GreeneKing

Just brilliant! Peter

I had TI's on my C64S and they suited it extremely well. In fact I've not heard flats sound as good on any other bass. Pedro

Yes apols for the side track Martin, looking forward to this coming to fruition. Peter

Mersea Island: Colchester: Nuff said?

[quote name='Merton' post='216959' date='Jun 11 2008, 03:30 PM']Good edumacated guess but nope. Tho the guy building it does originally come from Colchester, but that's highly irrelevant to everything really![/quote] With respect Merton no he doesn't. He's a Merseaite and there's a whole world of difference believe me. I err.... grew up with his Mum (who's actually 3 or 4 yrs younger than me)

[quote name='Alien' post='830432' date='May 7 2010, 10:20 AM']Dave's rig is a BFM Omni 15 TB isn't it? The BFM website reckons it can be built with or without a tweeter for bass use. Bear in mind that the 3-way crossover will be cutting some of the higher end of what the midrange driver is capable of producing, so a post crossover tweeter switch will make the rig sound duller than one without a tweeter. A[/quote] Dave's new rig is a home designed Neo 2 x 12" with, if memory serves me correctly one tweeter and one mid range horn. It has a crossover built from individual components and compared with every other cab I've heard, in a real world comparison it's tops the lot, by a significant margin. In that list of cabs would be my EA's (still very good), Bergs and Alex's own. The cab is a real world beater but Dave isn't in the business of making them for a living sadly. Peter

[quote name='Alien' post='830217' date='May 7 2010, 12:22 AM']A couple of years ago me and a mate had a chance to play with a couple of high quality crossovers (4 bands of 48dB/Octave, which we cascaded to make a pair of 96dB/Octaves - virtually a brick wall of crossover!) We found that these frequency bands are where the majority of the 'recognition' of the tone comes from. Obviously, that's not all there is to it (rhythm and lead guitar go from about 100Hz up to 5kHz or even higher, vocals range from maybe 200Hz with overtones and breath sounds all the way up to about 10kHz etc.), but the [b]bulk[/b] of the tone comes from these bands. Interestingly, we also found that for most bass players, even when slapping and popping, there's nothing really useful going on above 5kHz. The Marcus Miller kind of brightness goes up to around 7-8kHz, but how many people need that? It does make me wonder why so many amp makers fit tweeters that go all the way up to 20kHz when that top octave is [b]totally[/b] unnecessary, and the top 2 octaves are pointless in the vast majority of cases. It's something Alex Claber and I agree on - a good midrange driver should give you all the top end you'll ever need. A[/quote] I think you need to speak with Dave Perry. He's living proof (and his home build cab totally tonally awesome including mid drivers tweeter and crossover) that the above isn't necessarily the case Pedro

Preaching to the converted here

Together with the one of Scoop, this is my favourite, happy bassmen: That's it, til the next one. Pedro

Dave P feeling for the G string: Stu is indeed a chuffed ACG man: Rich and his totally awesome sounding home build (or perhaps it's in the fingers): Rich again, doing what he does: Shivering Shaun: Steve the upright citizen:

Finally got around to sorting out some photos of the event Nice one of Dave: Proud ACG owner Steve: Jim was the Man: Paul having a pluck: The band: Da Boyz:

Just a quick reply to say what a great weekend Linda and I had. Thanks go to Alan and Dave for doing all that work and to everyone who made it such a fun weekend. I've got some photos to post and will when I have a spare minute.