Mr. Foxen

Fairly sure at this point that this guy is posting these threads and not reading them. Still not figured what he is hoping to achieve. They are quite bizarre.

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='904378' date='Jul 24 2010, 10:46 PM']As long as you deal with it sparingly, in a well-ventilated space, go for it. Although be aware that if you're also paying for gold-plated connectors at the same time, that lead-based solder CAN dissolve the gold plating.[/quote] And aren't doing it for a commercial purpose. Also, isn't tin (or whatever else) based solder going dissolve gold just as much, since all metals mix pretty easily when molten, in fact, doesn't tin have a higher melting point?

Headstock looks like a Peavey, but nothing else does, random knobs and Schaller 3d bridge, plus the finger grub on the body, indicates it has been stripped and not refinished well if at all, I reckon its a a cheapy heavily messed with.

Each one has got better. I think he is trying to promote his sigged website, which is full of the same rubbish, and bad grammar, and eye bleeding layout. Anyone regularly reading this forum is aware of all this, and generally aware that it is wrong.

Pretty sure this one is full of wrong too. The classic short and long throw bit, lack of mention of the necessary use of a crossover if you are going to use a horn sub along with midrange drivers. 8x10 copes with a 5 string fine, is you aren't expecting more bottom than an 8x10 makes (not enough for a 4 string for the sounds I'm after). There are hardly any horn cabs made for bass, BFM has some designs, and the classic Acoustic W horn are apparently being reissued, the only other one I've seen was a home made apparently based on the Ampeg 2x15. LArge drivers being more suitable for more stringed basses is definitely wrong. Isobaric and horn loaded are totally different things, and can be combined should you feel the urge, but it is a fairly pointless excercise, since horns need to be big, and the advantage of isobaric is in being small. Plus halving the resonant frequency isn't a proper explanation, isobaric mounting doubles some characteristics and halves others, result is sacrificing overall sensitivity for more lows from a smaller box.

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='904165' date='Jul 24 2010, 05:24 PM']Welcome to the world of science! If you're used to writing scientific articles it's pretty shocking when you realise the basis of how journos put articles together.[/quote] I got into the habit from studying Law. Guess it is 'academia' really.

Is that the Myung sig, or whatever it was based on?

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='903893' date='Jul 24 2010, 11:59 AM']this is why i'll never understand people who break their backs to take massive rig's to gigs when you can do the same job with something small and save your self the time, effort and money [/quote] That would work if they did the same job, but some genres require huge SPL, impressive looking backline and can't expect any PA support. Plus big cabs are loads cheaper than fancy small ones, and the greater sensitivity is necessary if valve amps are a major factor in your tone.

They are all electrified planks. Actual guitars need no electrickery.

I'd get a meter and figure which pins carry the signal. It might be an XLR fitted just to act as a locking socket, and be wired however the chap felt, and had made a cable to match. The lack of 1/4" supports that.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='903698' date='Jul 24 2010, 12:51 AM']Clearly you are unfamiliar with Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, who have made doing just so into a very comfortable living. [/quote] Not the ideal examples since this is primarily a UK forum, but point taken. People really need to quote some sources when stating 'facts', yourself included, although I fully foresee that the sources would often be your own writings or knowledge, since it derives from experimentation and experience you have first hand.

I have no idea why someone would bother typing all this. Little bits come out in discussion when someone is trying to be helpful, usually in the form of explaining a known phenomena using incorrect reasoning, but compiling a huge amount of wrong into a single essay is weird.

That one is neo? Potential for hilarity.

Looks quite a lot like this one:

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='902343' date='Jul 22 2010, 08:51 PM']Yes, correct, the bass guitar is a bass guitar and the double bass, as it's commonly known, is a bass viol.[/quote] Trying to bend the point there. Take away the 'bass' part and it ceases to apply.

[quote name='SteveO' post='902313' date='Jul 22 2010, 08:27 PM']It is not a double bass in the same way that a guitar is not a viola or violin.[/quote] That leaves you open to 'the bass is a guitar, just like the double bass is a violin'.

[quote name='Lord Sausage' post='902279' date='Jul 22 2010, 08:03 PM']i think non bassists would know who Paul Mccartney was. Or Sting for that matter![/quote] MCartney was a guitarist, just the least good one in the Beatles. Sting is known as the singer over anything else. So not the best examples, shoulda gone for Flea. Does Paco de Lucia play bass?

[quote name='Doddy' post='902123' date='Jul 22 2010, 05:08 PM']I've just found a quote from Leo Fender where he says that "We needed to free the bass player from the big doghouse,the acoustic bass........ ..........The old bass took up too much room,and it was difficult to haul it around" In the same quote he also says that "sometimes guitar players would have an advantage if they could have an instrument with frets that would make doubling on bass easier for them" So it appears the Fender was looking at the instrument from both a guitar and bass player point of view.[/quote] Fairly sure he was looking at it from an engineers point of view. I'm so glad my electric bass stuff is so much easier to lug around than an upright.

^All of this is why I call it 'a bass'. I advise you all to do the same.

What about Wishbasses?

[quote name='Rich' post='901887' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:51 PM']OK. What's this? [/quote] Its probably not loud enough to keep up with an acoustic guitar.

I think it is just MEsa that view wattages differently. That is peak or a some ridiculous THD level or something. Americans like bigger numbers.

[quote name='Rich' post='901874' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:40 PM']Are you saying there are more similarities between this and a P bass, than between the P bass and the Bass VI?[/quote] In terms of position in music, yes. Although I've not seen a bass VI used much, it has general performed chordal or at least multi string duties.

If has a thermal trip instead of a fuse, a rod pops out of it somewhere when the circuit breaks, when it's cool it will pop bacl in when pushed, much handier than a fuse. Find it, if it is in, check current flows through it with a meter.