Mottlefeeder

[quote name='Pbassred' post='160056' date='Mar 19 2008, 07:53 AM']Apparently they didn't. That box has been there since Stringbusters made strings cheap. I wish shops actually stocked stuff though. "we can get it in for you sir". Well so can I mate.[/quote] Hang on a minute - you can't have your cake and eat it. You want the local shop to pay for high street rates, and have stuff for you to look at, but you want their prices to be at internet levels, where they operate from industrial estate warehouses? Slightly off topic, there was an internet outdoor-clothing site which kept a list of retailers. They would actually direct potential customers to their local stockist to try on gear, so they would know the correct size when they came back to buy online. I think that is just wrong.

[quote name='david_l_perry' post='158756' date='Mar 17 2008, 07:44 AM']Sorry Mottlefeeder.... ...I still think the mids [i]massively [/i]overpower the omni 12 so much in the btm end...but do read it in the context of the rest of the thread...:- As I said, I came across the exact same sound with the Omni 15 that i tried out in Leeds, after a couple of gigs I tried it out again and suddenly the btm end was explosive, to the point that it moved from my 'not to build' list to 'I must build it next'.... Will in Leeds had his Omni 15 for roughly 12 months previously but only played it at very low levels in his house. Will said that his first gig at higher levels 'didnt inspire him' as it was lacking the btm end, the second gig however was a completely different tale, and it was after this that I heard the cab again in the same room with my gear again....without doubt the sound had [i]radically [/i]changed after his loud gigs...massive btm end. Dave[/quote] The bass speaker (Eminence Delta 12LF) was run in before I fitted it. 100 Hrs at 10 Hz, before fitting it to a baffle, with the level set to give maximum excursion without hitting the end stops. The 10 Hz came from a tone generator and I was pleasantly surprised to find that my old hifi amp had any output at that frequency. I have also been gigging the Omni 12 for the best part of a year. With regard to the sound, I have always said that it sounds good with a flatwound fretless, but never really thought that through - a flatwound fretless doesn't have much output in the area you find overpowering. Also, when I use roundwounds on a fretted Yamaha, I turn down the upper mids. What I like about it is the bottom end extension and clarity, compared to the boom and muddiness of other speakers I have owned. As we agreed last time you auditioned it in our church hall, the Omni 12 is very good as a full range PA cab. Whether its perceived weakensses as a bass guitar cab can be fixed with EQ (and amplifier headroom?) is something we have not really explored.

[quote name='david_l_perry' post='158547' date='Mar 16 2008, 07:47 PM']... The only cab that didnt inspire me was the Omni 12 ...[/quote]

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='156702' date='Mar 13 2008, 01:17 PM']Flats are wound with flat wire (like tape) not like halfs that can be squeezed (pressure wound like roto solo bass) or ground (lots of ground halfs around). See the Wiki for more info.[/quote] True, - sloppy use of words on my part.

[quote name='dood' post='156559' date='Mar 13 2008, 10:36 AM'][url="http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/ClassD/ClassD.htm"]http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/ClassD/ClassD.htm[/url] I owned one of these.. All ya need to do is fit a lead to connect to the additional speaker cabinet. (A 5 min job, believe me.. then you are all set to go! £280 Infact, if you want to go the whole hog, these are actually designed to fint into a cabinet to make it active, but can be used standalone.[/quote] Can you tell us what made you get rid of yours?

[quote name='synaesthesia' post='154847' date='Mar 10 2008, 07:58 PM']...If you are willing, Line X is available in the UK, and costs roughly 75 quid to 'do' a speaker box. At least in my neck of the woods... they sell franchises to operators but I don't know if they manage the retail prices to maintain some semblance of equity. [url="http://www.line-x.co.uk/"]http://www.line-x.co.uk/[/url] have fun,[/quote] A cheaper alternative might be Protecta-kote. A paint finish that you put on with a roller, which contains rubber granules . One £15 tin will do all six sides of an Omni 12 (28x24x15 inches), and it is available from chandlers etc. [url="http://www.protectakote.co.uk/index.htm?gclid=CIiE45mNi5ICFRKHMAodqU589g"]http://www.protectakote.co.uk/index.htm?gc...CFRKHMAodqU589g[/url]

The pitch of the note is determined by the weight per unit length of the string, its length and its tension. Where a flatwound string has been squeezed flat (as against ground flat) it will have fewer/smaller holes between the internal overwindings, and so will be heavier per unit length. This type of string will need higher tension to get up to the same note as a same-sized roundwound.

It may not be as arbitrary as it first appears - Some US companies specify that for orders over a certain value, ($100 I think) they will only send them by a specific US postal service, so that they are insured in transit. That service feeds into UK parcelforce, who will collect VAT and delay delivery by about a week, and charge you for the privilege. Other carriers will have other partners over here. I ordered 5 hipshot ultralites from the US, and by the time the bank took a cut on the exchange rate, and parcelforce added its £13.50, the total was about £95, £10 less than buying in the UK.

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='156258' date='Mar 12 2008, 06:52 PM']Recently my brother bought himself a £99 6 string bass, and the price tag shows... but it's given him his first experience of a 6 string and he likes it, and it's a bit of a project upgrading it, new strings, nut, ...whatever. And as the tone layout is frankly stupid (two volumes, one for each pickup, and no less than three passive tone knobs (each pot has a capacitor....)) So, we've come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a bad idea to make it into an active bass, changing the three tone knobs into a three band EQ... I was wondering what would be the best way to go about doing this, should i try to purchase a ready made wiring set on Ebay, or would it be better to make one myself, buying a 9-volt battery adapter and some wires from Maplins and soldering the lot together, between me and my dad we have some half decent wiring and soldering experience. Thanks for any help in advance. [/quote] If you feel up to making one, there is a lot of useful information on this thread at DIY Audio [url="http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75949&perpage=25&pagenumber=2"]http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread....mp;pagenumber=2[/url] - it starts as 2 band EQ and then branches into 3-band eq and 3-band swept mid EQ Also worth a look is this two channel 2 band eq design the bare bones bass blender (BBBB for short) [url="http://personalpages.tds.net/~fdeck/bass/"]http://personalpages.tds.net/~fdeck/bass/[/url]

I agree with Bod2's post. I started with cabs that limited my sound - large speaker in small box boominess - and bought a Zoom Fx unit to provide what I thought I wanted. Since upgrading my gear, I like the sound of the basses, and the Zoom unit sits at home as a flat-EQ preamp and tuner feeding my mixer. If you are doing covers, you may have to go that route, but if you apply your own style to what you play, pick your own sound.

[quote name='gary mac' post='153601' date='Mar 8 2008, 02:15 PM']Illness is keeping me housebound at the moment and yesterday in an attempt to stop climbing the walls, thought I would install Cubasis. Typically, I can't do it. I suspect I am missing something obvious and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. It's not a ripped off copy, geniune article that I purchased a few years back. I had it installed on my preious computer and all was well. Yesterday when trying to install I had problems. Wavelab lite installed ok. Master unit istalled ok. But not Cubasis VST. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Gary.[/quote] Cubase VST is quite an old version, so could it be that you have moved to WinXP, or even WinVista, and that is giving you problems?

Looking at your problem with fresh eyes, a conventional amp built into a combo is going to be heavy for rehearsals, and I doubt it will equal a 1x18 plus 2x10 when connected to an extension cab. An alternative might be a Class D lightweight amp built into an Omni 10.5 for rehearsals, coupled to an Omni 10 for performing. The preamp could be a floor based DI with eq box, by Hartke, sansamp, microbass or Behringer. This practice rig would just about fit in the front of your car, and the complete rig would be more efficient than an average set-up, and would take 750 Watts. If you have not heard of Omni speakers, they are self build, or commision build, and the Omni 10 is a horn loaded 2x10, and the Omni 10.5 is the 1x10 version. A more conventional approach would be a Markbass amplifier, with a loud 1x12 for practice, and a completely different performance rig, which sounds a bit like what you already have.