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10 minutes ago, Smanth said:

I just rasping, shaving, sanding, repeat and feeling/measuring it now and then.  I'm finding it amazingly relaxing; total immersion in the process; the smell of sawdust; loving it!

Wonderful, isn't it? I won't have music or any other distractions, especially when it's only hand tools.

I've ordered the parts for a SS 6 build. My new job will have me going right past a major timber supplier soon, so I suspect some of my pay will be staying there. There are ideas circulating on my mind, and exact details are yet to be sorted, but suffice as to say, it will be my take on an SRC6.

16 hours ago, BCH said:

Try this SS...

What's with the bit next to the pickup?

I'm right at the point where no matter what Status come out with next, I don't care, and I won't be buying one.

Only because I can't afford what I'd like to get.

Wow, memories. I had a 4 similar to the one in the OP, maybe mid 90s. Nice bass, well made.

19 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

Thanks. I had a 5 String Status S2 which I loved. It was one with a headstock that sadly became headless when a tree fell on my car 😢

Better the bass than you I suppose.

I had a work colleague that used to park his car in the rear of the large work car park because he didn't want door dings. He came onto shift one day and had barely swiped in when security came to the control room to inform him a huge gum tree branch had just fallen on his car and flattened it. The fire brigade attended (leaking fluids) and told me they'd have been hosing him out if he'd been in it when it fell. Pity*, he was a right prat.

The irony was that he'd parked under the only tree branch anywhere near the car park in a lot of maybe 500 spaces which was barely filled as it was a night shift starting on a bright, clear and sunny afternoon with no breeze.

I have an S2000 headless that hardly gets touched as it's a 4. Owned it maybe 20y now.

* I don't really mean that. I'm glad he wasn't hurt, but every time he annoyed me after that I shook my fist at the heavens...

On 31/03/2022 at 06:53, anzoid said:

Proper intonation was difficult because of the limited range of movement and the fact it was just one solid block.

That's what put me off one. Prices have also risen lately, and there are few available in the Antipodes, so I'm probably not going to ever get one, no matter how curious I am.

I like the Kingbass, but would love it if it had another string.

4 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Just as the PRS silver sky looks jarring with that 3+3 headstock.

I don't think so.

4 hours ago, HippieNerd said:

I am verrrry choosy about headstocks.

As am I. Given the choice, I'd rather not have one at all, especially a huge 4IL paddle like a Fender.

I'd like another Alembic Series 2, but none I see second hand are close to what I'd spec if I had one built from scratch. New are a tad on the expensive side and the wait time too long. Plus I'm really not sure what I'd use it for that one of my modest basses wouldn't do just as well.

Other than that, maybe an Ibanez EHB1265. 

I have zero interest in any of the vintage basses that command high $.

5 hours ago, Smanth said:

but it appears they do not sell the tuner/bridge assemblies.

No, they don't. I was suggested as an instructional if you wanted to make your own. They didn't do a 5 anyway.

For a headless bass bridge try Nova in Brazil. Andre is on TB @Passini. Several people there have used them and the quality is VG. I'll be using them for my upcoming headless 6s.

21 hours ago, Random Guitarist said:

But I've been struggling to think how the tuner might work.

Look at how the Kubicki bridge works. Best explanation is on a how to string a Kubicki instructional off YT. On my phone ATM so can't link it but it should be easy enough to find. I think there's a maintenance manual online too. I'll look later.

On 01/06/2022 at 17:28, MGBrown said:

What is 'B0' and '2H'? 

B0 is 31Hz. See attached chart.

2H is second harmonic, 3H 3rd etc.

10 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

The cabs were subjected to over excursion somehow. Lots of power applied to too low of a range of frequencies

As that takes a considerable amount of effort to achieve in normal circumstances, the details of which I'm not aware in the vague examples you mentioned, it comes back to stupidity or abuse. As the fundamental on a B0 is considerably lower than the 2H, doing so will require a lot of EQ and is not the sort of damaged caused by a stock passive 5er going into a flat amp. There is no need whatsoever for a huge amount of LF EQ to be able to discern the B0 because tone is determined by the harmonic structure, not the fundamental.

I guarantee I can break any cabinet you give me with sufficient power and EQ if I wish to abuse the cab, not subject it to normal use.

No, I said overexcursion causes damaged cones and that is extremely unlikely in a sealed cab due to the air spring in the cab. Overexcursion is a problem in ported cabs with signal below tune, because below tune the cab effectively has no control over the cone.

Come back when you actually understand the subject.

2 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

How else do you crease drivers in a sealed cab?

Abuse, maybe stupidity. I have no idea of the specific circumstances of a 3rd hand report of damage. 

How come my cab doesn't have damaged drivers with B0 tuned instruments and no HPF, even when run hard?

29 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

The only way you can do that is with way too much power too low.

I'm not new to designing speakers and have been doing so since the early 80s when studying EE at Uni. Because people claim something doesn't mean it's true and most musos have no idea of how stuff actually works. So because you say 30Hz damaged your drivers, doesn't mean it's true. I fixed so much MI and PA gear over the decades where it was claimed a certain event caused a fault and it cannot physically have happened. I'd need specifics to believe it as I have a couple of old rigs that have no issues being played very hard with my 5s and 6sl this includes a 2x10 that is basically half of a 4x10 using Ampeg drivers I got from a cab that got partially destroyed in a Qld flood some years back.

Also note, I was quite specific about the different issues between sealed and ported cabs.

I've also been reading TB a long time and don't recall this being an issue and certainly not lately.

The Thumpinator is a 6th order 25Hz filter based upon the data on their website, so it's having very little effect an octave above.

Cut-off frequency: ~25Hz

Slope: 36 dB/oct

No 4 string bass guitars tuned E-G that I've ever seen will reproduce a fundamental at the same level as a 2H as the scale length is too short to support it. Move down to B0 and the fundamental is even less significant. Most of the tonality you hear this low is the 2H and up in the lower sections of the instrument.

When I ran my PA, one I designed and built, there was a 40Hz hard HPF to limit over excursion in the ported subs, to stop wasting power and to stop spurious rattles on suspended stages. Sometimes I set it higher, but I don't ever recall setting it lower, especially as all my subs were tuned to about 40Hz for max efficiency in the range I wanted to use them in.

I'm not buying that cones were destroyed because of B0 being played through them, especially if the cab is sealed. The air spring of the enclosure will prevent this. SVTs and similar sealed 4x10 and 8x10 are sealed and roll off at approx 60Hz - just look at Ampeg's own website: 

Frequency Response (-3dB): 58Hz-5kHz

Ported enclosures may have been an issue, as all ported enclosures become uncontrolled below tune and excursion rises dramatically.

Another in this class that should be considered is the OLP MM5. Basically an Asian made (no idea where) Musicman Silhouette for a fraction of the cost. I had one and foolishly sold it (~100 quid) on a whim in about '07 and haven't seen another since. 29 5/8 scale and passive but otherwise sort of feels like the SRC6, accounting for 15y of shoddy memory. I'd have this again over any Bass VI style with a trem. It sounded good as I recall.

Same again with a maple board (purely aesthetics) would be luvverly.

PS: Not mine, image from a completed Reverb sale.

My original reply was about there being no SRC6 in the tags list, being all drama queen about it in fun, then realising my mistake and deleting.

WRT logos, I'm the same. I hate products with the brand all over it like I'm a free billboard, unless I think that product is particularly awesome, which is very rare.

Looking forward to a few weeks from now when I get some time post move to set up mine again with the Kaliums I want (means drilling the bridge slightly) and fitting the EMGs, probably a J/DC set. I mainly fingerpick on it like a guitar and they're just such lovely little instruments and fun to play. There's a guitar teacher literally a few houses from my new place and I'm getting lessons to improve my playing on this; apart from some campfire strumming I haven't really improved my guitar skills since I was a teen and a decent player.

I have an SRC6 and use it to noodle on and to play with some friends who are basically acoustic. I think it complements better than more traditional basses.

PS: I bollocks up with my earlier comment. Reading on my phone means I miss things sometimes.

On 15/04/2022 at 02:43, Doctor J said:

active Alembic

Which Alembic pickups are active?

On 25/05/2022 at 18:28, lee650 said:

I'm sure I read many moons ago, that Mo Foster, had an ebony fingerboard from an old Double bass, grafted onto his Fender, gave it a much thicker board.

Then it would have had to have been shaved thinner and the radius adjusted to fit. Fenders have a standard neck pocket depth so adding to the total thickness of the neck would have meant something needed to be adjusted or the geometry of the bass would be off.

You really can't go wrong with any of the Ibanez SR series or the Yamaha RBXs, they're both good basses. Which one felt better in your hands? That's the important question. Either are gigable, both are well made and they will last a long time. Take Ed's advice and get new strings on either and learn how to set it up how you prefer. Plenty of good YT videos on this subject and it's good knowledge to have.