Mr. Foxen

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='501608' date='May 30 2009, 01:47 PM'] Roll on incontinence...[/quote] The deodorant choice of senior citizens the world over.

Are those two different drivers in each cab? Especially in the 2x10.

[quote name='danlea' post='501635' date='May 30 2009, 02:16 PM']Or one with two 4 Ohm outputs?[/quote] Ifs its dual power amps like a Little Giant, then one will be running at 8 and one at 4, with the three cabs, so would be unblalanced. I haven't omce across anything comparable to the Shuttle that does 2ohms, has it got a preamp out so you can run a slave amp?

Bought a beasty distortion/weirdness pedal, arrived fast, in spite of the post office's best efforts. Well chuffed.

Well, I have Kent Armstrongs in mine, not sure exactly which, but they seem pretty trad jazz, a totally non-musical friend commented on the different sounds I could get out of it. I think a fair bit of the difference a tone pot makes is in the pot and the capacitor, as well as the newness of the strings, more treble to roll off. Wizards are great by all accounts but far over budget, pretty much end game pickups and gonna resell fairly easily. I'd pm Prosebass about the ones he uses, they are cheap, can't remember what they were. Other low budget seemingly good ones are ToneRider, GFS/guitarfetish and Artec. Not tried any of those myself, but Tonerider strat pickups are a noticeable improvement to a Mexi strat, and GFS made a nice humbucker.

No, don't do it. It looks awesome.

I think EMG Select are' meh' pickups, trading off the good name of EMG. Think there are plenty of good pickups out there at good prices, with more inspiring tones, what sorta sound are you after?

One on ebay for 550: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-VBA-400-Bass-Amp-Head_W0QQitemZ120427191972QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item1c0a051ea4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50"]VBA 400[/url]

Have it refinished like this: Or, refinish it in candy apple red and sell it on Ebay.

[quote name='bassmeg' post='500387' date='May 28 2009, 11:03 PM']What is your bass? That headstock is a head turner. Is it a frankenstien lefty neck right body thingy? [/quote] Yep, my first accumulate parts and assemble them into a new instrument project. Figured lefty neck from ebay, Johnson body, brass inserts and hex head machine screws holding the neck on super rigid, Kent armstrong pups, stack knobs and a super adjustable Gotoh bridge. Some stuff doesn't quite fit together, but everything that needs to be mechanically strong is super strong, so it sounds kinda pianoey.

Anyway, don't refin it, just get a new body and swap all the hardware. The colour is fiesta red, in addition mine had be hung in a shop window for ages till it went lighter, the original fingerboard had gone pretty much grey.

I think it looks awesome, and I will cheerfully trade you my salmon pink 'custom' jazz for it. Its like a crackle finish without being 80s and something that Shockwave would buy.

[quote name='Kongo' post='500077' date='May 28 2009, 05:29 PM']Now THAT is an idea worth working on! You can have dual channel heads...why not dual channel cabs? LOL imagine a 4x10 with channels for the top and bottom 2 so you can fire a fair ammount of highs into the top 2 and normal sound to the bottom 2. You could even do the dual channel distortion / clean thing too (I think that's what this thread was saying too). I think you should try this on a Barefaced cab as a prototype. You seem to be doing things very differently from anyone else so why not? I still would love to test one of your cabs one day...just due to time preassure with my band I couldn't wait out...Love the thought of the Big One still. [/quote] Ampeg 8x10 already have a stereo option, some at least. Rewired my 8x10 as a pair of 4x10s as my old valve head only goes down to 8 ohm. Claber, if you did a split Vintage, would you have to put the speakers in seperate chambers?

Not 'hardwood', its 'hard wood', so not balsa. Although I want to make one out of balsa just cause everyone uses it as an example. [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='499183' date='May 27 2009, 07:04 PM']i wouldn't want a bass that sounds like that. Looks like a 30" scale - in the pic with the case the bass is too big, but not much so it must be a guitar case. Looks like fun, but 'hardwood' body doesn't inspire confidence. Technically Balsa is a hardwood, but I wouldn't want a bass made of it no matter how much reverb it creates.[/quote]

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Sand it back to fresh wood I should think. Old oiled mahogany looks nice though. Getting even black is apparently hard, especially if you haven't nailed all the oil.

Stuff for lining truck beds.

[quote name='scottblessed' post='498637' date='May 27 2009, 12:08 PM']recently, I've been thinking about running 2 amps into one cab. Currently I'm using a Mesa Boogie 400+ which can be used at 2, 4 or 8 ohms. I'm also using an Ampeg 8x10 at 4 ohms. Now the 8x10 can be split into 2 seperate 4x10s, making them 8ohms each, however, I was wondering if it would be possible to run the mesa AND a peavey 6505 guitar amp into the full 8x10, without splitting them in to two 4x10s.[/quote] Running two amps into the same speakers has the potential to be very bad apparently, according to the back of my cab. Better off splitting it into two anyway, would be better all round. No reason to try and make the speakers do two things at once. I run a bass head and a guitar head into my 8x10 as two 4x10s, as my oldschool heads don't do 4 ohm.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26654"]Reccomended luthiers thread.[/url]

[quote name='Lee Van Cleef' post='497979' date='May 26 2009, 01:39 PM']This the kind of thing you guys mean? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=110393994668&Category=58719&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...s%3DI%26otn%3D2[/url] And I imagine it'll be a a few years at least before I start sampling or playing with violin bows, a la Leah Buckareff. [/quote] Thats the one, that's pretty much everything you need right there. a Sansamp or a Behringer clone (BDI21?) is a nice accompaniment.