Mr. Foxen

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Modern ones are made to jsut eject a leg if they go. Old ones go really well, spewing foaming wax stuff and billows of white smoke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubw3cHM4YxU

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1381785995' post='2243876'] Yeah. Tell that to Nikki Sixx [/quote] Poor research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQwOUHm08M

[quote name='symcbass' timestamp='1381782098' post='2243793'] My last big cab for upright was an Aguilar 412. [/quote] Did you buy that off me?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1381772583' post='2243556'] The amp is probably your no 1 suspect. Those things are notoriously quiet despite their generous power rating. Remember volume measured in dbs not watts. [/quote] The problem is with cabs, and user with those. Those amps can put out far more lows than cabs can cope with, giving the farting out and DDT light, and if its like the firebass, has various ways of scooping mids, like the contour control that is scooping them in the middle of its travel, so centring everything doesn't help. Consequently they eat cabs without appearing very loud if you don't look after the EQ.

If that guy is a guitarist, and the other guy is a drummer, then that's all the stuff a bassist needs to properly wear in a bass with gigs and such.

Hmm, Laney only quoted £30/hour labour, and sort of implied it was going to be Lyndon Laney himself that would do the work (I was asking regarding an older laney he probably made).

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1381762120' post='2243286'] Grrr I wish I could upload pics......it's getting really annoying now [/quote] Email them over and I can photobucket them. PM incoming.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1381760845' post='2243249'] Aww man, how come none of mine have broken off? By this logic does that mean all my Gibsons are defective? [/quote] Probably not rocking hard enough. Common problem with Gibson owners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=EPjfqS5NvCY

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1381749091' post='2243035'] Think of it this way, if Marshall decided to bring out a strat copy do you think it would be respected/revered enough for them to sell in decent numbers (by that I mean enough to justify the cost of producing such a thing)..? [/quote] They totally did that. Not seen a strat actually, but teles and Rick 4003 copies (I have two). They branded them CMI, made in Japan, pretty good instruments.

4x10 alone, but on top of the unplugged 2x10 (or something taller if you have it) and not using any low end boost. Also if the guitarist says the 5150 sounds rubbish not loud, point out being louder jsut sounds like louder rubbish, and his ears shutting down from SPL isn't helping.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1381755672' post='2243162'] By the looks of it, the lead I used reversed the polarity. [/quote] That would just make the speaker go in the other direction with regards to the voltage swing. Electrolytic capacitors aren't going to be very closely related to the output jack, going to be via a transistor at least, so killing the cap would require killing the transistor on the way. Looks much more like the known issue with a generation of Orange Terrors, the later ones with the gain control that works without valve swapping are supposed to have sorted it.

[quote name='TomWIC' timestamp='1381753714' post='2243125']a solid state Peavey 6505 [/quote] Just noticed this, what?

You are stuck with the limitations of the 2x10, both those cabs are the same impedance so power is split 50/50. You need to use two cabs the same it will make less issue. As it is, cut the low eq, crank the mids, 5150 users nearly always mid scoop all to hell because they want to be a bass and a snare drum at once. Loads of mids, and play high and widdly until he starts playing the guitar parts.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1381745890' post='2242998'] It's all very well tapping individual pieces of wood to hear how they "ring" but virtually no electric instrument is made from a single piece of wood. Even bodies these days are mostly made of 2 or more pieces bonded together with lashings of glue. And it's not like acoustic instruments where the contact area between pieces is as small as possible, it's great big areas that are touching. As soon as you glue two pieces of wood together they behave differently. Even taking something as "simple" as a traditional Fender 1-piece neck with no separate fingerboard and the truss rod covered by the "skunk-stripe" already you've glued two different pieces of wood together. And who's to say that when taking the original neck blank simply deciding which of the two surfaces available is going to form the fingerboard and which forms the back of the neck (or even which end will be the headstock) won't make a difference to the final overall sound of the bass? [/quote] In real life when you are making stuff from an unpredictable material, the tapping it and listening is so you can pick out anomalous bits, like ones with a crack in, because you want stuff roughly consistent, and tapping will tell you if its hollow, etc.

Rough pricing: http://www.edgeguitarservices.co.uk/maj_rep.htm If its a Gibson guitar, they are designed to have the headstock break off (must be, because if it wasn't on purpose, they'd have fixed the issue by now, like every other guitar manufacturer) so most luthiers in the neck repair field will be familiar with the work.

Think its the wrong cap in the amp, and you've been lucky until now.

Think a run of these used to do that, the pic is sort of familiar. With electrolytics, you can up the voltage valve if it will fit in to be more durable, you can also up capacitance a bit and it won't do harm, opens up replacement options some. Same one went here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/orange-terror-bass-500-exploded-917680/

'Not failing' wasn't on your need list? It probably should be.

[quote name='paulflan0151' timestamp='1381698745' post='2242643'] Luthiery is a art not a science! [/quote] Fender is in the production engineering business though. Its all designed to minimise the variance that results from inconsistent material, truss rods and adjsutable bridges, bolt together parts so you can shim and tweak, with minimal skills and time. Also amps providing the dominant colour.

Most amps will fry cabs if you push them too hard. Its nothing to do with watt ratings, those are meaningless. Not pushing them too hard is what you need to do. They make audible warning, pay attention.

Trace might be able to supply rack ears, ask them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

Its good to have someone provide a qualified opinion as to the working that make the OP video suck, because it means that the rest of us that heard it sucking now know what about it made it displeasing to the ear, and correspondingly and work on those details to avoid sucking ourselves. Unless we write off such a qualified opinion because of the 'opinion' part, in which case we can carry on sucking and not appreciate it.