Mr. Foxen

I put stuff up on gumtree at a slightly optimistic price, and just wait, no rush to sell. It comes up on google or wherever and people all over the world start asking after it (months after it has sold generally). Sold a Guvnor pedal to a dude in Finland, also had a kid asking if I'd hand deliver to Cumbria, since his dad wouldn't allow a distance purchase, it was a £35 pedal. Generally whenever I buy something at a significant price, I PM the seller asking if they are OK with Paypal, and when transaction is complete, offer the option of mutual withdrawl of sale, due to logistics issues, instead of feedback. They gave me a whole item, I want them to get the whole price.

Just had a practice with this. Bass is strung with heavy steels, guessing Rotos. I didn't have a buffer made up, so used pedals, plugged it into a bass big muff and a Sansamp VT (my bottom end pedals, the P pickup has a seperate output I route through treblier rig). Both are true bypass I think (overrated, and a pain in this case). The Sansamp seemed to agree best and I get a really thick full range sound, the muff seemed to lose some bottom that it doesn't usually. Really happy with the sound, but need to sort a proper buffer to keep it consistent. I'm scooping all the mids from teh low rig, to provide the bottom end and clean click when I want it, and totally cranking the mids on the driven rig that runs from the magnetic pickup.

Been using my 502 head, it is ridiculously bassy for a 70w guitar head. Wish my cab had sold earlier so I could have scored this now.

Barefaced Compact or two.

[quote name='woodyratm' post='923563' date='Aug 13 2010, 10:16 AM']Anyway of telling how it's dead? Cheers[/quote] Swap them for other ones. Think there is something other than a 12ax7 in the mesa pre, so look out for that.

I know!

[quote name='Truckstop' post='924491' date='Aug 13 2010, 10:58 PM']Mr. Foxen, I listened to some Caricatures stuff just now and it made my skin crawl it was so evil! Nicely done! Truckstop[/quote] Cool, cheers, er, buy the record, it is out very soon and available for pre-order. And the guitarist/artist/whatever the guy that masters it is called lives near you.

Definitely get the Aguilar and Matamp involved, just stand in front of it with open strings bassily feeding back holding a middle finger up to each guitarist. This is how to teach them the meaning of turning down. Adit: Also, set up a mic and set loads of reverb so you can yell stuff too.

So at 300w it could be your amp or your cab clipping. Or both. Progress toward a solution. Have a word with Rich/Steve and have a go with the Aguilar there, that will give you some bottom end.

Listen to each speaker and see if one is complaining a bit more, if one is a bit duff, it can throw the tuning of the rest out and cause upset. Does the head have a line out? There is a Matamp Quasar power amp in an MDF box at RS that is mine, if you are still there. Run the pre into that, into the cab, you should have a bit more headroom, plus LED indicator to tell you how close to clipping the amp is, it is very neutral voiced, and recently tested so it outputs the full 500w from one side at 4ohm. Should be able to figure if its amp of cab being upset that way.

If all the power tubes are fine, maybe a dead pre one? Easy fix if so.

I don't recognise anyone without a signature bass.

First Caricatures practice, where I realised all the technique and theory I'd been learning was a bit pointless, and I needed lots more amps and to be much louder.

I think the tweaks in it aren't where you'd expect them to be, because it is a slightly odd way of working. Some session chap bought my one, and got a really nice bit of bitey edge on otherwise clean bass, buy just fiddling with knobs without knowing what they do. I was using it for straight distortion, and it wasn't have off what I do with a guitar pedal and an LS2.

Finally got this home (did a deal with former Caricatures guitarist that he collected, and got a good deal on the cab). Sounds awesome, and the Original Gold Lion KT77s are intact. Apparently only been used 10 times at volume since the guy bought it new, aside from home studio jamming. It is stamped 70w on the back. I pulled out a preamp valve (there are tons of them, 7 or something, all in those aluminium tubes), didn't see a brand, just 'made in Japan'.

The Lomenzo one is great. It should be the go to distortion pedal for bass, like the ODB3 used to be before everyone realised it totally sucked.

[quote name='Sibob' post='922206' date='Aug 12 2010, 12:29 AM']Repectfully, I think you'll find that there were more people involved in Ford and Fender's early efforts than machines Si[/quote] Doesn't make it not mass production. Fenders had all the routes on the face of the body because it meant less turning the body over. Ease of manufacture was the engineering priority once function had been satisfied. The charm was in the unbreakable plankness of them, not delicate sophistication and crafting with love.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='922047' date='Aug 11 2010, 09:43 PM']I say do it anyway. You would have a unique set of notes to play with and could make some really interesting music in the key of B [size=3]⅓[/size].[/quote] They wouldn't be in key with each other though. Mate has a pile of thinline hardware from an (entirely justified) angry wife incident, is on the lookout for a new body, its the one with buckers.

[url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/boondawg123/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340"]Heavy ones[/url] Fairly tempted but scavenged bag of strings should keep me going awhile.

[url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_npmv=3&_trksid=m570&_nkw=ibanez+artcore+bass"]Ibanez Artcore?[/url]

Now available for order, see sig for link!

You are going to have to sort a crossover of some sort also. Fairly suspicious when you mention the term "full range". Impedance shouldn't be an issue as this should only have a very limited amount of the frequency band reaching it.

I recommend every string hoarder cable ties sets together. I have a couple of vastly different sized green ball ends here, different style of ball, so someone else must colour them.