Balcro

Hello Dan, Are you guys still doing the RotW on the 12th at Hitchin under that name? The local paper says it's all happening on various stages in the grounds of The Priory. No mention of Remix. Can't promise to be there, but it might happen. Good luck anyway. Balcro. [quote name='dandini' date='Jun 22 2008, 11:45 PM' post='224610'] Hi... Im Dan, Bass player in Tokyo Outsiders (www.myspace.comthetokyooutsiders), Im 31 and from kempston, Bedford. Experience wise ive played with 2 bands including my current band but thsi will be the first one gigging. Were doing the Ryhthm of the World Festival in Hitchin at Remix on the 12th July and were bricking it to be honest. The band is a four piece, me on Bass and BV, Glenn on Guitar and Lead Vocals, Andy on the drums and Kris on Keys. Andy pand Kris are new to the band thing and we (in our current guise) have been togteher about 10 weeks!!!!! Kit wise I play a Yamaha BB614, currently through a Hartke A100 but ive just brought an Ashdown ABM 210T 500 and a 4 x 10 ashdown extension cab. I love the ashdown sound and play through Ashdown at the studio (London Road in Baldock, great place) so had to buy some gear.

Hello fellow bassers, I play for fun and will probably never gig, but I still love bass. I started singing bass & tenor in choirs and learned piano from the age of 6. I’ve built 2 sets of home hi-fi loudspeakers. One is still in use downstairs. Spent my formative years taking photos for the college magazine which in turn gave me access to side-of-stage and sometimes a dressing room for many a top group or solo performer. All sorts from “Davey Graham”, “The Strawbs”, “Al Stewart”, “Tom Paxton”, through to “Hiseman’s Colosseum”, “Audience” , “Yes” and my all time favourite, the original Mott the Hoople. Behind me is a home bult 1 x 18” bass cabinet, that contains a 100watt Celestion G18c. Since I carried the drive unit home by hand from Tottenham Court Road in the early seventies, my arms have not shrunk back to they’re original length. On top of that is an all-original Selmer Treble ‘n Bass 50 valve amp, original except for being recovered in dark blue vinyl. The amp and cab were originally used for playing a home organ, but that has long gone. Neither the amp or cab have had any real use since 1975, but I can’t bear to part with them. I worked in Environmental Health for over 30 years, so you can love me or hate me. Just remember, I’m the one with brain cells who talked to you as if you were always an adult. I just love acoustics (science of) in general, audio/hi-fi, speaker enclosure & drive unit design. My missus bought me an Encore Coaster Bass for my 40th. However work in general and catching the computer bug in 1983 meant I rarely had to time to play. Not only that, but the neighbours were the other side of the walls. Still building & fixing PC’s as a hobby but now that I’m sort of retired (just turned 60) I have more time and a new Ashdown 5-15 with CD input and headphone socket. Great. Playing all sorts of rock & pop. Anything that helps my technique. The Encore is very heavy and the neck pick-up goes boomy over 70%. Mmmm. those Yamaha RBX374’s feel nice. Hoping to have a jam with 3 other local guys, all in their 50’s. One is already retired and the other two are all too busy working to rock, but I’ll drag ‘em together eventually. Cheers all.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='229763' date='Jun 30 2008, 03:04 PM']If it did then the Fridge (f3=58Hz) would be even more unsuitable. While the fundamental of the low B may be 31Hz it's the length of the string that determines where the power bandwidth lies. Should you wish an instrument that puts out the low B fundamental with equal power to the harmonics you'll need long arms and big hands, the scale would be nine feet long. :unsure:[/quote] Thanks for the reply Bill. I get the reference to wavelength. Oh, that is such a disappointment to me. I thought I was generating fundamentals with subsequent harmonics of decling power level. Meanwhile I'll just have to save up for an octaver special effects pedal followed by another one in series. Cheers, Balcro

Hello fellow basschatters. This is my first ever post, but I can't hold back any longer as this post is close to one of my all time favourite rants about speakers. First of, I don't know why they current fave rave is for a 1 x 15 and 2 x 10. I think it's a fashion. When I were a lad so to speak, everybody played through a stack of two 4 x 12's. Slapping was almost unheard of. 10" speakers were for practice cabs and small combos. By 1969, real men played "Acoustic" 361's with a 1 x 18". I was lucky enough to touch one once. The Ashdown example (and it applies to every other manufacturer, but at least Ashdown are brave enough to quote them) quoted by bass-ferret is typical of the partial mis-information you get from manufacturers. Is it 37Hz - 2KHz + or minus 3, or + or minus 5?!!! or worse. If it's the latter than you've got a possible 10dB(a) difference across that small small frequency band. Remember it's a expressed over the range. So for example you could get +3 dB(a) above a certain nominal figure with -7 below; any combination of the numbers 1 -10. In practice that could mean your bass lows are way down. Sure, 10" speakers will have a punchier sound and more extension into the midrange. In general they also have a higher fundamental resonance (Fs), hence the specification quote of 75Hz for the 210T. Again, plus or minus What? What bass player is going to generate even 15Khz? As bass_ferret says, you get a serious mid-range hump and phase issues where the two speakers overlap. Add to that the smaller cones and lower inertia of a 10 and that means they start & stop quicker than a 12 or 15 (or is that part of the phase issue?). Above about 850Hz the 10 incher is doing most of the real smooth work anyway. I couldn't agree more with Andy Martin, it's triumph of marketing over science. Likewise with Gwilym - mixing 10's and 15's is a pointer to engineering deficiencies; the constraints of physics. Anyone want to build a hi-fi style loudspeaker with built in crossover? Failing that, trim the volume of the pick-up under E and A or reduce the mid-range setting on the amp. Devils advocate time. If low B on a five string is 31 or 32Hz, does that mean even every 15" is unsuitable? ? ? Regards to all. Balcro.