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[quote name='Merton' post='307852' date='Oct 16 2008, 01:23 PM']Flame!! Nope. I do the same as you actually [/quote] My hands are not big enough to stretch, but the open A sounds all right to me. I just tried hammering onto the F sharp in the main riff, which also makes it easier to play.

[quote name='steve-norris' post='307395' date='Oct 15 2008, 09:29 PM']Hi this may help[/quote] Thanks, Steve, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. In particular, the two bars that go A7 to C look wrong.

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='307434' date='Oct 15 2008, 10:21 PM']just a note on finger positioning...when I play it, it may not be perfect but it's damn close to the original and I find it easiest to play the main riff in 2nd position. I know it's a bit of a stretch but i find it sounds better and it loosens up my hand nicely for the rest of the set. I'm prepared for the flaming re. using finger-per-fret up close to the nut, but it's not caused me any troubles...merely a suggestion on this ace song.[/quote] I'm playing the open E and A, but the D at the fifth fret on the A string, because it needs to be choked. I don't need to stretch at all. By the way, here is the guy on YouTube really doing it justice. [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4YHpJjjUA"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4YHpJjjUA[/url]

I've now found something that seems reasonably close. Perhaps one of our pro players might like to have a look at it, as I have a feeling it's not perfect. I'm sure one or two of you will find this useful, as it's a really tricky line to figure out.

I'm struggling to get an accurate transcription of this Steeler's Wheel bass line. There are some on the web, but they are only approximations. There is one guy on YouTube who has nailed it, but I'm having a problem picking it up from that. If anyone has transcribed it (not tab), I'd be very grateful for a copy. Thanks in advance.

This is an amazing site: [url="http://www.thelibster.com/bass/"]http://www.thelibster.com/bass/[/url] In theory, you could learn to read for the bass using the lessons on here.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='290984' date='Sep 24 2008, 04:23 PM']Moi? [/quote] I think Bilbo may be playing bass on this one - it's certainly his kind of music. [url="http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=NmijSk0zT-A&feature=related"]http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=NmijSk0zT-A&...feature=related[/url]

[quote name='escholl' post='288663' date='Sep 21 2008, 06:28 PM']my housemate has one of [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product.asp?id=3717"]these[/url] he uses for acoustic guitar, and i've been pretty impressed by it, considering the price.[/quote] Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm not a great believer in valves. I think I'll keep looking for a pucker bass preamp.

I notice a few people on here using the Avalon, but please don't suggest that - I'm on a budget!

[quote name='escholl' post='286956' date='Sep 18 2008, 11:43 PM']what if you used a different cheap preamp, and rack mount it along with the power amp?....there must be something out there what would work[/quote] I suppose the Behringer V-Amp Pro might work, but I had one of those and it broke. It is more complex than I need anyway. Apart from that, preamps seem to be more expensive than pre/power amps nowadays. I have an active bass with a 3-band EQ - so the preamp doesn't need to do too much. I just need enough level for a +4dB power amp input. Ideas?

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='286849' date='Sep 18 2008, 08:55 PM']I'm not saying that any of the Neo cabs that I've had are bad, far from it, but they have (whether by design or driver) been mid biased. If real world experiences are showing that people feel that Neo equipped cabs have been mid biased I'd be inclined to think that manufacturers may well just be sticking neo drivers into cabs that were modelled and made to accommodate standard non-neo drivers... would that be an awful and wholly wrong assumption to make [/quote] You mean, build a box to visually match the standard head, and fit whatever driver you can get the best deal on? Surely not!

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='286815' date='Sep 18 2008, 07:44 PM']I've always considered that the Neo equipped cabs that I have owned (5 cabs in total) have a 'perceived' increase in mid-range. [/quote] If these are American built cabs fitted with the Eminence Deltalite II2510 10-inch or 2512 12-inch, it's easy to see why. Have a look at the frequency response curves of these two drivers from here: [url="http://www.eminence.com/neodymium.asp"]http://www.eminence.com/neodymium.asp[/url] Both of these speakers have a 10dB rise up to 2kHz and a really horrendous resonance at around 2kHz (which you can see from the peak in the frequency response and the impedance curve). Once you fit these speakers into a cabinet, you will lose quite a bit of the LF, which will leave the mid even more exposed. Either of these drivers will sound excessively middy and I'd not want to use them full range - they really should be crossed over to a midrange driver. However, I suspect that they are probably typical of what the average US OEM is fitting. To be fair to Eminence, look at the Deltalite II 2515 to see how it should be done. The response is very smooth and resonances are controlled throughout the passband, as far as one can tell from the available data. This one shouldn't sound overly middy. As Bill said earlier, the type of magnet has nothing to do with the response curve - that's down to the way the speaker is designed.

[quote name='pete.young' post='286094' date='Sep 17 2008, 05:36 PM']I think it's unlikely. The DI output is very puny and when I've used it to DI into a PA it's needed the gain wound well up on the mixing desk.[/quote] Thanks, Pete (and escholl) - that's what I was afraid of. I'd hoped to be able to put my power amp into service by using a cheap Behringer preamp in front of it. It looks like that wasn't a great idea after all.

[quote name='Zach' post='285843' date='Sep 17 2008, 01:38 PM']Not that I've had any experience with neos, but I can't see why they would be more 'midrangey', as surely they'd still generate the same shaped magnetic field around the coil? I've heard this midrange bias mentioned several times in reference to neo's, and i just can't fathom the reason behind it.[/quote] It's possible that the designers of earlier neo speakers got a bit carried away with the power of the magnets and didn't spec them very well. I can see evidence of that in some of the neos out there now. An excessively powerful magnet will not only produce a raised midrange, it will damp out lower frequencies, isolating the mids even more. Another thing that will increase the level of the midrange is a smaller coil, and on the whole, neos tend to have smaller coils than their ceramic counterparts. This is, admittedly, conjecture. I don't think this is a mature technology at all. It's only recently that these magnets became affordable enough to be used by mainstream manufacturers and I think quite a few of them may still be figuring it out.

Will the Behringer BDI21 work as a standalone bass preamp to drive the balanced, low impedance input of a professional power amp? There are no proper specs on the Behringer site and reviews on the web suggest it might not be loud enough. Has anyone tried it (or the Samsamp)?

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