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Soft bags for the win. That's a lot roomier than I remember the original MX5 boot. It has some depth to it. So long as the cab foot print goes into the dropout section you are good for a much bigger cab overall than what I imagined. If a box doesn't drop straight in and stay under the lid you are screwed out of a huge amount of cabinet size. It has to go through the opening, rotate and lie down. Suitcases have quite rounded edges and corners. Googling the biggest carry on suitcase mx5 model could really stuff things up. If it is close I would make a cardboard mockup just to be sure.
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A cautionary tale regarding Royal Mail
Downunderwonder replied to MrDinsdale's topic in General Discussion
Perhaps they aren't quite as incompetent as all that and have refunded the insufficient postage? -
This.^ If it is shelf ported you could run it through the centre, slap new sides on and call it good. That would only work for a tall skinny 210 as opposed to one that is squat with diagonally mounted drivers. You want to maintain the cross sectional area amd length of the ports, half the area for each cabinet. Half the original cab volume each.
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Ooof, why would you do this to a Barefaced cab?
Downunderwonder replied to ossyrocks's topic in Amps and Cabs
It serves notice to anyone thinking of doing the same. It might be a lot harder than you imagined. You need to be careful not to take away plywood in your enthusiasm. The individual plys are very slim. Strip the glue rather than sand it. -
Mk1 boot is tiny. It would be a small 12" cab that would go in. A slimmer 210 might be a better bet and another in a waterproof bag on one of those boot lid racks.
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This Trace Elliot ELF never ceases to amaze me!!!!
Downunderwonder replied to Mike Bungo's topic in Amps and Cabs
You like the warm fuzzies without the fuzz. Gain at 3 o'clock shoukd be pushing into the preamp to where it warms and compresses. If you turn up the volume you get loud warm and compressed and lows get more prominent. -
It depends on what you mean by handle low B string. It is the 30hz to 80hz content that is the concern. Most modern 12" bass cabs will handle it pretty well with a high pass filter to snuff out the 30hz content and let through some 60hz. The higher performing ones folks are recommending you can make that 60hz quite loud. None of them will produce audible 30hz so a HPF is still a very handy thing. A lot of players even take out a bit of the 60 to 80hz. Their cab is too good at making it and the tone gets to be wallowing in lows.
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Peterson combo driver upgrade (and related plywood boxes)
Downunderwonder replied to Pea Turgh's topic in Amps and Cabs
When that happens I select "desktop site" on the phone browser. It doesn't always work but usually I can zoom in on the good bits. -
It creates a woolley mess of low frequencies. As far as I can figure they ostensibly represent the higher harmonics of the note an octave below the one you played.
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Tell that to ICE Power. The general rule is no free lunch, ever. I surmise 2 ohm operation costs something significant.
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Please help me setup my Barefaced Super Compact tone
Downunderwonder replied to Big_Sam's topic in Amps and Cabs
This rogered me when the forum changed over. I was directed look to the left of the thread topic, there is a star, or a dot if you read it and didn't comment previously. I am not "following" anything either. If I "follow", the email gets chocka with notices. -
And welcome to the low end.
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The Subharmonic button needs to be monitored that it is in the off position before playing.
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D.I. output from Bass Amplifiers
Downunderwonder replied to Bigbri5050's topic in General Discussion
Given the state of the canine breakfast the accent is on the SHOULD. Any bets it won't disable the DI at the same time? -
D.I. output from Bass Amplifiers
Downunderwonder replied to Bigbri5050's topic in General Discussion
OP is an edge case. He runs IEM sometimes, but doesn't own a preamp or a DI except for what is aboard the Rumble combo. When going IEM he has no use of the combo speaker, it's so much unwanted noise, but he can't run zero volume without also cutting the DI output to zero. Capiche? -
Trace Wattage, I Know, Old Topic, But...
Downunderwonder replied to Count Bassie's topic in Amps and Cabs
Isn't that what I said?? Sine peak volts X to -X Square X/X Power twice as much for the square. Sometimes I feel I am losing my mind. -
D.I. output from Bass Amplifiers
Downunderwonder replied to Bigbri5050's topic in General Discussion
Work around round 2: install a switch to cut out the speaker. -
Trace Wattage, I Know, Old Topic, But...
Downunderwonder replied to Count Bassie's topic in Amps and Cabs
If you search for a picture of RMS of a sine wave it will show the RMS point at .707 of the clean peak. The RMS of a pure square wave is the full peak value. Power is Current x Voltage. Current is Voltage ÷ Resistance. Substituting for Current we see Power is Voltage squared ÷ Resistance. Noting that 0.707 is 1÷ square root of 2, The power of the square wave is double the RMS power of the clean sine. Trace rating an amp as 250W/500W Peak, maybe a little off the wall as nobody would pay to listen to one putting out the full 500W for more than a few microseconds, could handle mighty transient peaks. -
This Trace Elliot ELF never ceases to amaze me!!!!
Downunderwonder replied to Mike Bungo's topic in Amps and Cabs
Does this case make my amp look big? -
Trace Elliot Transit-B.
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D.I. output from Bass Amplifiers
Downunderwonder replied to Bigbri5050's topic in General Discussion
Use the fx send to another DI. -
Trace Wattage, I Know, Old Topic, But...
Downunderwonder replied to Count Bassie's topic in Amps and Cabs
That is only relevant to speaker handling power at fequency vs volume achieved aka sensitivity. Speaker Output at lower frequency suffers from lack of power handling. Power is the integral of applied voltage over time x current / time. Aka average power. Using root mean square takes care of the alternating current being negative half the time, so RMS voltage x impedance gives power. It is independent of frequency. Adds up to your bass speaker can scream a 1000hz 250w signal for maybe half an hour, or whatever Agedhorse says, but drop dead in half a second with 30hz 250w. -
Dude in grey Tshirt: 🤨 "shouda brung his other 212".
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Assured destruction. Combo Line Out at least gives a fighting chance for the 10" PA unit to contribute. You would need all four running at low volume to save them from the bass and hear anything useful.