Mr. Foxen

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There is a story about Jaco arranging for his tech to catch the bass off to one side of the stage. Then throwing it out the other side of the stage.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Red-Retrovibe-RV4-Bass-Guitar-/160558123637?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2562028a75"]Red Retrovibe.[/url] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aria-Pro-II-RB-700-Natural-Bass-Guitar-MIJ-80s-whc-/220753088170?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3365e8ceaa"]Nice Aria, looks sensible priced, but is in Japan.[/url]

Also appears to be made of chipboard, which kind of makes it not especially worthy of driver investment, if the current one works.

Found elsewhere on the net and figured would be appreciated here:

[quote name='alexclaber' post='1157788' date='Mar 11 2011, 10:50 AM']Ouch! You normally get warning signs with modern bass cabs because their thermally limited power handling (exceed this and things melt/smoke/burn) tends to be higher than their excursion limited power handling (exceed this and things growl/distort/fart), especially once you figure in the crest factor. However if you're playing in a band that's loud enough that you can't hear the distortion or the thermal:excursion limited power handling ratio is low, or if your preferred bass sound is relatively distorted you may not hear the warning signs until it's too late. You can still get full power from an amp with it turned down as the volume knob is only a gain knob. Put enough voltage into the front and you'll still get full power out. As you also have a Goliath Sr my guess is that your band is pretty loud and you were expecting too much from a relatively low budget 2x10". Sorry! The upside is that the correct replacement drivers should be inexpensive.[/quote] Would I be right in thinking the initial volume loss was the onset of power compression from the voice coil heating up, and corresponding impedance increase?

Also, the reason you can't hear breakup is the horn tends to filter out the higher harmonics of which the speaker breakup sound consists. That is why in pro sound horns, they use voltage limiters tuned to the cab, because protesting speakers won't be audible. The idea of horns isn't to take huge power, it is to get a lot of sound from not much power, the tradeoff is size, and limited frequency band. The W horns (Jaco and JPJ's Acoustic 360s) sound great because that limited frequency band is just in the right place (plus I think they aren't acting as a horn over a chunk of the range).

What noises came before magic smoke release?

Cram loads of Vaseline around the gear and rack. Heh. Also, worth noting WD40 is for lubrication, is is for water displacement and penetrating seized components, it is too thin for a persistent lubricant.

If anyone round Bristol wants it done, I'll do it for beer.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1156893' date='Mar 10 2011, 05:03 PM']I think it comes down to several things - The listening at work thing ( although I do have headphones that I could use at lunchtime ) Not wishing to offend someone Not feeling confident enough in ones own ability to justify judging someone else Not liking the musical genre enough to give a fair opinion Not really having a strong opinion on the music Only coming onto basschat to look at gear and make knob jokes [/quote] Add 'not wanting to listen to tons of rubbish bass playing recorded badly'. Crude recording is going to be a major factor. Look at all the fuss made about studios in some thread fairly unrelated to studios.

Yeah, the other one in in A with stupid heavy strings, I'd guess people would like to check that out. I'd kind of rather bring the horrible cobbled together POS basses I usually play, but everyone wants hands on these.

It would work fine, it would probably run at about 180w, no major volume you are going to miss out on, and you retain the option of a second cab, if you want more volume.

Yep, although it now has the Badass 1 as per it should, I also have an NJ one, fair bit less fancy looking.

I keep watching that in the hope it will sell as a value guide for my Mockingbird that is very similar.

The Ashdown James Lomenzo Hyperdrive is kind of comparable to a guitar pedal and blend in sound, in a one pedal solution. All pedals are different flavours though, just have to try them. Having the LS2 blend gives huge options.

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1154808' date='Mar 9 2011, 01:22 AM']I've got a solid state amp which produces the low A better than I could have imagined. I have to use a fair amount of compression to tame it! I may not necessarily play the A with the octaver effect engaged but I'd feel satisfied knowing I could if i wanted to. I've heard that some pedals can barely go lower than the A string on a standard tuning bass which may begin to limit my options. Then again if it comes to needing to fork out for a POG for an effect I'm not going to use a lot, its probably not worth bothering with! [/quote] When it actually comes to producing the fundamental of the low A, the bit the octave pedal has to go below to be an octave below, I bet it doesn't. You'll be producing the appropriate harmonics to mean you can hear a low A, but the fundamental note won't be there. If that sound plus another sound is what you are after, a synth pedal in paralell will sort you, because an actual octave lower won't be audible.

Plus since it was never passing itself off as a real Rick, to the extent it doesn't even try and copy fairly major RIC attributes, it isn't a fake, it is just a bass that happens to look similar in some ways. Also, if ya wanna Lemmy it up, Lemmy probably wasn't playing a real Rick anyway. And his current one is less like 'real' Ricks than plenty of 'fakers'.

The POG might, but amp and speakers are your limiting factor. I explored that some when I was detuning to A in Caricatures, the guitarist ran an OC3 into a valve amp and severely invaded my frequency space. Basically it is only useful for distorting a valve amp that can produce you standard low A cleanly, which generally doesn't happen, that distortion gives you the harmonics that makes your low note an audible note. Basically, worry about reproducing you low A first, then worry about your sub octave that you won't be able to hear anyway.

Checking back to the thread, good call, the Compact will sort you in pretty much any situation, but I'd still recommend talking to Barefaced. I don't anticipate any BCer being offended having to gig with the Hartke LH500/Compact combination.

Hotness isn't really much of a consideration for bass, as most bass amps have an input gain/volume control. Plenty else to look out for in a pickup first. Boasts of hotness over anything else, much like in women, puts me off.

Sansamp DI, earplugs, smug/contemptuous expression whilst they lug their 100w stacks. Or fitting with the request, Hartke LHx00 or Terror bass and a Barefaced cab to taste (as in get in touch with them to fine tune), the Hartke might need a Sansamp for grind. If you go with the Terror bass, you can also keep the smug expression, or pretend the Barefaced cab is really heavy as an excuse not to help with theirs.

[quote name='fryer' post='1153013' date='Mar 7 2011, 09:05 PM']Thanks Mr F. Any lemon oil, or is there something specific for this ?[/quote] I've had the same bottle since I started oiling my boards, except I just lost it in the move, I don't really know what brand is preferable, but look for one for treating boards rather than cleaning, I think some is lemon smelling cleaning stuff rather than actual oily stuff that soaks into the wood.