pete.young

Well that's all very well, but in what sense are these 'semi-hollow' ?

I've just acquired one through @GILLY , an all-round splendid chap. I'm mainly going to use it with double bass (Krivo through an EA Doubler), but I just gave it a quick burst of fretless through my Walkabout Scout and it sounds fantastic, really sings on the upper registers. Looking forward to giving it a first gig on Saturday.

Turns out this is a 12 dB boost centred at 30Hz. Which to me is weird, because I'm using a hi-pass filter to get rid of anything at 30Hz and below!

I think the retailer is right, this head should have been capable of operating at 2 Ohm . The early models only allowed 4 or 8 Ohm operation and they were labelled 4 - 8 where yours says 2 - 8 . You can get absolute confirmation by emailing EBS with the amp serial number. So whatever fault caused this to blow up, I don't think it was because you connected 2 4Ohm cabs to it.

My Blues band The Ministry of Mojo are playing 3 sets at Dereham Blues Festival, various venues, this coming Saturday, 13th July. Come along and say hi if you're there. https://www.derehambluesfestival.org.uk/

Glad you were able to resolve it. If I were about to join a band and they said "by the way you owe £x for a share of a well-used PA", I'd walk away and find another band. Does anyone else feel like that?

So have you just come here to argue with me, or do you have any genuine insight which will actually help the OP to achieve his objective?

In my experience, the Zoom bass effects don't excel at anything, except maybe some of the compressor patches. Everything else is more aimed at allowing you to experiment with a lot of different effects for not very much money, and then buy something more expensive that actually does excel. The other way to go about this may be to eschew the synth patches in favour of some combination of fuzz (if there is a gated option, good), envelope filter, autowah and octave. You might get close to the kind of bass sound on 'I wanna dance with somebody' with this combination. Bearing in mind that if all you have is a B3, you can only have 3 of these so pick the least worst solution. Ultimately, it's probably quicker, easier and cheaper to polish your keyboard skills until you are a live keyboard player, at least for basslines. It's not as hard as you'd think, especially if you use both hands!

Go fretless. Problem solved.

I've played about with the various synth settings inn the MS-60B but didn't get any real satisfaction until I bought an SY1. Your playing needs to be very clean to help the tracking. I'd use the Z-Syn effect if that's available on the B3- this is supposed to be a clone of a Korg G5 and I think it is about the best sounding of the synth patches though not close to a real G5. I'd put a compressor patch upstream of the Z-Syn, probably 160 Comp. This will help with the tracking. The track details also mention an OC5. If you have to use a slot for an octaver I find that PitchSHFT is a bit more predictable than Ba Octave. If you don't need a slot for the octaver, I'd use the 3rd slot to add an EQ to take out some of the bass signal upstream of the synth, this will take out some of the tracking issues. Alternatively, adding a chorus is sometimes a useful dodge to fatten up a synth sound. Now you see why you need 5 slots, not 3!

Was this a self-build or did you buy it from somewhere?

There is an excellent medium-sized venue called the Apex, which books a lot of interesting bands. There are two pubs, the Hunter Club and the Grapes, and the Bury Folk Collective meets twice a month. And an annual 2-day folk festival, this weekend.

Elephant, from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens.

If you have the vehicle to transport 2 cabs, it would make more sense to me to get another 8Ohm 4x10 and run them both together.

My blues band has a gig this coming Friday in The Duke, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich. Formerly known as the Duke of York, I can see why rebranding to move away from that association is a good move!

To be fair to Eich, they have replied again. I think to get any customer service at all on a 15 year old amp made by a previous version of the company is not bad, certainly not terrible in my book. They have confirmed that the pictured driver is indeed a double magnet neodymium driver and not a chinese audio unit. They've offered to sell me a replacement driver for 39 Euro, with shipping, VAT and import duty it'll be around the same cost as the Basschat solution but not as good.

Its main function seems to be to keep all the for sale forums free of wanted ads, so I think it's doing something useful.

From your reply you seem to be in some doubt as to whether it is visible or not? Well at the moment I am not able to view it, presumably because I'm not currently a supporting member.

Is this why the Wanted forum is now visible to supporting members only?

I'm pleased to say that there is a happy ending to this tale. I replaced the driver with a Faital 4FE32. I was having difficulty sourcing capacitors for a reasonable price so I ended up going with an 800Hz crossover from Blue Aran. The difference is like night and day - not only has the annoying buzz gone, but the sound is much improved and there is much more clarity in the higher frequency. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I did recieve an email from Eich, asking me to send photos of the driver because "we are unsure what is in there." No response so far to the email I sent back.

There is a very vocal minority on this site who rave about flatwound strings but unless you are looking to reproduce sounds from '70s TV cop show soundtracks or Motown thud, I'd advise caution. I like DR Sunbeams, they sound great, are relatively long-lived and have a gentle feel which might be attractive if you play a lot of slides.

I have one, it's what I use in the the band Waxies Dargle, a Pogues covers band. The double bass patch in the left hand is particularly realistic. I've played both Accordion and Bass parts at the same time when the bass player hasn't been available.

Thanks, yes I'm in dark mode. Can see it now. Should have gone to Specsavers, other opticians are available!

That's OK Phil, you can't help your looks and we forgive you 🙂. I'm no oil painting myself. +1 for the IPR3000, we had one for years and it was rock solid.