Mr. Foxen

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Pretty original idea.

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1335476215' post='1632026'] I must admit I'm not a fan of Drop G, it renders the low string unusable, there's no cab that can reproduce it. You can just use D standard and have all the same notes availble just in different octaves, which helps cut through. [/quote] If a sealed 8x10 can do standard, then a decent cab can do G.

Oh yeah, probably should mention doing some stuff in the Octobass range. Unplugged. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP1QqtGe8ts

The low string is the one that matters, you might be best just tuning all the others to the same intervals you are used to so your fingers don't get confused. The whole 'drop' thing is the ballpain, all the notes are in a different place relative to the bottom string, and all the string responses are messed up.

[quote name='Bigjas' timestamp='1335448309' post='1631346'] When i ran this head through the Marshall 4x10 the volume was just over three quarters and it was struggling. Through the goodmans speakers, the volume is on less than half, and the sound is unbelievable. So much tone and clarity. What a rig I now have. I am considering making a new cabinet to house the 2 speakers. [/quote] The box is a big part of it, new box and you might lose what you want from them. They are probably really middly like a guitar speaker which gives you the volume and clarity. Seeing if the cabs you have are stuff if sealed and line if ported might squeeze even more from them, but making a new box that sounds the same might require some analysis of what makes the boxes you have good.

Bone dust and CA is the best way.

Aim for a secondhand NJ and a decent setup. Some of them had trouble with tall bridges, but that is pretty fixable, using taperwound strings being the easiest way. The older Japanese NJ ones are proper top drawer stuff, as are the Mexican made TJ series, but going to have to get very lucky to find them.

Just spent far too long staring at the bridge pickup.

Get your degree first, then set to wasting it once you've got it. Use free time to make friends with attractive photography students rather than playing music.

Active preamp in your bass is pretty independent from the amps power supply, unless the amp dumped some inappropriate voltage into the input, which should have blown some fuses pretty soon. I'd guess there might be an internal fuse that will show up gone in the amp. The loose output jack might be a cause rather than a result.

Bear in mind there are plenty of other good solid bridges out there.

Done aside from setting up: [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/inkhorrordone.jpg[/IMG]

Adding various other cabs will give louder, but will tend to sound messier. Rule is more cabs the same for same sound but louder, all new cabs for a different sound.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1335299561' post='1629044'] When you have too many pedals you're just tap dancing and focusing on what effect you'll use next, rather than truely playing well. [/quote] Once you have got the toe tapping to keep time thing going on, its a minor variation. Sadly I learn to play keeping time by thrusting my crotch, and consequently have to velcro my pedals to the side of my cab and have sexy amps.

Presence:

Playing guitar into a bass cab does really show up a lot, if the guitary sort of drive is what you are after, it is a big deal. If you need to match two cabs from the same amp, you need to basically aim for drivers with the same motor to preserve the phase alignment and arrange the port output to be in phase. If sound isn't really an issue, then doing the mixing pre input is the way to go.

Always goo to consider the contribution of guitar speakers to a dirty sound, smooths the top, and adds some breakup of their own, and a nice mid bump generally. Something like a Sansamp GT2 does have a go at replicating that if you go for the signal end mix.

Stereo, or dual mono rigs? If it is dual mono, one clean one dirty, a guitar rig or combo, if that sort of dirty is what you are after. If its stereo, two rigs the same.

When you say 'biamp', do you know what 'biamp' means? The compact is a full range cab an not suited to inclusion in a bi-amp rig. Anything that is suited to a bimap setup won't be suited to running with the compact with one head.

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1335278088' post='1628483'] There is no way your guitarist NEEDS 16 pedals. [/quote] This really depends on what you are playing. More accurate to say guitarist's don't need more pedals than they know how to use competently.

Lots of pedals isn't the problem, the problem is having no clue what he is up to.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1335260540' post='1628003'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/173238-notice-for-owners-of-rickenbacker-copies/"]That was interesting reading![/url] Personally I think that only way for Baschat to be safe is to block all ads for anything Rickenbacker shaped. After all some of the copies are so good they only need a new TRC to be indistinguishable. [/quote] Don't even need a new truss if you get some from China, even come with those meaningless shapes attached 'MADE in the USA' on a sticker. But yeah, that was basically my suggestion, it can only be a fake if it looks like its real.