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[quote name='Slipperydick' post='971515' date='Sep 29 2010, 11:15 AM']Just had a quick 'skim' through this thread, interesting. Just a thought, if your using 2 cabs with one head, theres alwys the chance of a dodgy lead, so one cab not working, you wont neccesarily notice with a band playing at full tilt, all the power goint to the one that is working could result in knackered cab. Had it happen to me years ago. so its always worth Checking your leads by pulling em one at a time, and having a good tug at the connections while you listen for anything untoward.[/quote] If you're running two cabs of the same impedance in parallel and one fails, the remaining speaker will continue operating at about the same power level as before. There may be a slight increase in power delivered to it due to the fact that many power amps are not quite able to deliver twice the power when load impedance is halved. The important thing though is that if one cab fails, the load impedance increases and so the amp delivers less power. The remaining cab does not "soak up" the power previously delivered to the failed cab.

Thanks to all for the responses. Another thing that occurred to me is that magnetic pickups probably reduce the sustain of the strings as they're slightly damped by the magnetic field of the pickups. Or not?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='969560' date='Sep 27 2010, 03:17 PM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=57703"]Bunch of info in this thread.[/url][/quote] There certainly is! I'll use the search function next time - I promise.

I don't believe for a moment that magnetic pickups were incorporated into the design of electric guitars and basses because they were the best solution. More likely they were used because the technology was already established and used in telephones, microphones and the like. Coil = inductance = non-flat frequency response i.e. they colour the sound. They may already exist but I haven't come across any basses using piezo pickups and I know almost nothing about their characteristics anyway. So: 1. How suitable/unsuitable would they be for a bass? and more generally: 2. How much of instrument design is down to tradition rather than measurable/audible factors?

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[quote name='allihts' post='456751' date='Apr 7 2009, 07:53 PM']Hey! I play an active cort g-series bass and when i play a low note (especially in drop-d tuning) a large fuzz comes through the amp, this happens when i play through other amps but not with other basses, and still occurs when i change the cable. I'm not sure if the problem is electrical or to do with the low action on the bass... Any ideas??[/quote] Could be the action, but check/replace the battery in the Cort.

[quote name='goaround' post='965865' date='Sep 23 2010, 04:40 PM']the 'Effects Loop' pre- and post-EQ jack sockets on the back have 'break jack' contacts in the signal path, and both seemed very scratchy (the 'pre-' one very much so), so I cleaned them up with lube/contact cleaner.[/quote] This is (or at least was when I was repairing amps) a very common problem on pretty much any brand of gear, and seems to happen mostly on amps whose FX jacks are never used. A bit of corrosion at the contact point and the result is crackling and intermittent sound. A quick fix is often simply to push a jack plug in and out a few times - a better idea is to get in there and clean the contacts properly.

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