Mr. Foxen

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-70s-MIJ-Lawsuit-Maya-Thru-Neck-Stereo-Bass_W0QQitemZ160321437157QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item160321437157&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Maya[/url]

I made mine kind of like that. P in normal place and J right at the neck. Can't pic from here though.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='433003' date='Mar 12 2009, 11:02 PM']I know that Clarky and people like him are trying to help fellow BCers out by highlighting 'potentially' cheapie basses in this section of the forum but I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, unless it is a BIN you are flagging up, then you may well be urinating on someone else's bonfire by flagging up every 'cheapie' you come across! There may well be fellow BCers watching some of these basses hoping to bag a bargain; however, if folks come on and shout about this and that bargain then 'potentially' anyone looking in this section of the forum is gonna take an interest and there-by bump the final price up. It might be my personal beef but can people see where I am coming from and try to stick to flagging up bargain Buy-It-Now items? I may well not give a flying fig about this Precision but if I had my eye on a nice cheap Warwick I'd be chuffin well mad as hell if someone came on here shouting, "Look at this!". To offset what I've just said, I'd like to applaud Clarky flagging up the other BIN bargain even if some people thought it was a bit late.... shame on you, at least he spotted it! [/quote] Thinking back, fairly major lumps of my kit, bearing in mind I only buy bargains, have come from ebay scores posted up here. My 8x10 and the Mockingbird both were posted. Anything interesting I see I post up if I don't want it, feel its only returning the favour. If I'm after something someone says they are after here, I'll pm them and make sure we don't push eachother up.

[quote name='Spoombung' post='433037' date='Mar 12 2009, 11:34 PM'][i]Whip it out?[/i] You've got to be joking. I just don't do that sort of thing....[/quote] I whipped mine out last night, see wanted section.

[quote name='Spoombung' post='432848' date='Mar 12 2009, 08:40 PM']Where are all the muso/tech nerds on this forum?[/quote] They are everywhere. Might hwant to whip that speaker out and see if its made by someone else, and see if you can find it from that, its is a bit specialist.

I think its 2 speakers, a smaller one pokes out the middle of the big one. Would figure there is a crossover so its just like a woofer tweeter arrangement. If the Cube100 has the same deal, then there is your answer.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WestoneThunder-Jet-bass-guitar_W0QQitemZ180335502707QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item180335502707&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Thunder bargain[/url] if you are rapid. A jet anyway.

Bought a pickup, as he said, smooth transaction.

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='429628' date='Mar 9 2009, 06:27 PM']Quick heads up – If you’re planning on manufacturing these and selling them for profit, have you put your device through the required UK and EU testing? I’m not sure about the legality of selling untested electronic products. I’m pretty sure you’d have to have some form of public liability insurance as a start…[/quote] I think since its a passive item itself it should be ok, although the leds are powered they are low voltage. Price seems silly, if your markup is reasonable you might want to look into your parts sourcing. [quote]I could build one myself for the cost of parts...[/quote] isn't really a very useful critisism, its true of pretty much anything, a bypass strip isn't especially clever electronics, but it is repetetive and boring to make. Do you really hear a difference from the thickness of the wire? You know that if everyting is 'truly bypassed' the wire in the pickup is part of the circuit and that is pretty thin and very long. Not sure due to the photograph quality, but your finish looks rough. If you have the enclosures ready, you can get them powder coated pretty cheaply in a variety of colours and it is super tough. Google will find you a local place. Even at prototype stage, you should be worrying about everything. No good making a prototype not like how you intend the finished product to be. I have a prototype pedal thats been sent back and forth several times and most times a failing hasn't been the tone, but the dubious build, which means I've not trusted it enough for the real test of gigging it.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='429051' date='Mar 9 2009, 08:34 AM']The cross-firing and upwards firing woofers would improve dispersion but the downwards facing woofer is a v bad idea and the internal volume is hopelessly compromised. Could work ok as a guitar 3x10" though. Alex[/quote] So would it actually work 'better' with the top speaker hole plugged? I'd guess the sound bouncing off the floor would comprimise the rest or something. Or would it just be a waste of one speaker to leave it there as it has little to conribute? Anyway, bit invalid now as I got outbid. Still determined to get some sort of weird looking cab for my mids and highs.

I'm guessing due to the small sealed enclosure, this will sound like a bassy guitar cab?

Did it have some advantage like better treble dispersion, or was it just how to fit speakers in a different sized box?

Inside an random mic amp: Inside the 'Stak': Another view: Inside bit of folded horn cab:

I don't really think going any lower than I am is practical, I flipped the detuner on my p bass down to a G with a .145 at 34", not really useful, maybe if it was 36" scale it might have had some noise.

I just read the list of stuff they have, bit annoyed, there is stuff there I want.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='426645' date='Mar 5 2009, 08:29 PM']Sadly any mad looking speakers I make are more likely to be hi-fi ones! Though the double bass / acoustic cab that's on the back burner is going to be pretty weird... Alex[/quote] Guessing thats home stereo, thought all your cabs were 'hi-fi'. Can you hooks us up with a gig near you and a couple of Vintages so we can give them a Doom workout? Recon most of the south will hear.

Which leaves the switching question. I know lots of you have Ampeg 8x10s. Is there a few inputs or a switch go go stereo/mono?

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='426617' date='Mar 5 2009, 08:01 PM']It doesn't matter, it won't sound any different. The fault with an 8x10 lies in having drivers side by side, not in how they're wired. Unlike SS valve heads have no minimum impedance load, they have a maximum impedance load. Your proposed mod is probably more trouble than it's worth.[/quote] Not sure you've understood what I'm planning there. Plan is to wire it as two sets of 4 speakers, with seperate inputs. The fact that they are in the same enclosure might defeat some of the 'advantages' of the 4 vertically arranged layout though. Two seperate heads going into them. The vertical part only occured to me as I was posting it and imagining being told I should bin in and buy 2 2x10s and put them end on end. The ampeg style 2 square 4x10s is fine with me really. Not sure if there is a divide inside this as I haven't taken it apart.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='424992' date='Mar 4 2009, 12:53 PM']My grandfather just sent me a letter enclosing two fantastic old booklets: "Cabinet Handbook - G.A.Briggs" and "Five Speakers, how to make them - Hi-Fi News". Both date from 1962 and are a fascinating insight into early loudspeaker cabinet design. Most notable is how some of these early designs performed so much better in certain manners than the standard woofer+tweeter ported cabs that came to dominate hi-fi over the subsequent decades and only now are we seeing cabs (predominantly in the DIY sector) that combine the upsides of modern multi-way low distortion designs with the improved power response and sensitivity of these old large driver and horn cabs with unusual driver placement. Alex[/quote] If it makes you come up with something equivalent to the Vintage but toally wrong looking, then I'm totally gonna start saving.

In two columns of 4 vertical speakers. Haha, I see at least one of Bassferret, Claber and BFM coming into this thread to suggest that. Anyway, I have an Ashdown 8x10 that is 4 ohm, and was thinking that if I put an Ampeg style thing into it, so I can run it as two 4x10s and can run both my lower powered valve heads that only do down to 8 ohms into it. So clean into my 18 for dub lows, with dirty and filthy on the other two. What sort of switch would I need, so I could still run as standard, and general thoughts on this plan?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='424817' date='Mar 4 2009, 09:52 AM']This leads me to wonder whether I should offer a biwired version of the Big One, so you could use a big s/s amp to push the 15" woofer and then a little guitar valve head for the 6.5" mid. Could be quite scary sounding... Alex[/quote] Why would someone do that when they could have a pair of Vintages and a whole guitar stack? I've been imagination wanting to put neo 15s into one of those 2x15 + 2x10 isobaric ampegs because they were impractically heavy. Boxes with speakers on the front facing foward are boring unless there is loads of them.