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What a fantastic day! Great organisation by @scrumpymike and excellent lunch that everyone has come to expect. I enoyed listening to @fiatcoupe432 on the six string bass and @TheRev on double bass. Thanks to @Phil Starr for a fascinating cab shootout and @Chienmortbb for his free amp measuring service. The lovely atmosphere at these SW bashes makes them a pleasure to attend. The high spot for me was when @Pea Turgh's son - who has been playing bass for six months by borrowing his dad's bass - won the P.Bass in the raffle.

I'm bringing the prototype of the 10" system to the Bash. So you'll be able to try it out for yourself.

As @Chienmortbbsays, the new cabs are a further development of the original design I published on Basschat. To say 'thanks' to bass players like @basstonewho bought the kits, I'll be make the components (horn and crossover) available at cost to upgrade the technical performance of the BCIII. The upgrade will require a very small amount of jigsawing and the use of a screwdriver, but that's it. For obvious reasons (i.e. this is now a commercial design), I can only supply these components to Basschat members who bought the kit. I'll make an announcement on the Diary thread next week. See you all on Sunday!

Hohmage?🤥

It'll be DIY heaven!

Great work! The PR320 needs a much bigger box than the Celestion 10. So it's not going to sound right in that size of cab. Plus, as you say, the Faital Pro needs a completely different crossover. I'm seriously annoyed that Celestion have discontinued that driver; it's one of the best they've made.

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There's quite a large contact area between the horn and the baffle, which is probably where the vibration is coming from. Use several strips of foam sealing gasket and you should be OK. Velcro is the usual way of attaching that kind of grille. A fabric grille like that one is probably the best solution for DIY builders. There are plenty of suitable grill cloth fabrics available.

Mirror imaging the baffles won't make any difference to the performance of one cab on its own, but turning the horn round will reduce the vertical dispersion at high frequencies. The dispersion will still be good for the player standing in front of the cab and it won't affect the sound out front.

Good idea, @Stub Mandrel.

That's a really nice build, @GlamBass74. Well done. The grille is always a sticking point with DIY cabs. The round ones never look right. Luke's looks the business though - and neatly finished with piping.

If you intend to use the cab on its side, @Bassybert (I take it you're using a full-size amp), you'll need to alter the horn cutout on the baffle to enable you to turn the horn round 90-degrees. Otherwise, your plan should work. However, like the others, I think one cab is plenty for most people.

The easiest solution would to glue some cotton wool or similar in the horn to bring it down to the level you want.

I agree with Dan. It looks like wool felt, which is very good for wadding cabs.

They've done a nice job on the styling. It really does look like Trace brought into the present decade.

Huh?

Why is that?

A non-flat response instrument?

I had trigger thumb about five years ago. It was painful and really uncomfortable. The doctor suggested a steroid injection, which did the trick and it hasn't come back.

I wouldn't claim from my limited experience that all or even many scanners are fooled by sellotape, or that this was even a problem in your case, @fleabag, but it certainly happened to me a few times that a scanner couldn't read the QR code when there was sellotape over it and reprinting the label fixed the problem. YMMV, as they say on the internet.

Send Eich an email and ask them if they supply spares and what driver it is. [email protected] Alternatively, post a photo on here showing relevant markings, such as model no. and so on. Someone might recognise it so that you can buy one from a specialist speaker supplier near you.

On the scanning problem, I've noted that carrier scanners cannot read QR or barcodes when there's sellotape over them, or even over part of them. Which may or may not be relevant, but perhaps worth mentioning.

That's weird. I get the same as @uk_lefty . The volume increases the more compression you dial in. It's actually a bit annoying. I'm using an RM500.

Cooking without salt isn't boring. It's healthy. Add the salt to afterwards. Same with bass amps - season to taste. The 'flat is sterile' mantra seems to be some kind of internet wisdom. There are lots of great sounding amps that are flat response with the controls at noon. They can't all be boring, surely?🙂

I take your point about bass rigs, but the original question was not about bass rigs but a bass amp. There are plenty of bass guitar amps with a flat frequency response. If you check out the technical reviews at Bass Gear Magazine, you'll find them. From memory, the Markbass LMIII is flat with the controls at 12 o'clock. Knowing that your amp is flat response with the controls at noon doesn't stop you from using your tone controls to get the sound you're looking for. But at least you know what the starting point is.