Mr. Foxen

[quote name='whynot' post='565362' date='Aug 10 2009, 08:29 PM']Came fitted with 15 year old double ball end strings but will order some single ball end extra longs in the next couple of days as can use these.[/quote] Sling them in some meths, might be surprised.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='565273' date='Aug 10 2009, 07:09 PM']Simple. If you do not, or have not, lived in total persecution, drug enduced creativity, madness, depression, total hedonism, rock and roll!!!, then, you canNOT play heavy music and make it authentic. Pop kids and retards are jumping bandwagons every few seconds......God bless them. This is heavy. [url="http://www.myspace.com/rifffilledland"]http://www.myspace.com/rifffilledland[/url][/quote] Not gonna get much more metal than a song about riding a dragon into the sun with accompanying video that is mostly zooming in on amps.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='565086' date='Aug 10 2009, 03:36 PM']Oh dear... Why is there such a huge miss to hit rate with heavier music? Alex[/quote] I just listened to this. There is no heavy there. Do they make the trousers in that shape? If I wore jeans that tight I couldn't squat at all.

What sorta metal? Badass and 1/4 pounders is classic metal P bass. Dude from Opeth used a Marcus Miller sig, for some contrast.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='565086' date='Aug 10 2009, 03:36 PM']Oh dear... Why is there such a huge miss to hit rate with heavier music? Alex[/quote] Some people try and compensate for not having enough amps and cabs by other means. Never works. Never.

Swap the halves, or tap them with somthing metal and see if it sounds the same

[quote name='alexclaber' post='564554' date='Aug 9 2009, 10:42 PM']Apart from some Hartke drivers every bass cab on the market uses paper cones (some have a modicum of other fibres in the mix). It's a very good material for high sensitivity 'full-range' drivers. Alex[/quote] Unless you believe the chap in Reverb who told me paper only produces lows and ali only produces highs. And I was wrong that the sealed cab was choking off the lows as I played a low A into it, because it is a 1000w cab. They are not neodymium driver also, in case that was included in the question, fairly sure tthey are pretty standard sorta things in all respects, quite good paper and ceramic magnet drivers.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='564451' date='Aug 9 2009, 08:55 PM']#1 watch those condensers[/quote] Capacitors?

[quote name='richrips' post='564251' date='Aug 9 2009, 05:06 PM']2.Why is it bad to use different sized speakers to produce the same frequencies? (surely almost every rig [cue bi-amping argument...] with parallel identical outputs running in to two cabs where one is, say, a 4x10 and the other a 1x15, would be a victim of this fault?[/quote] They are all a victim of the fault, its just the fault isn't going to make the world implode, it might just make your response lumpy and inconsistent in various places around the room. As with most things, if those lumps are in the right place, its all good. What is your current monolith, I might be interested? BFM's designs are probably totally awesome and will do what you want, but if you want to save $15 and get something a little more trad looking, go for one of Greenboy's fEarful designs.

[quote name='buff' post='563610' date='Aug 8 2009, 06:04 PM']Ive had mainly stuff peavey for the last 18 years other than a brief spell with a 135 fender bassman (great tone, but didnt like the distortion at volumes past 6) svt pro 3 (sold to finance other things) always rock solid re pairable and cheap on ebay, the last 2 ive had a late 70's mark 3 and late 70's musician guitar head both got for less than 80 quid. And because of that not trendy !!!!!![/quote] What cab is that? The offset speakers make it look like a Barefaced Vintage.

[quote name='chris_b' post='563619' date='Aug 8 2009, 06:18 PM']It's also the same size as their 810, and a 215 if they made one, so one cab fits all! But how do they sound?[/quote] They sound great, especially in pairs side by side, running different signals.

[quote name='Musky' post='563507' date='Aug 8 2009, 02:53 PM']It rather depends on what you'd call a better sound. My understanding is that by having the speaker on the floor you'll get a 3db boost at the bottom end. By raising the speaker more to ear level you'll hear the upper mids and treble better. Best of both worlds would be to keep the cab on the floor but angle it upwards, although then the audience wouldn't be hearing the higher frequencies as well as you do.[/quote] Depends on the floor, a flexible one will screw your sound.

[quote name='bassman2790' post='563504' date='Aug 8 2009, 02:48 PM']However you've arranged two columns side by side, thus negating the dispersal advantages of a single vertical 4x10 as I understand it and they still don't look as cool as an 8x10 IMHO [/quote] Depends if same signal is going in, and which are bass and which are guitar, and which are actually lights.

[quote name='bassman2790' post='563495' date='Aug 8 2009, 02:31 PM']Sometimes what you take on stage with you isn't all about the sound, it's also about image[/quote] Doom. However, vertical arrayed speakers can look pretty awesome:

[quote name='Mr.T' post='563366' date='Aug 8 2009, 10:55 AM']Thanks, Can someone elaborate?[/quote] The double slit thing demonstrate interference, equivalent to haveing two speakers making the exact same sound a distance apart: This bit I'm sort of questioning if it applies: I think that property of light as a wave where if you shine it through a slit it is a beam, but as you make that slit really narrow it spread out is also comparable, a single line of drivers being equivalent to a narrow slot: Its all waves, and seems like super hard physics, but you can do it with sound and suddenly its all practical.

Off to a pro methinks, and don't experimentally be using it any more.

Noticed a bunch of new OLPs going up last night. Was tempted.

[quote name='Protium' post='563058' date='Aug 7 2009, 08:52 PM']What about a vertical 410?[/quote] Should work as well, less modular though. Probably best staggering them a bit, get some width to put an amp on. Like a mini GS412.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='563007' date='Aug 7 2009, 07:11 PM']Absolutely! Like I said earlier - tone and string excursion are inextricably linked. Bigger lows require bigger excursion unless you lighten your touch. String excursion is inversely proportional to tension so heavier strings or higher tuning or longer string length will help. If you don't want higher action then you'll have to lighten up with your plucking hand. And I'm not suggesting you go to high action - there's a lot of different actions in between ridiculously low and high! Alex[/quote] Lies! There is high action and there is guitars. Do you really want to be a guitarist? Lots of thin strings and a low action?

Can do plenty of guitar fixing that I need to, and learn by rebuilding trashed ones, I want to expand my skillset to amps, as I love tinkering. Is it a good plan to learn in the same way? Get myself a multimeter and read stuff on the net surrounded by amp carcasses? I've bought a couple of 'dead' amps on ebay to fix, and found some pot cleaning and a fuse is all they need. Didn't teach me much.

Bad workman blaming his tools. Work on your technique. Learn to play upright. That will sort your finger strength and intonation.

[quote name='richrips' post='562865' date='Aug 7 2009, 03:49 PM']which 2x10 plans would you recommend? i'm using a 1400watt crown power amp with a peavey alpha tube pre and would like a combination that is light but makes the most of the power? i like the reviews i've heard of the bn10 300x. seems to offer a decent bass response for a 10" driver. thanks to everyone who has replied, there really is an amazing wealth of knowledge out there! cheers, rich[/quote] with 1400w you don't need to make the most of the power, it can be madly inefficient and still be loud, but you are going to have trouble getting 4 10" speakers that will cope with that much power without farting out. Issue is using the power rather than making most of. Shiny new 15s and 12s have got the best capabilities in that respect.

Think the OC3 has some sort of drive knob in one of its modes, not sure what the mode equates to though.

Watch ebay, or post a pic, its probably some sort of standard connector for something.