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[quote name='Bassmanc' post='731508' date='Feb 1 2010, 11:51 AM']Thanks for reading![/quote] You want to get a Sound Sculpture Switchblade. [url="http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm"]http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm[/url] If you can find an old AKAI MB76, you can do what you want to do but it is only a matrix line mixer, programmable , but only has 32 midi slots. doubt you need more. If you can find the PEQ6 , it will also do progammable EQ.

[quote name='bigjohn' post='730593' date='Jan 31 2010, 02:01 PM']Hi Karl, I'm not sure those noiseless pups are stacked humbuckers. Not sure at all. I'm pretty sure it's the enamelled wires and "special" magnets which rid em of pesky 60 cycle hum. That's why they're vintage noiseless, rather than just noiseless.[/quote] They are stacked humbuckers, but they are not the variety which are of equal coils.

[quote name='cd_david' post='729210' date='Jan 29 2010, 09:01 PM']Anyone have any experience of this and where in the north i could buy it? I need to refinish my ampeg PR 810h which has a satin-ish large flaked finish and not sure if this is a suitable match. Cheers Dave[/quote] Blue Aran's tuff cab supplier is: Aldcroft Adhesives Limited Unit 13A Horwich Loco Industrial Estate Chorley New Road Bolton BL6 5UE UK Tel: +44 (0) 1204 668282 Fax: +44 (0) 1204 668780 Email: [email protected]

[quote name='sarin1' post='696369' date='Dec 30 2009, 02:53 PM']Experimented teacher in two universities in Colombia now is teaching in London!! salsa, latin jazz, cumbia (real no [b]fake[/b]!!), merengue, son tradicional, son jalao, joeson. y more .. !![/quote] Did you use google translator?

[quote name='Finbar' post='573708' date='Aug 18 2009, 11:38 PM']4 way mounted into my rack. I can now power my power amp and preamp, as well as my pedalboard all from one plug socket. No more scrabbling around the venue for a 4 way because I forgot mine and the venue only anticipates the bass player needing one plug socket! Bit more expensive than using cable ties to fix a 4 way in, but I'm really happy with it [/quote] Whilst you're at it, you might as well get a 1U plate with speakon connections or your choice of speaker connector that takes any stress/difficulty out of the banana/ring post connector in your QSC, such as: [url="http://www.audiospares.com/product.php?productid=166&cat=261&page=1"]http://www.audiospares.com/product.php?pro...=261&page=1[/url] I use only 2 speakons and remove the rest. I hard wire the speakon connectors to the ring posts and can reach in to patch for bridging or stereo; most of my power amps are pre-speakon.

[quote name='Netballman' post='689845' date='Dec 20 2009, 03:56 PM']Anyone had any experience with these? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRACE-DWG-1000-DIGITAL-WIRELESS-GUITAR-BASS-SYSTEM_W0QQitemZ320452900535QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item4a9c7b36b7"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRACE-DWG-1000-DIGIT...=item4a9c7b36b7[/url][/quote] In terms of digital electronics, it was only a matter of time these cheaper units would turn up. I haven't tried one but it would seem to me that the 1/8" jack is the weak link. Most pro grade wireless units will use a locking jack. If you have ever had a moulded 1/8" jack fail inexplicably on a pair of headphones you will know what I mean.

I had one for ages. I got tired of it and traded it for something entirely different. But mine served me well for countless rehearsals and gigs. The EQ is awful, having said that I always carried a stompbox EQ but would seldom use it at rehearsals or gigs. I would use a variety of basses, but I usually bypassed the preamp and fed into the efx return, which sounded much nicer to me. YMMV.

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There is first of all, Electric UB modelled on the physicality of a DB and then there's EUB for the sake of having something upright with the scale of a DB but which really is not much more than a Longer scale EB, with some random radius to the fingerboard and an action and sound more like an electric bass. The EUB, DB and EB all share some commonality, but they are different instruments, just as a balalaika, mandolin, violin, er hu, sitar etc are not the same as an electric guitar.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='650917' date='Nov 10 2009, 06:41 PM']I used strips, but I'm really after a sheet. Anyone?[/quote] There are two ways to do this. The material is referred to as hook and loop, Velcro is a trade name. You can get it from sign and exhibition places in almost any colour; e.g. Jet exhitibions [url="http://www.jetexhibitions.com/index.php?cPath=23_208&osCsid=hh2hdqd8r38mqueldfnb20rak5"]http://www.jetexhibitions.com/index.php?cP...mqueldfnb20rak5[/url] Loop is the felt , furry side. Hook is the harder plastic side. You can get them in sheets , or you can use any furry carpet instead, the hook will hold depending on the type of carpet. So you can: a. spend some money or use some old carpet you may already have,

I had one for a long time, since they came out till about 2005. I used it in my guitar rack which also had a triaxis. Tried both on bass, passable sounds but low end roll off on JMP 1 and not to me, a useable sound unless for specific effect. The triaxis was better for clean bass but not as good as a dedicated bass preamp either. Eventually I sold both and started to use fender showman based bass preamps for guitar: they were cleaner, quieter, had tons of headroom, and did the fender thing. I now us a READ purity for guitar. I still use midi via midi controllable mixers, and I get my distortion sounds off a custom made 1U rack unit by OM labs. The JMP 1 was okay for clean guitar sounds but was good-ish for mostly distorted sounds. The Traixis was much better for clean tones, had a wider pallette of distortion tones but could not do the marshall distortion thing like the JMP 1. I am looking for a used JMP 1 for some distortion type sounds for recording and the prices have been 150 - 200, have been that way for a few years.

I use in ears when ever I can, I much prefer to do so whatever the size of the gig. When I worked with a particular drummer on a tour of live gigs, I brought my rack unit which allowed about 6 musos to use wired or wireless in ears. He concurs that we play much tighter with in ears. The problem I have found in reality is to convince guitarists to use them, keyboardists, drummers and singers - no problem, but guitarists struggle with this - their tone is largely out of their amp/cab and you need to mic it, unless you have a guitarist who uses some some modelling unit. Mic it one way and it sounds good and another way it doesn't - with guitarists and in ears it's a bit of a compromise.

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='617479' date='Oct 5 2009, 02:42 PM']hi guys im a bit cross about losing bottom end when i kick in an overdrive or distotion, i still want the savage nasty distorted tone but i want a nice rumbling deep bass tone underneath it. how do you go about setting up this, i know there gonna be a bit of work but im really intrigued and wanna try it out? i use a svt pro-6 going thru a 610hlf cab and was thinking of adding a loud 210 for the effects and that? ive googled and cant find any sort of drawing that show how to do it? andy[/quote] Pick up a rolls SX 21 or a Samson X-over or similar, and a small mixer. Run your bass into the crossover, and send the low pass to the mixer, and the hi pas to your efx. Mix and adjust crossover point to desired balance between bottom and fuzz, send mixed signal to your SVT. o need to buy another cab if the cab you use is loud enough and goes low enough for you.

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[quote name='budget bassist' post='611977' date='Sep 29 2009, 02:01 PM']Have you checked out the new shop called fuzz guitars on hockley?[/quote] That's the luxury/hgh-end goods outlet of Guitar Base, West Bridgford, near Abbey Road (West Bridgford, Notts that is)

[quote name='obbm' post='606251' date='Sep 22 2009, 11:09 PM']Sorry to differ but the Trace is the same as the Alembic F1X and BBE BMAX-T. F2B is different design.[/quote] Not really, they are based on the Showman circuit but they are not the same. The Trace has a different tone circuit to the F-1X. The F-2B channel is closer to the showman.

[quote name='mcc' post='483849' date='May 9 2009, 05:15 PM']Always wondered how they manage to make great instruments on a budget, but their amps are so bad. Absolutely noone uses them.[/quote] Very few "manufacturers" made both intsrument and amplification from the start or from the same plant with equity of effort, save for Leo Fender's companies and maybe one or two others. Ibanez, is primarily a marque, out of the Hoshino trading arm. Their instruments were firstly commissioned out of various factories and smaller manufacturers. Their pickups & electronics were sourced from Nishin, and Maxon and so forth. Their amps, most certainly were from a smaller OEM facility. There has never been one shed where all the Ibanez stuff came from, unlike, say Fender. So all they have in a common marketing initiative, but probably very little cross over in ideology as they don't own their factories. I had an Ibanez badged mesa boogie MK series copy from the late 70s, it was a great amp.

[quote name='2x18' post='579900' date='Aug 25 2009, 10:00 AM']I should think any Official Ibanez retailer should be able to order parts for you! Although I know from personal experience some are more helpful than others! Will.[/quote] [url="https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/i-public/faces/Login00.jsp"]https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/i-public/faces/Login00.jsp[/url] Your problem is that the parts change minor spec very often so what you are looking for specifically may not be available in the fashion you imagine.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='578111' date='Aug 23 2009, 11:16 AM']I've heard it claimed that the speakers are identical,[/quote] OEM Eminence, with specs 'very close' to Gamma Pros.

[quote name='Linus27' post='571960' date='Aug 17 2009, 07:25 PM'].... very Kenneth Williams sounding.[/quote] I have to say that made my day... I suppose you can play 'infamy, infamy they're all in fer me' on the stingray now.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='563319' date='Aug 8 2009, 09:20 AM']So, you have twice as many people sat in the sweet spot, but it still isn't going to encompass the whole audience is it? not win win - maybe a slightly better solution but not the ultimate - now a cab wither side of the stage would be, but then again that would be a PA wouldn't it (but then again when using PA support where will the sound engineer sit the bass in the stereo mix? not dead centre I'm sure) To be honest I PREFER the sound of a 4 x 10 coupled with a 15 - not based on looks, based on SOUND seriously I am one of the least gear snobby people out there - I could not give a f**k whether my rig is 6' tall and 3" wide or the size of a shoebox as long as it sounds good. - you assume that the bass sound from the amp is some way bad. Yes therre will be differences out front depending on where you stand, but I can't say I have been to a gig and thought, oh that bass sounds off - must be the dispersion of the cab, but I have been to plenty of gigs with bassists using 4 x 10's on there own and been impressed with the bass sound.[/quote] All you are saying is you prefer a 4 X10, if that's the case play your bass rig through an original FENDER open backed 4X10 if there is no difference in cab design and no difference in audio dispersion. Restating and repeating personal reference is not a good enough rationale to base your arguments over design or acoustical science, --- some people prefer to vomit on their own clothes, it doesn't help in the science of personal hygiene. You are not helping the discussion on cab design. For a band that does not rely on PA, dispersion from backline is important if you want to get your audio across; part of the problem is that many acts don't care for this - they prefer to have a roar of energy but acoustic dispersion or intelligibility is not important. For a band that relies on PA, dispersion across the stage from backline is important to a point if you aren't monitored otherwise. You will have had this experience at some stage, all you get in the wedges are vocals but you cannot hear the guitarist on stage clearly because guitar is not in the monitor mix, you cannot hear clearly despite the guitarist using a 4X12 as he/she is stage left of you....all you get is low end from the guitar. If your instruments are monitored in the wedges on stage, dispersion is less of a problem. If you and everyone else will use in ear monitoring and a good PA, dispersion is not crucial at all as you technically do not need a cab on stage.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='562004' date='Aug 6 2009, 02:40 PM']I don't give a damn what the speaker sizes are as long as they do what I want them to do! Thankfully I realised long ago that you can't say that "twelves sound like this, tens sound like that, and fifteens sound like t'other" because there are far more important parameters affecting the tone that the nominal diameter. Maybe if the Qts was printed in a huge bright font on the cone of every speaker we buy we'd then talk about preferring a 0.3 Qts sound to a 0.5 Qts sound... But then we'd be omitting to consider Vas. And so on... Alex[/quote] This common thinking or impression will not go away, moving the trump card game to a different set of more informed specifications does nothing either. Some of the so-called 'informed experts' are still playing trumps when it comes to certain specifications. At the end of the day, a musical instrument or a circuit is more dependent on the holistic performance more than the sum of its parts, than any isolated specification or component. 12AX7s are used in crap amps and are used in great amps. JRC4558s are used in great circuits and crap circuits. TL072s are great in some circuits but noisy in others. 10, 12, 15" speakers go into great and crap cabinets. Foster/Fostex tweeters are the devil to some but if you use them right they sing. But as much as we know this, in the next day someone will post something along those lines that 10" do this better, Tweeters are evil or mylar caps do this , that and the other better.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='561252' date='Aug 5 2009, 04:14 PM'] Am pretty sure Stanley Clarke has the woodscrew/washer combo on his Alembics - not quite as rock and roll but definitely not smooth jazz... Alex[/quote] That's famously true. Mica Wickersham has reported his specific instructions on the Alembic group.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='560346' date='Aug 4 2009, 04:35 PM']Call me a weirdo, but I can't suck up to a guy just because he's an incredible musician. I'm great at making cups of tea, but that doesn't cut me any slack on the Twinnings forum.[/quote] Hooray for the straight talk. You tell 'em Chief.

[quote name='Musky' post='551147' date='Jul 25 2009, 02:53 PM']Synaesthesia reckoned lens cleaning tissue soaked in PVA works as well. Won't hurt to try...[/quote] Someone's reading my posts... Tape is very rock and roll but the ol' tissue trick is more permanent, and is not likely to peel off mid gig which might give you buzzaw distortion when you don't expect it.