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Nice infectious catchyness to the tune. Good work. Hope you find your stuff...

Cool covers dude. What sort of thing are you thinking? You wanna stay with rock/pop? or go funky? Runaway (Jamiroquai) Funk the Dumb stuff (Tower of Power)

nice work ben.

Bought from Dave last week. I paid one evening, the case was sent the very next day. Great communicator, trouble free, would recommend.

Hi Lawrence, yeah, with the 18 Sound. So much more noise than the 8Ohm 200W that was in there. I reckon it sounds pretty good, although playing over the neck pickup with the drive pedal on sounds a bit "farty" which disappears when I play up towards the neck... The G&L pickups seem pretty hot so maybe turn the input down on the pedal?? Having had two completely different experience sharing, I reckon I could tell the difference between a chancer and a genuine considerate player. The two bands I shared with on sat were awesome guys, it didn't feel like talking to a distracted twelve year old when i was telling them how to use my amp!! Prime - that comment about putting a pint on top of your amp just send shivers down my spine. Seriously. Anyway, this month is getting even better as a video that we filmed a couple of months ago has just come back to us and is now released! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGJ8bXm1E0 Would genuinely appriciate any feedback, good or bad. For me it looks pretty good, if anything though a bit too much style over substance - not really a massive plot but nice transitions between scenes, good slo-mos etc. Cheers.

My music video virginity has been taken. Had a great time [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGJ8bXm1E0"]filming this[/url] a couple of months ago. I'd really appriciate any genuine feedback - good or bad. For me I think the camera work/focus pulling is amazing, the scenery is lovely as are the shots in the cafe/arcade/ pub. One of my big concerns is the production value of the sound... Thoughts?

Right, Jan was a good month. New speaker, pedal (from bc), cab-case (from bc). Given the way this thread started I could end it with an opposite and much happier story from our first 2012 gig. We were put on to headline and happily shared my backline - this time to some people with brains in their heads. Absolutely crappy house kit, the floor tom kept falling over! But it's about having fun right Good fun gig. 10 months into starting playing and my 10th gig ever I'm actually starting to enjoy this music malarky!! [attachment=99888:good ship.jpg]

Cheers Lawrence. Really good advice, which I shall heed. I've ordered the 18sound. It comes tomorrow. I can't wait. I'm going to spend some time with my ears, and with WinISD seeing what I can learn! Ashdown Bass Drive Plus also arrived today, it's going to be a great weekend.

Awesome. So essentially I want to tune a bit higher than 40, but too high and I risk farting when pushing the lows. Makes sense. What about tuning lower than 40, say at 30-35? Would that help support the 60-80 range (being roughy an octave higher?) Also, how much does it really matter? Will it be a really noticable about of drop off? It looks like the previous driver had a natural frequency of 38, the 18Sound's is 39, so not too different. (But again I'm probaby missing something and it's not just the natural frequency that affects the tuning) It's a decent enough cab already so reckon I'm gonna go with the new speaker, fit it and try it out. If I notice drop-off I now have a bit of knowledge to do something about it. More likely, (since I've been playing less than a year, and haven't as yet settled on a "sound") is that I wont notice the difference!! Also, cheers Lawrence - seems crazy that different manufacturers report the same property in different ways.

Cool. I can do that I gues based on these links. Second one looks easiest to access but prob worth going through that wiki book to learn a bit more about it. New to all of this but is it standard to tune to the lowest frequency you'll use, so in my case 41Hz? [url="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Engineering_Acoustics/Bass_Reflex_Enclosure_Design"]http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Engineering_Acoustics/Bass_Reflex_Enclosure_Design[/url] [url="http://www.mobileinformationlabs.com/HowTo-1Woofer-Box-CAL%20Port%20lenth%201.htm"]http://www.mobileinformationlabs.com/HowTo-1Woofer-Box-CAL%20Port%20lenth%201.htm[/url] [url="http://www.ronshaw.citymax.com/f/Designing_Bass_Reflex_Loudspeaker_Enclosures.pdf"]http://www.ronshaw.citymax.com/f/Designing_Bass_Reflex_Loudspeaker_Enclosures.pdf[/url]

Ha, I look forward to hearing from them! Though I was getting the hang of it all. Cheers Discrete, I've read that article from Alex (and a lot of his stuff, very helpful) I figure if I have a higher rated speaker to minimise thermal limitation and a biggish xmax to minimise excursion limitation I'd be in a reasonably good place... So with Merton's input I'm now less confident in what I though I know!!

Update! After a busy month I'm getting round to sorting this out. I think the best option for me at the moment is to put at driver capable of handling more power into my cab. So what are people's thoughts. Amp spec: 350W at 4Ohms, (500W at 2ohms) Previous (blown) speaker: 200W, 8Ohms New Requirements (in my mind): 400W+ Speaker 4 Ohms 15" (the speaker...) Options so far: £100 (400W) - http://professional.celestion.com/bass/pdf/BN15-400S4.pdf £150 (450W) - http://www.eighteensound.com/index.aspx?mainMenu=view_product&pid=233 I have a pretty limited knowledge of these things but from the bit of research I've done the celestion's xmax of 2.5mm is pretty lacking compared to the 6.5mm of the 18sound, but I appreciate that this isn't the only factor. Would be very greatful for any feedback.

Yeah, our drummer (who's from Dartford) keeps going on about it (rock and roll started in Dartford etc etc!!) Ive not seen it yet though...

Yeah, I got burned just before christmas by a guy who blew my speaker (with my bass) because he couldnt follow instructions (or bring his own bass). Would still help out in the future though, just tape up the head so people cant f**k about with it.

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