Mr. Foxen

Figure which speakers are in each. Once the box is good quality, fairly sure sealed 8x10s are much of a muchness. Unless the Marshall is not 4 compartments like the ampeg. Marshall 8x10 I've heard kinda sucked, didn't go lower than a beefy guitar cab.

This is the one I keep coming back to for ridiculousness:

Probably the capacitors in it that also will be insufficient for bass power, will get volume drops. Would be ok for high side of a biamp rig though.

Personally, generally considered the Ampeg cabs to be overrated. Not sure that one is ported or sealed, but I'm not sure which the 4x10s I've tried were. The 8x10s were sealed and massively unimpressed by them. The Ashdown will be a solid amp, but I suspect it will be better served by a different cab choice, and a bunch of eq fiddling, they have plenty of scope there.

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='629146' date='Oct 17 2009, 11:07 PM']ok so I have now tried my 200watt combo at a gig and it was ok but i had the amp running at full, so i have taken the plunge and bought an ashdown mag 600h woo hoo. now this runs at 575watt at 4ohms. im picking up an ampeg 4x10hlf which is 400watt at 4ohms. so as this is more than enough power for me im really happy and cant wait to get them and try them out, my question now is how can I get that extra 175watts of power out? as far as i can tell is that if I run another 4ohm cab that takes my impedance to 2 ohms which will ruin my amp(not an option) so wondering what would be the effect if i ran a 8ohm cab?? or can I in some way run 2x 4 ohm cabs in series and whats the difference running them in series rather than parallel if thats possible of course?[/quote] Basically, get an 8 ohm cab. Then another one.

Never noticed any purple residue, always wondered what happens to it.

Basically, the watt rating of a cab is pretty much totally irrelevant to everything. There is much more to what can break a cab than that, and they all share the symptom of making the cab sound very bad first.

How about when people order one, you ask them where they want the badge?

Marshall reflector is surprisingly good and cheap. Bunjy might sell his Holy Grail, if you are quick, but fairly reluctantly.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='627546' date='Oct 16 2009, 07:59 AM']As Phil said you will need to retune the cab unless you're very lucky.[/quote] Will simply rolling something into a tube and putting it in the port telescope style to change the length cover 'retuning'?

Get a little guitar combo, with an fx loop, rig a bass speaker into into it. Play stright to the loop, maybe with some sort of preamp to avoid the guitar voicing.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Greco-RB-1000-4001-type-Full-original-NTR-N-Mint_W0QQitemZ260491036037QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3ca679c585"]Greco[/url]

If it's a valve head, budget getting a tech to look over it. There are circumstances where a valve amp can appear to be working fine, but is also a lethal killing machine. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on how well your bass is earthed and how inclined people are to touch your amp without permission. They'll make all sorts of funny noises when starting up. Get a meter and figure how to use it to check the marked impedance of the cabs is right, and don't turn it on without it plugged into cabs. 'I don't have a cab but I can show you the valves light up.' is a classic phrase.

Whats the deal with the port plugs? Another local bass player is after adding some bottom to his mostly guitar cab rig, trying to sell him one of these (getting a few in Bristol to enter the second hand market when I'm flush is the plan). Thinking sealed cab style response is his bag.

[quote name='nash' post='625557' date='Oct 13 2009, 10:29 PM']les paul didnt design the LP just came up with the idea using a hollow guitar and putting a plank of wood down the middle.[/quote] Fairly sure it's his signature guitar. And solid, not hollow, was pretty much all of the point, started off with the plank, and stuck the sides on so it would look like a guitar. If I had a sig, it would probably be something I couldn't make myself out of bits. I already have one (4) of those.

People should be more adventurous with their signature guitars. Only Billy Sheehan and Les Paul spring to mind as doing any way from stock. Suppose the Marcus Miller jazz is recogniseable from the hideous scratchplate.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hayman-4040-Blonde-bass_W0QQitemZ110445388835QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item19b70ee423&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Hayman 4040[/url]

The market decides, depends on the pedal really. Lot of Boss pedals about.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='624016' date='Oct 12 2009, 02:34 PM'](With tweeter)[/quote] Just had to go put your neon pointy mark on something otherwise cool and sensible.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='623962' date='Oct 12 2009, 01:49 PM']Very true, but my problem is exactly that i can only use one cab max, need to learn to drive etc.[/quote] In which case, you don't need a 1000w amp.

Its the one linked in the ebay section.

Pedal is a bunch more convenient. Rack means you have to have a rack, and everyone can see that you are only play E and A all night.