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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.

My new arrival :

I play with the thumb a lot , it allows me to get the really deep and warm sound I like, you can also get it up to quite a speed with double thumbing , and the muting just falls into place. a good example is Robbie Shakespeare

Go on, buy it. Then I'll buy it from you when I can afford it.

This is only partially true, because the impedance is not constant. You can put nearly any speaker to the output as long as you drive it with relatively low power. Keep the volume at 9 or 10 o'clock max and try every speaker one at a time and then in pairs. Remember to turn off the amp before changing the speaker. Level volume and try every possible configuration. Keep the impedance selector at 4. If the amp starts to become too hot, turn down the volume and let it cool down.

Think you might need to change the heading on this thread to :- Not a BAD word about the Queen movie

If copper goes anywhere near sea water, it turns green, non?

I can't slap, I never learned. I never learned because I don't like it at all, dunno why, I just don't enjoy all the sound that's produced. I'm old school. I learned using just my thumb in the late '60's, then graduated to include picking in the '70's, then onto include single and multiple fingering techniques after that. I've never played in a band that required a slapping technique, so other than that I just use whatever technique the song requires or sounds best with.

The One10s sound anything but thin, in my experience

Gonna play these as mid set break music at our next gig. Awesomely awesome

TBF they called after your audition to let you know. That's more than a lot of bands do. But as it wasn't actually an audition, then 😕

Replying 'for a friend'.... He may (or may not) have brought back a number of basses from the US on more than one occasion.... and walked straight through the nothing to declare channel each time... As you were.....

Thanks all, As it happens, I just happened to find an email from a custom pickup maker that I have used in the past (anyone believe in fate?) so asked the question. The 3 x 3 configuration no problem, and no problem to put it within the p90 cover as a staggered set up (so no modification needed there). Only would be £75 done and delivered. I am going to try the suggustion of doing it as a temporary trial with an old precision pickup and if it does what I want I will order a custom one and save myself some grief trying to fashion a new pickguard etc. Much obliged for your input.

They're OK. I remember Maison as a decent midrange MIK brand from the ealy 90s. Had quite a nice time noodling on one of these at a party a few years back, nice player. Couldn't get much of an idea of how it sounded, through a little practice amp & accompanying haze of alcohol.

It’s been a while since I played that particular bass but from memory I think the passive circuit still worked even without a battery. This +1 and I must say, even without having a spoked truss wheel, the adjustment being at the body end is sooo much easier than at the headstock end. More space between the strings to rotate the Allen key, plus the strings themselves are so much more pliable at the body end so it’s just a less obstructed process, especially on a 5 string bass with a single truss rod.

Getting a simple and effective unit on a solid body in a position that’s viewable when playing is hard - acoustics have the big slab side to fit them in easily and they are viewable when playing

Isn't CITES going to be a problem?

The only reason I’ve missed the past few comps is because I had written songs using panpipes & bagpipes. Liking this month’s inspiration. 😎

That's interesting..! To me, it sounds just like the 'Hounslow' (pronounced locally as 'arnsler'...) pronunciation of the word 'subtle': su-ul..! Quite different to the Soul version we normally use. As it's now officially Bejing, formally Peking, maybe Su-ul could be adopted by Auntie Beeb for Seoul..?

No. No, you wouldn't. And do you know why? Because thanks to the unelected faceless bureaucratic dictatorial unelected quasi-fascist bullying faceless unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, you can't buy a GALLON of petrol. You can only buy it in euros now. And even if you could, the unelected faceless bureaucratic dictatorial unelected quasi-fascist bullying faceless unelected Health & Safety bureaucrats won't let us burn ourselves even if we want to. The sooner we are free of the EU's unelected faceless eurocratic dictatorial (cont'd p.94 of tomorrow's Daily Express, and every other day in fact)

Yep. in fact i normally play a bit louder at rehearsals than i do at the average gig. I normally put it down to the drummer being too loud but good to know there is a real reason for it. Ive never found shop or home playing to be any indication of how a rig will sound at a gig. To my ears all rigs/combos sound great at home, but when they are pushed at gigs their tone can change quite a lot.

You'll be able to do a 'Recent Status Update' then....

Got 54 Peavey basses,at least one of every model but not every variation within each series. That's definitely classed as a collection and it's fairly well known among Peavey people. Because of that I get messages from folks all over looking for info or advice,sometimes I put buyers/sellers in touch. Mostly found playing a Harley Benton PB-50 😉