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Or if you fancy something a little easier on the back:

[quote name='budget bassist' post='397112' date='Feb 1 2009, 07:07 PM']I've always loved onboard preamps, nothing too complicated, and you can't use things like coil tap and series/parallel switches on an outboard preamp (though do you need to have a preamp in your bass to do it?) they're relatively inexpensive anyway, and if you get an active/passive switch installed, it's just added versatility, and you could always get an outboard preamp too to compliment it. Personally, i've found a 2 band onboard pre (3 band would be nicer) and the 5 band amp EQ enough (though i would like a 7 band graphic) to be just about enough, though obviously it's about what you feel comfortable with.[/quote] Coil taps and series/parallel switches have nothing to do with pre-amps, they are a function of the pickups.

[quote name='Blink' post='397509' date='Feb 2 2009, 07:53 AM']I have a GS410 and use a MarkBass Little Mark and it sounds great. I regularly gig in a 6 piece band, with no pa support, and the combination is plenty loud enough with the volume at 4!!!!!!! I have used the Little Mark with the GS412 in a Shop (Bass Merchant) and it sounded good but I could not crank up the volume. Nick[/quote] Here we go again! The delicious irony of Spinal Tap, who are louder than any other band cos all their amps go up to 11, is that so many basschatters think it is significant.

Aguillar!

I dont have much of an opinion on MB other than the amps appear to be more popular than the cabs. There is already an identical thread running so it might be worth trying the search facility.

It depends. There are good and bad onboard pre-amps and good and bad outboard. Onboard needs a cavity for the circuit and battery. The East preamps are designed to fit into the existing Jazz route. The very best outboard pre's such as EBS Microbass II have far more options and facilities than an onboard can ever have, but they cost a lot.

When I started playing bass cabs rarely had tweeters - now they all do. After my last hearing test that showed the frequency response of my ears takes a dive above 2KHz I can hardly hear a difference between on and off. Are we paying extra for our cabs for a solution to a problem that does not really exist?

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[quote name='EBS_freak' post='395881' date='Jan 31 2009, 12:35 AM']I've compared EBS 2x10 8 ohms with EBS 2x10 4 ohms. 4 ohm appears considerably louder.[/quote] Thats interesting. Some amps, and my EBS HD350 was one, have some fancy power stages that change the delivery so you dont have to run them at minimum load to get the most out of them. My HD350 was 300 watts into 4 ohms and 350 into 2 ohms. IIRC the Genz Benz GB750 is the same. But I suspect that 2 EBS 2X10'S at 8 ohms each would have been even more considerably louder.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='395601' date='Jan 30 2009, 06:05 PM']I don't believe I've ever insisted that is is always a bad idea. Alex[/quote] [quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='395610' date='Jan 30 2009, 06:17 PM']+1. It can work reasonably well. The problem with doing so is that the results are totally unpredictable, so if you don't have the opportunity to try before you buy you're taking a big chance on the result. With identical cabs there's no question that they will work together well.[/quote] +2. It can and often does work. But it most often comes up here in the context of guys wanting to buy gear that are not going to have the opportunity to try at gigging volumes, and in the context of confident posts that you get more bottom from 15's and more punch from 10's etc. I have had mixed cab rigs that I thought sounded great and some that sounded f***ing awful IMO. Somebody would have liked it. Went to see a band a thin string mate is depping for a couple of weeks ago. He warned me the bass overplayed and boy oh boy he was not kidding. I didn't think it was possible to overplay Pinball Wizard but I know now. Funny thing he did not play the 2 most important notes. Anyway he was using a JE Sig Buzzard, MB TA503, 151HF and 104HF and I thought it sounded sh*t (and so did my thin string mate). The low notes were drowning out the rest of the band and demolishing light fittings - one of which only just missed my beer, but all his twiddling at the dusty end was lost. It might not have been the mixed cabs, could have been poor playing dynamics or inproper use of the tone controls. He obviously either loved the sound he was getting or could not hear how bad it was the other side of the lights. There is no right or wrong. There is, however, more likelyhood of randomly mixed cabs sounding crap.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='179207' date='Apr 17 2008, 06:40 PM']Just a guess, but I'd be surprised if they fitted anything other than Ernie Ball strings[/quote] +1 - the clue is in Ernie Ball Music Man! Although they might not have been owned by Ernie Ball back then.

The position of the volume knob has no bearing on how loud it will go. An amp will only out out its maximum power, and if it has a hot input, tone controls up it will probably max out well before half on the master. Only you can decide whether a 1x15/2x10 sounds better that 2x2x10's. I would go for the latter for reasons that have been discussed hundreds of times on this forum

Nice fingerboard

You probably wont hear a difference in volume between 350 watts and 500 watts. But add another 8 ohm EBS 2x10 and you will definitely hear the difference in volume. So guys chasing full beans from 1 cab would be much better off with 2 cabs if they can transport the buggers.

You all beat me to it

One mans meat is another one's poison so the only person who can decide what sounds best is you. You are not really comparing like with like with the cabs as Ashdown do the lightweight Superfly cabs. I have always matched in the probably misguided belief that some effort has gone into making the cabs and amps sound better together. What will definitely be true is that different amps and cabs have not been designed with different amps and cabs in mind - if you can follow that. The only other observation I will make is that Markbass cabs are not as popular as the amps.

I know the Stranglers jumped on the punk bandwagon cos the first time I saw them was supporting AC/DC about 1975.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='393490' date='Jan 28 2009, 10:30 AM']Ok, I admit, not random mixing. But running dissimilar drivers fullrange for a certain sound, like the Midget on top of the Big Sub for an insanely loud angry growly rock tone with massive clean bottom. Alex[/quote] I thought it was highly unlikely you would be random mixing - but thats what a lot do and what I frequently get flamed for warning against. Perhaps we should start 2 petitions, one banning mixing cabs and one making it compulsory

Black is the new black. As for the hardware its not so stealth with a maple neck. Now a fretless ebony neck.....

They will all be getting on a bit now. Musicman also did a version back in the late 70's.

I think Homer has a NeoX212T. He is in Preston.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='393068' date='Jan 27 2009, 07:08 PM']I actually have some ideas that specifically involve the mixing of dissimilar cabs and drivers. Quelle horreur! Alex[/quote] Specific idea's or random mixing of cabs