Mr. Foxen

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='529399' date='Jul 1 2009, 10:13 AM']And if anybody can offer any suggestions on how I remove the speaker from the cab, they would be welcomed. I have removed the screws but the bloody thing won't budge. Trying to run a fuel loyalty points club card underneath the edge of the speaker frame results in destroying the card![/quote] They are well stuck on, I pryed the 12 out of my combo with a screwdriver. Satisfying crack/pop sound.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='527724' date='Jun 29 2009, 01:48 PM']Definitely one of those things where you have to find the right balance of compromises for yourself, to get the tone, feel and playability you want. I've always been annoyed by a lack of consistency between the string tensions, particularly the looseness on the lower strings. My final solution has been a 36" scale (which gives almost exactly the same tension as if you tube a 34" scale up a semitone) plus 38-58-78-104-134 nickel rounds. I had been looking to get 40-55-75-100-130 which would be even closer to balanced tension but have yet to find those gauges in nickel round non-tapered that's long enough. If you like the sound of thinner strings but don't like the slackness then a longer scale can work wonders, plus it adds more sonic size to those thinner gauges. Alex[/quote] Why not get Newtone to make you custom sets? Isn't all your other kit top end or bespoke? Surely strings are the first thing after your fingers.

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[quote name='umph' post='525996' date='Jun 27 2009, 03:20 PM']i don't understand why people need 400watt valve heads[/quote] Dude, not Doom. Probably bottom endier sound with the down tuning, but you need lots of cabs to really take it, suspect most running 400w of valves doesn't have the cabs for it.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='525358' date='Jun 26 2009, 09:26 PM']Let me guess... black = doom? [/quote] Mysteriously stained = Doom. Actually, I am trying to figure some white binding on black to match my other stuff to an extent, but I might have a Matamp, which will make horrible loud colours the order of the day.

Can you get other grill cloth colours?

Is the port tuning thing plugs for each section? On the left = Doom.

I'd love a bassman 135, but I would use another bass for my low end, should get some sweet growly overdrive from it. The cab might be meh, and 2x15 is inevitably big. Its Fender, so is gonna be an investment whatever.

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[quote name='small_lump_of_green_putty' post='524205' date='Jun 25 2009, 10:47 PM']why are surrounds necessary anyway? why isn't it possible to design a speaker that has something in common with a piston? thats pretty much how a speaker operates anyway isn't it? a piston for moving air?[/quote] Friction and sealing. Hard to get a seal between moving parts without lots of friction, and you don't wanna be oiling your cab between songs.

[quote name='nash' post='524040' date='Jun 25 2009, 07:17 PM']i miss this [attachment=27725:sunn.JPG][/quote] So nearly killed my savings one one of them with an 8x10 on ebay.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='523945' date='Jun 25 2009, 05:59 PM']Isn't that a guitar combo?[/quote] You're a guitar combo. I think running an extension cab instead of its own speakers is best plan. Means you can rag it and not worry about the extension cabs drowning out the breaking speaker sounds.

If you look at Mythbusters with some real science, it tends to fall over. Especially the brown note one where they were playing 'sounds' in the single digit freq range though speakers that jsut won't do it. Think they revisited that one later, but ain't caught it.

Angle one so it points at your ears. The property you are looking for is good dispertion (sal?) or good off axis response, so you can hear when its not pointing at you.

Also, forgot to say; Doom.

[quote name='jensenmann' post='522065' date='Jun 23 2009, 09:19 PM']As long as you´re in a room with your cabs the room will add loads of modes and combfilter low frequencies anyway, no matter if you have one cab, two or twentyseven. As it´s mainly a function of the placement which is depending where you are standing on stage there´s not much choice and you will have the trouble in a kind of unpredictable way. No way to avoid that. Oper air is different. One cab is perfect (besides first reflection from floor and - probably neglectable - from roof. Two cabs will give frequency depending combfiltering and frequency depending dispersion. All the theory besides 2x 8x10"SVT rock. Your guitarplayer shall live in fear :brow:[/quote] From my understanding, even one cab ins't perfect, since the speakers are next to eachother, just close enough that the null will not be the same for each of your ears. Two cabs directly side by side might also produce an acceptible pattern, so you can get away with it. But one each side of the drummer and from experience, the filtering is silly. Of course, you can get bone cruching sound out of multiple 8x10s:

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Heavy enough strings will straighten that neck out.

Nerd fight! My primary source of driver failure is damp.

If you plan on detuning any, lights definitely won't cut it.

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Not looking in the back of the van and saying 'So... where is your drum kit in here?'

I used a pair of 8x10s, one eitther side of the drummer, the nulls were nuts, I could stand in a gap and hear the guitar really clearly and no bass, and step foward a foot and get mad droning feedback. It was awesome, lets you eq your ears by where you stand. Not very ideal if you had some sort of fussyness about exact sound balance. ChiSeerkind has a very old SVT he had to replace speakers in, hassle him to see what he did. With my 8x10 I run it as two 4x10s, and tempted to but bassier drivers in bottom half, guitar drivers in the top, but will actually never get round to doing this and buy more cabs instead.