Mr. Foxen

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1337436404' post='1659964'] You may be able to hear your rig perfectly, but what about the audience? I think of it like the famous double slit wave experiment: This is with light, but same applies to sound waves, where bright=loud and dark=quiet. Imagine this diagram looking top down at the stage and crowd with two speakers side-by-side. If you have the drivers side by side, there will be spots in the room where they cancel each other out, and other spots where they combine to make it loud. One audience member might not hear the bass properly, but move a few metres to the side and the sound changes. If you rotate that in your mind so you are now looking at a side view of the room with the speakers stacked vertically. Now the sound is much more uniform as the peaks and troughs in the combined waves only vary vertically and as long as you don't have a dead spot at typical ear level, all should sound good. Of course it's much more complicated than this because you have many different frequencies at the same time, plus not everybody is standing at the same distance from the stage. Also the wavelengths of sound are much longer than sound - not entirely sure how that would affect it but I guess it would mean the dead spots would be much further apart. It's been a long time since I did any physics at school! [/quote] got to bear in mind the size of those slits and their spacing in relation to the wavelength, which for bass is over ten feet for 100hz. So the bass combing thing will only be an issue if you have two rigs either side of the drummer or something. More likely cause of dead spots for bass is reflections cancelling out. Once you get to high frequencies, where the wavelength is small, directional beaming is more of an issue.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1337435576' post='1659933'] And I'm guessing that the taller the stack, the less floor/ceiling reflections? If so that's an AWESOME justification for having an unnecessarily large rig [/quote] Taller stack = less sound gets there to reflect. It gives the large rig necessity.

Floors and ceilings mush up sound whatever you use, but you can work with the dispersion limitation thing to minimise it.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1337430216' post='1659791'] I can see 3 advantages. 1- The dispersion across the stage/audience is more even in volume & tone (horizontal drivers have a narrower dispersion). 2- A smaller stage footprint. 3- There are drivers higher up that allow you to hear your playing & your sound better than they would on the floor (though some might see that as a disadvantage ). [/quote] Additional advantage is the vertical line minimalises dispersion to floor and ceiling, which tend to be flat and reflective, so it stops messy reflections from there. Dispersion issues become pretty apparent if you have a guitarist that eqs their amp stood in front of a 4x12 so miles off axis, then ruins everyone's ears with treble or starts feeding back horrifically when they move away.

I've got bunches of stuff that I'm not really using but don't mind around the place so I respond to wanted ads fairly often, with a 'make a sensible offer'. Theme is people without much by way of other posts aside from the wanted ad take that as 'make a ridiculous lowball offer'. I just block them, no point in dealing with people like that.

As in hums when you touch the poles? Have you tried just swapping the wires an ignoring the colour code? The wires fairly easily come off the solder lugs on the pickup and could have been put on wrongly on one of them, or both.

Its the black ones that made the reputation. They sound great. Dunno how different the silver one is.

Did they rip off that Behringer pedal?

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1337335915' post='1658280'] I hear stories pretty often of people busting their tweeters etc... I do have quite alot of low end at times. [/quote] Isn't the low end that busts them so much as your amp not coping with the amount you are trying to get out of it and clipping. Sounds nasty, puts too much power into high frequencies. Proper use of a limiter should fix that, many power amps have them built in.

Pearl octaver does one up. I think a BCer is working on a clone. I'll chase him up.

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The tradeoff is that you can hear the sound of your bass and your playing better than if they were at ground level. A lot of people don't like that.

[quote name='incubass' timestamp='1337171059' post='1656521'] What are your thoughts on this particular amp? I've noticed there isn't a topic about it, and I'd like to know how well it delivers in terms of clear tone... I've read somewhere that it's difficult to reach high volumes in a clear tone, since the overdrive easily comes out. My current bands play 70's funk, rock and pop, and I wonder if this amp would give me something different from my Mesa. So what do you say? [/quote] Everythinggood about the Orange and wanting clean tone = get a Matamp GT200.

Not as much. Too many speakers in too small a box. More of a aggressive loud than the Aguilar's scooped high mid beef. Much more of a hifi thing.

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1337106770' post='1655637'] I have actually advertised this on the "For Sale" section of this site at a specific selling price, but due to a seemingly lack of interest, I had no option to put it on Ebay. As it's now on Ebay, and this is an "Ebay Links" thread, I put it on here. What's the problem with that? it's an Ebay link is it not? [/quote] Right in the forum header for ebay links: [quote] [b] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/forum/40-ebay-links/"]Ebay links[/url][/b] This forum is for the discussion of Ebay auctions. [b]Please do not promote your own auctions.[/b] If you have something to sell, please use the For Sale forums. (Moderated by Machines). [/quote]

[quote name='born to be loud' timestamp='1337118132' post='1655920'] And in english [url="http://www.tecamp.de/en/products/cabinets/41-bad-cab.html#overview"]http://www.tecamp.de...b.html#overview[/url] The 6x12 is quite bad as well. I just got the tiny S212 [/quote] I had the 6x12. It was a pretty good cab, lots more top end than the Aguilar GS412 I paired it with, together they made a huge sound that could vanish djent guitarists with ease. Plus it was really light. Sadly it became a casualty of quitting my job.

I think this has been made fun of really often already. Its the poster child for style over substance.

Ha, Matamp cabs are pretty far from modern. Using modern speakers is about as far as it goes. Don't think anyone fancies telling Jeff to make cabs in ways different to how he has since he was a grumpy young Yorkshireman.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1337085700' post='1655105'] The 4x10 is spec'd as having 103dB sensitivity and 800w RMS, and the 2x10 says 101dB and 400w RMS. With my 500w head I won't be overloading the cabs, I just wondered if I would be able to achieve the same sound but louder than just the 4x10 on its own, or if id be paying a few hundred quid just to have more to carry? I'f only Markbass made 16ohm cabs! [/quote] Speaker watt ratings are meaningless. They fart much sooner. Also need to consider the speakers aren't matched, because changing the impedance on a speaker changes all the other specs slightly. Best off with cabs that are the same. Pair of 2x10 is probably the ideal, I'd assume you use Markbass because its dinky and light to an extent, and that's the way to maximise the advantage, you get the whole vertical line of speakers thing.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1337084760' post='1655083'] I was thinking of getting an 8 ohm markbass 2x10 to pair with my 8 ohm 4x10, are you saying I would not actually be able to gain any extra headroom? Could I in fact lose some? Cheers [/quote] With two 8 ohm cabs you would be splitting power evenly to them, then within the cab, the 2x10 will be dividing the power between two speakers, and the 4x10 between 4, so the 2x10 is going to hit its limit while the 4x10 is at half power. Plus the 4x10 will probably be drowning out the 2x10 farting out, so you have more breakage risk. Best is to get a 16ohm 2x10 with same speakers as the 4x10 you you effectively have a 6x10 and everything is spread evenly.

[quote name='vax2002' timestamp='1337083855' post='1655069'] I run a Peavey firebass 700w head through 1 4x10 and 1 2x10 giving 4 ohms and it has never not been loud enough for any venue from big clubs to small pubs. [/quote] You are working to the limitations of the 2x10 by doing it that way, half the headroom of the 4x10 is wasted.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1337080973' post='1654981'] I have the opposite opinion, i've had a lot of amp gear and the smaller and lighter they got the better they sounded, IMO and IME! Here's the gear i owned ordered from worst to better sounding: Heads: Trace Elliot GP12-X > Ibanez Promethean > EBS Reidmar > Genz Benz STL9.0 Cabs: Trace Elliot 1x15" + 2x10" > Fender Rumble 112 (x2) > Genz Benz STL-12T > Ibanez Promethean 1x10" (x2) > EBS Neo 112+110 > (waiting for a Barefaced Midget T but i'll bet it will belong here) Appart from this gear i've tried a lot of the other stuff in numerous bass bashes (TC, Markbass, Epifani, Shroeder, Fender, Ampeg, Mesa, Warwick, Tecamp, Glockenklang, Walter Woods, AER, ...), appart from the really boutique stuff there's no other gear that delivers MY sound on stage like my current setup. Every time i had to play with a big rig behind me MY SOUND lost definition and managed to flood the stage with too much lows... horses for courses! [/quote] Sounds like you like the sound of your playing and your bass, so like transparency, rather than a bunch of mess to cover it up.

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1337034801' post='1654546'] Opened her up and found circuit board blackened underneath a 1k resistor,but.......when i multimeter it its value is still showing around 1k could this be the problem,anybody? [/quote] Find what that resistor attaches to, and that will likely be what is wrong. I'd guess a transistor that has died and drawn more through the resistor than it can take. Although working resistor and blackened board suggests it has been replaced, or its an adjacent one that has exploded.

I like the sound of my valve amps too much to want to choke them with the limited output of an 8x10.