Mr. Foxen

If he can figure which board, might be a really generic board.

I found GS cabs scooped in the upper mid, plenty of beefy midbass though, sounded massive when I was using a low A.

Probably need to solder that stuff, but you don't need to do whole seals just enough its all electrically connected, I usually do a smear of solder where three pieces meet.

Taking off the strings is the way. Something is wrong with the bass if this effects the action when you put them back as they were (or the strings are long past their best).

[quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1383039947' post='2259299'] Or, if you happen to be making a trip down South at any point soon, take it straight to Marshall in Milton Keynes. [/quote] Had a chap bring me his 'all valve' marshall, but it was one of those JVM410H ridiculous complication jobs. Something wrong on the input section but so much density of components no way of finding what it was. I checked all the valves, power ones all fine, few dud pres, but swapping in good ones didn't fix. So he took it to Marshall, who found the dud thing that made it not work and replaced, that's fine, £30 job. His bill also included a full set of new power valves at retail price.

[quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1383453691' post='2264612'] I have heard this before, but I struggle to understand it. I get the theory in that the two different size cones don't move/respond at same speeds, but if that so, why are there so many people using a 410+115 option? [/quote] Same reason a lot of people eat McDonalds, buying with eyes because shiny adverts and not using sense appropriate to the subject matter. If you biamp, each speaker set is getting different frequency bands so they don't interfere. But sounds like you aren't thinking of biamping, but rather using two amps covering the same frequency band, which gives even more potential for mess, once you know enough to sort that mess out, you know why to not make it in the first place.

Cool, have you noticed the gain level is any different now?

[quote name='sebastian' timestamp='1383427101' post='2264464'] - comparing to the GK Fusion 550 - even though both are suppose to run at 350W @ 8 ohms it was NOT delivering as much volume as GK with the same gain and volume position and with the flat EQ - really strange as I've also read about it a few times people were complaining about it not being very loud. [/quote] Knob position doesn't relate to much, and flat eq and knobs in the middle are two totally different things.

Mixing a 4x10 and 1x15 gives an unpredictable result, so can't really make recommendations regarding it other than don't, and instead get a cab you do like the sound of, and add more until loud enough.

Depends on the 12s, I don't know anything about the 12 you have specifically, but jsudge for the sound and not volume, and having two is more volume. A Barefaced 2x12 might well do everything you need, but no experience with new line.

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1383401600' post='2264086'] yes, definitely another option, and one I may consider using. Any thoughts on shim material ? [/quote] Ideally same as nut, brass shim is pretty available. I've used bits of plastic tubs cut up.

Had a couple of people ask me what tuning I'm after Warrior Pope gig on thursday, low endy drone theme. The other bands played in drop C. I was tuned standard, EADG, with a Hipshot for a low D option, just have a bass with a pickup against the neck and 100w bass head.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1383348530' post='2263591'] Au contraire. A higher sensitivity speaker will be louder than a lower sensitivity speaker with the same power applied. A speaker with lower frequency response will be louder at low frequencies than one with less low frequency response. If one only looks at watts one has no true inkling as to the actual result. [/quote] Plus same as with light bulbs, if you increase the applied power beyond the rating, they don't get louder, they get quieter, because they stop working.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1383342499' post='2263520'] Yawn. And increase the wattage and they get brighter? Or not? [/quote] Increase from the 11w one to the 60w one, same brightness. Because watts isn't the determining factor of brightness. Same way that it isn't the determining factor for loudness.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1383341471' post='2263507'] Disagree on that one - different light bulb wattage has a definite difference in its brightness. Sticking the letters RMS after the word Watts doesnt. [/quote] Compact fluorescent at 11w, and about same brightness as 60w incandescent. So no.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1383240200' post='2262043'] Me neither, especially as I suspect a Russian Electro Harmonix 12AX7 would do the same (or better) job for less than a tenner. [/quote] Found EHX valve to sound good for dirty stuff, but die pretty soon, lots of them end up in my bin.

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1383222911' post='2261708'] I would bet my bottom dollar there are military warehouses and storage yards in Russia with boxes of thousands of mint NOS 60's tubes sitting there doing nought... [/quote] There are tons, but they are often not direct equivalents to in amplifiers. Few dodge ebay sellers selling them as such anyway.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1383213079' post='2261516'] So how come nobody in w-europe is manufacturing übertübes? (Now there's a brand name!) There is obviously a demand. Is it filthy labour-intensive work that only illiterate exploitable peasants will take? [/quote] Horrible chemicals needed to do it right mean massive costs to set it up and be safe and healthy for workers.

That's some fudgy language that doesn't actually say the failed ones don't also go to be cryogenically treated, and be retested, before reaching distributors (presumably in blue jackets).

[quote name='Biaeothanata-Bassist' timestamp='1383106811' post='2260262'] just a bit more drive from the pre amp to make it a bit richer on the harmonic side. [/quote] That is distortion.

[quote name='Biaeothanata-Bassist' timestamp='1383103392' post='2260260'] I'm really interested in trying each of them out, especially the "Nitro" one in my Hartke LH500 to see what drive it can produce from the amp. Heck, if they're no good, they're no good! I'm not going to pass judgment on them until i've tried them. If they do suck, i'll stick a Groove tubes gold in it. Simple. [/quote] LH500 pre is designed to be clean all the way, and with no post gain volume control, a higher gain valve will just make the volume control work a bit earlier.

Well, there is a basschat courier service thread somewhere. I need a couple of things got from East London to Bristol. TNT inform me they have just sent the insurance cheque for the Hiwatt that they entirely lost. I insured it to full valve, and started the claim mid July, and there was three weeks after it was supposed to arrive before that for it to be officially lost. Still waiting on the cheque arriving and clearing, so touch wood on that. Among their excuses was 3 weeks to check CCTV, and when questioned on what the result of doing this was after waiting for that period, I was informed that they overwrite their CCTV every 2 weeks, so that was a total waste of time.