Mr. Foxen

If the nut is detatchable, might be able to just put a plastic shim under it, much less hassle. Dodgy volume pot might be cured by switch cleaner and a nut tightening

I basically followed this: Except instead of a three way selector, one goes to tip and one is on a switch between the tip and the ring of a stereo socket. Oh, and the caps are earthed to the body of their respective pots. The two volumes are on concetric knob double pot though.

When I changed a speaker in my AMB 8x10 I noticed it was bare wood inside, what sort of difference would putting insulation stuff or eggbox sponge stuff in the make in practical terms? Worth the effort, each pair of 10s is in its own enclosure.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='465978' date='Apr 18 2009, 10:59 AM']I'm just not that keen on 4x10" and 4x12" cabs because they are the wrong shape for so many reasons.[/quote] Are you mostly reffering to the 'square' ones there?

If you can show you weren't making noise when they claim you were (if they want to substantiate the 'weekly' part with diary entries, for example), they can be busted for wasting police time if they take it that far. That would be very pleasing indeed. My parents live in a village with very strange borders and lots of new people coming in and trying to stomp all over established residents rights of way etc. which leads to lots of neighbour disputes, we had a neighbour reported for burning rubbish regularly, and the 'diary' was brought up as evidence, he retorted with his passport showing he'd been out of the country.

Ha, that actually is a plywood body, with the tell-tale blacked over contours. Headstock looks fancy wood though.

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Found part of the problem, a short, but now I seems to have a master volume and a weird interratcion between the two volumes on the stak pot. I though it was just like two seperate pots just concentric, but its not doing what I expectedwhen I just copied the wiring from a les paul but skipped the switch, and replaced with one that switches one of the pickups from tip to ring.

Larry is a happy guy:

[quote name='josh3184' post='465701' date='Apr 17 2009, 11:57 PM']*whooshing sound as joke goes over my head*[/quote] That dude is Sterling Ball.

I strongly dissaprove. All fo the pics of me live don't show my face, in an attempt to be known as 'The Faceless Bassist' rather than 'The Racist Bassist':

Speaker diameter does make a difference. It's just there are a lot of other factors also. A good 8" speaker in a good enclosure will be able to do a surprising amount, but a good 15" in a good enclosure will do more. just because speaker diameter is not a good thing to solely judge a cabinet on does not mean it doesn't make a difference. The real question is 'why away from 15s?'. If it is a cab size issue, then you can get a fair bit dinkier 4x10 that is good than a 4x12. If I had the cashes I'd go for a Vintage with my valve amps, I want less off-axis output so I can hide from feedback.

Assembled my new frankenbass, a P with Dimarzio model 1s at neck and bridge, no p pickup. My other P has a J and I've put in a switch so I can switch it from normal output to stereo, with a pickup to tip and 1 to ring. This time I've tried to do the same but with tone pots in addition, and a stacked volume, so I can turn both down easily. However, its not working like I want it to and I don't understand, How should I be wiring this? Is it the tone pots bleeding the pickups into eachother? Is that why there are reisstors in a stack knob jazz? Do I need to use a switch with dual poles rather than a single? Someone wanna draw me a diagram that will work? I don't understand this.

Aguilar GS 412, totally awesome.

I think the main thing is lots of cabs. More the better, better cabs means not so many of them.

Joe plays guitar through my Ashdown combos all the time. Sounds like too bassy guitar. Also, go for an EMG60 in the neck, and run them at 18v.

That's copied straight off some music gear sales website, I recall someone pointing it out on another forum.

I play totally rubbish basses into barely working amps. It's 'my sound', its also not a sound that people generally want form a bass.

If you made the vintage a couple of inches deeper, would it make it go lower, or would it just toally mess up the port tuning? And as a small run builder, is that the sort of shenanigans that are possible?

So what the F numbers mean then?

[quote name='Protium' post='461537' date='Apr 13 2009, 08:58 PM']Trying not to sound like a dick here but - Sensitivity: The sensitivity of the cabinet Frequency Response: The frequency response of the cabinet Maximum Output: The maximum output of the cabinet For me I'm reading the description of the cabinet being the loudest, lowest, lightest, etc etc and then there are no specs put up to back up the statements. IMO [/quote] I think the point is, under what circumstance are you measuring those things? Especially frequency response, that means pretty much nothing unless you have a lot of parameters, a graph as posted previously is probably the best you are going to get, even then you need two as it changes depending on where you are, and what the cab is on, and the room.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='461234' date='Apr 13 2009, 02:23 PM']The problem is that the qualities required of a driver to run to low frequencies at high output in a small box also result in a very low midrange output, demanding a midrange driver; the Acme cabs are an example. That adds to the cost of the cab, as do woofers with extremely high excursion and power capacities, which runs counter to the desires of both the consumer and manufacturer, both wanting to spend as little as possible.[/quote] That Ampeg isobaric cab with clamshell 15s and 2 10s on top, with modern lightweight drivers, would that be awesome? Its main problem was dreadful weight I recall, the 10s do the midrange, the 15s do the low, and the neo does the light.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='460718' date='Apr 12 2009, 07:30 PM']However I bet an Ampeg 6x10" couldn't handle the 2000W force of my power amp like the Big One did last night! Alex[/quote] I've generally found big ones can handle a fair bit of force.