MichaelDean

On 04/01/2025 at 22:58, MichaelDean said:

Got the megalith working today! Sounds massive. Can't wait to hear it at war volume! 

 

I did realise that I'd wired the LEDs the wrong way round though, so that was a faff swapping them round. 

 

My only other annoyance is that the knobs I ordered don't quite fit. That's what I get from ordering from AliExpress 🙄 Need to get some others ordered. 

 

 

I've also started on a patch bay for my board. It's not very handy having the ins and outs for the multi where they are. Just need to drill out the enclosure and pop in the jacks I've soldered up. 

Well, all of this has turned to sh*t. 

In sorting the Megalith, I managed to cause an break in the ribbon connector. The next time I plugged it in after this picture, it didn't work except on the boosted channel. And I've destroyed the thing, probably overheating some components trying to get the fragments of wire out of the PCB holes. Might need to get another kit for this or just buy the Red Rocket version. It sounded soooo gooood! 😭

The Acapulco Gold doesn't have the massive amounts of gain that it should, but it makes a sound. Severly lacking low end too, even with a guitar.

At least I know I can fix the junction box.

I knew there was a reason why I stopped doing DIY pedals 🤦‍♂️

I'd wager there wouldn't be a standalone dedicated reverb pedal that would do this. It's quite a niche application. Could quite easily do it with a multi-fx with parallel processing though. Apply the eq and reverb to one path, then leave the rest un-effected and mix to taste.

Yes, it's sealed. I think I was going for like an SVT single enclosure thing. I think I did some modelling but it was 15 years ago. I didn't keep anything from uni other than this cab.

12 minutes ago, Cato said:

Whatever the wrongs or rights of the situation I'm cynical enough to think that Mr Sapko probably isn't too upset at the significant boost to his own account is likely to get from exposing a more famous 'influencer'.

 

Social media is just as grubby and cut throat as any other part of the entertainment industry, probably more so because of the number of competitors all trying to grab the limited attention span of an easily bored audience.

 

 

Well, Danny said he's actually not getting anything from that particular video. It's all going to Giacomo because Danny's used "his music" in numerous parts of the video.

Laney have removed their content of his as well. On Friday they released a custom colour for the Lionheart Fountry with Giacomo all over the marketing. All pulled. Yikes.

I've just got this back from my mum's house waaaaaaaaay too late. It's been in her understairs cupboard for about 15 years.

I didn't do a dissertation as such. On our degree course, we did a final major project with quite a big project aspect to it and a smaller (but not insignificant) write up. I attempted to build a head a cab. The head never did work. Such is a lot of my struggles with electronics!

The cab was hard to break though. I don't have any construction pics and can't remember if I put any dampening in it. The tweeter doesn't work either because I couldn't get the crossover to work. At least I managed to scrape a 2:1!

It's loaded with two Celestion BN10-300X speakers, for an 8Ohm, 600W cab. 

Oh. And I couldn't get any tolex cheap enough and I didn't know about tuffcab, so it's covered in literal black carpet! The guys in Carpet Wright were a bit confused with why I wanted such a small amount of carpet! 😂

I have never really used it, but thought it was time to get it out of my mum's house. so I brought it home at the weekend. I've just had a quick try out this morning with my Terror Stamp and a guitar and a bass. It's quite clearly very bassy, but it doesn't sound terrible with either. Tempted to see if the Mrs will let me keep this and get rid of the Orange Crush 35R I've got as a practice thing. I'm also very tempted to use it as a bi-amping rig...

Big oooof from me! That's stunning.

You'll need to put a cable or something in the input of your ABM. Ashdown amps usually have a switching jack for the input that mutes the output. Something like a 3.5mm to 1/4” headphone adapter would do the job. 

12 hours ago, Hellzero said:

This German made Sandberg looks ace: https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/sandberg-forty-eight-in-british-racing-green.59637/

That's lovley that is!

12 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at SWX in Bristol tonight. 

An excellent live band in a venue with really good sound. This will be the third time I've seen them and I can't wait.

Isn't that tomorrow night? I'm just listening to their new album at the moment. It's cool, should be a good show! I'm a bit sad I can't make it.

Reallly good practice last night. Got most of a new song arranged and found a use for shimmer reverb in a doom band. Less good was the guitarist (Adam), who usually picks up the guitarist/singer messaging at 5:20 wondering if someone else can pick him up when we're practicing at 6 and I've only got 20 minutes at home after doing the nursery run to burn my tongue on some dinner and then head out. Drummer didn't respond. So I had to go pick him up. Turns out Adam finished work at 3 yesterday. Had plenty of time. Bastard.

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

Just picking up on your excellent post on the "distortion that keeps the 'thump'" post:

 

 

I'll need to give your recommended X-bass distortion a try out!

 

I've been using the AIRD Preamp Orange stack which gives a very juicy fuzz that I'm liking a lot.

As we were discussing, so much more weight to it with a clean blend parallel path, and with the EQ in the +125Hz bass/low mids given a boost on both paths, combined with using a comp as a sustain on the fuzz path but something much more standard on the clean blend path. 

 

I've been using the Fat Tube bass preamp with no cab sim as an overdrive/fuzz with great success on my GX-100. I've also got some general EQ going on. Boosted around 1k for a bit of grind and cut some mids around 350Hz. Also worth a try...

On 01/04/2025 at 10:30, diskwave said:

And lastly. Everywhere I look advertising people are using old pop tunes to sell product to young people. Why?

I think you might be overestimating the number of young people watching TV  in order to see the adverts. Over 50% of 16-24 year olds are barely watching any live TV *, so the adverts are aimed to an older demographic, with whom the songs will resonate.

*https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/media-habits-adults/gen-z-swerves-traditional-broadcast-tv-as-less-than-half-tune-in-weekly/

You could also give the plugin a free trial to get a flavour for it. It's pretty close to the real thing and they've got IRs for all of the cabs.

https://auroradsp.com/plugins/laney-digbeth-db500

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Probably a dafty question but what is DOH. ?

Dave 

Pretty sure it's this...

I love my Digbeth head. It'll do everything. It's so easy to get a good sound out of it. The tilt control is the secret sauce. You can make it darker or brighter with that while keeping the same base tone. I'm confident you'd be able to get a good slap sound from the amp. 

Not tried the cabs though, so can't comment there.

@Dood had them in for review. 

I don't think it's got enough over the DB-500 to be worth the upgrade. I'm never wanting for power. The LAIR stuff on the DI and higher output is where I'm guessing the extra money goes. Though the master volume is a nice addition over the original. With a £600 price difference, I don't see them selling too many of these. I feel it's too much of a jump for niche features. I'm 100% sure it sounds great though. 

6 minutes ago, yonni said:

26%? That makes my £3,700 bass £4,662. Too much for me. I’ll contact BD. Thanks

Well, it's VAT plus import tax. They do automatically add 19% VAT on their price listed on the configurator though, so that'd come off if buying direct before importing.

16 minutes ago, yonni said:

Apologies if this has been answered but I have searched a couple of times and can’t find the answer:

 

Is the price quoted the price you pay? I.e. no nasty import duty on top to get it released from HMRC?

I know that Thomann charge everything upfront but not sure if Public Peace do. Anyone bought a new Maruszczyk recently?

 

I'd message Bass Direct with what you're after as they're a dealer. Do it all in the configurator, add it to the cart and then copy the spec into an email to them. Can't hurt to see what their price for that is.  Otherwise, assume an additional 26% on the cost of the bass + shipping.

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

And possibly the most famous proponent of fan-fret, Dingwall, still hasn't produced a headless, so all of those advantages are lost. 

Sheldon has been on record saying that they're working on a headless, but it's taking time to get a design that they're happy with. Also sounded like they were designing their own hardware. 

I wonder if the fit to the rear connectors isn't as perfect as it might perhaps be? I think I would try:

• Unscrewing the rear connections
• Fit that PCB to the main one
• Close the box 
• Attempt to screw the the connectors back to the enclosure to pull it back into place
• And then do the enclosure bolts

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Indeed, but that applies with any setup...

Fun fact, some chairs in fancy concert halls are designed to have the same absorbtion coefficient as people when folded so that the sound doesn't change from soundcheck to the show! Obviously a niche case and not a lot of use down the Dog and Duck, but I think it's cool!

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Which somehow begs the question... if having a longer B string sounds better, why not make all the other strings equally long?

Because they sound worse for being at that longer scale length. It's the same principle as on a piano or a harp, the lower pitched strings are longer than high pitched ones. As a Dingwall owner, I'd say it's like the small amount of difference in an instrument that makes it feel different to others. It's not better or worse, it's just different. And it's a level of difference that only really matters to the player - the average audience member isn't realistically going to notice a sonic difference between a multiscale and standard scale bass. If that difference works for you, great. If not, move on.

First port of call would be driving up to Bass Direct to get a D-Roc and a Spector Dimension. Maybe a Cort Space 5. While I'm there I may as well get a Canadian Dingwall ordered.

Could also do with a Rickenbacker, a bass VI of some sort, an Alpher or two, a Stingray 5, a Gibson RD, and nice examples of a P and J.

I'd also buy a rehersal space. Somewhere to keep the inevitable amp/cab collection where I can play them at volume. There'd be an SVT and an AD200B at the very least. A full compliment of Zilla cabs too. Add a 1x12, a offset vertical 4x12 and an 8x10.

There'd be some pedal experimentation for sure too, probably with a MIDI loop switcher.

I also very much like @BigRedX's vehicle and driver idea, which I would expand by adding roadies.

Very simple and low key, I'm sure you'd all agree 😅

One of the guitarists in my band has an Iommi SG on order with them. Deposit was paid in 2023. They're not responding to any emails. He should have had it late last year and they're just ignoring him. I keep telling him to call, but he's not taken my advice so far.