bit lower, costs the same and claims a max continuous SPL of 127dB (which is different to peak SPL so wouldn't know how to compare) The Big Twin claims continuous SPL of 133dB and costs the similar £1200 - and you would still need to get an amp. Now given that the figures don't seem to be directly comparable, and I've used Barefaced as an example as the top of the market in terms of custom, well engineered bass guitar specific stuff that I would happily own and gig.... but it seems to me that going FRFR isn't even a particularly expensive option. And thats comparing to the big old top end RCF speakers folk have been talking about. It was the comparative retail price of the compression driver that made me think, that providing the PA speaker can handle Bass guitar type signals, that FRFR is possibly not the most stupid move. I'm tempted. (but I also don't need to change and my walkabout does me fine, though how much are they fetching secondhand these days? )

Do people still do that with 5 strings?

“Sounds like” as in “from the spec I imagine” .... I’ve not actually heard it!

So that RCF speaker that folk in the FRFR thread are saying is pretty good has a : 1.4" Titanium Compression Driver, 4.0" v.c. Neodimium Which sounds like it’s pretty high end!