Downunderwonder

How long have you been kicking around Blighty without coming across a ''Farm Animal & Traditional Tool Item''? There was a chain of ''Animal & Firkin'' pubs that used to sell some pretty good ales. A firkin is a ye olde size of beer barrel. Never heard them mentioned on here. I hope they didn't go bust.

There's a joker on your cross Atlantic forum who does 5 string conversions on 4 string Rics. I think you worry too much. You could sign up and he would help you get your luthier to do one for you, if you dare coping with the reduced string spacing.

Far from unique. SWR were doing parametric in the 90's. Ashdown might be the only surviving major bass amp maker that was doing it but there's a few fancy modern digital modeling amps and preamps these days with parametric up the wazoo.

Where's Mort?

I had to climb down from my usual reading position.

Sounds like this is the voice of experience with this amp. Either way it will serve very well in diagnosis.

That's very insightful. I saw one of Akker Bilk's last gigs in London. It was a freebie at a community art centre. He was lame. I am guessing he really did need the money the city paid, otherwise he was long overdue someone telling him to take up bowls.

^ Pay close attention to this. If it's not this then something is broken, possibly a result of said low EQ abuse. There's an easy test you can make on any cab with a 1/4" input jack. 9V battery applied across the exposed cable end, tip +ve, will make the speakers pop out when the -ve hits the cable shaft. All going well it will give you a big fright with the bang it makes. If one or two stay still or move backwards you have miswired or broken speakers.

This. Possible your cabinets are incompatible with one another. Plug in the 410. It should be plenty plenty loud all by itself. If adding the 210 makes it less loud or less clear you can forget that plan.

It's branded TE by Peavey made in China so the link is mainly green. They sound pretty good with good heft for 200w.

1st order of business, take the compressor and tuner out and see what bass into amp does. Generally it takes a lot of experience to get to where DI bass through PA to fill a room is going to be better than a decent cab with 500w behind it, no matter how many toys you put in between. With bass a 'blend' very quickly turns to muddy stew out front.

A whole row of bass drummers to keep everyone in step. I'd be surprised if what you hear on the telly isn't basically whatever the TV sound crew gathers up live from their microphones.

No makey sense to me. 4kHz = an undisclosed hearing aid gone bezerk?

The Eatles. /thread.

It's hard enough putting the boogie in the low end being a quasi extra drum and a chord element at the same time, just playing one note at a time on the bass. Keyboard bass and guitar bass can fill a void, but it's not the same.

Aye. And 410 as a monitor is crazy town overkill unless you're on an outdoor stage.

And yet I have made great milage out of knowing where 'flat' is on various amps before plugging in. The basses and pedals are constants Absolutely it is a point of reference!!! That's the whole point!!!!

The point of knowing where 'flat' is found is that you can plug in your preamp pedals and minimal tweakage will have you all set.

You won't know until you bow. A pro will make a decent enoug sound with anything, much as a pro cyclist could take the field on an off the rack bike. A good bow will do things that a cheap one will not, if you have the technique, which you can't learn on a piece o' junk.

The VPF cut indicates you have a ~120hz resonance.

I heard £Sterling has tanked against the US$. Makes all imported goods prices rise along with. The used market is more affected by general inflation but also tracks with the fresh new price. Inflation is a curse.

Pointy Bass Headstock = Sticky Out Basslines. Everyone knows this!

An acoustic guitar is the usual suspect when there is 'bass' booming going on yet the bass is muted.

That's some fantastic cack handed slamin' bassing / rhythm strumming with assistance from cack handed chord man plus cajon man and lead guitar, if I'm not mistaken.

@Paddy515 it might pay to ask on the Ashdown club thread instead.