Mr. Foxen

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[quote name='TimR' post='1031345' date='Nov 21 2010, 01:04 PM']How many people use an 8x10" at full power?[/quote] I've farted out 8x10s. They don't like lows. Lesson is: Never use one 8x10.

Come on Umph, I know you are holding out on us here.

Keep time by thrusting your crotch. It's not Doom, but it is awesome and manly. I sometimes find I'm standing on one leg and swinging the other one like a pendulum, playing pretty slow stuff though, heavy boots make it slower.

Get second hand hardware, keep the originals, if you want money, take off the hardware, sell it, put the original stuff back on, same as any other gear, except more screwdriver work. It is what I started doing, and sometimes I get paid to do it to peoples instruments now.

Get it biased again and checked out, might just be the bias has gradually drifted and doesn't quite sound the same any more.

Ashdown Lomezo Hyperdrive should be the go to bass distortion, it covers most stuff as it has a built in blend.

Thing is, if that goes to a BCer, I'll be coveting it indefinitely, as it is, I only have to resist for a few days.

Does clear nail varnish wrinkle tape? Sealing down the edges with that might do the trick.

Wipe down with meths and electrical tape. Electrical tape has fooled Bassassin in photos of a Rickenfaker.

The only bit in a cab that can be damaged by amp clipping is the tweeter/crossover, because they see the flat bit as high frequency, and they can't cope with that sort of power level.

All together and working. Still got to make a new scratchplate, is being a nutpain due to being a different shape to everything else, as well as being misaligned. Reckon it will come to practice tomorrow.

[quote name='Simmo' post='1027982' date='Nov 18 2010, 02:50 PM']I know i may sound stupid, but i was looking at the order form for the BT7, and there was an option for Bass side or Treble side, what does this mean?[/quote] You can detune strings other than the bottom one, and on 2 a side headstocks.

I was lined up to fix her bass neck, but the guy didn't know exactly what the problem was, so it went to the better equipped local luthier. I'd have liked to have met the Queen of the Gingers.

They are open chassis, but once they go, seems they don't last, I have been doing exactly that, but never seems to keep them going for long. The problem with this one is the switch is totally slack, so time to source decent replacements. Might just go switchcraft.

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Damn, got stung on those 1/4lbers.

The ones that go through a round hole, what is a good sturdy make to go for, I bought some cheap ones a while back, and they sorted the dead switches, but they are dying already, what ones are good. Or anyone got some spares?

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[quote name='Stewart' post='1025306' date='Nov 15 2010, 11:00 PM']Another example would be using cabs with (ideally) identical drivers closely vertically aligned, which will considerably improve your horizontal dispersion (that's left to right in non-tech speak) - why would you NOT want to do that?[/quote] There are reasons why horizontal dispersion is not always desirable. If you check the photos of my old band, you'll see the guitarist is generally hiding round the corner somewhere, because he uses his position relative to his speakers to control his feedback dynamics, additionally, the more of my midrange he can hear, the more he is inclined to turn his up louder. 4x12s are considerably worse than 4x10 bass cabs, because they are wider, and more oriented towards midrange where that sort of thing matters. "Improve" isn't the word, alter yes, but it depends on what you want to achieve.