Mr. Foxen

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.

The appropriate colours for notes are what I'm after. I know that Shockwave favours E strings about the weight of my A strings.

Just scavenged a bad of strings from Shockwave. Anyone know the ball end colour code, will make life much easier sorting sets. Any other manufacturers do colour coding?

If he wants to use a single cab, the full power can in theory be drawn by the 4ohm cab, but it will fart out long before that much power is hitting it anyway. I think he wants to use a single cab. If he wants to be loud, best using both.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='919502' date='Aug 9 2010, 12:31 PM']Surely it would be possible to replicate the cab you have. Have you opened it? If there are several seperate sections - all of these could be seperate boxes. You could use neo drivers instead too? It could be worth trying to replicate the same design but in a more maneuverable package.[/quote] Neo drivers inevitably have different specs (there was a discussion about them not having a different sound, but as an aside, fact is they are all made with different specification, because the magnet improvement allows it). So the box would have to be made appropriate.

[quote name='Finbar' post='919189' date='Aug 9 2010, 12:35 AM']If anyone needs an idea of the Meshuggah bass sound by the way, check about a minute into this video. Real tight sounding. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOR0hUIGb4Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOR0hUIGb4Y[/url][/quote] Where's the bass? I'd try and see if my line 6 pedal will do that sound, but it seems there are no bass amps in the House of Bass! WTF?

[quote name='Le Chat Noir' post='919127' date='Aug 8 2010, 10:34 PM']I'm actually thinking more about piezo saddles as an option now actually - one added bonus is proper separation, which I won't necessarily get with magnetic pickups. Note separation is quite important for the purposes I have in mind. What would be the easiest way for me to get just my lowest two strings piezo'd?[/quote] Get a piezo bridge, and cut the wires on the ones you don't want.

[quote name='Le Chat Noir' post='919105' date='Aug 8 2010, 09:58 PM']I have considered piezo saddles, seems like a good option if they actually sound good, has anyone actually used any of the piezo saddle systems? Thoughts?[/quote] I've just put together a bass with a piezo bridge. They kind of need a high impedance to work properly so a buffer is necessary, if you want individual, then you need a buffer for each. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=57703"]Thread about them here.[/url] The one I used has a single wire, but you can see the individual saddles connecting to a pcb underneath, so you can split them.

In an amp or in a bass? Not having one in a bass gives best top end.

Doesn't sound at all natural. I don't think any really do. The Foxrox Octron does a good enough octave up, it is what JoeGarcia uses after a lot of messing about with things. Running the Akai output into a Sansamp GT2 gave the best result from that though. Considered an 8 string? Or a better drive sound, or going twin amp? 100hz high passed guitar rig in addition to a bass rig is really awesome, you can get away with a fairly modest sized guitar rig if you aren't asking it for any lows (not Doom).

There are enough people on ebay to have terminally stupid buyers too.

They won't ever make a huge change to the tone, they will be small tweaks as the valves all function pretty much the same, and the design of the amp gives the fundamental tone. You can mess with the gain by substituting different gain factor valves but that will generally be less gain.

Warwick's might just be unfashionable. I think Rick's are in. But I really don't keep up.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='918221' date='Aug 7 2010, 06:30 PM']Aren't the probass ones short scale?[/quote] Think are medium scale, like 32" or something.

[quote name='Jam' post='918098' date='Aug 7 2010, 04:24 PM']Quick update, the heavier strings sounded great and I could hear myself over the guitar! Success! Next step is some sort of pedal/sansamp to boost my sound. Cheers for the help guys![/quote] Cheap one to try is the Behringer BDI21, seems to do a good enough impression of the Sansamp that you can decide if you want one, and not to expensive that you can't keep in gig bag in case of catastrophic rig failure.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='916412' date='Aug 5 2010, 09:19 PM']We are talking joegarcia, yes? [/quote] Yeah.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290459392688&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]Pro 2000[/url] Combo, but would work fine as a head if you whip it out.

Think BassBod has EA 1x10s. Might be 1x12s.

What is wrong with the sound? Get a bunch of pre valves cause they are cheap and swap about. Power valve rolling is expensive, and mostly applies if you totally crank it only. Couple of sources say the transformer/something else is more the issue: [url="http://chambonino.com/work/miscguitar/misc9.html"]Here, [/url] [url="http://www.planetoftheamps.com/orange-ad-200-mk3-bassamp.html"]and here.[/url]