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Hi guys, I have an Orange bass terror which has the very common hot DI problem. What do you guys think is he gets way of getting around this? Is there some sort of DI in/ DI out attenuator to simply bring the volume down? Any help or advice appreciated!

I've had a Behinger BDI21 and a Sansamp Deluxe. Settled currently on the MXR M80. Nice Eq and default colour if I want to DI from it, most of the time I use it to tweet what I'm sending into my Orange bass terror and then DI from the amp

I have a Fender mustang and musicmaster. The musicmaster is a late 70's American built, really really heavy and for most requires a pickup upgrade but can be found between £50-£550 easily. Good money for what it is. My mustang is a newer Japanese made 70's reissue. Slightly slimmer neck, much lighter bass but I get much less sustain and the tuners don't feel as good. Although the rest of the build/ finishing is spot on! The new Fender starcaster and Coronado basses are both short score and feel and sound great. If you want to balance the shorter neck with a bigger body. Vintage vibe for days too. Hope this helps!

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So the simple question is can it be done? How does it look? My cab is in really good condition but I would prefer to have it in a different colour and I was thinking of spraying it rather than paying to have it re covered. Any thoughts or advice? Cheers!

Part of it is down to perceived desireability. The musicmaster being an entry level or student model at the time gives people the impression they wouldn't want them now. Just like old fender bullet or lead models. In terms of modern playability, the musicmasters are mega heavy, another reason why people wouldn't always want them. I own a 70's musicmaster that I've had custom, creamery pickups made for but due to weight it is my back up/ stay at home bass and a reissue Mustang bass (with Seymour Duncan precision put in) which stays at our practice space.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1443527007' post='2875498'] I think we've all been here at some point - please dude IMHO you (and the other guys in the band) should seriously consider reducing the volume levels for rehearsals. Apart from being completely unnecessary and possibly even counter productive when you're writing or honing a song - as Lozz says you could end up with damaged hearing. Also consider this - when you do get to gigging (I'm assuming you're an original material band who are aiming to be on larger stages rather than pub gigs) - sound guys usually HATE a massively loud backline. That's what FOH systems are for. Backline should only really be for monitoring if you have FOH support and if you are used to having an ear splitting stage volume, you are going to run into constant problems with angry sound men, and ultimately end up having to turn the amps down and be p1ssed off coz you can't get into it with the stage volume being quieter. You may already know all of this and not care! That's fine and I really don't want to be condescending either, so please don't think I'm a know all kn0bhead, believe me I'm not! I'm just speaking from my own experiences with this and I really think you'll benefit in the long run from getting used to playing at lower volumes. I certainly have. For info - I run a 500w class D amp into 2 barefaced super compacts and rarely need to turn the output past 10 o'clock. That's with a pretty loud drummer too. Good luck! [/quote] Thanks for some good advice. Two guitarist are both running 100w twins on about 4. Is a bit too loud for practice but is a small room and seems needed once drummer starts going. I was running my 7pro at 8ohm with the master about 2 o'clock to keep up. But I completely appreciate your point about volume both in practice and live.

Thank for all the advice so far guys! Really appreciated. A fair mixed bag of opinions! Still don't know if 500W will be enough volume wise

Gigging isn't a massive concern yet, my band are about 12 months away from that and I have a DI on my board should I need to use it. This is really for our practice space but I need volume as I'm competing with two 100W Fender twins and rightly or wrongly, we practice very very loud. Again, output wise I needed to run my 7pro quite hard to get the volume I wanted but would occasionally use the -db input to clean the signal up too. My concerns at this point are really with the power ratings of the a,p against the cab and if anyone can offer any advice on this. But take onboard what you say that the smaller options might not be loud enough

Thanks so far guys. In the case of the 500w options I'm just a bit worried of only sending 250(ish)W into a 1200W cab and any negative aspect sound wise or otherwise I might get from that. On my 7pro I would run the gain just before I got the clip light and then adjust volume to taste but even then I would need the volume at around 2 o'clock

hi all, So my Ampeg SVT 7pro just died on me which is being refunded and I'm going to buy another amp head. Trouble is I have a 1200 watt Matamp 4x10 cab (that I got a deal on here on the forums). I'm aware that underpowering isn't s massive issue and in no way detrimental to your gear as over doing it buuuuuut, on my 7pro which is 600W into 8ohm I needed to have the volume fairly high and it's a pretty high powered head, will a "normal" amp even cut it? My shortlist at the minute is Aguilar TH500 Orange OB500 Ampeg PF800 But which the 500W options I'm going to get just half of the total output which is then less than 1/4 of the amps total output; can't help but feeling I'm going to need to nail the amp just to get reasonable volume, am I wrong? At the time of getting my head I nearly bought an Orange TB500 and the guy I was buying it from advised me against it based on power. Any and all a device appreciated. Any questions then fire away.