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Are you going through the PA at all? At what volume level do you need this tone? A decent preamp into any half decent power amp into a full range speaker would do the job I would think. The main part that will effect it IMO will be the speaker- a lot of bass cabs aren't designed to give a flat full range response, and some PA stuff would work but tends to be designed to roll off earlier than idea and be crossed into subs.
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FS pre Gibson Tobias 6, pre EB Stingray and Elrick
LukeFRC replied to Brams77's topic in Basses For Sale
Stunning Elrick there! good luck with your sales -
[quote name='lowlandtrees' timestamp='1400654227' post='2455747'] The speaker is cracklin like f--- sorry billio......was Ok until I cranked it up. Had all knobs (including gain) at 12 oclock. I am looking at EA doubler with an EA speaker and don t want to risk it. Will def go for a limiter. I assume that you can have a pedal to switch on and off when I use the DB? Is the SFX Thumpinator the way to go or will it change the sound too much? [/quote] go for the highest spec cab you can with a high end driver that can deal with the sort of punishment you're going to put it through...
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[quote name='Rayman' timestamp='1400693855' post='2456208'] These are superb [/quote] as used by Richard Bona when they first came out.
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Know what I forgot?
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Picked this up from Artisan a while back - it's great but I ended up going a different direction with my rig... and now the wife wants the space back. Roland D-Bass 210 combo, about 24kg or so 300w good for electric and double bass... I paid £250 for it - which was a steal - and in the spirit of basschat it's up for £250. You can offer me trades if you want. .... oh I'm in Leeds near Kirkstall Abbey/Headingly Station/Headingly Stadium. Ideally would like some kinda deal where we can meet up, I don't mind driving somewhere (petrol money maybe?) Here's some blurb about it I wrote.... [color=#141823][font=Helvetica, Arial,]SHORT BLURB: Roland D-bass combo, great condition with the castors and additional Fitted cover by Roqsolid. Trade for basses, bass amp gear, EUB, or bass stuff....[/font][/color] [color=#141823][font=Helvetica, Arial,]LONG BLURB: Nice high end bass combo by Roland before they started making their little cube amps. Equally at home with electric and double bass. originally retailed for about £1000 (proof here[url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/product_details.cfm?ID=1123&type=Bass+Combination+Amp"]http://www.thebassgallery.com/product_details.cfm?ID=1123&type=Bass%20Combination%20Amp[/url] ) COSM preamp with 3 different amp setting: Super clean Hifi, a Bassman/Ampeg valvey tone, and a SWR type tone. Compressor with either a clean or valvey and overdrivey. 3 band Eq with sweepable mids, separate tweeter volume. And wet/dry mixable effects loop. oh and a mute switch The power amp section is the clever bit and more high end than most bass gear- rated at 400w it's actually bi amped, with a 80w tweeter for the high end and each driver having it's own 140w amplifier, which is DSP equipped and uses Roland's FFP technology to get the most out of drivers. Sounds great. Comes with the castors and a fitted cover by Roqsolid. more info here[/font][/color] [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/products/productdetails.aspx/features/?p=688&c=58"]http://www.roland.co...res/?p=688&c=58[/url]
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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1400625105' post='2455676'] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]As it happens, my band just took delivery of a logo today, so we've put it on the Facebook page and various places. I put it in my sig here too, I suppose it all helps create that awareness. [/size][/font] [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Oh, and of course, stickers to go on pub toilet cisterns, as is mandatory. [/size][/font] [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Question - why do so many death metal bands feel that they have to conform to a certain logo type - namely totally illegible spiky writing? [/size][/font] [/quote] forgive me if this is wrong - but I think that the style of spikeyness helps show what kind of band they are. I worked with a guy a few years back and when shown a flyer of a local metal fest. with lots of random bands he hadn't heard of was able to tell me what type of metal each band would be based on the type of spikeyness.
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EAD Foundation 212 cab (inc cover) £800 collected
LukeFRC replied to andydye's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1400594785' post='2455268'] Aaaarrrggghhhhh! These things are like bloody busses... nothing for ages then TWO arrive together! If Mrs C comes home tonight with some good financial news... I may be in touch [/quote] get them both? -
with the roland being as technically High end as it is I would think it would be hard to damage it in this way without the DSP and limiting kicking in.... does it sound like you've knackered it?
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as a designer, it is important yes- more how you display yourself and publicity through everything you do. One of my pet hates is bands who set up their gear and then get some back drop or sign and prop it ontop of some amps with their half arsed logo on it and web link.... just looks unprofessional IMO. Pricing wise it depends- you get what you pay for in most cases! BUT Sometimes I wonder what bands are trying to do with their branding - who or what are they trying to appeal too? If they can't explain why they want a brand to me as their designer I doubt the brand with do them much good. I'm helping someone with the design of a music project at the moment, the music is great and part of me thinks: I can work and package it- but him as a musician's time would be better spent giving the music as much attention as I'm about to give the design, rather than worrying too much about it.... sometimes I've seen meticulous and brilliant design and a band who really needed to spend longer on honing their craft. oh another pet hate.... which conflicts slightly with the OP... good but local bands having uber polished corporate logo's and design. Screw it, if Punk taught you anything it should have been the value (aesthetically and otherwise) of DIY!
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[quote name='Oldman' timestamp='1400412267' post='2453543'] Still here pending a trade ( I know I said I wouldn't but hey) [/quote] so it is here still? you're looking for a trade? you've got a trade pending and it's not here anymore? it's oh I'm confused. Anything in my sig you want in trade... oh wait....
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question... is it switchable voltage at all?
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[quote name='Scooby' timestamp='1400321800' post='2452861'] Yep, [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/236985-fs-ebs-reidmar-head-l295/"]http://basschat.co.u...dmar-head-l295/[/url] [/quote] sometimes the search and "find content" searches misses stuff off!
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yum
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[quote name='Scooby' timestamp='1400319797' post='2452843'] I have advertised my EBS Reidmar for sale (£295) on Basschat [/quote] have you?
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[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1400261467' post='2452461'] Can't understand how a pr of Bergs are still hanging around at that price. [/quote] I keep coming and looking at them too and thinking.... it's tempting but would need to move on my B2 -
for historical-as-possible bias's ricks fine has made some nice ones. Otherwise start with finding a nice neck... get a body made... get the bits..... actually someone on here has done a really nice job refinishing some jazzes - I can't remember who but apparently the fender nitro is dead easy to strip down to the sanding sealer - maybe a road worn jazz and get it refinished? or just save up and sell things till you can afford the brave wood!
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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1400109377' post='2450973'] What do you want? Disco lights and go-faster stripes? :-D Seriously though, I feel your disappointment. I was hoping that the resonator would look like a badass Cosworth spoiler [/quote] is it too much to ask? Trace elliot managed the go faster stripes back in the day, and the british racing green!
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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1400093348' post='2450726'] There was one of the 610 on FB a while back, looks just like the '69er Edit: here you go, '69ers on the left, and Retro 610 on the right: [/quote] oh. 9 pages and it looks the same.
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[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1400063135' post='2450287'] It's a very subjective thing - some people seem to pick up on it, and others don't. I noticed with my AI Focus, Streamliner and TC RH450 that although I could hear the notes, and they were loud, they just lacked impact. They felt almost hollow. At the time, I was doing a lot of gigs with hired backline, and any amp that had a transformer in it just seemed to have a quality the micros lacked. I can't speak for your experience of course, but maybe the Demeter doesn't have the same kind of signal management that you find on the more mainstream lightweight heads? I dunno. [/quote] I know the TC RH450 does some kinda parallel processing - it mixes a compressed signal path with an uncompressed one. So you still get some of the peaks at the attack of the note but then the compressed signal means that the volume appears louder. Of course if it sounds louder then the uncompressed signal can also be limited slightly.... leaving you with a loud sound that doesn't behave quiet right. The comparison I use is a gig where we had the drummer using a (top of the range) electronic kit. We didn't have nice IEM to hear so instead used wedge monitors. Now the drums sounded good, great even in the FOH, and were loud as anything in the monitors - but limiting somewhere down the line meant that I couldn't hear the attack on the kick and snare well enough to lock into. Of course the example I used of the RH450 possibly talks more about the preamp than the poweramp class.... my old Powersoft Tecamp Puma was essentially a very simple preamp stuck in front of one of Powersoft's Digimod 1000 units.... and that didn't display (to me) any of the difficiacies we've been talking about. Shame that Tecamp went for a cheaper set of Class D units... the powersoft was nice
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you lot still at it? anyone seen a photo of these new cabs yet. Or would that get in the way of the thread??
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though if I had the choice between this and a outboard one I would go for the outboard - you could basically buy any preamp you wanted and mount it in a box.
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for the sound.... providing you're happy with your amp's Eq capabilities, then any active buffer would work... reading through the marketing hyperbole this might do the same thing... http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Creation_Audio_Labs_Redeemer.html
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[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1399892153' post='2448626'] Looks like a Faital tweeter/horn combo in those cabs, and if I'm right about which model is probably the best ever put into a commercial bass cab, and significantly better than a lot of PA cabs too until you get to the middle of the market. I'd hope the implementation is good as well - Alex's claimed off-axis response suggests it is. Most bass cabs with tweeters have nasty peaks around the roll-on frequency (accompanied by distortion) so you get a harsh upper-mid spike, often preceded by a dip. This gets worse if there's a woofer with badly damped break-up spike, e.g. most Eminence. A crossover with enough components to deal with that and give a smooth transition to the tweeter is very expensive! The better ones will have an ok tweeter, and avoid significant peaks around tweeter resonance, so fine for bass in many applications - but put voice through them and compare to a proper, 'real' professional PA cab, you will hear the deficiencies. To give an idea of relative cost, the PA cabs I am just finishing off at the moment are costing me over £100 in tweeter/horn components, and over £50 in crossover components, [i]per cab[/i]! And that design is a compromise on cost grounds... [/quote] do you mean the new "retro" cabs or the new ten 3 stuff? I know if you start adding the cost up off buying the parts yourself, the driver that's the most similar (i know its a custom driver barefaced use), the horn and waveguide, add the cost of wood and that and it's not much different from buying a big baby 2... an that's before you've even got anywhere near building a crossover and the parts for that.... and of course you would need to know how to build it... of all the critiques of barefaced stuff I've heard "they're expensive" is one of the less convincing ones. IMO obv.
