Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='590354' date='Sep 5 2009, 04:03 AM']The situation here is that toilet gigs that pay crap expect you to supply your own PA, and if you don't have one you don't work. Which makes sense, if they had the money to pay well they'd have the money to install a PA. Good gigs pay well and provide PA. The better the gig, the better the PA. Either way, if you're going to sound good you need a good PA, either the house's or your own.[/quote] Scene I've played (originals, not for the pay) is promoters hire the venues to put bands on, someotimes they get the PA in, more often than not promoters are fairly clueless on the technical side and get a unsuitable PA, or the house one that is just tops for vocals. Its a night out with some expense covered, a stage is a luxury, not usual to be standing amogst the audience, the sound does what its supposed to, balance monitoring by wandering about and adjusting earplugs, just as the audience has the option to. Maybe in new band the vocalist will buy a PA and listen to guidance, but in support slots, not likely to be using it. Guitarist had been gigging since he was 16, hundreds of gigs, always maintained having a backline that can be heard is the only way to ensure you'd be heard. Course, he generally plays offstage to avoid being in front of his stack.

Has he turned the varitone chickenhead all the way down? Mudfest. Still rocking the white mock, nothing has coped better with detuning to A.

Lots of small ports or one big one? Can see single port is easier to make, any advantage to many?

Course, not everywhere has a PA, and much more often, the PA can't cope with bass. Not sure if America is like those places in Europe where you can get a grant and everywhere has great PA systems, but this idea that the PA will do it all seems to be fantasy in practice. Caricatures played 1 venue where the pa was worth putting bass through. Unless you are playing the sort of gigs you actually get paid for, you need a rig people in front of you can hear. You can do a surprising amount with not very much. But you can't do Doom.

Want. Think they came with badass bridges. Lorne is the dude to ask.

I've made them from Maplin's bits. Not a toughie. Bit thin wire though, but on a board, durability is less of an issue.

Do you play slap? Is there any way people might think you play slap? Does your demo include slap? This may be the reason.

More amps. That way you don't lose anything.

Damn, this review sucks.

Am I right in thinking bigger ports are better as there is more coupling with the air, but for a given tuning, they need to be longer, and take up core cab space? Or are bigger ports better cause the tuning band is wider? Trying to understand this whole cab design thing, and a sort of summary of what changes in response to different port shapes/sizes would be good to know.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marsall-Guvnor-GV-2-Plus-Distortion-Pedal_W0QQitemZ180402540582QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item2a00d45026&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Cheapy[/url]. Dont need it, but tempted just to flip it.

[quote name='Veils' post='585579' date='Aug 31 2009, 08:27 AM']I did bid on it, but couldn't be there to up my bid at the end. Lesson in not trying to be a smart arse.[/quote] You know you only put in your max, and ebay bids as necessary up to that point? Seems a lot of people forget that it doesn't go straight to your maximum, so you can drop your max in whenever, and you only miss out if someone bids more.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PUSH-PULL-POT-Linear-B250k-or-B500k-coil-tap-phase-NEW_W0QQitemZ380152662435QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item5882dd49a3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]One of these.[/url] With a capacitor, and some wiring, and you can cut your treble with a click.

Or you can get a rubber gromet thing to fill the hole, used for blanking holes in precut panels. f its the one knob look, you could put a tone switch on a push-pull, so you can cut the treble if you want. I miss tone knobs on my P though.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/60s-70s-VINTAGE-COPY-BASS-GUITAR-AMERICAN-STYLE-BASS_W0QQitemZ110429632615QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item19b61e7867&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Kay? Looks rubbish though,[/url]

[quote name='Veils' post='584949' date='Aug 30 2009, 09:14 AM']Lost out on this cuz I had to be out when the auction ended [/quote] Lesson in actually bidding on things.

Don't need loads of power into an 8x10, lots of speakers with low excursion, means you can run a not huge head and get quite loud, but a ludicrous amount of power will fart them out. Plenty of power amps will do 300+ w into 8 ohm.