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There was some Fender involvement although I understand they all came out of the heartfeld factory in Japan, there was a 3 or 4 year run in the 90's with Fender Labelling. I have such a one. It's a Fender Prophecy III bubinga wood and Maple skunk stripe through-neck. It feels amazing with a nice slender Jazz neck, it looks very ninties mainly due to the heartfeld shaped 2 and 2 headstock. It sounds exactly like a nineties active Fender PJ Special, because that's what the Electronics are. So that makes it a little drivey and crystaline and glassy sounding for most Fender fans. So overall I think it's NOT a bad bass, but it's definitely not a vintage sounding thing. Maybe better for Pop, Metal, and Contemporary Jazz.

Hello everyone, pegman1 just drove up from the coast, came over to my place had a coffee and bought my Ampeg 2x10HE Classic Cabinet. Deal with confidence. pegman1 is a real player who knows what he wants, and a really pleasant plain-dealing guy. Enjoy the cab man. May it prove ideally suited to your purposes for many successful years to come. Polyrythmmm in London.

Hiyya, I just bought a 77 Fender P bass from Busccini in Munich. Communication was good and flexible. He seems a stable, honest, and bass savvy character. Deal with confidence I'll post pictures of your old bass in action when I trot her out this year.. Thanks a heap, Polyrythmmm in London

Holloweazy just bought my Ashdown ABM EBO III Bass head. He's a really nice person, he knew what he was looking for, wasted no time, and I was pleased to have him round the house. Good luck with your festival season matey, chat soon D.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1219072784' post='264689'] Although this analogy is full of holes it does make some sense given a bit of tweaking. If you take a normal car onto a race track and try to achieve consistently fast lap times then your brakes will give out, guaranteed. Take that car back on the road and those same brakes will be more than capable of decelerating the car as required for many thousands of miles, even if you like to drive fast. Consider the amp the engine and the speakers the brakes - in normal use your amp can have significantly more power than the speakers can handle and you will never ever have a problem. Push your amp to the point where things are not sounding nice, just as driving a car fast round a track will seem rather brutal compared to driving quickly on the road, and you risk speaker damage. And just as a low powered car has enough power to wreck its brakes on a track, so too can a low powered amp wreck a speaker if abused. The wattage delivered to the speaker depends on the voltage output from the amp and the speaker impedance at that frequency. The voltage output from the amp depends on the voltage input to the amp from your bass and the gain within the amp. Play hard and use a hot bass with the volume on the amp set at 2 and more voltage will be output than with a quiet bass and a light touch but the volume set at 11. See the other thread about gain vs volume for more information. Alex [/quote] I'm pretty sure Alex is the first person in the thread to identify a pertinent issue: That speakers have different impedance ratings at different frequencies. I believe I understand correctly that this is the real reason why tube amplifiers appear louder for their wattage. They are able to output a variable current to match the changing impedance of the speakers over varying frequencies thus applying full wattage regardless of the frequency, which isn't true of solid state amps, so they have a fuller more balanced and efficient transference of energy across the frequency range. Does this sound correct? D.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1367426562' post='2065552'] So there's being in a band, which is like being in a band, and there's actually being in a band, which isn't like being in a band, because it's not about being in a band, it's about actually being in a band. [/quote] +1 and as many ballots as I can forge. Amazing

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1367397566' post='2064994'] Totally understand you wanting a great reliable line up, but I agree with FM here. It sounds like you are asking too much. I've batted off 6 or so bands recently because they made me feel like I was auditioning for a job. Auditioning? For a really straightforward band?! Requirement that I MUST have a suitable car! C'mon, say that in somewhere like London, and people won't apply. I wouldn't ever consider taking 2 days out of my week for rehearals, unless I was obviously doing it on a professional basis. As a musician, I'm more than happy to have very few rehearsals, practice to the music at home to save cost/time, and just gig. [/quote] Firstly the car thing. Many of us Londoners have cars, that's why there are so many cars in London. admittedly there is a fairly high amount of commuter traffic but that doesn;t explain the 24/7 vastness of traffic in London. AND we get to 'steer' clear of the rush hours it's actually kind of fun driving in London after Gig down time. I play in bands in London and somtimes I'm the only bloke with wheels, is this frustrating? YES because no-one else is equipped to accomplish ANYTHING. They can't even move around. I have solved the over-reliance issue by moving from VW hatch-back to a proper old time mini "Sorry guys only room for me and my rig, and even that is creatively packed". The bands in London who can at least get there are by far the more promising 'gig wise' too, but in those cases, invariably, I'm the only one without a permanent day job. It's rare to find everything rolled into one batch of folks so yeah I guess, ask for everything. That's all in support of the wishlist & dream-building, but now.. Telebass. You ought to be be really nice and accommodating.. Build the plan call it a pro gig, build it and they will come. But recognise that you too have a bruisable-ego.. Your responses are as defensive as those who felt attacked, so I think you had better accept that with ego comes the will to succeed. Strip away the ego and you strip away the ambition. (generally speaking) I like to think many of us have the social skills to balance the two, but just leave it out entirely from the wishlist. If you mention it, it probably means it's a problem, and if it's a problem, it's your problem. In general though YES take the essential matters into your own hands, and build the gig (job done) amp power, ego's these are not gig issues these are your issues. If a guy who you have offerred the gig to on the grounds that he's perfect seems to turn up with a stupid looking stack to a jazz covers club gig well you have to make the call should you have allowed this guy into the band if the answer is yes even with his rig the rig stays until you can convince him it's silly. if the answer is no then why did you choose him?.. you know. distill it all distill it to the essential gig concerns and go to work end of.

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1257846971' 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! I have been trying to get to grips with this sort of thing recently, and it seems Celestion use the 'traditional' method of calculating Xmax which is Xmax = (Voice Coil Length - Height of the Magnetic Gap) divided by 2. From what I've read this tends to give conservative Xmax estimates in comparison to other methods, including that used by Eminence which is based on the excursion at which 10% THD is reached. Ignoring the merits of one type of measurement versus the other, it still means that comparing different brands of speaker, eg Em v Celestion, is going to be like apples and oranges. More relevantly to you, it might mean that you've got a little bit of wiggle room. No-one's yet answered my question in the tech/repair forum about loudspeaker behaviour beyond Xmax (pleeease, anyone?!), but my limited understanding from t'internet would be that if xmax is reached at 150W LF, then an amp capable of 250w max is about right - it'll drive this speaker to full potential with enough headroom to prevent nasty amp clipping and you shouldn't get near the safety limits of the driver. That Celestion actually models quite well in small boxes (he says cluelessly playing with the pretty graphs in WinISD) [/quote] A Very Merry Xmax to everyone involved all the same. This is the most intellectual layman-decrypted thread on the matter I've ever seen. Thanks to BF and BC for the 'dynamic' you've created... I think I finally understand linear excursion, and driver volume limitations. Now if you guys could have a nice back and forth re: Apparent volume of tube watts versus SS, and how this manifests itself in the arena of driver calculations... ? ...

Sean sold me a lovely Matamp 2x12 cabinet which is exactly as described. Great communication and a very genuine stand-up dude. Nice dealing with you Sean, Polyrythmmm.

Oh you'll know.. All you need to do is listen. and if you think: "Eff YES!"... well that's one thing. and if you think: "I don't know man"... well then that's another.