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Downunderwonder

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  1. Yep. One more time for OP. Setup: Adjust truss rod for relief in the centre when the strings are held to frets at both ends. 1 business card worth is common. Adjust saddles up and down so strings don't buzz... and in and out so intonation is optimized. Most people like the sounds of the 12th fret note and 12th fret harmonic to be an exact match.
  2. Methinks you two have your high and low swapped because I am not following at all.
  3. The others use off the shelf Beyma and Faital afaik and don't get into many details. BF uses a custom version of the 3012LF Eminence. They don't seem to blow up when pushed with 400 to 500w apiece by all accounts. 97dB broadband sensitivity claimed. That's 124dB at 1m. Pretty freaking loud. Tallies with the prodigious low B like I never heard, well highpassed. Afaik the only UK competition is BC dude LFsys (sp?).
  4. So the overkill stack you have now may or may not be as loud as the overkill stack you had that probably would have gone louder. Got it. Ime I got a fright turning up a single BF12 too far once. In my estimation it would bury my 215 cab every which way except one. There's a pumped right up tone from the 215 with the right size amp in a big enough room with a loud enough band that I would struggle to get out of a PA style pixie dust model. As that Alex chap comes over as a straight arrow in everything else I am inclined to believe the marketing also.
  5. You might be surprised how just a little bit of overdrive in your sound can do wonders for intelligibility. In the mix it still sounds clean. Regards cabinets. Quality wins. A big pile of blech won't sound like you want. It will just be a big rumble under the guitars.
  6. Your pedant hat has a big hole in its crown letting in the rain. Watts only translates to loudness via sensitivity response and impedance. Power handling before compression blows your hat off.
  7. A Prunes and Custard covers a lot of bases, while nailing only Prunes and Custard. 200 squid last I looked. Tuner and a Mooer envelope filter with leads and power supply to soak the remaining 100.
  8. It probably has a few dings in. A new one gives that heartache all over again. It would be hard to top the satisfaction of a best of 30 in stock unless you spent some serious coin. Or maybe the shop only stocked dungers and yours was the least smelly.
  9. Because turning down one pickup all the way sounds very different to turning it down just a little. Is what I meant and I am pretty sure you understood it the first time. What the hell?
  10. Riddle me this. If padding down one pickup slightly isn't its own sound how come a Roscoe Jazz has a pull pot for that in the volume knob, and a three way pickup selector for both and either? Never mind the series parallel single switching.
  11. My jazz was passive VVT btw.
  12. Turning down a pickup is changing the resistance. Padding is just a fixed amount of turning down.
  13. For sure, but not with your possibly dodgy wired instrument. Solo bridge is a sound I just can't abide. Never noticed a helluva difference between either dialed back a tad, but preferred the neck when I had a jazz. Solo, no thanks. Find a pukka jazz and try it for yourself. If it still sounds the same find a mate and blind test them. Then come after my money.
  14. There's something wrong with your wiring or your hearing at that rate.
  15. I think it was MesaBoogie that stopped making their small cabs 4ohm for this reason.
  16. A 4 ohm 212 would get blown up by 1000w amps too often for them to bother. Warranty claims left and right. "If it sounds like it's about to blow up, it probably will" is a maxim that is not widely appreciated. "1000w amp + 1000w cab = good go" is more the level of understanding out there. Making them all 8 ohms gives them at least a fighting chance.
  17. Would be too funny if the original owner lost it to theft and his estate finds his police report with serial and claims it.
  18. That bit is clear. I know how that operates. OP implied his scammer mates sent him a code from his real mate's hacked or impersonated account. So they had to have known his email on the FB account to prompt FarceBook into sending the text. All in the background while having a public conversation as his mate about some bs survey competition. No? Seems a pretty bogus system if it's that vulnerable. Wouldn't they have to be be poking his FB for it to text while he's logged in looking at it? Or the other way around. They sit around waiting for him to be offline but not so busy. Quickly poke him from their scam account and hope he sees it and goes to it but doesn't log in before they have poked FB to send the text code so OP gets it all at once thinks it is the real thing....
  19. None the wiser here. They gave you a code they got from where? I tried to log into Amazon having forgotten my password. They emailed me a code. Then they asked me for my name, which I got wrong as almost nobody gets my real name online and I forgot which fake name I had given them. It's going to be a tough job for a scammer to take over the real Downunderwonder, I hope.
  20. I don't FB but I bank. Pray tell more about this one. I am usually pretty scam savvy I think but no idea how this works. My bank does password plus verification. It freaks me that I could log into a fake ib. address and input my password but sort of reassured that they would need my weird questions to have any chance of capturing the weird answers which would only garner a few letters at at a time. Or am I dead wrong?
  21. My Dad's record player was junk and he had few records. When I was a teen he upgraded it. There was a scratchy Beatles record that got played a bit so I caught onto them when they had long broken up. Still enjoy them. I can't remember any of the.others so I guess they never made any impression on me at all. The main player on the new stereo was the concert programme. I listened to a bit of that as I was a student of the violin. I still tune in when it is rubbish on the rock and classic stations but it's not my go to.
  22. In 30 gigs they would have all gone because the guitarist would have snaffled them.
  23. Even if they were the premise is bogus. Anyone could have bought it for 70 with the case. Now anyone can buy it if they are silly and rich enough to pay more than then next silly rich person who wants it. Ain't nobody being ripped off. Now if the story started off "me and my brah had just sold our ten millionth album and we wandered into this porn shop..." it probably wouldn't have resulted in a sale as the sales guy would have wanted 4x from them and they would have said no but let's say they just paid a little over the, or even paid sticker price, who is being ripped off? In other words I don't believe the suggestion was they ripped off a poor porn shop by being rockstars demanding discount.
  24. I don't think I still own a pick. When I did it was in my sock drawer so I would know where it was if a change came over me.
  25. You might as well fix your intonation while you are at it. Every bass I ever bought needed at least a little setting up. I am surprised I don't hear more badly set up ones out in public after some of the major tweakage required. Even the one that was almost flat had bad intonation.
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