SwamiRob

I very much appreciate the encouragement and would love to, but with a nearly 2 year old finding time to fix a lead between a guitar and an input jack is tricky enough atm!!!

This is a massive massive necropost, however I'm just asking the same thing 12 years or so later! Is anyone familiar with the designs any the wiser for any more options than have been given above? Also, is there any scope for using a different sub? I'm painfully having to sell my NV215 soon and would like a replacement that has a similar vibe, however the NV115s or any other setup with a mid driver & no tweeter seem rare af. Thanks for any help!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/2u235f/using_accutronics_spring_verb_tank_without_an_amp/ This is from a post about someone using a tank in isolation, and mentions that it requires a small amplifier to actually drive the springs (something I never realised before! And would explain the use of RCA cables instead of jack's as it's the sort of cable you'd commonly use to connect low power speakers and amps together) but apparently the signal is massively reduced in driving the springs and needs a preamp to restore a decent signal level. So that would be around about the same level of signal that would be running through an average pedal setup anyway wouldn't it?Being at instrument level (very vague terminology I'm using there I know) before a preamp?

Bit of a cheat because this isn't actually bass related (I am a bass player mostly!) but I was wondering if any of you guys knew whether it was possible to route the signal to/from a spring reverb tank through other effects? Obviously you'd have to use a jack adapter and a couple of extra leads, but is the signal being sent or returned actually hot enough to use with anything else? Asking because I was wanting to use momentary reverb on a electromagnetic piano as a fake sustain (The Hohner Pianet T I'm using doesn't have one) and if I'm using an amp with a nice on board spring reverb there's no point wasting it. The other alternative was whether you could use a monetary switch as a footpedal if I can find an amp with footswitchable reverb? Thanks for any help!

Was very fortunate and thankfully a mate happened to be down there yesterday and noticed when he said summet about watching a film there on Facebook, social media is useful for something occasionally! It is here and in very good condition just needs a little fine tuning (although it is actually IN tune thankfully because that is a bit of a pain to sort out). Thanks for the help anyway guys!

Haha, yeah that's the one

Not Batley but that'd be pretty much between Leeds and Bradford! I guess it's inbetween there and Skipton if anyone's heard of that, it's a little town called Ilkley if anyone's heard of that either?

West Yorkshire, near Leeds and Bradford, bit of a journey!

CB1, pretty central by the looks!

Thanks for the detailed input guys, the option of a day trip to Cambridge has crossed my mind, 6 hours of driving is a bit off putting, but I don't think I really want anyone's hands on this thing really now. I like the idea of the man with a van type websites, however as much as I like to use smaller businesses I'm not sure I'd trust the liability of someone I'd only dealt with in the Internet, regardless of the reviews they have (which I always worry about the legitimacy of). If it was something sturdy and not really worth theiving then I'd definitely go for it. Also the guy I've bought it off has stipulated that it was a collection only, so gonna be unlikely to convince them into the pain in the derrière of a load of packing and sourcing the stuff to pack it in the first place.

Hey guys, I'm wanting to get an electric piano (a proper electromagnetic one) that I bought for my girlfriend couriered, but I'm a bit worried about it getting looked after on the way here. It's a Hohner Pianet T, and it's fairly compact and when it's all closed up is pretty much it's own hardcase, but it obviously can't get chucked about otherwise it'll get battered. I know it's probably not gonna go through airline baggage treatment, but I just want to know if anyone knows which are the best places to use that seem to take a decent amount of care with semi fragile gear? DHL and Yodel (who lost a badass bridge of mine a couple of years back which is a bit off putting) are the only reasonable quotes I've seen so far both being about 20 quid. It's 20kg and a meter wide so there's a few carriers I've seen that it's too big for. Cheers for the help! This is what it looks like by the way:

Cheers for the response, just to be clear I don't universally boost everything a lot, and will also cut a little in a frequency or two that might cause issues. If anything for the kind of loud stuff I play it seems to sit better with some boosting going on, when I cut and leave the stuff I want more of flat, I get a really dull sound, and end up having to be even louder. I seem to get more depth and transparency the way I've got used to, and can hear guitars and drums much better. Very open to trying out new stuff though, just cutting and boosting my gain hasn't really worked out for me at any point with pretty much any EQing as a general rule of thumb.

It'd probably be more natural to use more matching 12s instead of mixing the cabs if possible, I know you said you don't have the money but it's probably not worth the money spending it to do that unless your planning to get another one later and then run two 2x12 rigs. A 4x10 or 12 or whatever from one brand is never really engineered to match with say a 15 from the same brand, they might have similar character but there'll be a lot of frequencies cancelling each other out unless you use a crossover, and in doing so you'll be losing a lot of output from both cabs, as they're both designed to be relatively full range. That's my understanding anyway, in general unless cabs are specifically engineered as subs/mids/tops etc then it's a bad idea to mix cabs that overlap frequencies. How does the 15 sound on its own? If it sounds any good another 15 could be an option, people band on about them not having enough mids or whatever but it's total nonsense in most of them unless they've been designed specifically as subs which they rarely are, have a go and mess around with your EQ and see if you like it for either of your bands.

Yeah that's what I thought, was wondering if anyone could give any explanation, but I'm probably not gonna be told otherwise because no matter how many times I've tried it's never sounded as good. Also if you wanna scoop, scoop, sometimes it does actually fit very well depending how you do it and what for, obviously it does also sound god awful and in totally the wrong situation and it comes out as a in audible harsh mess, but if you actually cut out the bits of midrange with a bit of thought then it can sound good. You don't always have to cut through a mix, sometimes it sounds better to sit behind it, and intact its makes the bass more audible to do so, instead of fighting with the guitars for different mid frequencies.

Perhaps it's just the controls lying where I need them on most of the amps I've owned, but I've always found that pretty much most amps I've used (and actually liked) have sounded better by boosting the EQ pretty much across the board from a little to alot, and compensating by having less gain. I'm aware that as a general rule of thumb you should be cutting out the bits you don't want and having more gain, but there always seems to be more life to my tone when I do the opposite. Does anyone else find this to be the case? If - even on a wide ranging 7 band EQ or something, the EQ controls are at frequencies I happen to like the sound at - is it in effect creating peaks in places that make my tone sound better to me? Or is it a matter of the EQ creating subtle distortion that could sound good? In any case I very rarely cut anything unless it's on an amp I don't particularly like and I'm trying to dig out the bits that are causing it to sound so offensive, i.e. mega highs on a very scoopy amp or something. Also, from an engineering perspective, on nearly all high quality gear, apart from stuff with passive tone stacks or whatever, nearly all EQ circuitry has the option to boost as well as cut, so there must be a useful function to boosting frequencies, as opposed to cutting out bits you don't like?