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[quote name='Rowbee' post='673596' date='Dec 3 2009, 08:27 PM']I'm sure anyone who's dealt with Mark previously will agree he's a top bloke.
Good luck with the sale Mark and £350 is a bargain indeed and it looks pretty much immaculate in the pics - is it sitting on top of a Purple Chili cab in pics by any chance?[/quote]
Ha - good spot, Rob! I'm just a cab slut! For those of you who live in the Coventry area I think it's all only fair to warn you that Rob now has two Barefaced Compacts in his rig - be afraid, be very afraid... -
Thanks for the comments, gents - yeah, I was lucky enough to pick it up at a good price myself. So, best of British to the first lucky punter. Er, for the record, I am not interested in offers! (Someone's already offered me £300 - I suppose God loves a trier but honestly, sometimes...)
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Hi All,
I'll get some photos up in the next day or two but, let's face it, you all know what one of these look like! No issues aside from a slight scuff on the top left corner, which is barely noticeable. Still has the the little label on - the one with Marco looking like a bouncer. Works perfectly and includes a soft laptop-type bag which gives ample protection so long as you're not going to - literally - throw it around. Slightly less than the going rate but it's what I paid for it from a fellow Basschatter a month or so back so I'm happy to sell it on for the same price.
Update - photos now added:
Cheers,
Mark -
Pete Tullet - that's the man! I exchanged a few e-mails with him about my combo some years back and he was unfailingly helpful and still very enthusuastic about the amps. Even then I think thery were unlike anything else on the market. And yeah, by todays standards, there's a plentiful supply of kit that will out perform them by any objective measure. But they did have one thing that a lot of the new stuff lacks (imho) - character!
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Yeah, I had the 150w 1 x 10" combo too. I loved it. Mine was loaded with an EV speaker; sounded brilliant. I exchanged a few e-mails with the guy who made them and he was kind enough to send me some publicity material and copies of reviews from back in the day. I think he was the guy behind (was it?) Alligator amps but someone will correct if I'm wrong. It was a company that made very well regarded amps for a while back in the 80's anyway. I wish I could remember the bloke's name but it was a few years back! I don't have the publicity material and other stuff anymore as I gave them to the person who bought the amp off me a few years back.
I managed to pick up a 15" extension speaker from a shop in East Anglia somewhere (same neck of the woods as the company were based in) but someone had swapped out the original driver for a crappy Fane one. I put a Black Widow in it and this was a killer rig with the combo! I also had the head separated from the combo and covered the whole lot in grey vinyl as the wood was starting to scratch. By modern standards it wasn't high powered but it used to deliver every one of those 150 watts! The cabs were tiny too. I often wished I'd kept them. I'd love to have heard what they sounded like with a couple of newer neo drivers in now.
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[quote name='GreeneKing' post='670785' date='Dec 1 2009, 09:37 AM']Hiya Mark
If you run two cabs in 'apparent series' i.e. one cable to the amp, 2nd cable from 1st cab to 2nd it is actually a parallel connection i.e. two 8 ohm cabs give 4 ohms. The 1st lead will take all the load too so needs to be decent and OBBM cables do it with ease I'm sure.
Peter[/quote]
Ah, thanks for that, Peter. That's deals with that then!
I'm still on a mission to find one of the current breed of lightweight/Class D's that cab give me the same oomph, weight and warmth of sound as the Trace head I've been using recently. I've tried a Little Mark II but it sounds a bit clinical and thin by comparison. I've picked up a Genz Benz Shuttle 3.0 which I'll try too. Any thoughts on how the RH450 might compare and stack up against the Trace? -
I have a horrible suspicion that this is going to be a stupid question, but why have these amps only got one speaker output? If you have to run two (for example) 8 ohms cabs in series doesn't that keep the ohmage above 4 ohms and therefore mean you can't draw maximum power from the amp?
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That Roscoe's lovely. I've been the happy owner of a fretted LG3000 I got from Mark at Bass Direct for a couple of months now. They're simply fantastic basses. Your fretless looks no different. What's the top wood btw?
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John,
Any gigs over the Christmas period? I live in Chester now but all my family are still down in Colchester and we're staying with them for a few days over the holiday period. We've only otherwise got the 'traditional' (and all too predictable) holiday gig at St Mary's Art Centre top look forward to otherwise.
Pip pip!
Mark -
The album gets a 4 star review in this month's 'Mojo'.
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[quote name='Count Bassy' post='662285' date='Nov 23 2009, 12:03 AM']Wot? No single string basses at all?[/quote]
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[quote name='phsycoandy' post='662380' date='Nov 23 2009, 08:48 AM']Wet monday morning bump
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Where abouts in Suffolk, are you? If you've still not shifted this by Christmas I'd really like to try it out when I'm down in your direction, if you were amenable? I'm staying with family in Colchester from Christmas Eve until 28th Dec.
Can you say anything about the sound in comparision to something like a Markbass LMII, which I've found just a little too clean and clinical, and lacking in warmth for my tastes. I'm using a Trace AH300SMX, which sounds fantastic, but now I'm doing quite a bit more playing I'd ultimately like to find something that offers a similarly warm and punchy sound but is a bit more portable.
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[quote name='Pearl_Jammin' post='661777' date='Nov 22 2009, 02:00 PM']By the way, if you're into vinyl, this album really lends itself to being spun. My LP verses a 320 kbs rip is much warmer and generally more musically enjoyable![/quote]
I love my vinyl - appreciate the advice.
I agree about the Queens of the Stone Age comments; the same would apply to the Eagles of Death Metal too, I guess. None of which, of course, makes any of them bad and it does it helps to distinguish between the various musicians involved! -
Accidentally caught Them Crooked Vultures after 'Later' last Friday and didn't turned over as a friend had coincidentally mentioned them during the day. I thought I'd give them a go because she'd mentioend the Queens of the Stone Age connection. Sat back with my glass of red wine, wifey having gone to bed, and was suddenly confronted not only by Dave Grohl on drums but John Paul Jones playing bass. Absolutely f**king brilliant! The playing was incredible and JPJ proceeded to swap between a variety of Manson mulit-string basses - which all sounded fantastic. These two made for one of the best rhythm sections I've heard in years. Just goes to show what a natural fit Grohl would have been for the Zeppelin reunion gigs. Was too slow off the mark to record it but I was in heaven for the half an hur or so it was on. Anyone else catch it?
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Okay, so this relates to the ceremony rather than the reception but I thought I'd share it anyway. My wife used to work above the Register Office in our fair city. They were once regaled, after a ceremony had finished and the couple were leaving the office in a cloud of confetti, with the strains of George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex'! Quick, call the taste police!
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[quote name='MB1' post='658652' date='Nov 18 2009, 10:20 PM']MB1.
BUMP![/quote]
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[quote name='LawrenceH' date='Nov 10 2009, 09:56 AM' post='650407']
I think it more depends on the harmonic content of the individual note you're playing at any one time, since you don't output all notes simultaneously!
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[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='650250' date='Nov 9 2009, 11:22 PM']Power requirements and driver excursion drop by roughly 50% for each octave higher you go.[/quote]
Ah ha, right, I think the penny's dropping. So, by my rudimentary calculations that should mean I won't have too much to worry about? If my (4 string) bass has a range of 4 octaves to accommodate (low E to the E - for example - on the 21st fret on the G string) and I'm using both my 8 ohm cabs each cab would draw 250w of available power from an amp that puts out 500w at 4 ohms. Meaning there wouldn't be more than 150w available to go into each driver in the low end - from bottom up 150w + 75w + 37.5w + 18.75w = 281.25w. Or, more power than the cab would be receiving and therefore not enough to push past the 150w in the low end required to make distortion a worry. Is that correct?
Of course, this only includes fretted notes. With overtones and harmonics to contend with I guess - logically - the maximum power available in the low end could even be less...My brain hurts now.
Cheers,
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[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='650108' date='Nov 9 2009, 09:12 PM']That's about it.
Not at all, but if you put more than 150w or so into each driver in the low end they won't go any louder, and with enough power they'll distort badly.[/quote]
Okay, I think I've got that. But in practice would it be unlikely that you would put more than 150w into each driver in the low end as the mids and highs would also take a certain amount of the available power too (I've got a horrible feeling this might be a really stupid question now I'm reading it back - but hey!)? -
[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='650070' date='Nov 9 2009, 08:44 PM']The 300x is also OK, but that extra 100 watts thermal won't be of any benefit, as with 4mm xmax they're both displacement limited to 150 watts, give or take.[/quote]
So the benefit will be in the lower weight of the neo driver but there'd be no performance benefits as such?
So if I have two cabs with the same driver configuration - i.e. the neo versions - does that mean that my 500w Little Mark will be too powerful for them? I'm working on the assumption that the 300w quoted x 2 8ohm drivers will give me 100w 'headroom' with an amp that puts 500w into a 4ohm load. Would that be incorrect?
Oh, and before I get too involved and forget my manners - thank you, Bill, for taking the time and trouble to guide a monument to speaker ignorance such as myself through the basics here! -
"With only 2.5mm excursion and 69Hz Fs IMO the BN12 300s is a poor choice for electric bass. The BL12 200X will go a half octave lower and take twice the power before running out of steam".
And what's your view on the Neo version of the same speaker, Bill - the BN12 300X (I don't know why but it appears the Neo 12" Green Label is rated at 100w more.)? -
[quote name='ColinB' post='649363' date='Nov 9 2009, 08:09 AM']I've got the Warwick WCA112ND cab with the 12" Celestion Orange speaker in it - great mids, no oomph on the bottom E string. To be fair, though, Warwick does say that on their web-site and that it should be paired-up with the 15" cab if you want the full bottom end. I wouldn't know if putting the Orange 12" speaker in a different cab design to that which Warwick use could increase the bottom end, or if swapping the Orange for a Green in the same cab would achieve anything worthwhile - probably not![/quote]
Thanks for that. I'm thinking of going with the greens now, as it sounds as though I might lose too much bottom with the orange labels. These are what Mike puts in ordinarily, so I think I probably would have done well not to start pratting about with his standard specification! -
[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='648142' date='Nov 7 2009, 03:27 PM']The most important spec is excursion, xmax. That's what determines how much low frequency output a driver is capable of. IMO anything less than 4mm disqualifies a driver from consideration. And don't mix drivers, there are no advantages to doing so.
As for the result you can expect, a builder who knows what he's doing will be able to model different drivers in different boxes and provide you with charts for response, sensitivity and maximum output. Ergo, if he can't provide you with those charts...[/quote]
Ahhh, so there's a question to be asked then...
Thanks,
Mark -
I'm having two of Mike Walsh's Purple Chili 12" bass cabs made for me and I'm trying to decide whether to go for the orange label or green label neo speakers. There's a difference in sensitivity and frequency response between them as well as fundamental tone - by the sound of it. The green's are supposed to be more 'old school' and the oranges more mid-biased and clear. As each speaker seems to have different strengths I'm thinking of having one cab made up with each. Anyone had any experience of these speakers or care to comment on the one of each option?
Thanks,
Mark
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[quote name='jmsjabb' post='673696' date='Dec 3 2009, 09:51 PM']Can I ask the reason for selling so soon after buying?[/quote]
By all means. I've been through a few amps this year since I convinced myself I no longer needed my trusty MB SA450/Aguilar GS112's set up. After trying a SWR combo which didn't work for me I bought a Trace Elliot AH300SMX head which I love but would like to find a lighter weight head that gives me a similar sound. On the basis of my experience with the SA450 I thought I'd give the LMII a go but I'm beginning to realise that I'm really fussy about mid-range voicing on fixed frequency EQ controls and am looking for something that has semi-parametric mids. I'm experimenting with a Shuttle 3.0 at the moment so the LM is surplus. So is the Trace, come to think of it!