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HELP! Hartke LX8500 & 410 Hydrive cab problem?
Downunderwonder replied to tm87's topic in Amps and Cabs
Those settings should be frighteningly loud not practice amp loud. Gain at 90% is suspicious. Either your bass is knackered (preamp battery not fine ?) Or the amp is knackered ( tube? ) Or cab is perhaps running on one remaining driver ( battery test it ) -
That wouldn't make a lot of sense. Nearly all the power would be going through the 110 pair and hardly any through the 210. If you really wanted to run all the cabs together a series cable run for the 110 cabs would be the thing, all drivers working equally. Oddball series wired 12 ohm 210 rating notwithstanding.
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I wouldn't go that far. Maybe if I practiced more I would have properly leathered tippy tips.
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Do maple necks get more stable with age?
Downunderwonder replied to 2020Jazz's topic in General Discussion
Don't mention Auckland! It's always raining but there's a perpetual water shortage. Some people like to complain. -
Do maple necks get more stable with age?
Downunderwonder replied to 2020Jazz's topic in General Discussion
When I was in London the first summer it rained every day in June. -
Do maple necks get more stable with age?
Downunderwonder replied to 2020Jazz's topic in General Discussion
Should have left it under the bed for two weeks. Those tweaks would have been 1 to fix it, then another to put it back where it was at the start. -
Yay for you. Guitar players take note!!! Keep plugging away as appropriate. Some fx sound really nifty solo and wash out in the band mix. That's just how it is. If the juicy bits are in the guts of the guitar range you're going to need to be playing something really interesting when they are not. When I played in a three piece jazz outfit I found everything had to be made slightly cartoonish and aggressive in order to hold my own yet not be overblown with volume. A key part of that was setting up to get touch overdrive without adding massively to the volume. So quiet, louder, louder still, pretty darn loud clean, then overdriven coming on only fractionally louder. The fx were set to output essentially the same volume off as effected, very important! If an effect can't do that it's dead to me. A little overall gain is ok but many won't give you anything fun until it's cranked. I had a clean boost in front for when I wanted a bit of extra oomph. If you are set up like that you will find it easier to futz about with your individual pedal settings in rehearsal. A little change here and there won't cause you to drop out.
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One of my finger tones is to use just the very tips closer to the bridge. Close enough to a pick for me.
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Did the guitarist fall in?
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Turn everything down as low as you can get it. Drummer might have to learn a new skill set.
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Intonation issues on 60th Jazz Bass
Downunderwonder replied to sirmuppet's topic in Repairs and Technical
This reminds me of an old old story... Little old lady gets given a Morris 1000. After a week she takes it back to the dealers complaining of rough running and rubbish fuel economy. Leaves it with them and goes for a haircut. 2 hours later she's back and the mechanic tells her he can't find anything wrong with it. He asks her to demonstrate the problem. She hops in, pulls out the choke out of the dash, and hangs her handbag on it. -
I was wondering what happened to the great lost art of reading.
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I'd say they must have changed supplier of the red rubber. The only thing that will fix it is leaving it in the sun to harden up. Pretty poor really. I think I'd be taking it back for a refund.
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I am fairly sure the problem lies with the sandbagging guitard cranking himself up post sound check. He needs to get his monitoring from his own amp pointed right at his head. @geohamHow did it pan out??
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That's totally inaccurate. Someone was posting about overly precise measuring earlier. They might be able to put some better maths on it.... If two people listen to the same note and one is hearing it 6 cents sharper than it actually sounds and the other hears it 6 c flat you better hope your tuner is 'dead on' or someone is going to 'hear' it out of tune.
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50s Precision comparison (Fender, Sire, Squier, HB)
Downunderwonder replied to hooky_lowdown's topic in General Discussion
The HB came over a little wooly in the lows but dang that's high value. The Sire was down overall which is really unfair to it. Louder really is 'better' most of the time. Trying just to hear it for itself it was very pleasing in the mids so might have done very well with a simple gain compensation. In the 4 way demo the Fender cut through consistently, dammit I really wanted to not like that overpriced toy. The Squire did a reasonable pass at the same trick but without the chimes. -
They weigh more than the extra ply taken to build a bigger ported box? Mesa did one in a combo called the Walkabout Scout.
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The dust will be from the foam core.
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If I was going to do a carbon fibre cab it would have a plywood baffle and the feet would be hockey pucks glued on. Carbon foam core panels are fantastically strong for their weight, when it comes to stiffness. Too bad there is next to no ability to hold a screw without intervention.
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No real sense in there. ClassD amps routinely have a rumble filter. Some have an adjustable HPF. Older style amps usually have a rumble filter. If you left off filtering on a class D amp it would destroy speakers just as easily as an old one, or moreso with the gobs of power they tend to sport.