Mr. Foxen

Newtone can make them to your specification, I've asked specifically if they can make the taper the right length for through body, and they indeed can, just give them measurements.

Isn't your bass longer than standard scale? Makes your cab look even smaller than it is. Man, that bass covers everything.

Just one GS412? Meh. They sound fine with pretty much anything. That Marshall valve head in trade in particular.

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='397440' date='Feb 2 2009, 12:31 AM']Cheers Mr Foxen. There aint nothin' i can do about the wood,it's ash (i think)and maple and thats it !! This sounds contradictory but the bass is growly,the only thing i can think of to describe the mids is that they're very erm...dark ??.It's strung with Sunbeams andi've tried a couple of different steel sets to brighten things up a bit but i dont like em.I'm thinking it's in the pup. [/quote] Have you measured DC resistance of the pickup? the higher it is the less treble it will have in general, so humbuckers tend to be a bit darker. Maybe you can coil tap it.

I'm still trying to figure the growl, my bridge postion 1/4 pounder p-pickup on my mockingbird has plenty of growl. Heres a thread when I was trying to figure why: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36710&hl=growl"]Growl.[/url]

[quote name='johnnylager' post='397367' date='Feb 1 2009, 10:54 PM']I thought about the 500w version [and a bunch of other amps too], but I just wanted to keep it simple & 'future-proof' myself. You can never have too much headroom either. Good luck in your quest.[/quote] Best future proofing is a 'vintage' amp. Like Joe Garcias 100w Marshall for example.

If you play in a low tuning you can use huge amounts of power without producing much apparent volume. You need the headroom for detuned metal.

The height is a preference thing. Too low rattles, too high is hard to fret. The fretboard is curved so the outer strings will be lower to follow the curve.

I've done it with a flat thing (a plane with no blade is good) and fine wet and dry paper. Set the unstrung neck totally flat, envelope it in masking tape and use the flat and the paper to skim them down, then carefully round off the resulting edges by hand or suing a shaped ret file you can get.

Hi-ho, hi-ho, its off to Maplin's I go...

If I rig together two battery clips in series to a third, can I just clip that to the one in there already to run my pickups at 18v? Looking for a non-carving up anything tester to see if it is a worthwhile mod. Could someone run me through which wires to attach to make the polarity right.

I think part of the point of brass for nuts is that aside from being hard, it is quite slippery, which is good for nuts. Hmmm, not sure how I could have worded that...

The octaver doesn't track very low. Its ok if you play above the 12th fret, or roll off tone, but it glitches and kicks in slowly with lower notes. Its not great.

Just played a gig in the Metropole in Bournemouth. Was great, and I had my Ashdown 8x10 delivered there by the dude I bought it from, then linked it up to the other bands 8x10 for some awesome doomage. We were on a bill with two grindcore (fast and angry) bands, after our set a guy came up to me and told me we were really slow and loud and dirgey (awesome) then told me that was a bad thing and we are a terrible grindcore band, I pointed out slow and loud and dirgey is the whole point of doom, which is what we play, and he continued trying to tell me we were crap until I cut him off to talk to my lady friend. He then did the same to our guitarist, who punched him in the face when he said 'you have no riffs'. I still can't figure what this guy was trying to achieve.

Could it be the sweep of the volume pot changes at different loads? I don't really know how they work. Would its be % of total power as it goes arounf (although 100% might not be at the end) or would the greater max output be further round the dial?

The Kosmos B is a sub harmonic generator? Was the single note you palyed a low one? Because it sounds like you are hearing the octaver fail to track, they are intended for keeping the low in when you play high stuff, rather than adding silly sub lows. If they can't decide on the low not, they might start trying to play octaves of harmonics of that note instead. You might find it tracks better if you roll the tone off and use the neck pickup.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='395311' date='Jan 30 2009, 12:15 PM']You may have noticed that your tone gets growlier as you turn up, which a lot of bassists like. However when that's happening it also tends to mean that the bottom gets thinner which isn't so good. Both those symptoms tend to be due to the speakers being pushed past their clean excursion limit so if you team up two dissimilar cabs that still couple well you could get growl from one as it pushes past Xmax whilst the other maintains the fat clean bottom by staying within Xmax. Just something that dawned on me recently when pondering why dissimilar speakers sometimes sound better than matched ones. Alex[/quote] Did you just suggest mixing drivers could possibly be good?

This is why bassists grow beer guts. I serves a specific purpose, if you play bass and don't have a beer gut, you don't have the dedication.

I've never figured how the damage occurs by putting a incorrect impedance on a valve amp. Is it different damage depending on what way its wrong? How much tolerance is there? DC resistance is variable between cabs of the same nominal impedance, so there has to be leeway.

Won't having half the port obscured by metal affect its efficiency?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hondo-Delux-880-Explorer-Bass_W0QQitemZ200304275235QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item200304275235&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Pink and pointy[/url]

I've seen skull guitar tuners. I think bass ones have to be structural enough that its expensive to make them fancy strong and light.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Very-cool-RARE-vintage-IBANEZ-JAZZ-BASS-c-1960s-1970s_W0QQitemZ220353161988QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item220353161988&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]'Nother Ibanez, seen these before, so not that rare.[/url]

[quote name='bassman2790' post='394495' date='Jan 29 2009, 01:00 PM']Cheers. There ought to be a supplier of well played in round wound strings for all of us that don't aspire to be Mark King or Duff McKagan. I'll try the Chrome XL route and see how I get on[/quote] I've got a couple of grotty sets going.