Mr. Foxen

You mean taper wound (goes down to single winding at the bridge) or piano strings (goes to bare core at the bridge)? I had some Dean Markley taper steels and they were nice, and lasted. I use custom wound tapered Newtones for my ridiculous detuning. Since tapered strings are a little more expensive, it is worth slinging them in the meths bath to wring some more use out of them.

The carving would take a lot of time, but it is still from a cheap low bidder bass kit.

Victor Wooten = Yoda. Read any of his books?

Ha, I got his first album and liked it, but totally didn't check up what he was up to afterward. Pretty much figured it would suck. This pretty much isn't what I expected.

[url="http://acoustic.homeunix.net/"]Check this forum/website.[/url]

[quote name='henry norton' post='866316' date='Jun 13 2010, 07:50 PM']I've never tried it but I would have thought switching the mudbucker to a single coil would brighten it up no end (half the impedance). It would be quite a bit cheaper than buying a Model 1 which, IMHO isn't actually [i]much[/i] brighter/clearer/wider range than the original mudbucker it was meant to replace.[/quote] All about the series/parallel, as I recently discovered.

[quote name='Wil' post='867157' date='Jun 14 2010, 04:38 PM']What can I say, I know what farting sounds like and when I hear it I turn down or cut the lows [/quote] Not Doom [quote]What can I say, I know what farting sounds like and when I hear it I get more cabs with more speakers. Then some more amps for good measure.[/quote] Doom.

[quote name='Wil' post='866999' date='Jun 14 2010, 01:31 PM']Nope, never broken any speakers apart from these.[/quote] Not trying hard enough. Actually, the only time I thought I broke a speaker that wasn't via playing a bass into hifi gear, was actually vibrating loose a connector.

[quote name='Wil' post='866829' date='Jun 14 2010, 10:55 AM']I once owned a Behringer cab with metal cones which fractured and seperated from the edge of the driver after two rehearsals. Now, I know Behringer are a far cry from Hartke in the quality stakes, but it's make me think twice about metal cones.[/quote] Never broken any paper cones? Will an aluminium cone act as a heat sink?

[quote name='Golchen' post='866642' date='Jun 13 2010, 11:59 PM']Oh surprise, another bash the guitarists thread. Such insecurity here. I go to loads of different instrument forums, and bass players are the ONLY ones with a permanent chip on their shoulder. So, I'm a guitarist who also plays other instruments. I've been told that I play bass like a bassist and that's good enough for me. I'm outta here ....[/quote] Cuh, guitarists...

[quote name='dan670844' post='866533' date='Jun 13 2010, 10:07 PM']I don't know what 10's you have in your cab but most (except high end stuff) can only handle 70Hz at the low end with any sort of efficiency. So if you want the low end beef you need a matched 15" that can handle 35Hz.[/quote] Aren't really any 15s that will do 35hz in a bass rigable size (just checked Kappalite 3015LF, even as a sub, Eminence suggest high passing at 35hz). You don't need that low. 50hz is plenty low for most purposes.

Says custom on it, and the description frollows that of the Attitude Custom. Woofer is there but hidden and the bridge has piezo elements. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7985"]Thread here.[/url]

If you want people to think you suck when you screw up play guitar. If you want people to think your whole band sucks when you screw up, play bass.

EQ won't give what's not there. Probably better putting a Dimarzio Model One in, the idea is to add clarity to mudbucker basses.

[quote name='Phil Starr' post='866108' date='Jun 13 2010, 04:18 PM']Finally filling the air space slows the transmission of sound which increases the effective volume of the cab by about 10%.[/quote] I know this one has been disproven, BFM has pointed this out a few times, apparently it lowers the box Q but not the other benefits of increased size, although I still don't know what that means, aside from it cleans up midrange, rather than adding bottom like a larger box would.

[quote name='silddx' post='866096' date='Jun 13 2010, 04:11 PM']Woah! What the hell is that?! That's a whole lot of music compressed to 1.6 Meg! Is that how it's supposed to sound? I might be being a total dumb arse but are you demonstrating what an mp3 at a tiny bit rate sounds like? No offence intended if that's how your band actually sounds. I did a gig recently with two guys who sounded a bit like that.[/quote] Mostly demonstrating that a digital format is not really a great means to judge if a sound 'sounds' analogue. That was a lot of nice valve amps, and a lot of nice mics in a room. Went to digital eventually, but rather higher bitrate than any mp3.

Just for comparison.

I think the Lomezo Hyperdrive should be the go to bass distortion, it is pretty good and cheap.

[quote name='silddx' post='865945' date='Jun 13 2010, 02:05 PM']Does any of this sound "digital"? What is your opinion of the tones? Does it sound pleasing or irritating to the ears?[/quote] Definitely doesn't sound like a valve amp in the room with me. Sounds like an MP3, digitally encoded. I could take a photo of an old masterpiece, and scan it, print it on a decent printer, then post a photo of that in 800x600 and you probably could see the difference between the original photo in 800x600. Doesn't mean that print out is gonna fool anyone into thinking it is a real painting.

[quote name='51m0n' post='864776' date='Jun 11 2010, 10:53 PM']Sorry but the information in the first link is just utter nonsense. No bass cabs 'throw', rather sound gets quieter according to the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law"]Inverse Square Law[/url] in all cases, bass is no different. In other words the volume decreases by half as the distance from the source is doubled. That is an immutable law of acoustics.[/quote] You do have boundary cancellation, which leads to the apparent effect that lows don't become audible until you reach a distance from a cab. The explanation offered there might be wrong. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=38232&view=findpost&p=380903"]Citation.[/url] [quote name='51m0n' post='864776' date='Jun 11 2010, 10:53 PM']The rule of thumb in that link about speaker diameter and distance from a wall is also tosh. There is no such link at all between cone diamter and distance or indeed speaker frequency response.[/quote] Speaker diameter does effect the dispersion pattern or a speaker though, and since that would effect what frequencies are radiating around the driver sides and back, would therefore effect which ones are going to be bouncing off the walls there. There is also a correlation between cone diameter and frequency response off axis, which is where most ears will be, so there is an audible difference. [url="http://lowdownlowdown.com/greenboy/DL/tablesfrequency.htm"]Beaming frequencies[/url]. Bigger speakers also tend toward great volume displacement and sensitivity, because they are bigger, so you can get more lows than from an otherwise equivalent smaller diameter speaker.

[quote name='umph' post='865835' date='Jun 13 2010, 12:01 PM']I'd rather just turn something on and it sound great rather than spend hours reading valve data sheets and soldering.[/quote]