dannybuoy

A few arguments have been expressed in this thread that I'd like to counter! Jake said way back that out of his students, the worst musicians have been the ones that only knew tab, so therefore he blames the tab. This does not make any sense. It is a valid observation, but there is no direct cause and effect link here - it's like saying there are lots of inconsiderate drivers who drive BMWs, therefore there must be something wrong with BMW. Tab, and dots are just methods of representing music and have nothing to do with the skill or theory knowledge of the musician. There are people who only read tab yet have a lot of theory knowledge, and people who can read notation but that's all they can do. Another point that is repeated is that with tab, you don't know what notes you are playing, and notation offers a much richer experience with being able to visualise harmonies and intervals etc. It's true that many players don't know what notes they are playing, but that has to do with them, not tab in itself. Both systems can easily be 'read' if the reader is used to them. Because I am used to tab, I instantly know that number 7 on the A string is an E. Whenever I see a number 2 frets higher on the next string up I immediately see that as a 5th. Looking at a solo I can visualise a box shape from the numbers and see what scale is being used. It's just a different way of writing down the music and whenever you get used to either system it is easy to extract musical information from it. Another point is that some don't like being told how to play, and prefer to choose which string/fret to use themselves. Tab users have just as much freedom to re-interpret the notes. Whereas a notation reader would look at the position of the dot in the stave, work out it's an A, then choose where to play it; I see a 2 on the top line, work out that's an A, and instead play it as if it were a 7 on the next line down if I want to. Except I find the tab way far quicker since I don't need to convert the number to a note unless I really want to, I can just add on 5. I have a lot of respect for people that can read proper notation (when they aren't slagging off tab that is!). But in my opinion, as a musical notation format, the only advantages it offers are: - Rhythmic notation: Essential in a situation where you are expected to sight read having never heard the piece - which takes serious skill, so kudos to Bilbo. However the lack of rhythmic information in tab is not a problem for most, as when you are simply trying to learn a piece of music, your ears are far better at learning rhythms than your eyes. - Easier sharing between other musicians. Although in this day an age, any musical notation software can easily convert to or from tab. Also, in a lot of the situations I've played in, if I had to share music I had written to a guitarist in the band, I would need to use tab, so it also depends on the situation.

For those styles, the Orange Terror Bass sounds great. Now, just sell all those funky active basses and get a P Bass with flats and you'll be there!

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They will be charge free for certain as they're in the EU. It will still work out cheaper from the US at £140 - also have another look as some eBay auctions now include pre-paid customs fees in the price.

Expect to pay 20% plus £8 fee on top, unless you order from a shop that marks the package value down below the threshold so that it escapes all charges. Unfortunately these shops don't shout about this as it's illegal, so good luck finding one that has those pickups in stock!

If the tweeter was not in it's own sealed section and this new gaping hole peers right into the main body of the cab, then yes, it has made a difference. Cab design is a bit of a science, the size of the enclosure and the ports are tuned to the specific speakers used. But if you've thrown two random speakers into it, all bets are off and adding the new port there might have made it better rather than worse!

Don't let one bad one put you off trying it, it's a great little amp! You probably won't melt your Berg.

Hmm, I wonder if Orange will pay to fix the cabs that it slayed?

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1413729979' post='2581288'] Definitely needs apostrophe in K'tulu would look so cool! Voted for that one [/quote] This is how it should be spelt: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9h8uDPl.jpg[/IMG]

My issue with the Hyperdrive is that adding bandpassed distorted mids results in a perceived overall low end loss. If I were to clone it I would add an active bass boost control to the clean portion of the signal!

[quote name='theplumber' timestamp='1413827994' post='2582485'] This guitar has just sold at the asking price of £995.......someone has been well and truly f***ed!! [/quote] One born every minute.

One of these? It's probably do for practice, but being only 50W and designed for PA usage, it's probably not loud enough to be gig-worthy! It's also just a power amp so would sound much better with a preamp pedal going into it too.

Are you sure you've got the model number right? Googling Kustom KP4060 only brings up this thread and another that says it's a 50W powered PA mixer?

Interested to know what it is then - Japanese? Truss adjuster at the heel end looks unusual, on fenders they are higher up closer to the fretboard:

P Bass Jr? Looks diddy!

If you can't find one, I have and can recommend one of these: http://www.herculesstands.com/guitars/GS402BB.html

The schematic is available for the FDeck HPF, but you might have to convert that to a vero layout yourself!

[quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1413626858' post='2580252'] I'm interested to know abit about the science, what is the problem with the design vs science? [/quote] One mantra of cab design is that you can choose two out of small size, deep lows, and loudness. The design of these cabs means they are very small and deep in the lows, but very inefficient compared to other cabs, meaning they need a lot of power to get to gigging volume. Fortunately the Orange Terror Bass is a very powerful head so this is rarely a problem! The other thing is people like small cabs mainly for their lightness, but this one is small and heavy. Also I believe that even though you have 2x12 inch speakers in there, with this design it can only put out the same volume as a 1x12. The only thing the second speaker brings to the table is the benefit of being able to use a smaller enclosure, but at the expense of added weight. I'm no speaker expert, but that's what I've gleaned from reading previous threads anyhow!

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1413617114' post='2580114'] Space? Anyone looking at just the dots or just the TAB will need to turn the page twice as often as they would otherwise. [/quote] Who said the tab and notation need to go on the same page? They could be separated you know.

I kinda wish I remembered to try this out before selling this combo on, the main reason I sold it was because I didn't like how it sounded with fuzz. So got an Orange AD200B and Matamp 2x12 for a bit instead, until I got sick of carrying it! I've avoided tweetered cabs ever since, although I know that tweeter was just a bad example. I really like the horn in the Orange OBC410 for example. The thing is most cabs would probably sound better with full range going to the main speaker so it can at least output something in the 5kHz region. Am I right in thinking that in the majority of cabs that have a crossover and tweeter, if you turn the tweeter off, the crossover is still active at 2-4kHz on the woofer, making it sound darker than if the woofer was just hooked up directly?

I've got the Blower Box, never tried the COG. But the Blower Box is capable of insane low end boost. It looks like the TK421 just has a low pass filter tone control, so probably has decent, but not boosted, low end. The TK421X though lets you blend in clean lowpassed low end so you can in effect boost the bass that way. What I really like about the Blower Box is that it when played with a pick to really bring out the snarling top end, you can still have gobs of thunderous low end underneath it!

Yes learning to read music will make you a better musician, and good on you for doing so. But this does not mean that musicians should be force fed musical notation and denied tab, for that is akin to saying that we should translate everything on basschat into Latin to make us better linguists! Or that we should type all our responses in 1s and 0s to make us better computer scientists! I would hazard a guess that most bassists/guitarists do not read music well, at least not to the level where they would be easily able to play something quickly by looking at a page. I think the main reason for this, at least for me, is not born out of ignorance or laziness, but more that we already have a commonplace system that is better suited for our instruments, that removes any ambiguity over which octave or position to play in, and is easier to translate visually. To me traditional musical notation is like a cipher, I can decode it into tab in my head, but only very slowly. I prefer to visualise scales etc as moveable patterns on the fretboard, the traditional musical notation system just doesn't sit comfortably in my brain! Of course if I wanted to become a pro session player, or be able to adapt / play music written by others more easily I should look to brush up on my reading skills, and maybe one day I will. But for now my time is limited, bass is more of a hobby and if every now and then if I want to do an online lesson or learn a piece of music, gimme the goddam tab! The original question was whether the OP should offer transcriptions in both forms. If you want the maximum amount of people to get the benefit from them, then why not?

Nice job! Maybe you just got lucky with the neck wood - when wood is plain-sawn, the cuts from the centre end up with the grain aligned the same way as most quarter-sawn pieces, i.e. with the grain going in straight lines along the neck. But if they're all this way then that makes these even more of a bargain!

There are much better cabs out there, I'd get the head and separate cab!