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[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1404551039' post='2493614'] Irony. People want ridiculously clean amps with massive headroom, so they go out and buy Tech21 VT pedals to put the dirt back into their sound. [/quote] People do generally, normally, want a clean power amp. The preamp makes the difference- so sticking a different preamp before it isn't the stupidest thing.

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1404515342' post='2493498'] And to my knowledge they never made a production 4 ohm 410 or 115 to get 300w per side.. Cheeky! Most of the time I ran mine with 1153 (compact 15) and 1048H (410 + HF) which was pretty pokey.. I found the 400w model to be pick of the bunch tho.. [/quote] the AH400SMX is one of the amps I would like to buy and have- when you look at the weight and power rating on paper it's quite hard to justify!

I do vinyl stickers as part of my job... cheaper than those too!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1404407728' post='2492399'] I dont think he has £4 earphones..... [/quote] what he said....

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1404369640' post='2491893'] I own/have owned, a 'few' ( ) basses that cost quite a few thousand (I bought them used so didn't pay the eye-watering prices they were new). However, the 2 basses that I play the most,[i] through choice[/i], cost me less than £500. That is despite the fact that I have other basses that I own that would still cost you in excess of your £1000 budget. [b]Why do I not sell the other more expensive basses[/b]... that's likely a whole new thread. [/quote] I thought you had?! Are they coming in as quick as they go out? [quote name='cocco' timestamp='1404379990' post='2492014'] I don't think so, not on the second hand market anyway, both times I've spent a lot on a bass I've been disappointed. My current stable consists of a Lakland Skyline Bob glaub, 2 old peavey T-40s and an old Ibanez blazer, [b]and all 4 are pretty spot on[/b]. The Lakland was the most expensive and that was £550 and it's the best P-bass and maybe even bass in general I've ever owned. [/quote] This is the main thing - it's what fits for you - not the price that's important. I've done a fair bit of buying and selling, I've tried most the things I want to bass wise, one of the basses I sold the quickest as I didn't get on would have a new price over £2000, and the one I should never have sold as I was a bit in love with it I found in a junk shop in the west end of Glasgow for £70. I've currently got 3 basses - and for various reasons they are spot on to the point that I couldn't improve them at all. One of them cost £900 odd but the other two cost far far less. They are right for me. Even righter when I can afford 3 new sets of strings but that's another story!

14kg for one or both?

14kg for one or both?

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1404334091' post='2491751'] One thing to remember, a Jazz is a Jazz. You can change the pickups, wiring, etc... but the tone is locked into the instrument thanks to the pickup locations. [/quote] - and should be celebrated thus! If you're a top pro then you may need a back up of your main bass .... unless bass playing is your profession then embrace the difference between basses. Precision, Jazz... Stingray next....

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1404319789' post='2491592'] I've have taken quite a bit of "artistic licence" with most of the bass lines but one is just so good I play it exactly as it was recorded in '92 :-) [/quote] I may be wrong but I think the main melody and the lyrics are the main parts covered by copyright- the bassline isn't considered as important - I think

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1404318502' post='2491575'] I would say if nothing was kept copyrighted at the time [/quote] maybe music is different from Art but if you right something don't you own it regardless of what you do (or part of it in a band). Proving it is another thing - but say you do something with these songs and some old bass player comes out the woodwork and can prove they wrote say the melody to the song... well then it's his melody. There's a load of stuff of my old band on iTunes/Spotify which I had to sit down with them and discuss who wrote what of everything - not a fun process!

Option 5.... Keep them both. Get a better strap for the Yamaha so that the weight thing isn't an issue. Even if you love the precision sound like anything, there will be a day in the next 3-4 years where you hanker after a jazz type tone. Having both isn't a bad thing!

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1404059997' post='2488871'] DSP is everywhere. Everything we listen to unless it is live music in a sub 500 seater venue is processed. When you play through grown up PA systems you have been DSP to the max. DSP done properly is lush. I cannot speak for the TC stuff cos I have not experienced it. I have DSP in my rig and it is super-duper. [/quote] I know your rig has great DSP .... I meant specifically on the tc stuff.

No idea - enjoyed the video though! (even if she was running the wrong way to get to templehoff in most the shots!)

you lost all your stuff in the fire, and have a busy life anyway - I'ld half expect it, don't worry about it.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1404024595' post='2488528'] Thanks for the article, should have remembered that really because there was a long thread on this a while ago. It probably wasn't the best example to choose I think the rest of what I said is about right though. One of the advantages of this DSP approach is that you are far less likely to blow your speakers through over excursion in return for very little signal distortion/loss of sound. [/quote]Phil - as one of our resident experts in all things speakers... what's your opinion on DSP like the active power management in the TC amps? EDIT: reason asking is I demoed the RH750 yesterday and can't get my head around if I liked it or not.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1403989581' post='2488397'] This is why I binned off my Markbass stack and have been DI-ing ever since. A good set of PA speakers will have a much wider range than most bass amps and to my ear they sound much more neutral... a little bit of EQ/gain on the desk and it's all good! [/quote] woah PA speakers... will be in part be due to the amps and part due to the speaker design... so there are two things going on there. I would agree with you - I'm half tempted to get rid of my rig and just run the preamp into a powered speaker of some kind. [quote name='molan' timestamp='1403998368' post='2488489'] I'm sure there is an element of output quotes differering widely from manufacturer to manufacture. TC Electronic are probably the most often quoted with their 450w heads only being about 235w but there's plenty of other examples too. I know of one builder who consistently quoted their top of the range heads at 900w whilst the power module was identical to someone else who rated it at just 500. I also heard an 800w power amp recently that was deafening at about 9 o'clock with a bass plays quietly through it. [/quote] did you read the doc from TC I linked to? it's quite interesting what they've done - also the fact that the RH450 and 750 have the same continuous power rating - but the 750 can have bigger burst peaks. and was the example of a 800w power amp a good one or a bad one? what was it? (if you can say)

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1403984294' post='2488352'] This is right, you can just tell a 1dB rise and really you need 3dB to be able to say that an amp is appreciably louder. That takes twice the power. So going from 75W to 150w doesn't seem like much but going from 200-400W is exactly the same 3dB step. The real reason is (I suspect) that amplifier watts are so much cheaper nowadays, especially allowing for inflation. I've been toying with buying one of the TC amps and the RH750 is only about £100 more than the 450, 30p per watt! We'd have bought 750W amps years ago but they weren't affordable, and we couldn't have lifted them. Modern speakers, by and large are less efficient, trading low bass and excursion for efficiency. They will handle more power though. [/quote] I went and tried a RH750 today. Interesting amp. I was about to make a comment about how it's not a 750w amp but then found this article which might answer my first question in the OP to a certain degree... http://service.tcgroup.tc/media/tc-electronic-power-rating-and-active-power-management.pdf

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1403958800' post='2488074'] They're probably -20dB. Those numbers are utterly silly where electric bass speakers are concerned. They simply don't go that low, by about an octave. [/quote] At which point I don't know why they bother giving those figures. It's so so different to the PA world where everything is spelled out.

Just back from town and took some time for a quick try out the RH750 head. Obviously didn't have anything Warwick shaped in stock so Picked up the BB414 on account it was the most similar to my BB1200. Playing the amp, fiddling about with settings and at some point look down and realise that this isn't one of my basses - it was so nice to play and felt so good I didn't have the whole fiddling around with pup settings or balance or tone control to coax a nice sound like I have with other basses. Very nice - obviously I could tell the difference between it and my 70's BB1200 but the BB414 was pretty great! I've played a fair few fenders in the same shop and none of them felt and played and sounded* as good as the bb! I can't imagine how great a BB2024x would be! * I was demoing an amp at the time so I prob had a fair bit of amp tone in my perception too! [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1403972716' post='2488246'] there is an amazing example for sale on Basschat at the moment for a silly price ( silly cheap, that is) [/quote] what he says!

It all depends at what point they are measuring the frequency point from! -3dB, -6dB or -10dB - without that information the frequency response info isn't really that useful. The SPL figures mean that the 1x15 is marginally louder than the 2x10.... not as much as would make a difference. So between the two I doubt there's much to choose by - which is easiest to move around? I would google around for Bill Fitzmaurice's advice on mixing speaker sizes.... and make your choice from that.

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1403945041' post='2487876'] Just checked the GG website, seems all three of these "on sale" babies have now been snapped up! [/quote] maybe not quite a big "deal" but one of the heads if for sale on here at the mo