Mr. Foxen

The 33uf electros arrived today. Due to my refusal to use overpriced made for audio caps, these are totally the wrong size for the clips and clamps holding in the originals (we're talking £8 for one 32-32 450v cap in a big can, or £7 for ten single radial ones). Here's the ones in there, and the new ones in the background: Took a ton of pics in case I mess something up, and labelled the wires before I took anything off. A cluster of three caps looks about right to fit in the clamp where one was before, the originals are doubles, so the third one can replace the cap in the clip, making things much neater. Here they are assembled, and everything labelled, floating cap and clip removed. Paused because I can't find my spanner to undo the clamp:

Sounds like confusion there. Was it via email? I've got someone elses quote before, I was just asking for a head sleeve, got a whole rig quote. Best phone. Talk to Jeff, its funniest.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Westone-GT-Bass-guitar-Matsumoku-1986-/170660429502?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27bc277ebe"]Westone GT[/url] Unusual, with a certain appeal.

I have one of those on my bass, a Ebay Piezo bridge, sounds good if buffered. Looks like only gold ones up now: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gold-4-string-Bass-Piezo-bridge-B41-/140366137622?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item20ae794916"]bling[/url] Edit: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=57703"]My thread on them here.[/url]

I found the older Korean SG (G400) Epiphones to be better routed and better frets than the new ones. Hardware still sucked though.

This is a ported cab, so it is about lining rather than stuffing. Although according to the maths, it is tuned so low it might as well be a sealed cab. I want basic fingery foam, I've got loads of little bits from packaging, need a big bit.

I have just acquired an Acoustic 2x15, it is at present unlined, an has an ugly bit in the high mids, I figure lining might sort this, so after the best way of doing this, mattress topper comes up, but that stuff looks a bit expensive for the knobbly foam stuff, is it dead cheap somewhere?

People message you for better pics, you say 'Gimme an email, I'll send you some.' and bam, you do a deal off ebay and save yourself £50.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1282222' date='Jun 25 2011, 03:54 PM']If it's sub you're after then why not add a sub? I've long been toying with the idea of adding a folded horn sub (maybe a BFM Tuba) for getting that low end moving more things.[/quote] Bear in mind with a horn, you have to high pass everything else, because the horn will be the equivalent of the length of the horn behind everything else, so can be tons of phase fun, its like 15 feet or something in the big BFM horns.

Pretty much every other Rick copy you can get is better than the Hondo.

[quote name='Dad3353' post='1282126' date='Jun 25 2011, 01:55 PM']Yes, but you [i]were [/i]out, weren't you..? [/quote] Wasn't my house or parcel, was just passing by.

took a wander down the road earlier in the week, passed a UPS van, an the driver walking up to a door armed with a card. He ignored the huge ornate door knocker, and stroked the door with his knuckles, before posting the slip. I lent on the gate post and watched him, he looked pretty guilty/worried I was the homeowner.

[quote name='4 Strings' post='1281688' date='Jun 24 2011, 11:50 PM']Kind of true, (certainly is about cars) but not too many Fender basses get junked.[/quote] I don't think Fender did spares, so spare parts floating about were probably scrapped instruments, now they are reforming into 'original' instruments. The Jazz neck on a precision has got to often have been a jazz and a precision once. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth when a carved up vintage Fender appears on ebay, that was once pretty standard, some dude pried all his frets out with a butter knife, plenty copied that.

The reason old ones do sound better is due to attrition. Bad sounding basses get parted out and modified and suchlike, good sounding ones get kept.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1280982' date='Jun 24 2011, 01:47 PM']Very reasonable, and invaluable as you can use it to measure not only the raw driver but also the finished cab. It will do an impedance sweep in two seconds.[/quote] Impedanc sweeps do interest me, but still too much to satisfy my curiosity about interaction between valve amps and modern cabinets, pretty far beyond what I understand.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1280959' date='Jun 24 2011, 01:31 PM']This is what you need to measure specs: [url="http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=390-804"]http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.c...tnumber=390-804[/url] I seriously doubt that the EA driver is at all dissimilar to an off the shelf Eminence, but they won't say, and until someone goes to the trouble of measuring the drivers themselves it will remain a mystery.[/quote] That is much less expensive than I was anticipating.

It is Thiele-Small specs you want, rather than the usual diameter, coil size, magnet weight and wattage etc.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='1280906' date='Jun 24 2011, 12:57 PM']Wont be small enough, Need to be able to fit it into a Laptop bag.[/quote]

Amp and cab. They are complicated, basses are planks. The most respected basses were designed to be mass produced as simply as possible. Given that budget, my split would be 400 on a bass and 1100 on amp and cab. You have to seriously cheap out on a bass for it to be bad, even a £100 job is a goer after a £30 setup.

Valve pre isn't going to help you. SVT preamp is super complicated and just putting valves in doesn't do it. Valves are just mojo, the circuit gives the tone, you just end up with a more expensive not the same circuit with a different sound, and more colouration to take you away from the sound of the VT bass, which does do what you want.

Those rating don't mean anything anyway. I have a horrible suspicion some numpty confused things with series/parallel and 'ohms' when doing the wattage for a pair of 200w speakers, but maybe (and I think this is less likely, but would be nice) they rated it by nominal excursion limited power handling.