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I get everything I need out of this rig, RM800 Evo + Super Twelve. No pedals, just the joint versatility of the BB735A/RM800/SuperTwelve. Perfect match!

Look what was waiting for me when I got home from the office!!!

Someone remind me when an 'f'hole becomes a Norissole?

Getting quite close to being able to close the top on this. I've cut the cable routes to the control chamber and lined the main void with veneer: The reason for the latter is that the chamber is actually quite shallow, because the back is so heavily carved, and the dark veneer gives the illusion of a much more substantial void through the 'f'hole :

Here's my reason for unreservedly recommending Jon's work.

I’ll just leave this here.

Hello, i'm Luca. I play guitar, but lately i bought my own bass equipment for my practice room... So i discovered i enjoy play bass too 😆

Two One10’s will sound awesome. I just started using both all the time (two Marshall 4x12’s to contend with) hence my want of a Two10. Heck, if I’m flush I might just get a Four10 and be damned with the roof!

Heres my Fender collection- 66 Jazz, 71 P, Custom Shop 5, 76 P 64 P, 70 P, 69 P

Windows still sucks. Yes a Windows laptop is far cheaper than an Apple Macbook but plug anything MIDI related and it may or may not work, the soundcard is likely to need tweaking to be a able to get the controller to work, the list goes on. Mac’s just work.

Could have been worse. If I'd invented it rather than nicked it, I suppose it would be an AR'sole… or is that me for nicking it

My first family pic, love em all in different ways 😍

Looks like a reverse body to me.

The 48’s as standard have a p neck and power bucker bridge pick up config under the shiny covers.

Look, I've just got podgy bones, ok?

Hi Al, it's genuinely complex isn't it? One of the complexities is that a lot of the 'information' is also advertising. For example your 'well known manufacturer' who is quoting a 15" cab running from 25-2k is probably stretching things a little. If the 15 is flat down to 25 Hz and can handle any power it will have to have a very heavy cone and a long throw, both of which would make it very inefficient. More likely it is 10-20dB down at 25 Hz so it is making some sort of sound but just not loud enough for you to hear significantly. The 1x12 may sound good with their 2x10 but if one part of their claim is improbable can you believe anything they say? A speaker that only goes to 2k wouldn't be suitable for bass on it's own. All this means is that you couldn't tell anything about how the cab would sound just from a bald 45-16k frequency response. Is that at -3dB, -10dB or some other figure. Is the response flat between those two extremes or biased towards some frequencies more than others. Add in one more factor, how we perceive sound. It is just like everything else to do with our senses, an entirely subjective experience. What we think of as bass is often about what is going on elsewhere. If I'm trying to pick out a bass line from a recording I usually cut the mids and tops rather than boost the bass. That'll make the bass line stand out much better than boosting bass 95% of the time. If your cab 2 had a bit of a mid/top end boost it would sound brighter even if the bass end was exactly the same. It might not be the 5Hz quoted difference in 'cut off' that creates the difference but what both cabs are doing in the 100-200Hz range that you are hearing. The best way of judging any cab, particularly an instrument cab is by ear. Test gear will help anyone designing a cab but you can't really drag it along to a music shop. Published figures without any indication of how they are measured aren't always a lot of use. I'm not completely cynical about manufacturers but it's a tough world for them too. If they use 'honest' rms watts and +/- 3dB frequency figures and so on then they are likely to lose sales to people who use peak figures. I'll get back to you on what in principle might be the difference you'd hear if the figures were independently measured and so could be compared, that's another long story.

Good gracious, no..! Whatever gave you that idea..? Almost libellous, to boot..! Retract, I say; retract or face the consequences.

i have my own Shuker template

For a brief time when things were really bad, I actually put my 7 string (Doodle as it is known) up for sale. I still thank so many who sent messages telling me not to do it. Who needs kidneys anyway, I have my flip-paint beauty still! (I don't look like that now lol)

Sounds like you got involved with guys that perhaps like funk but can't play it. Funk can mean different things to different people. In my neck of the woods sadly no one is playing funk. It's not an easy genre and a lot of guys don't understand don't have the feel for it. IMO play a guitar solo on " Good Times" is an example of not understanding and removed from the genre. Blue

Strings. Four of them.

I’ve done better?? I didn’t realise my comedy was being rated! I shall try harder in future to ensure the quality of my humour remains top drawer and only of the finest mirthment.

Don't be so sure about that. Most rehearsal spaces are small enough that you'll get a lot of boundary sourced phase cancellations, which can make your amp sound not as loud as it will in a large room. Guitars and drums don't have this issue, as the wavelengths they produce are much shorter and are relatively immune to phase cancellations.

Yeah, although for me it’s always without PA support so I need to know I have enough headroom to cover all the gigs I do. This being the case I tend to err on the side of caution and use a rig that more than I need most of the time.

Worst case scenario still 92 days....... best case....49..... 🙏🏻

Trust in John East. Learn how it works. When you do It's the best preamp in the business of bass preamps. Imo.

Yes, yes I do!

Lol! You as well eh?

With fellow Basschat forumite pmjos' kind recommendation while meeting up last week, I decided to stop by and make a profile. Mihran is my maternal grandfather's name (which I adopted as a musical nickname of sorts) and to state things up front, I work part-time for Moollon. I also go by Andi. I was born in Southern California but have lived in Korea for about 2/3 of my life, where I studied music composition and traditional Korean music theory at university, married my travel agent, and worked for close to 20 years in what later became the K-pop industry. As for bass gear, a delightfully back-breaking 5.5kg 1978 Jazz Bass was my only bass for a very long time, which I passed on to a friend when I purchased my first of three Moollon basses in 2009...somewhat lighter solutions! For the last decade or so I've done music sound design for commercial productions full-time and haven't had any Kpop work since 2012, but I do keep things light and entertaining on the side with a personal dreampop/shoegazer project of mine. I also play have too many Gretsch guitars MOTU DP9, SPL Channel One, UAD Apollo Duo, and Genelec 8040s are the backbone of my simple studio setup. Lastly, I'm sure many know me from TB, where my profile name is Ultradust. Hoping to be a positive contribution to the Basschat community and cheers to all ~

I can't help but to get a little giddy with excitement over Jon's headless basses! I think you are quite right to say you have your own template! I think your two have the most identifiable outline in the range surely!? (Don't change it for the next one, ok?)

It was you, wasn't it?

It's hideous... I think someone here should buy it, as that means it's less likely to show up again

If the passive circuit doesn't work without a battery, it is, by default, not passive!

I don't like locking jack sockets. If something catches the cable and pulls hard, I'd rather it comes off than breaking the cable, or the socket, or both. I had one in a Cort GB74 and hated it as I always forgot it was locking. Battery compartments, yes, the flip style ones... but with proper connectors that clamp to the terminals and not the flimsy bent metal contacts my Stingray has... eventually they stop working well and cause problems. Easy fix to bend them back, but it's just temporary. Truss rod wheel if the adjustment is at the body end, EBMM style. Saddles with adjustable spacing. Adjustable nut height, like Warwick do.

Awesome gig last night at Upton. Dance floor was packed. And then along came the police and stopped us playing to say that there was an incident outside and advised everybody to stay inside for the meantime. Killed the mood.

I second the Fat Fuzz Factory. I had one and sold it here (maybe I should’ve kept it) it can do super tight gate or wild self-oscillation. There a plenty of sounds to be had from it. Getting a stable sound is easy as long as you have the “stab” control up past about 1 o’clock.

I picked up a quality padded laptop backpack in a charity shop for £5. I think it was a promotional thing as it had a box of decent quality gel pens inside that were branded with the same name, too. Always worth checking out charity shops as you never know what you'll find. Actually, strictly speaking that is not true - you will always find that horrible smell of care home/air-freshener/disinfectant/death

Taking the picture, I expect.

Σταθερό, ώστε να αντιστοιχούν με το avatar σας Nobody going to jump in with "It's all Greek to me"??

Fixed so as to correspond with your avatar.

Quick snap of my top three! Or is that two and a half 🤔

I wish Aria UK had the Selected Wood series! Just look at these two!