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Find someone with a bandsaw to slice you some up.
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[quote name='Musicman20' post='1207449' date='Apr 21 2011, 07:50 PM']Thats it, the cab on the floor radiating part. Hence why some people dont like casters on 4x10s, but are they wrong, or just using their own ear? Anyway, it doesnt matter. I dont think a 1x15 is a good idea for a 'do it all' standalone cab.[/quote] The casters is the being wrong about coupling bit, the thought being it needs a firm contact with the floor, when actually is is the distance to the floor that is important (obviously the height of the casters factors in, but meh). 1x15s can be fine for doing it all, its just there are a whole bunch that aren't.
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I don't think we do classifying speakers by diameter on this forum any more. Although actually, the frequency that they become noticeable directional is down to the speaker diameter (although the flexibility of the cone sort of affects it too), so it is relevant in this case. And using your ears doesn't help if your ears are in the wrong place, and if you correct that with eq rather than changing their relative position, you are going to have compromised the out front sound. The not elevating your cabs thing I've not heard much, but it is to do with a cab on the floor radiating into half space (or quarter space if it is against a wall too, eighth in a corner) which reinforces the low end, because less air is about for it to be moving/sound bouncing off walls. I think that is often incorrectly described as 'coupling', which is more to do with multiple speakers being very close together acting as one.
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Traded for this on here, and it is great, but I'm pretty much wasting all the options by turning them all off, I'm a simple preamp kinda guy, and found myself pretty much using the brutal power section only, which is an endeavor best suited to my Matamp slave. Plus I need to buy a throne for my new place, so this is up for sale: [quote]Power RMS 400 Watts RMS Inputs 1x Jack (with 10db Pad switch) Channels Fet & Tube Equalisation Bass & Treble shelving controls, Hi & Lo Para Mid, and 6 Band Graphic EQ Master Presence Control Yes - Active Power Stage Feedback Control Preamp Valves 3x ECC83, 1x 12BH7 Output Valves 8x KT88 Class Class A/B Link Jack (Line Level Slave) Yes Line In Power amp in Footswitch Yes (Included) Speaker connections 3x Speakons FX Loop(s) Send & Return Jacks (post EQ, pre Master Volume) Impedance 2, 4, and 8 ohms Cabinet Design Marine Grade plywood cabinet with large grip handles. Compressor Single Control for threshold & range with auto level adjust (footswitchable) DI Socket Male XLR (Balanced & Switchable Pre/Post EQ) Tuner Output Socket 1x Jack (direct from input, still active when amp muted) Weight 34.g Kg Dimensions 524 x 218 x 400[/quote] [url="http://www.laney.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod=nexus-tube"]Manufacturer's site.[/url] Offers in the region of £750 ideally, but if you come get it and wave cash at me, you'll have a good negotiating position. Something not immediately apparent is that this can be rack mounted if you whip it out of the sleeve, but the sleeve is really good, the handles are around the most practical I have come across. I used one of these recording the Caricatures album, they do big sound. -
It is a copy of the old Acoustic 408. The speakers used in it couldn't move very far (xmax) so you crammed loads in a small box for air shifting, and didn't worry about the choking bass from the small box, because the slot thing acted as an acoustic low pass (like the Schroeder sideways speaker) which balanced things out, Acoustic used solid state so sensitivity wasn't such a worry as max displacement/power handling. All a bit irrelevant now.
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Ashdown Peacemaker Custom 100
Mr. Foxen replied to Mr. Foxen's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
Bump, will still take the £650, I need to buy me a throne. -
Start on the back of the guard, in case it causes trouble.
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Pics of my Burman Pro502 head from the tech:
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[quote name='cocco' post='1199401' date='Apr 14 2011, 01:51 PM']I played one yesterday at the factory and im not gonna lie the tone was amazing! but it really didnt like de tuning or my e string, it may have been somethig to do with the active bass but surely it should be able to handle a bongo? it couldnt[/quote] What cab was it? The simple sealed jobs don't do lows like a big ported job (although might agree better with valves). The last Rose Kemp album featured JoeGarcia playing in A through my Slave 300, seemed to work ok.
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Borrowed ionternet briefly, and this is one of the things not quite tun out on my watch list that I can't afford: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150589154138&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]1200s[/url] They are dead good.
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If he was fussed about the condition of his bass he probably wouldn't throw it out windows under taxis and such.
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[quote name='robocorpse' post='1193156' date='Apr 8 2011, 06:40 PM']Dunno, some of the valve Carlsbro heads were fetching good money, I got 650 for a late 60s one a couple of years ago. A clean TC60 is worth 300+ all day long.[/quote] Carlsbros are up and coming, now the others have all gone silly price, and they are well made as most amps of the period. People carving them up and converting to Marshall spec will continue the upward trend.
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[quote name='jackruston' post='1192850' date='Apr 8 2011, 01:35 PM']Yep absolutely understood. The speaker is critical to the response. We do crank things like that up until they distort or push them harder with pedals etc so perhaps I should consider a 4x10 or two 2x10's.[/quote] More speakers make louder, if you are pedalling distortion or cranking the input gain that is fine, since it is before the master volume, means the preamp is doing the distorting, so you don't need loads of powerso stick with the 2x10 plan. But a fair chunk of the valve amp mojo is in the power amp, and only cranking the master gives that sort of drive/compression, more speakers will make louder, in addition to sinking some more power. [quote name='jackruston' post='1192850' date='Apr 8 2011, 01:35 PM']I cant hang a dummy load of some sort off the other side of the amp can I?[/quote] I think proper dummy loads go between amp and speakers, need a beefy one for that amp though. [quote name='jackruston' post='1192850' date='Apr 8 2011, 01:35 PM']Maybe if I make the cab 8ohms it'll reduce the power the head is able to deliver to a single 4ohm cab.[/quote] Valve amps don't work like that, they get upset with the wrong impedance attached to them.
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[quote name='jackruston' post='1192798' date='Apr 8 2011, 12:41 PM']Thanks very much guys. The problem I have with a 210 is to arrive at the right impedance (2 or 4) while also providing enough capacity for the SVT in terms of power. I can't use two mod10's because that'll total 150w. Eminence do a 200w 10 inch driver at 8 ohms. I guess the cab should be of a similar depth to the 810. J[/quote] The distance front to back of the cone in the SVT is important to tone, if affects the midrange, you basically want to clone the inside of one of the sections, 'upgrades' like stuffing and better size are better engineering, but remove the colour. Ignore the power handling of the speaker, you can tear them up if you crank the amp, but in the studio, cranking it probably isn't the plan, unless you want the power section compression, and that probably means you'll need an attenuator or a less powerful amp anyway. The 200w driver might not have the same tone as the ones in SVTs (although they used loads of different ones, some are less desirable and dead sounding). The originals were CTS square magnet jobs, the Jensens are modern production functional equivalents.
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Ah, yeah, like the orignal SVT driver they are 32 hm each, so if one blows it doesn't take out the rest and affects the impedance a minimal amount. Jensen MOD10 then. Does the SVT only do 2 or 4 ohm? The B810 is made to be very much like the original SVT drivers with modern power handling, the MOD10 is also similar (and doesn't handle as much power as like the original it is a guitar driver). Other 10s probably won't be so close to the original drivers, I think the Beta 10 from memory is sort of suitable, but isn't the classic sound.
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The 8x10 is in 4 sections. You just need to make one of those sections and mic it, should be the same. You can find out the dimensions, and use Eminence B810 of Jensen MOD10 for a fairly good approximation. The woodwork part is pretty easy, any cabinetmaker/carpenter can sort it, round holes is the hardest part.
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[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1191709' date='Apr 7 2011, 01:43 PM']Ceramic drivers in excess of ten pounds weight will eventually go away because of the price of oil, which determines the price of shipping. The neo situation should have been anticipated, but wasn't until too late. But it will be solved in relatively short order, as many neo deposits exist and the mines are already there, they just have to be re-opened and/or expanded. Investors are already scrambling to buy shares in neo mining, and the price of neo mining stocks has jumped.[/quote] I think the processing infrastructure is a fairly big deal too, needs a bunch of investment, because it doesn't exist already, so has to be started from scratch.
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Cheap nasty pots, all of the same type, because buying two different ones would harm economies of scale. Gotta switch them out yourself.
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If you are getting the CDs made, can't reccomend [url="http://www.hificopies.com/"]these guys[/url] enough.
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Valves - 3 Matched ECC83/12AX7
Mr. Foxen replied to bigjohn's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
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It will be all "Australian neodymium turns your lows upside down and sounds like pie floaters and wallabys in the upper mids". Well, Talkbass will be 'Give real me 'Mercan neo or fetch my guns/Jesus".
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Alnico FTW. Anyone wanna make me an offer on my neo loaded BFM Omni 15 Tallboy?
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Lots of 'techs' consider KT88 and 6550 to be the same valves. KT88s are tougher but draw a bit more (subject to variance between manufacturers). Although your problem might be a corroded valve base, that needs replacing, which might be quite a bit of work.
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