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Guys, the good lady has said I can have a new bass for our 25th wedding anniversary when we go to NYC in October, Im in love with Sadowskys, I have an RV4, those Will Lee models look fab and I love a narrow neck. I reckon i have 1 afternoon of our 4 day visit to nail a new bass, where should I go, straight to Roger or try some used Sadowskys somewhere, would love an NYC, but new theyre a bit out of my bracket. HELP. and how do I get it home?

Im using a Schroeder 410L 1200 watts at about 25kilos.

[quote name='darwin' post='524167' date='Jun 25 2009, 10:09 PM']I'm going to give these Zoot cabs a miss and head to the Bass Merchant tomorrow as I've got the day off (it's my birthday !) Hopefully they'll be able to help me out...[/quote] Hi Darren, I've just bought a Schroeder 4x10L, i was finding the MB 15s a tad wooly, so wanted a tighter sound, I guess some 12's would be a nice compromise from ur 15. Big wedding gig outdoors tomorrow, first big test, but at 1200w I dont think volume will be a problem (probably have Alex on here now and talk about excursion, xmax and thermal ratings!) I saw Mike making the first Zoots last year and tried some 15s ABd against the MB cabs i finally bought, they were good, but I went for the MBs mainly for resale residual values and size. Good luck at BM, Daz is great to deal with.

The 3015LF has an Xmax of 9.6mm, which gives you 15 x 15 x 9.6 x 1 = 2160. [/quote] 9.6mm is a hell of a distance of travel and keep all things parralel and true, i think my old MB 15s must have travelled that much from memory I remember thinking it was scary to watch sometimes, I think they are BC drivers.

I bought a BLX80 off here a while back and although its just fine, the speaker is a tad tired to my ears, can someone recommend a replacement 10" driver, could I use a neo one? has someone got one suitable for sale? Ive pasted this in the amps and cab section aswell, Help please!

I bought a BLX80 off here a while back and although its just fine, the speaker is a tad tired to my ears, can someone recommend a replacement 10" driver, could I use a neo one? has someone got one suitable for sale?

What is there stopping a 10" driver being made with equal excursion, surely its just a case of getting the right amount of cone suspension and a deeper voice coil arrangement.

You have stated several times that one of your 1x15s will out perform a 4x10 excursion wise as apposed to thermal rating, which you say in someways is inconsiquential. Now my probably ignorant mind says 4x10 equals cone area of 40, 1 x 15 is cone area of 15 simple! (cant get into areas of circles etc but u get my drift) surely a 4x10 shares the input equally and therefore the excursion equally aswell and so they have to only work a quarter as hard with a given input therefore their excusion per driver is a quarter of a single driver, am i barking mad or what?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='498516' date='May 27 2009, 09:10 AM']To continue repeating myself, the power rating of a cab is a thermal rating - it does not take into account how far the woofers can move without distortion. So a 1200W rated 4x10" is unlikely to handle more than about 300W in the lows without distortion. (And I'm not just referring to run of the mill 4x10"s, I mean the boutique neo ones as well). Also the power rating of a cab does not tell you how much power is needed to 'push it properly' - in fact the larger the cab, the less power you will need to get to gig volume. Alex[/quote] Alex, Im sure all this thermal rating stuff is perfectly valid etal, but all us guys want to know is how the f@ck does it sound in practice, Ive had a 4 hour praccy tonight with a schroeder 410 and its bloody amazing and apparantly gets better as time goes on, do u have a scheme to trial stuff, as ive just got shot of 2 MB 15's in favour of a tighter 410 sound and cant see how a 115 can sound as totally puckered ars@ as what ive played tonight.

If ever I was to be tempted back to a Status it would be one of these me thinks.... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-Status-Kingbass-MkII-4String-Bass-Mark-King_W0QQitemZ200351444397QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2ea5e06dad&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1688%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-Status-Kin...%3A1%7C294%3A50[/url]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='514626' date='Jun 15 2009, 07:29 PM']Still got the yellow and black theme going on![/quote] You're right, not noticed that!

It's a long story, for perhaps another time, but at last some pics of my new rig, with the new 410L! Hoping for great things as I get the vibe that these are well matched

New rig is born, gone are my MB 15's and in comes a Schroeder 410L for a tighter punchier sound I was missing. Hopefully a match made in heaven with the LM11, basses you've seen before. I much prefer the old fashioned carpet covering to the Rhino finish, I think it looks better and lends itself to a more rattle free cab IMHO.

You have different "incomings" everytime I look, ur worse than me! it was schroeder cabs a day or two ago! mind.........

[quote name='josh3184' post='511789' date='Jun 12 2009, 06:38 AM']you take that back! [/quote] No he wont, he speaks the truth! wheres my tin hat?

I'm liking your taste, she's a beauty, love the Leo Fender thing but like the modern take and sound more that the vintage vibe, hence my RV and Spitfire, active would be a nice addition perhaps, I love the urgency of a few volts behind you! Sweet well done.

Lovely but ouch £!

[quote name='OldGit' post='507245' date='Jun 6 2009, 09:32 PM']I try not to go there cos the GAS it causes is uncomfortable It's pretty good but could do with a real user experience consultant once over For example if I was to send you this page in an email and say "wow just what you are looking for!!" [url="http://www.sadowsky.com/stock/view/m3220.html"]http://www.sadowsky.com/stock/view/m3220.html[/url] you'd have no way to the home page 'cos it's be designed as a pop up from another bit of the Sado site .. "Tell a friend" doesn't work like that ... Much better to have a general sitewide navigation bar on every page ..[/quote] You are the man OG for this sort of thing, please dont review my poor attempt at a band website!