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  1. LukeFRC
    [quote name='spacey' timestamp='1417868504' post='2624679'] The cash extraction fashion for what can only be described as boutique or designer equipment is in full swing at the present times. Fancy "driver" pedals that are just re-hashed over drive/ distortion boxes, amps with tweed coverings that are still "just amps" Bass cabs with speakers in wooden boxes that cost 5x what similar speakers in wooden boxes do with fancy Italian names that would be far better suited to a birds designer Italian Leather handbag. They are either a lot of folk with far more money than sense trying to kid themselves it "sounds better" or bass players are losing a sense of value. Most of it is churned straight out from Chinese assembly plants for pennies a go. Anyone else find the Womans handbag craze thats applied to bass gear slightly bemusing. Having seen a 2x12 cab for £1200 that is just two eminence (re-labelled) 12" £75 drivers in a plywood box, I must say, baffled who would fall for such obvious marketing ploys is my personal bemusement. That and it has never even seen Italy in its life. Handbags and glad-rags and bass gear.... [/quote] *Shrug* go make your own then, that's my plan.
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    bump!
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    Price: £350 plus postage if needed. ACME B2 - wee 3 way 2x10 that actually can reproduce the fundamental of your B string. So much low end and super flat hi-fi response- there is nothing else on the market that can go this low or sound so good. Great condition, no creases on the speakers or anything like that and from a good smoke free home The trade off with the low end is that is compared to either Fearful or Barefaced's "Big" line it doesn't have quite the sensitivity they do - what it does have is is a much much flatter more hi-fi signal and you can just hear that theres so much more bottom end. I tried it with a friends midi synth bass and it sounded awesome. I'm still not 100% that I want to let this go so feel free to make offers lower than my asking price or trade offers but I may say no. I fancy a change and if anyone wants one of theses it's here. I'ld happily keep it though - a brilliantly engineered cab. Made in the USA www.acmebass.com for more info. I'm in leeds. Its the box at the bottom of this photo.
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    Price £850 ono or trade.... Here we have an excellent example of one of the best solid state amps ever made. Made by Dave Funk in the USA with a attention to detail and design, for example it uses a El iron transformer rather than a [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Toroidal[/font][/color] as he feels it sounds better, look on www.thunderfunk.com for more sales type speak.... It's flexible, between the enhance and timbre controls you can sculpt your tone, and if thats not enough you've got a bass and treble and a 4 band semi parametric Eq. And man the punch and power behind each note from the power section is awesome - notes have a real weight behind them in a way I didn't experience with my class D amps I've had (can of worms opened, sorry!) design wise it follows on from the AMP/Gibson line that also spawned SWR and Eden. Obvious differences is the lack of valve pre that SWR and Eden use and also it's not a mass produced amp! In great condition, in a the pictured hard case and with a recent service report from the previous owner. so why am I selling? Well the Thunderfunk has always been a holy grail amp for me that I've had GAS for for ages. When I was offered a trade (with me adding money) for my Hellborg pre I jumped on it! Annoyingly... I don't know what it is, but I'm not gelling with it at all as an amp - it sounds great.... but just not quite "my sound" using my Warwicks. Not a problem with it with the BB1200 but seeing as my 'wicks are my main two basses.... I've tried hard in the last month to get used to it but... nope. So it's up for sale or trade. Tradewise I'm open for offers, I kinda know vaguely where I want to go amp wise but ask, I can only say no! I'm in Leeds and can post or drive a reasonable distance. (will be in Essex/London for christmas) More photos or questions just ask....
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    This isnt talkbass you know!!!! :-D
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    gosh that's nice!
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1417631363' post='2622484'] Mm, the problem is that with bass gear you're up against the laws of physics. [/quote] what he said....
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    [quote name='kulit17' timestamp='1417438825' post='2620294'] don't think anyone knows. your guess is as good as mine, but after being scrutinized on how much this particular bass was originally purchased for by the OP and the OP not providing pics or further details on this bass, it may be safe to say W3457 went into protective custody....such a shame too [/quote] im a bit lost...
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    i'm not sure a 60s style P with flats will ever sound like an active Traben - and the Traben will never nail the P bass thing either. What you have just discovered, in time for christmas, is a reason to get another bass.... or two.
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    rest looks kosher to me. It's a meddled with JV
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    I tried one in a shop. I liked. I probably would have changed the pups and pre to make it amazing but good feel
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    actually possibly not be the same series? what does the back of the headstock have on it?
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    I had the blue version of the same FSR series. Great bass - mine had alder body I think. Kinda miss it. Yours is red so a lot better!
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    [quote name='Oldman' timestamp='1417054406' post='2616699'] Hartke cabs? [/quote] +1
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    [quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1417021231' post='2616252'] John, Bill, excuse me jumping in on this one but I have a spare EA wizzy 12" speaker i bought when i thought my EA wizzy Mline speaker was shot, it turned out to be a connection problem on my amp - now resolved. If I was to make a sealed box for this, for ease of condstruction is there a known volume i should work to, are they Eminance? If so would they or EA be the best people to give me the volume. Or is the actual origins of EA's wizzy a closely guarded secret Bill. [/quote] I'll point out that I'm not Bill. Or particularly clever.... but if it were me I would be going looking at the cab you have and making a clone. Actually sounds like a really fun project to do.
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    [quote name='Sumbabba' timestamp='1417011106' post='2616043'] Yeah my Sandberg sounds incredible through it. Wish I had the money to keep it AND buy a new double bass! [/quote] I bet it sounds great. I had the pre and it was incredible - but the whole system is designed to work together - this looks amazing.
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    [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1416905334' post='2614786'] Can you expand on that at all? After reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_%28magnetic%29 I'm going to guess it's effectively a form of compression [/quote] nope! I was hoping someone with more brains would have turned up by now.
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    if you need any layout help making a nice PDF I can stick on my graphic designers hat for you.
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    Zoom b3..... and when you find in 3 months you only use say the sans amp pedal model go buy one of them...
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    I think I've played through about 5 different Barefaced cabs.... and it's useful to point out that tonally I found them all quite different between the "big" series and the non-big ones. For what it's worth I didn't like the tone on the Super 15, or compact. The midget was good for the size, but I probably wouldn't buy any of them. I hated the big one and [b]loved [/b]the big baby. Interstingly a Fearful 15/6 I heard, a similar design to the original Big one was way nicer sounding- but the big baby was a bit special (to my ears anyway) The "BF all sound like barf" is obviously rubbish as they all sound different. [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416826070' post='2613855'] Not really... but to put it into some sort of context... Examples of things I've come across recently... You have a bass heavy amp..paired with a bass heavy cab and you then have to ask questions about boom and do you need a gamma.... Or that so much bass coming out is a tone killer combination.. or...you want the cab to be ultra clean and so you get out what you put in... but then you add a pre signal to dirty things up.. These approaches sound muddled to me... [/quote] the first one... some people just have cloth ears, and/or don't know how to mix a bass sound live. the second one though... that makes sense to me- I wouldn't mind a powered PA cab as a rig (if someone knew one that would work!) - uber clean and then let me control the sound through the preamp. I also thing that that's quite good as most gigs I've ever played most the bass sound comes from the FOH and I'll be DIing into the PA desk - if I can set my tone on a preamp and then have a neutral reference point on stage that works for me. I also don't have space or money for lots of different cabs in order to get different tonal goals from different rigs.
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    [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1416824717' post='2613835'] What is low frequency magnetic saturation? [/quote] how the transformer transmits the sound through.
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    if you've just acquired them shove them in and have a try. Easy enough to switch them out if you prefer the other ones.
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    1975.... [quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1416565364' post='2611447'] My experience of buying a YOB bass (and indeed my observance of others purchasing a YOB bass), is that they rarely work out. I understand the sentiment behind it, but purchase a bass because it speaks to you and feels great, not based on the year it was made. After all, what are the chances of two awesome things being made in the same year?! That said, maybe I'm just bitter and being born in '83, a pretty dry period, especially for Fender Si [/quote] I'm '84. It's my 30th next month.... but ended up finding the $$ and buying/being given a 1985 warwick thumb last year. One year out in both respects!! Early streamers would be '83 I would think? [quote name='Hooch' timestamp='1416571719' post='2611546'] My guess is 1983 isn't the worst era for a fender-ish YOB bass. With Fullerton AVs and first Japanese Squiers, you got there fine basses and various price range. YOB bass isn't necessarily a keeper I agree - though your birthday gift is, that's were it becomes tricky. Short story: I was born in 1977 and sought after a YOB bass. I finally found a '77 Stingray, a nice one with the date on the neck stamp 2 days earlier from my real birthday. Nice catch, but the fact was I preferred my '79 Stingray, which I kept - and sold the preeeecious YOB '77 Stingray. But it wasn't my birthday gift. If it had been, I'd have kept my '77 Stingray for sure. And probably would have sold my '79, which is a better bass for me though. [/quote] '77 is a good year to have. Esp some fun stuff coming out of Japan. I've a '77 BB1200 - amazing bass!
  24. LukeFRC
    musicians egos are odd things.
  25. LukeFRC
    [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1416700739' post='2612835'] I've only heard one, and that was EQed so far differently to what I'd do that I couldn't give an opinion of the sound. As for seen, though, you have just been slavering over this and yet this is so ugly you wouldn't give it house room. And although the S112 doesn't use shelf ports, other cabs in tks's range do - a design feature that you have railed at in BF cabs but which is apparently perfectly acceptable from other manufacturers. [/quote] but as taylor swift explained "Cause the players gonna play, play, play And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate Baby I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake Shake it off" Which of course means that that kind of perfect logic isnt going to work here... but dont let it get to you
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