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Another sucker for a pretty headstock here (or even no headstock at all), plus a nice bit of natural timber for a body.

Good idea! Here's my list of covers - Foo Fighters - Times Like these, Next Year Stereophnics - Just Looking Goldfinger - Rio, 99 Red Balloons, Miles Away Simple Plan - Happy Together Snow Patrol - Spitting Games Blink 182 - Rock Show Lit - My Own Worst Enemy Biffy Clyro - Who's got a match Jimmy Eatworld - The Middle Muse - Plug In Baby Cage The Elephant - In One Ear Pigeon Detectives - Take Her Back The Automatic - Monster Kings Of Leon - On-Call Live - Dolphins Cry Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (but our version is a long way removed from the original - bluesy grunge rock) And currently working on Klaxons - Golden Skans And yes I know four of those covers were covers in the first place.

Cheers Billynoband, I joined Finnbass forum (and BFMs too) a little while ago as soon as my determination to build an Omni reached the point where I knew it was likely to become reality. Very helpful bunch on both sites (and here too of course). I've got the feeling by the end of the build there will be an "I'd like to thank.....without whom none of this would have been possible" post as the advice I've received and build diaries I've read have really heped me settle on the basic design of my first build.

Decided he wanted my compressor yesterday, prompt payment via paypal and good clear communication right down the line. Recommended buyer

Cheers for that bit of insider info matey

Cheers for the tips Planethead. Most of that I had been aware of, but I can't see why you'd need the sled if you've got a guideboard and can do arithmetic. Am I missing something?

Overdrive->Comp->Octave

I received my piezos this morning at 0:30! They'd been delivered to my neighbour yesterday while I was at work. Wish I didn't have a couple of important meetings today so I could "work" from home and start cutting and glueing.

Great looking website Alex Best of luck with the venture

Someone paid for a subscription for my birthday three months and a bit ago and I still haven't had a copy! Or a reply from the subscription phone number when we phoned to find out where it is. Now that people are getting it free I'm even more p*ss*d off

Just read the other thread Kev, RESULT! V ice looking bass.

Drivers (DL2510s) just ordered from Thomann Remaining hardware to be ordered from Bluearan over the next few days. Thanks for the encouragement Gilmour. Alex, I realised this morning that the original cabinet volume can be preserved - I'm making a sealed chamber for the piezos, so I'll just add enough depth to make up the volume I lose there. Thanks for the results of your calculations though, I'm not bad on the electronics side of things but what I know about accoustics could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

[quote]With sprung side handles I imagine you'll often have to negotiate doorways sideways so depth matters.[/quote] That's why I'm allowing for the occasional one handed carry - ie through doorways.

The widebody is out - I'm adding an extra inch to the depth (as a few peeps have already raised concers about breathing room for the driver, I know its okay at standard depth but what the heck, I've got enough ply) and I want to seal the piezos in in a David Perry stylee, so there just isn't enough plywood left. Plus I think I'd make a right mess of glueing the melded array (and am really not into treble on my bass in anycase). Alex, thanks for the tip - I've been researching these cabs for months now and had already picked up on the balance issue. Plan is to do a dry run, find the CoG (in both directions) and route out rebates for the handles. Am going for sprung side handles, secured with bolts and t-nuts at the vertical CoG as well as depth for the occasions when the cab needs to be a one handed carry.

As soon as I can satisfy the CAS (cash acquisition syndrome)

I've mostly owned one bass at a time and nearly all of them have been passive. To be honest things are far more likely to go wrong with me than with the bass lol.

Gilmour, cheers for the tip re sub. I wasn't aware of that, I'll have to do a search on Bill's forum. David, thanks for the advice about piezos. I've read and re-read (several times) all of your build treads on all three boards I follow and am a huge admirer of the cabs you've built. The design I've settled on is a massive compromise on a number of levels (cost, size and portability). If I end up with enough bass but not a good enough treble (or it's not portable/small enough - I live in a small cottage down some steps from an unlit dirt track), them it'll be sold to part fund 2 O10.5 widebody cabs. If there's not enough bass, then add a sub. If there's not enough bass and/or treble then it's either an O15 (which is what I really want but I am very concerned about portabilty) or possibly one of our own Alex Claber's cabs if portability is still an issue. TBH I'm not a huge fan of much treble in my sound and have wondered whether I'll use the piezos much at all. I have even considered building it without tweets so I can have the horn centred in the cab (I think it would look tidier) and add a seperate piezo cube enclosure. I'm going to go back to the plans to see if I can get a widebody cab out of one 8 X 4 sheet of ply though.

Build should be commencing in two weeks time, until then it'll just be pics of bits in boxes I'm afraid

Cheers Mert! I think I have GAS for a single P, passive, headless, with black hardware and walnut body Smartbass!

After much deliberation I've just started ordering the bits for an O10 - not the widebody, but adding an extra inch in depth to the cab. Why? So it will stack neatly ontop of an O15TB sub should I feel the need for more bass :-) Going with a four element cut & glued piezo array (switchable for on and off). Piezos ordered (+1 spare) and BB ply too. Off in a mo to order drivers and misc bits.

Anyone know if the Status Smartbass comes with a case?

Wow Steve, that's an amazing looking instrument! Congrats man.

Cheddatom, I've downloaded the manual - compression = threshold ; slope = ratio (up to 10:1)

+1 to dropping the rack tuner. You've got a good tuner in the Zoom already. I'd stick the money in the bank until you get to Uni - I took a Peavey TNT combo (obscenely heavy) to uni with me and both bands I was in used rehearsal studios and most venues had backline in place or I was able to DI into PA. Apart from two gigs I never needed my amp!