Mr. Foxen

I've heard of an allergy to nickel strings, but I mostly use steels. Recently my fingertips are trashed, crinkled dry and a flakey. I thought it was down to finger irritation for cleaning electrical bits with meths, and refinishing my bass, but it is persisting now I've been in the office all week. Hoping Elixirs will have the clunk I want.

[quote name='iconic' post='928946' date='Aug 18 2010, 07:19 PM']The best paint finish you will normally come across is on your car, and lives a very hard life too, what with sun, frost, rain, snow, impacts bird crap (!) etc....I haven't seen any mention of automotive two packs on bass forum, don't know why, maybe a good reason. If you did the prep' before hand and used a suitable primer this maybe a cost effective way to go? Paint shops do use an oven but it isn't that hot, more warm.[/quote] Could just get a car shop to do it.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='928970' date='Aug 18 2010, 07:40 PM']It would be fun to do a similar thing with an even louder drummer playing a bigger kit, a more annoying guitarist and in a bigger room, so we could push the cabs to their limits and see what happens to the tone then.[/quote] Caricatures might be reforming, so that could be done. The drummer is loud and annoying, so bonus.

Not through a mixer, that is a variation on the theme of preamp. If it is a powered mixer you can though, or a bass head, usually going via the fx return bypasses the amps own preamp. Loads of good power amps about, main consideration is weight. Missed out on Shockwaves one, the new PVR IPR are the current thing to get I think.

[quote name='51m0n' post='928447' date='Aug 18 2010, 11:01 AM'](I'm not kidding at one point I thought my eyesight had gone very very 'wrong', only to discover that the volume was causing it to blur!).[/quote] I asked Alex specifically about achieving this affect and he suggested I might need a second Barefaced cab. Good to know one will do. [quote name='51m0n' post='928614' date='Aug 18 2010, 01:33 PM']Drive was supplied by a wee little Boss OD pedal of some sort, yellow beastie, about 4 knobs on, including a bass/treble, drive, level and maybe some sort of selctor, dunno, boss arent my area of expertise .[/quote] Boss ODB3 in not sounding like AIDS shocker.

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='928640' date='Aug 18 2010, 01:49 PM']I'd be tempted if you have the option to split the bass signal into the two preamps and run each one into a separate amp and cab, but obviously that doubles the amount of gear you have to carry...[/quote] Not if you push over your guitarist and use his rig as the second one.

Running a guitar preamp is fine. Some guitar pres roll off some bass though, mostly it is the dinky transformer in guitar power stages that cut the lows though. I use a peavey Raxx preamp, which is apparenly identical to the guitar equivalent aside from some clipping diode for extra drive. It has loads of drive anyway. A lot of a guitar's sound comes from the cabinet mind, guitar cabs are very 'badly' designed from a technical viewpoint and colour the sound heavily, which might mean you don't end up with a guitary sound coming from your bass cab.

VT bass is great, but I think I might end up missing my BDDI, it has a few handy features for a tinkerer. They also make you more attractive to women.

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It's all about more amps. Cold War style, make them know they won't win a volume war. Except in this sort of war there is a winner: Umph, he is the guy I send bust amps to.

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The Sansamp PSA (one of which I'm selling) is pedal controllable, if you score a midi pedal, fairly sure you could set a channel to 0 volume, as long as tuner is first.

Made this with them on, so I could get narrow spacing on a 4 string. Aside from that, they aren't far off any other bridge that locks together with grub screws.

[quote name='Marvin' post='926788' date='Aug 16 2010, 07:18 PM']Shouting at Postal staff at your local delivery office is destined to fail, especially with regard to customs charges. If you don't pay they won't give it to you.[/quote] Need to phone the right place. The admin lot who levy the charge.

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Phone them up and shout at them until they waive it.

Pilot holes are necessary, maple is really hard wood. If you can't get them out, just glue the tops over the holes, as long a one screw is in it's fine.

[quote name='Dvisions' post='926726' date='Aug 16 2010, 06:12 PM']Hmm, interesting. Whats the tone like? I'm looking for something gritty, and I know it has a tube drive feature, but I still get the feeling its a pretty clean amp?[/quote] Loads of options on the preamp to get drive, with that sort of headroom, you aren't going to be driving the power amp.

Used one in the Caricatures recording. Bit too many knobs, although a lot of them switch off. The chap I borrowed it off sold it as he didn't like it. I got the impression as soon as the valves wore in and the bias shifted, warnings lit up like a christmas tree all over it and he got scared. It is an excessively complicated piece of kit for what should be a brute force machine. Kinda for people who want valves and fiddlyness.

[quote name='Jesso' post='926023' date='Aug 16 2010, 12:27 AM']I know your right.... and it's something I must try. Thing is, where the hell do you put the subs?? Cant put them in the middle of the stage... we're often just standing on the floor. That'd just look plain weird. Could I put them both to one side of the stage? Wouldn't that just make one side of the room very bass heavy? The other reason we bought a second sub in the first place (we used to just have one) was so that the speaker is very securely planted.... we get a lot of drunk people bashing into stuff, so it's nice to know that they cant knock our speakers over! I'm looking into the option of adding a 2nd power amp to run sub number 2. Needs to be lightweight, and preferably 1 rack unit.[/quote] PA isn't about for looks. I think both at one side of the room is fairly happy, bass isn't very directional in the absence of higher frequencies. You can get so much more choice in power amps with 2u. If that is ok, then lightness is pretty much proportional to cost, loads of power it pretty cheap.

[quote name='Dandelion' post='924470' date='Aug 13 2010, 10:40 PM']Rusty input jack?[/quote] Euphemism.