gypsymoth

the amp is absolutely safe - there is nothing that a bass does to it that a guitar doesn't do.

the cab is designed for a lot more watts than the amp puts out - it is safer than if you had the ampeg.

enjoy.

"felt dead"
don't know what that means. you've got set up (Alembics are quite friendly in this area), string choice, pickups.

when I got mine (used 5 string Persuader, quite like a spoiler) the set up and strings were way wrong for me. a bit of time and the thing is just plain great.
the active pickups have incredible range - but I generally prefer the passive ones on my VC. but they are different animals by design.

edit - these are medium scale, and at least with mine, I think it favors a solo bass style more than a keeping down the bottom thing.

placement not right for slap? that would be a good thing, slap bass should be discouraged

the gentleman could compare the recomended box sizes at www.eminence.com with the size of his current cabinet - while looking over the frequency range/spl charts for 10" speakers. check the PA speakers too - they used to be the bass speakers.

there should be something there that will serve his purposes well, and sound better than what came in the box.

thanks for listening, T.P. I was quite pleased with that little middle guitar bit.
yeah, others would be nice, but difficulties finding & keeping them is what led to recording solo in the forst place. for better or worse, I get more done on my own - even allowing for learning time.

thanks Tech, much appreciated.

I know who the first guys are

everyone only has so much time to practice or develop their parts/skills - and if you are working on one thing, the other will suffer. not to say some don't do a great job at both, but what if they concentrated on one?
then again, Cream with a prancer might not have been right .....

a couple more, instrumental solo tunes. slots 5 & 6.

jimi hendricks told me to come here.
really.
he's in Kent.

tracks 5 & 6 on the link below.

some 8 string slide at the ending of #5, an amp getting beat up bad on #6.

St.James Infirmary - Eric & Animals, Every One of Us. perhaps not their biggest selling record. but if it's an open mic jam, Year of the Guru would be a better choice as it's a) more fun and has three guitars going.

try finding a medium scale 135 - let me know if you do.
the overall longer length will allow the taper portion of the string to go in the tuning peg slot, rather than a big chunk of steel cable, which really doesn't want to bend or rotate around the shaft.

great stuff as always. too bad Merlin didn't pop in for a bit too.

another point in favor of a 34" scale is string choice - it gets rather limited in medium scale. I suppose a clever designer could work around that by altering overall string length, but this has been a bit of a problem for me.

my 5 is a 33 - originally a high b, the prior owner restrung it/cut the nut for low B.
as noted above, tune your (is your existing 4 a 33"? - if it's a 34 and you are happy, why go shorter?) 33" four down to B and see if you like it. I expect you will need a 135 or so to be reasonably happy with the results - and that you'll be thinking a 34 or 35 would be preferable sonically. yes, scale length only makes a difference on playability for the low notes, but as that is why you are going for a 5 - it could be an issue for you. but if you are just going to go "boom" on occasion - playability isn't much of an issue anyway.
choice of woods & number of laminations to make a stable neck with a profile/length that YOU find comfortable ....isn't that the point of a custom build? if you are OK with a 34, the right profile for a 34" 5 string shouldn't be an issue.

some new pics of my home studio set up in the link below.

I think the "bass exchange" link is the place I was thinking of - only been there once.
if you go to Trutone in Santa Monica, West LA Music is pretty close.

the Bass (shop/palace/?) on Ventura Blvd in Encino (still L.A.) used to have some special stuff.

guitar & drums, because I needed to. could keys be next?

there were two versions of the "originals", one with 4x88 and a 6x34 version. owners of the "real" hiwatts consider either of those preferable to the new ones due to the quality of components (partridge transformers) and build quality (military spec). it seems an oldie is more reliable than a new one.
hiwatt guys figure there is nothing better - which justifies the prices they happily pay.

go to www.usps.com and plug in the info, you'll get the number. $100 sounds OK to me, but I don't ship big stuff to the UK.
USPS is my preferred carrier for US deliveries.

he said that about Ornette?

worldwide internet radio debut occurs on "Troys Room", KCLAFM.com, which is broadcast Thursday (tomorrow) at 3:30 Pacific Standard Time, which is 10:30 or 11:30 pm over there.
of course anyone who is interested can hear more on the link below - but I'm pretty jazzzed about it.

leave the transformer in it, and get a voltage converter to bring it down. simple and cheaper.

if you actually switch the amp over to 220/240, don't forget to reduce your main fuse value by half.

likely something like that - perhaps loose wiring in the cab or jacks.

if a vacuum tube has a condensation problem, it would have ceased to be a vacuum tube. condensation is more likely to be a problem for speaker voice coils - which can arc as a result.

I submit that the pump remingtons are the p-bass of shotguns - simple effective mass market tools, while some of the finer Italian & British stuff is more akin to Alembic, VC, Ritter, Overwater & Manson.