Downunderwonder

How to use a variable HPF: Raise the frequency until something is missing. Lower it back down until it isn't. Boost bass a bit for fun. Notice how it doesn't get all flubby. If it does get flubby try raising the HPF a little more. The bass knob gains a lot of functionality when backed up by HPF.

@Marcus Cornall you keep using the term driving properly. From the cab's point of view there is improperly driving but outside of improper driving is a vast range of acceptable driving practices that can be done by nearly every amp ever made. All of the improper conditions have been explained already. From the cab's point of view you can never put too little power into it. Impedance. Too much power. Too little amp power causing nasty sounds as the overdriven amp sounds bad. Too little hearing to hear too much power being applied. In your band it seems you only need a monitor. Since you claim your subs are inaudible to you on stage your sound guys must he keeping the level well towards the trad end of not overbearing. So any sub frequencies you put out on stage will be causing lower fidelity out front. Good learning thread though.

Ping as in scratch, dosh, moolah, readies, disposable... I think Mr Bill answered that one already. I wouldn't bother with 1200w myself. 800w would wake the dead. Another 400w would mostly go in heat if it was being used in anger ( after someone blew up your subwoofers ).

Nope. Omni directional means exactly that. All power in every direction, another reason you need so much power putting into sub frequencies as they spread out everywhere they waste an awful lot of it giving a bass massage to the hotdog stands out the back.

In order to lose the coupling between the floor and cab the cab would have to be lifted at least 60cm off the floor. No bass was lost, it just seems that way because you're hearing mids and highs that you weren't before. I wouldn't be too sure of that on this one. The BF has some oddball tuning in its description which makes me think it might be relying on the floor to cab bottom as an extension of the port.

If I had the ping for the used BT I would be all over it if I was in your shoes. Never need to be concerned about having enough rig for the gig. If you know you're always getting a proper PA then the BB is no slouch either. There's a reason guitars can get away with a piddly little 50w and tear your head off. They don't have to move air very far before drawing it back again. They tend to use as many watts as they can all the time. The more low end you have in your sound the more power is used on average but still a fraction of the maximum when you drop a low B bomb. Where the excess 'headroom' really comes in handy is giving the odd theatrical wallop or a even little reminder who is carrying the biggest stick. Headroom in ' ' because actual headroom is what you don't ever use. Outdoors you could well make use of some to put the bottom in when there's no PA. Only real use for the BT I feel aside from the theatrical. Probably why they cone up for sale more than BB's.

How about the other notes on the E string? If it's only the open E you might suspect an issue with the nut. If it's all the way up the neck then the pickup might be duff or set too low.

That would explain all the new amps with only one speakon out.

You would enjoy the air guitar YouTube guy. He started off with changing guitar body for no name body then lump of 4x2, then literal air by stretching strings between two solid workbenches and propping the pickups underneath.

I think the cabs would find a MicroVR to be quite 'slimming'.

I meant is he all mic'd up or just the kick or perhaps kick and a couple of overheads or maybe e-drums... I wonder if Alex might have a returned big twin or an older model demo cab he could do you a killer deal on. That's about the only way you are getting one of those anywhere near your budget. He gets fantastic bulk rates on his shipping and you're only paying the one lot of Romanian VAT buying from factory direct, no UK VAT involved. Perhaps someone reads this and does a local trade in at Barefaced of their overkill BigTwin for something smaller. You could put in a request in the wanted section. You would escape UK VAT and get cheap BF shipping that way too.

In a hard out rock environment there is danger that an overdriven tone masks the sounds of speakers being overdriven. Alex will tell you that his 210 takes 500w of clean bass. That's why he recommends an 800w amp for clean tones only. 800w is the clean rated output of your amp at 4ohm. It will put out peaks much higher. You are NOT SAFE unless you can play around with overdriven tones at much less than your amps maximum capability and hear when you are overdoing it. I DONT BELIEVE you have that skill if you have to ask. I don't know what your amp will do into 12ohm. It will be a helluva lot safer than full throttle 4 ohn but 800w is strong so I suspect still not SAFE to wail on with distorted tones. No doubt you would find the effortless oomph at 4ohm quite intoxicating.... You don't want to break your 800€ plus shipping new toy on its first outing or its 50th. I think it's the wrong tool for a metal band.

I have it on high authority that human hearing is insensitive to shifts of phase across the audible spectrum. Exhibit A, a phase response chart for any bass speaker you like. It's all over the place and all you hear is bass.

If I ever get one of those for backline I am going to be looking for the fx return to plug my pedals into and get cracking.

You seem to be saying someone already hacked the amp portion of the second combo before you got it? Then you shifted the badge to get a pukka looking matched stack. Good job!

I expect your ABM gets it done by virtue of a shed load of power to do whatever whereas the CTM benefits from the extra attack from the pick stuffing any excess into healthy MOAR.

Those things must be saving a lot of gigs from death by guitard.

that's a fingerboard.

Lots of older Vintage Trace Elliot use heatsinks in lieu of fans.

You could liven up the early local one by bringing along a cajon box drum. When I was getting back into it all after time off music I went to an open mic that had a couple of guitars and a conga. Nobody much played the conga aside from the host but when I showed up with bass the percussion players showed up in numbers with their own gear and we had a whale of a time.

Depending on the preamp, some will give you a whole universe of tonal outcome options from your merely decent amp. If you're talking about pedals you're generally getting foot switching as well. Then there's the other reason, dirty old GAS.

There is/was a 2nd hand BF 10 available for £250. That is lower than usually offered but you get the drift of why we are pumping the used end of the market. I can't get through to the specs on the warrick page it just blacks out. Maybe it detects I am in NZ. Anyways, looking at what you get for the brand new money they can't be near the value of used. BF lack of weight for loudness ratio is unbeatable except by carbon fibre which puts you in another price bracket altogether. Elf 110 cabs also pop up used pretty regularly and a bit cheaper than BF. Other option is find a community "Men's Shed" as we call them here. Basically a local depot where retired geezers go to hang out and make themselves useful fixing stuff and helping with projects, like building a bass cabinet. There's a joker in the classifieds selling a spare OEM SWR driver for a SWR Goliath JRII, 35 quid. A quarter of a sheet of plywood later you got a handy little one hand carry for next to nothing.

It's one of the few rewards for becoming an older git, getting to play with a better class of gitarist.

G'day Roger, to answer your question, all things being equal ( which they seldom are but we have to start somewhere ) a 112 will be quite a bit lighter than a 210. That out of the way, I never heard of Gnome cabs and I have been kicking around BassChat for a fair while. Perhaps you have one of those newfangled internet hyperlinks for us? Context is very important. Extrapolating lines and doing maths I come up with you are a 78 year old geezer playing in some kind of community jam. Likely where ukuleles and guitars and the odd sax etc are unamplified? If my hunch is correct there's a BF 110 for 250 quid that would do that job. The Barefaced cab you got pointed to will carry you on to anywhere you want to go with your amp. You would be hard pressed to find a lighter 112. Hard to put a price on that.

I expect tuning them up a couple of steps overnight would pretty well do for any zing. Could equally make them dead as doornails so no warranty expressed or implied.