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What do you feel you are missing with your current rig? What sort of material are you doing. Particularly with upright, an amp rig that will see you take over as psychobilly king may not be appropriate if you are in a small jazz trio :-) Paul.

Bought Mark's Carvin B2000. Nice and easy, kept me informed all the way - thanks, Paul.

I thought the idea was DIY plans? All these comments about angled baffles will not fit comfortably with that. Bear in mind that once you start angling things, the complexity of cutting increases quite a bit, especially if you need a cab to be airtight. Paul.

With a single conventional driver, you can't have any real switchable impedance. AIUI the HyDrive is either two different voice coils - one at 4, one at 8 that you can select, or a bit like a centre tap on a transformer. Making it switchable would thus involve commissioning a special driver. I consider it a dubious benefit. The only way I can come up with it being of benefit is buy amp and single cab. Run at 4ohm. At a later date, buy a second cab. Switch both to 8ohm and run in parallel. Paul.

You got a recommendation for hard wearing leopard fur? Peronally nice and tight at the low end with decent mid/high end - doesn't need to go all the way to 22K though, so I am thinking something like a 12/6 or 15/6? Paul.

Congrats :-)

Andy - I have an EA Micro if you want a play, P.

I hate Jimmy :-) Talented musician & producer, can sing quite well. I suspect he is one of those people you could put anything in front of him and he'd get a tune out of it, good looking bloke and a really nice guy with all that talent. Paul.

I think US bass player Jimmy Sutton has one for sale. Paul.

I've used David Vernon's. Did a good job on mine when a fall dislodged the neck. Managed to justify planing the FB and a new bridge and nut on the insurance. Paul.

What makes a DB record well. Easy - a good engineer :-) Paul.

I am trying to get my head around what you are doing. Is it two separate bass max pickups you are using? And you are trying to get those into a single output from a pre? The easy option may be one of the K&K preamps. The dual channel takes two separate inputs, ans I think has separate EQ on each channel (internat adjustment - not on the fly) http://kksound.com/products/dualchannelpreamp.php If instead you are running to a TRS lead for the pickups, the ST version is more likely. Other than that look for a used raven labs master blender (I think there was one in the sales section recently not getting lot of interest) or a d-tar solstice. Paul.

Cool - thanks for confirmation.

Like them. Didn't try with a mic though. Lovely growl. Get your name down for the trial set of golden slaps... Paul.

I love lots of different styles. My heart is in rockabilly, very close is proper country/hillbilly/honky tonk/country boogie/western swing/Rock N Roll. I enjoy bluesy stuff, but more akin to the early raw blues, Muddy Waters, JLH, etc rather than what seems to be referred to as Texas blues. I enjoy the odd bits of modern stuff, some classical, Motown/stax/northern soul type stuff. The important bit for me is music must be played like it is meant, and needs to have some form of tune! It'd rather see an averagely competent band that get up, have a ball and put their soul into it, than a polished performance that you know will be identical tomorrow night. An example is Lucas and the dynamos on the rock n roll scene. I've not managed to see them since they reformed, but they were not the most technically capable band, but you were always in for a show. Paul.

I didn't notice, but was more listening to tone rather than volume. Paul.

Just PMd Steve. My thoughts - I quite like them - the slap tone think is sweeter than that of the golden slaps, but I prefer the growl on the attack of the GS...

For me Bill Haley is the definitive rock n roll sound. People like Big Joe Turner I class as R&B, Sonny Burgess/Billy Lee Riley are rockabilly. Paul.