Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Wil' post='448124' date='Mar 28 2009, 04:03 PM']Well spotted! Now revised, cheers mate. You still have the other mock then? That was a cool bass... even if I never touched those switches, they were good to look at![/quote] It's my main gigging bass, although the frankenmoster I'm putting together might take over:

[quote name='alexclaber' post='447829' date='Mar 28 2009, 12:13 AM']There's a lot of uber-geekery happening over on talkbass regarding this. However some of those involved in that thread just don't seem to get that the balance of the harmonic series defines your tone, and as such when you change your tone through technique or EQ or picking a different instrument or putting different strings on it, etc etc, thus you change the balance of the harmonic series. No point showing a waterfall plot of a note unless you also have that recording to reference to. This is quite informative: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)[/url] So you're ok if the octaver finds the first, second, fourth or eighth overtone but the third is a fifth, the the fifth is a major third, the sixth is a fifth and the seventh is a minor seventh. I suspect that's the warble territory. Previously I'd been thinking that the problem analog octavers have with lower notes was similar to those MIDI systems have where it takes too long to hear enough of a wave period to determine the pitch but I'm now certain that it's all about the harmonics. Alex[/quote] To make this easier to picture, can you fill in the gaps, or correct this? The 1st harmonic is the one you'll hear when you play an artificial harmonic over the 12th fret, its the nodal point at the center of the string. The second harmonic is the one from palying an artificial harmonic over the 5th and 24th frets. The 3rd harmonic is over the 7th fret, 1/3 of the length of the string. got some gaps to fill for the rest there.

I'm totally sick of seeing it. Since I can't afford to buy it to make it stop, I'm thinking of ways to report it.

Totally watching, but it will be silly if I win this mockingbird also. Oh, and you totally did the same thing as your last mokcingbird auction and didn't put 'bass' in the listing. Go do that before I decide to be a dick and bid before you can.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='447807' date='Mar 27 2009, 11:50 PM']I'm working on omniscience but I'm concerned I'll die before I get there. I have another thought - it's not the fundamental that is critical to tracking, it's the fundamental OR the second harmonic (octave). Where it all goes wrong is when the octaver locks onto the third harmonic (octave plus fifth). Alex[/quote] Which is the next strongest of them then? And I guess the tremelo effect you get sometimes is when they about the same and its switching between the two?

The fuse can be fin to get at, if you get them at maplin's, double check you have the right ones, green pack for slow blowing. What cab was it? Check that also with a meter in case it is the source of the short, I found the out amp explodey way that 12" Bluelines can short via the wires inside the speaker touching.

[quote name='johnnylager' post='447738' date='Mar 27 2009, 09:15 PM']Nordstrand.[/quote] Mornington Cresent

[quote name='alexclaber' post='447781' date='Mar 27 2009, 11:22 PM']That's very interesting theory! I was going to comment on how much better my past octavers (EBS Octabass and Akai Deep Impact) tracked the neck pickup when plucking up over the neck compared to bridge pickup or more bridgewards plucking, which I always thought was due to them having a strong fundamental to lock onto. So I wonder if the lower frequency tracking limit is actually just where the fundamental ceases to be sufficiently present as you suggest? Alex[/quote] Dammit Claber, you are supposed to know all this. I'm thinking of using seperate outputs again from my pickups and getting my octaver back on, there was a POG laying about here and that seemed to track down as far as my amp would give me a clue it was happening when using my neck pickup. I suspect rolling off the tone would have helped also, but I don't have a tone knob.

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='447560' date='Mar 27 2009, 06:02 PM']But due to the setup on the 5150 2, it's more flexible but has a much worse overall sound, the gain especially is nowhere near as flexible and articulate as a normal 5150. Andy Sneap backs me up on this. And if you're adding a compressor to clean up a terrible clean channel, why not do the same thing with an EQ pedal on the 5150 to change the lead channel? It's swings and roundabouts.[/quote] My guitarist is totally happy with his gain sound from his MKII, the clean is meh, the MXR is cheerful to stay on all the time, for one stomp changes.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='447712' date='Mar 27 2009, 08:31 PM']I haven't used an Ashdown amp in ages but doesn't the analog octaver stop tracking at about open A? Alex[/quote] About where the harmonics become stronger than the fundamental? Unless you have a 36" scale? I found octavers tracked better with my neck pickup, the one right against the neck.

I was thinking about the 2 ohm amps I had seen, and the common factor is huge heatsinks, is being capable of 2 ohm mostly a case of being able to control some fairly serious heat?

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='446798' date='Mar 27 2009, 12:45 AM']No it isn't, the mark one is far better! No terrible solid state clean channel. Unless you mean the 6505 series, which are a different beast.[/quote] Guitarist has used both mk1 and mk2, the fact you have seperate EQ for each channel is pretty much vital, you don't want your clean/ crunch with the same EQ settings as the gain channel, if you want to do things other than sound like Van Halen. Granted the clean channel isn't great, buta clean channel with the same eq as our guitarists gain sound would be dreadful (is dreadful, heard it). Actually, the MXR compressor helped a lot with the clean.

Did a lot of people excitedly buy MAG 8x10s and realise they are totally impractical and put them on ebay recently? Notice there are a fair few going.

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='446545' date='Mar 26 2009, 09:51 PM']Not all amps have an adjustable bias, Mesa don't, and Peavey 5150 amps don't for example.[/quote] That isn't true, the original 5150 didn't, but the Mark II, which is the one to have, due to seperate eqs on channels, has bias sockets on the back.

I run 2 amps, its hassle. Hassle is Doom. Uber mud low end from one and some sort of punch and definition from the other. Plus loads of distortion without dropping the lows, and being able to move from in front of one to the other for low feedback and high feedback. Its dynamic. In practice I use an office chair to scoot between them.

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[quote name='Spoombung' post='446469' date='Mar 26 2009, 08:46 PM']So....how about this then? After weeks of seeing the thing in bits and pieces, for the first time I've got a [i]real [/i]feel of the disparate parts coming together to form an instrument. And you know what? It feels great and the playing angle is superb![/quote] And you get to buff up the old noggin at the same time.

More rapid pickup action here.

Looking for something to compliment the neck Model 1 in my butchered bass, it has a Mudbucker sized hole at the bridge and a P hole in the standard place to fill. But any thoughts on what gives a nice defined sound with plenty of attack is appreciated.

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[quote name='Krysbass' post='445529' date='Mar 25 2009, 10:34 PM']I can definitely second the comment about the guitarist going thru the pa and having too much bass in his sound.[/quote] Got tweeters in your cabs? Clank it up real good and show them what sonic space invasion is like.

[quote name='chris_b' post='445162' date='Mar 25 2009, 05:12 PM']Well, if you want to believe extreme views like that then good luck to you.[/quote] I generally argue and get smacked down, especially in my vintage cabs thread.

[quote name='chris_b' post='445004' date='Mar 25 2009, 02:20 PM']You don't know anything about the speakers or how to put them together so you'll probably blow up your amp when you plug in the new cabs!!! You currently have a cab that's worth something. Sell it. Split it up and you'll have a lot of worthless junk. IMO.[/quote] If I recall every long thread about cabs on basschat correctly, none of the major cab manufacturers know anything about making cabs or speakers either.

I was messing with winisd and the ideal box for kappa 15s (not the lites) was pretty close to the ashdown 8x10 dimentions. Hmmm.