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Are you sure the batteries were changed? If only few act weirdly, the very first checkpoint is batteries. The next would be the cables around the same batteries.
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If you want to try something we have already done: - boiling - washing machine - ultrasonic - acids - solvents - nearly anything imaginable After some trials to save anything (except the time wasted), the best option is to go to your local store and by new sets.
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A) Most of the amps that have two channels, mean that the preamp has two sets of adjustments to a single power amp. A stereo power amp is really rare, as is a bi-amp. B) I do not get your point. If impedance is low or very low, your amp needs to be able to push lots of current through the power amp. Sometimes higher impedance is easier to the power amp, and the speaker may be actually (but usually only slightly) louder than its lower impedance sibling. Do not mix loudness (dB) and power (W)! C) Speaker size and the lowest reproducible frequency? They are only faintly related, otherwise a hifi speaker couldn't go to 20 Hz. But power handling is another story. Still, a 4 x 10" may be able to go down to 60 Hz only, and everyone's happy: 31.5 Hz B sounds great!
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ALEMBIC MARK KING SIGNATURE DELUXE 5 🔥 # ON HOLD # - *SOLD*
itu replied to basspirate's topic in Basses For Sale
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This is a rough approximation. A 9 V battery contains around 600 mAh, depending on the discharge rate. A chorus pedal consumes maybe up to 50 mA. Maths: 600 mAh / 50 mA = 12 h Any time the pedal is connected, it consumes more or less energy. You can do a simple calculation, how many batteries a simple One Spot or similar unit costs.
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I have had a terrible gas,and when I run to the shop, they have sold the last one few minutes ago. Won £1k!
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Take a picture of the electronics, and share it here. It may reveal something.
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Status had impressive necks in CF (tinted, too), there are few companies selling (anodized) aluminium necks. 3D-printed instruments are on their way to customers, so what fancy would your wooden necks represent? Just asking and trying to understand. Special fretboards?
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Looks really good. This has to be early Series II (pickup polepieces visible). What's the serial?
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Short comment on the serial/parallel/single switching: serial is obvious. But if you need a boost, choose single. If slightly different sound, parallel is your friend. I might make an educated guess that two options is a lot, and three just too much.
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I would divide this into two: boxes that reproduce directly what's put in, and those with adjustments. DI box can be passive, transformer based, or Phantom/battery operated with or without output transformer (like Countryman Type 85). Which is better is a bit of semantics. I might say that a battery operated is surely a match, especially if your signal is sometimes of very high impedance, like piezo. If you want to include some signal tweaking, then a unit like SansAmp, or nearly any preamp with DI out could be your choice. If money is not an object buy a Jule Monique. Otherwise visit Thomann.de and check which unit is sold in numbers.
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Daily issues: - unergonomic long - and even some short - scale basses - long life roundwounds - several sounds from a single instrument (Jamerson to King) - bass fx that do not lose low end (X-over units) - energy efficient amps exist in high power and small form factor, but cabinets on the other hand... bubbling under: - wide freq range pickups - wide freq range cabinets (true FRFR, not PA stuff)
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Making a neck from Oak ? OK or No Chance ?
itu replied to Waddo Soqable's topic in Repairs and Technical
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As you have played many of the tracks, have put them to paper? Any chance you have a library of bass scores?
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174 Hz F3 285 Hz close to D4 396 Hz close to G4 417 Hz close to Ab4 432 Hz close to A4 528 Hz close to C5 639 Hz between Eb5 and F5 741 Hz Gb5 852 Hz between Ab5 and A5 963 Hz close to B5 By the way, there are many frequencies that are 111 Hz apart from each other. But scales are not linear... Anything related to health: there's no connection to health that I remember from acoustics lectures, but that kind of scale might cause you some headache.
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I can sing, walk, and even play bass. But two or more things together is a no go. M. King can do both, but he's originally a drummer.
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What I have heard is that he loved Rotosound, and he used roundwounds, too. Which ones, I have no better understanding. But some comments have pointed out that he hit the strings very hard, because his first strings were flats.
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If you want to make the bass a close copy of Louis Johnson's, put flats on.
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Composers die and their actions will be forgotten, but good music lives forever. OK, pretty long.
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The bass is in the luthier's shop. I have a hunch that I have a meeting with him in the very near future. Aluminium parts still have to be anodized. I will take pictures when we meet.
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Westfield "Small Body" bass *open to offers* - *SOLD*
itu replied to Richard R's topic in Basses For Sale
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I remeber playing it in music school long, long ago, but the score is missing from my library. Maybe in some Real book?
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Dear Baloney, I think your comment includes the original, although a theoretical question. But magnets are produced in big amounts and the tolerances already dictate the strengths. Magnetizing - which has also tolerances - produces components that are then selected to represent certain specs. A magnet is not ideal, because materials and production methods are not ideal. There's no one magnet that represents all similar sized magnets, except that it's more or less magnetic.
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At the moment I think you believe that a certain family, like AlNiCo represents certain "power level", although an AlNiCo magnet can be as weak as a plastic rod. The size does not only dictate the magnet, there are many parametres starting from the materials and the production process. There will be tolerances, too. Magnets are produced in big batches: you can ask what are you after, and the factory can find the right products for you. If you make an order of two magnets that are only slightly different in size, they can be ordered with the same "power level". As I said earlier, Neodymium can be magnetized far weaker than an AlNiCo, or SmCo, or a simple ferrous magnet, although it can be the most powerful of these few families. This depends on the production process and the need. Am I clear enough, do I answer your questions? (The pickup itself seems to be ordinary, although you say it is special made. Do you want to open it up a bit?)
