Dan Dare

I use an old Peavey 4x10 at a rehearsal room locally. It weighs a ton, but does "warm vintage" very well. You can pick them up cheaply. However, I wouldn't like to have to schlep one around. If you want light, new and vintage sounding, the Aguilar 4x10 is nice (I tried one when I bought my AG700), but around double your budget.

I have one of the older Epifani 3x10s, which can do vintage if you turn off the tweeter. That or one of their 4x10s, if you can find one secondhand, would be a good choice, imho.

"Original" band names are a bit like giving one's child a novelty name. Great fun for 5 minutes followed by a lifetime of embarrassment.

19 hours ago, Al Krow said:

How important would you say it is to have a decent (controllable crossover) tweeter in a 4x10?

As someone who doesn't like tweeters for bass, I'd say not at all important. But then, that's just my preference. Which brings me to the original question. Our tastes vary widely and what suits us may well not suit you. Good though they are, Barefaced (seemingly a universal recommendation on here - I wonder how many of those who sing their praises actually own/use them) and similar more modern flavoured cabs are relatively unlikely to satisfy your desire for "warm vintage tone". However, something like an old SVT 4x10, which will do that job well, is a pig to move around by comparison. So don't listen to us. Visit a few shops, go to a few shows and try some stuff out.

Clive. Or Tadcaster.

I have a bath quite regularly.

What impedance are they, please?

It's always worth asking if there's any movement possible on the price, although generally I agree with Dad and uk lefty. If the shop has had a quiet day, they may be willing to move a little.

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Having played one of these as well as several EB3s, I can categorically state that the Warwick has pretty much nothing in common with the Gibson models except that it may superficially look the same to someone who doesn't know much about bass guitars.

Guess I don't know much about bass guitars then...

On ‎02‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 00:19, tauzero said:

So it's not a standard issue bass. Thank you for making my point.

Agreed, it's not "standard issue". However, it's essentially an EB3, but made of pretty woods and with a massive price tag. That's my point. But it's your money.

Here you go - https://www.primark.com/en/product/inflatable-guitar,r35397119297748

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

Indeed, there's one of these on every music shop wall:

The Jack Bruce Cream reunion signature bass. Although before that, he had a signature fretless Thumb bass from Warwick that was changed from the original - see his website. So sorry, sometimes what you say is true but by no means always.

 

My point exactly. That may be made of exotic woods, with deluxe pickups, etc, but it's a hot rodded EB in essence.

With the quality of off the shelf stuff available from Warmoth et all, I guess having one built isn't really worth doing.

What will it be wetted by? Do tell.

Good to see variety shows making a comeback. Not quite the end of the pier, but close.

So called "signature" instruments are b/s. They're all standard issue models that just happen to be/have been played by notable players - because those players weren't famous when they started out, so had to use whatever was available or that they liked. As for those players "leading development of" or "designing" said instruments, etc, that really is eyewash. Rant over.

12 hours ago, Dazed said:

Just a thought. If I get a driver rated at 150-200w as most of the ones I've looked at seem to be. Do they provide their best at that sort of volume. What I mean is I'm only going to put 5/10/20 w through them. I'm not sure there's any alternative anyway but maybe someone can shed some light on it. 

Ratings for drivers for hi-fi/audio use seem to be a little, erm, over-stated. They may say it will handle 150-200w, but I'm pretty sure you could fry it with a 100w guitar amp, especially if you start adding some dirt to the sound. So 5-20w should be fine. I'd suggest looking at the efficiency figure, though. Hi-fi/audio drivers are often in the low 90db range, whereas guitar speakers are typically around 100db. 3db less efficiency requires double the input power to generate the same loudness, so it's important as the difference can be large.

Pretty. Let's hope it doesn't peel...

16 hours ago, chris_b said:

Always go for separates. Then when you come to upgrade you only have to change one thing, not both.

Sound advice and several smaller boxes are more portable. You can also add extra cabs, slave amps, etc if you need more power.

11 hours ago, DJpullchord said:

Nowt wrong with Mahler.

theres only two kinds of music.

music you like and music you don’t.

So true. And don't worry what others think of your musical preferences or why. That's their problem, not yours.

8 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

So you tried to sabotage someone else's eBay purchase to snag it for yourself?

Wow. 

The real reason for his annoyance, methinks

As long as they're looked after/not abused, they don't seem to deteriorate - dynamics at any rate. I have a SM58 that must be at least 30 years old it still works fine. Not sure about condensers, although you see some of the old Neumann valve mics going for crazy sums, so I guess they must last too. If they still sound right, they must be OK, I guess.

May struggle to re-fret that board because it's so thin. They'd likely bite into the neck material itself

Looking at the thinness of the fretboard in the end-on photo, I'd say it's likely the board was planed when the frets were pulled to remove the slots. They are normally thicker than that.

There's another gem in the listing - "new string (singular) recently fitted"...

2 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

Another excuse for unfettered consumerism. Why do Brits slavishly like to copy every fad that comes out of the US?  Anyway, it's no secret that sales events are a scam whereby retailers hike up prices in preceding weeks and then 'slash' them back to their original levels,  get rid of obsolete or unpopular lines and buy in shoddy toot specifically for them. After all,  despite all the saccharine  marketing cow poop about the customer being # 1 blah blah the question everyone should be asking is what's in it for the retailers?

All true and one further reason for B Friday, which is to clear the shelves of unsold stock to make way for Christmas tat. Bah humbug.