Mr. Foxen

Pretty much been playing precision basses, sometimes with a second pickup I use just for bottom, but I've had a jazz an been playing with the pickup balance for sounds. I do find I'm knob twiddling for tone change in adition to moving my fingers. But it did make the question occur to me, which pickup position (of the typical ones) do you find gives the most ynamic range of tones according to how you alter you playing (as in where and how you pluck/attack a note). I think I dig the bridge position pickup, when it is a P style, I don't rate a single jazz pickup so much, maybe just because it is lower output, but between the two jazz pickups there is stuff I like. I'm mentally speccing out a Wishbass.

[quote name='lojo' post='1353948' date='Aug 27 2011, 10:42 PM']If you walked into a pub gig, what size cab would get you thinking "that's over the top"[/quote] Still not grasping this, I don't see there is a top, let alone getting over it.

I don't understand the concept?

Could be a Sunn Mustang, which were apparently branded Squier in the US. Although think the one I had had a skunk stripe.

Danish oil is easy and feels nice.

Voltage/voltage sensitivity is important to match, so the pre has enough juice to run the power amp, that is the probelm I have with my MAtamp Slave, not much has enough to push it.

With a distortion pedal, it should 'work' with a guitar, but sound horrible. Bass will break it though. My mate still uses a practice amp I bodged a car door speaker into.

I have a W horn cab like the 360 without the power amp, during winter months, I'd put my little fan heat in the bottom horn mouth blowing inward, and it would bath me in warm air whilst I played, it was lush. I've had email exchange with the guy running the new Acoustic, I asked for specs and such that I like, his idea of spec was to name drop as many people as he could and point out how many Marshall stacks they use at once to show they have a good idea about tone.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1352504' date='Aug 26 2011, 02:45 PM']For the record, a watt is a watt and should be stated as such. If an amp manufacturer is going to specifiy watts, they should do it appropriately. RMS, Peak and and at what loading.[/quote] And THD, that is kind of an important one.

[quote name='charic' post='1352350' date='Aug 26 2011, 01:14 PM']Given you had to choose one exclusively which would you choose. An amp/cab with absolutely brilliant technical specifications and sounded cack or an amp/cab with cack technical specifications that sounded great. I only ask as at times you come across as somewhat 'clinical'.[/quote] If it sounds cack then the brilliant tech specs are a lie. Or you are mistaken when you think they are brilliant. If you understand them, you can tell roughly what it will sound like, distortion character is about the only one that is hard to express, and you can flavour that outside of the amp.

Also, an amp that distorts will give the impression of being louder at lower wattage from the harmonics, but also, its wattage will show up low, because you call it maximum just before it distorts however much. It might be 236w at 0.01% distortion, but 500w at probably acceptable 5% (depending on the character of the distortion).

They are heavy and big, take up room so people want them gone. People are too puny an weak to move them any more. Notice how there are no massive muscly ddudes in movies any more, gym toned is apparently enough, they had to pull Arnie and stallone out of beefcake retirement for new movies, kids just don't have the role models to build themselves too, and can barely lift a class A/B head any more, let alone see their enemies driven before them.

[quote name='mrdreadful' post='1351694' date='Aug 25 2011, 07:51 PM']Can you clarify that? As I understand it power handling is how you stop yourself blowing speakers up, which surely is a pretty useful thing.[/quote] Thermal power handling is one type of power handling, it is the highest one, thus you'll find the limits of all the other ones before you find that, and the speaker will already have broke before you get there.

If you are digging the 1x15, get another the same, I ahve a MAG 15 here with a 3015 in and it sounds great, got asked to sort it out by a dude, and I'm pretty pleased with the result.

Thermal power handling is never useful though.

Probably best returning it to stock and selling it, and the bits separately. Mine didn't sell with the Dimarzio in, and id back to stock, and not for that much less than I was asking with it.

[quote name='TomTFS' post='1350848' date='Aug 24 2011, 10:40 PM']Wait, what?[/quote] When he learnt to play playing along with records, he didn't have an amp, thus he picks really hard.

I pretty much wouldn't spend more that I think I can get back. Pretty much accepted gear moves on. Exception is bitsas I guess, although reckon I could generally cover them parting them out, minus any work I had to pay for (like routing).

Clean needs big amps. Dirty needs small ones. I've never found a venue I couldn't fit my amps in. Mostly it isn't down to size, it is down to how good the PA and engineer are, and the two are never related to size of venue.

Isn't it one of those grab rail things for old people? Only spotting in white or chrome though.

I think it is pretty much the Vintage in a deeper rather than wider form, not made wide for valve heads, which would have suited me better really, see the valve head overhanging. The Ashdown cab is matching the Peacemaker head I have, from before Ashdown moved guitar amp making to Hayden, it is a heavy ply UK made 4x12 loaded with now discontinued silver series Celestions, they are similar to Vintage 30s with a little less harshness and slightly more power handling, ideal for my purpose, plus it looks pretty badass along with the other stuff.

Good thing guitarists haven't kept up with speaker tech and polar response, if they did, I wouldn't be able to stand off axis and not have my ears battered. I've had ER20s since I started playing in bands, my hearing is pretty good.

I'd guess that is an SVT rig. VT bass and a fairly transparent cab should get you close with that head. PLaying hard and possibly a bridge pickup though. Playing very hard mostly, Newstead's technique came from not having an amp so needing all his volume acoustically.