Mr. Foxen

[quote name='retroman' post='615481' date='Oct 3 2009, 08:46 AM']CCCOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!! I love all things doom, and it's been a few years since I last saw these guys. I would love to know how he gets that guitar tone [/quote] PM me for bit of info, its not for public though, O'Malley is a secretive, nerdy, guy. [All in the fingers, totally]. Totally tried to get support for the Bristol gig, got a no. Now all my ska arrangements of the tunes will go to waste.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='614795' date='Oct 2 2009, 01:43 PM']Let me know when you are playing next and i'll open a window and have a listen. [/quote] I just 'accidentally' bought another 120w Orange head, might be looking for another 8x10.

Cutting hole sin an Ampeg is bad. You'll have to seal it really well, and you'll decrease the value. Being able to move cabs easily is totally lame and not Doom. And they'll get in the way when you are stacking 3 8x10s on their sides. And the are are only 4 sections inside.

Guitarsist don't liek technical stuff. Put a bunch of Celestion Vintage 30s in a stiff box and throw it down some hills. Drag it behind a van some, and waear the speakers in. They'll love it. The only specification I've ever seen a guitarist impressed by is watts, and totally without context, on not necessarily high watts, if they are aiming for some sort of break up. Also, you don't have a market is Stevie-Ray Vaugh didn't use it at some point in his career. Adit: bear in mind good dispersion is not necessarily counted as a good thing, I know I don't want to hear nothing but guitar and will wander out of the way of the stack, and sometimes the guitard will want to stop feeding back and be able to move his guitar out of the way also.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='614089' date='Oct 1 2009, 06:38 PM']Thanks for that. The twin switch is a pain. Sorry to sound so dim, but what is a proper bypass loop? Is that the send/return jacks on an amp?[/quote] A ture bypass loop pedal, kinda expensive looking on ebay, cheap to make yourself with an enclosure. Basically they switch the entire pedal out of the circuit. Google will give you many schematics to make one, or plenty of people on the forum can make one for you.

Might wanna addd a little context their. Examples of sorta stuff you play would be good. Playing Doom Drone to 100 people needs >1000w (never happens, no-one likes doom-drone). Cocktail jazz can do with 30 maybe.

[quote name='nash' post='614042' date='Oct 1 2009, 05:57 PM']Ashdown's reply to my question - why didn't you guys opt for an all valve preamp? [b]Dear Steve, Simple really the biggest selling valve amps in the world have a hybrid front end and we want to take some of their market. What is critical here is the HUGE size and power of the Valve back end and the tone and punch you get from this, whilst still retaining a pre amp that ALL of our Artists know very well and like, which also has great tone and flexibility. However of course we do have ongoing projects and a very simple old school tube front end is also available next year with the same back end, you will have to wait and see/ hear them both in the near future. I cannot be more exact, the BTA400s start shipping next week and then you will see and hear about the rest of the lines to come on Valve amps which Mr Green and myself have been working on for a year or so. Also please note, these are UK built 100% there is NOT a major bass amp made in the USA or UK at anywhere near the prices the BTA 400 is being sold, yes its very expensive, but when you see HOW its built and it DOES put out over 400w rms I think it may be a nice surprise. There are amps claiming to be 200w and ‘made in the uk’ however if you measure them you will see they put out 140 to 150w and other US amps put out nowhere near the power there names suggest , hence we have taken a little too long to get the power and reliability correct along with longevity of the valves and transport issues such heavy monsters give. Sadly they are VERY heavy and VERY Big. Hope this helps, watch this space over the next 3 months in the lead up to the launches due for 2010.. Best rgds Mark[/b][/quote] "People want to be able to say they have a valve rig, but they actually want tone controls that work in they way their solid state amps ones do."

Push pull pickup cut on each volume, no new holes, all of the options, plus mute.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wesley-Bass-Guitar-Epiphone-Les-Paul-Fender_W0QQitemZ160366353593QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2556945cb9&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Wesley - Modern keeping their distance copy.[/url]

Stick it in a proper bypass loop, or an LS2, the twin switch bypass is a nut-pain.

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='613342' date='Sep 30 2009, 10:02 PM']nah im gonna take time and find a knackered one and im thinking im gonna build a baby one first! and work up. anyone know of a place that does such things in the uk? andy[/quote] Look up Torres. They have a special offer on the ideal thing: [url="http://www.torresamps.com/promotion.htm"]Torres[/url] Bear in mind you don't really get tiny bass valve amps.

Alternatively, score some hardwood veneer if you wanna do the whole pocket to give you some slapping room. I asked a local luthier (Tom Waghorn, top guy) for a piece of scrap to do this and he gave me an awesome piece of flamed maple, clearly offcut of a top, and shame to hde in a neck pocket.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='613296' date='Sep 30 2009, 09:24 PM']Ah, thanks for that - black rosewood eh?[/quote]

Ampegs are weird and schematics are hard to find. Do somehting easier. And sned that SVT to me. I'll send you a much simpler 1969 Carlsbro with a schematic for it.

If the frets poke out at the ends a bit, magical lemon oil can sometimes cure that too. It happens when the baord dries out enough it shrinks (dehumidifiers make it happen surprisingly fast), I soaked loads into a guitar and now its not like playing a saw any more.

[quote name='0175westwood29' post='612606' date='Sep 29 2009, 11:05 PM']i would love to have an svt driving 2 of them![/quote]

[quote name='henry norton' post='612531' date='Sep 29 2009, 09:52 PM']Thanks for the replies. The reason I want a flat, uncoloured sound is because I want a clear idea of the differences changes to pickups, electronics and hardware/construction really make. I think at least some build aspects of bass guitars have come about because of half truths, assumptions, guesses and hearsay, so if I'm working with a flat, wide response, I know I'm listening to nuances of the instrument rather than the amp & speakers. PA gear asides, could something like a SansAmp be able to produce a flat response - maybe into a set of studio monitor type headphones???[/quote] Sansamp is coloured by design. Studio headphones/monitors and straigh to desk with no eq should do flat and uncoloured. That's for severe tweaking though. Don't lose sight of the fact you'll be playing through amps.

[quote name='Musky' post='612485' date='Sep 29 2009, 09:16 PM']Now that's unusual. From the manual: So the amp is running at 4 ohms at the moment, and adding an 8 ohm cab would give you a total impedance of 12 ohms.[/quote] Series connection, suppose its safer on SS heads, will still give more volume. More speakers > more watts.

Thinking back, some Mexis had the strat knobs, but the covered contour is usually reserved for block and board/ply basses.

A tweeter at 4 ohm and a woofer (speaker) at 4 ohm would still be 4 ohm together, they just cover different parts of the frequency range. Usually a combo will be 8 ohm itself, and be happy with another 8 ohm cab to make 4 ohm overall. A 4 ohm combo with an extension out seems odd.

They are all part of your instrument really. Sound is a sum of the parts. Guitars sound suck through flat amplification.

Wrong knobs, covered belly contour, reckon its not a Fender, woulda been a bargain otherwise: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass-1998-1999_W0QQitemZ190338493713QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2c510eed11&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Trowbridge.[/url]

[quote name='matt_citizenbass' post='611098' date='Sep 28 2009, 06:25 PM']what does that mean? i guess it might not be my distortion but i've had it through every amp i've played through . I guess it could be my single jazz pickup? in terms of tone. I'm not keen on valve amps, i've had a soundcity 120B and its lovely but not exactly for me. Plus i use about 30% clean sound so i need to have that of being able to go back to crisp and delicate... if ya get me.... a DHA has always appealed to me, how far gain can they go? would anyone care to share some soundclips?[/quote] Basically, if the windings in your pickup vibrate, it can act like a microphone and feedback in a horrible squealy way, independent of the strings. Leads and wiring can also do it. With a DHA, you can cram another signal boost before it to really drive the nuts off it, not sure it will do what you are after though.

Might be your watch, is it flashing in time or something? JoeGarcias watch did the same trick, but clickier.

[quote name='umph' post='610841' date='Sep 28 2009, 02:09 PM']selmer treble and bass on full and some big 2X15s?[/quote] That pedal you made me is pretty awesome for loads of bass and gain. Matt, it it in key squealing, or microphonic? Might not be fault of your distortion.