Mr. Foxen

Have a look at the speaker and find any numbers and such on it, and google it, might figure the direct replacement.

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1352751067' post='1867043'] Any good engineer or producer will insist on playback through tiny "car-radio" speakers. [/quote] If they are aiming for a market that is appropriate to.

Got a budget in mind? And what sorta sound are you going for? Best selling combo whole. Pair of 2x10s is a good start. Edit: check you like the sound of the 2x10 alone, as long as you do, all good.

Isn't the player that is the issue with the depth, dynamics and musicality of a CD, its the production and mastering. The output from a CD is going to be the same whatever, because its digital, and you have to make a special effort to mess it up from there, the rest of the reproduction system is going to be the same for both formats.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tuscany-Bird-Bass-in-Cherry-/160921087774?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2577a4ef1e [quote]NOT just another copy but fine collector replicas of some of the coolest vintage guitars and basses of all times[/quote] [quote][font="Arial"][font="Arial,Arial"]We carefully respected all the original specifications using original US woods like basswood[/font][/font][/quote] Wha? Not a copy, a replica, even though it lacks anything in common, and also true to original spec, without having any common elements.

The is a Hiwatt 200watter for £925 or thereabouts locally, unless it has sold. If 100w is all you are after, those are about too. Plus there are tons of other amps that have more in common with the Hiwatts for much cheaper. There's a original 200w Hiwatt for just over a grand linked in my sig for starters.

How much are you thinking of spending? I kind of get the impression you are figuring Hiwatt for more expensive than they are. The local 200w Hiwatt is only a couple of hundred more than that V4, twice the power and even the reissue Hiwatt are probably ahead of Ampeg in terms of build.

If you can get them to drop it as far as Easton/Greenbank I can help, but I don't have a car.

Amps made rpund KT88s will have more headroom, KT88s bodged into the wrong amp won't. Ampeg aren't comparable with Hiwatt either, its like comparing a Ford transit to a Rolls Royce.

Plenty of bass speakers have HF elements in them.

If it is an early one, you are going to have to have it recapped before the low end it is capable of is going to happen, even then, it isn't their forte. Of course the sound of being old and a bit crap is the authentic vintage sound. I prefer the sound of 'well made amp, working properly'. Edit: Couldn't be more far removed from aHiwatt, even the shonky repro ones you can get now. There is a repro Dr201 for under a grand in music shop near me, pm for details.

+1 on it mostly being in the production/mastering. There a loads of factors to that, loudness war, and a bunch I suspect is down to when making a record was really expensive, you had to be really good to get a record made, and now they are just knocked out on CD, minimal band time recording, and a digital production job to cover the half-arsed playing and recording which ends up making it all sound a bit samey.

Basically, never listen to what that that guy says. Totally doesn't work like that. Only thing is a clipped wave (amps can't actually put out square waves, needs infinite bandwidth) can toast tweeters an midranges if there is a passive crossover.

I think there is some fun coupling a valve preamp with a class D power module, because of the sensitivity/impedance requirements. Call Matamp as they were working on that sort of thing, probably going to be easiest to get a valve pre you like and run it into a Peavey IPR or another lightweight head.

Ha, cab makers got away with unscientific porting for a pretty long time.

They can convert Squiers to ipods? Skills. More skills than using dubious goods to launder dubious money, since that defeats all of the point of laundering money.

If I was nearby (and didn't have two Barefaced 2x15s)... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Peavey-2-x-15-Bass-speaker-Cab-cabinet-/261126590541?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item3ccc5b904d

I think the value is in becoming aware of your posture. Like most things, you learn it by rules, and when you understand it, you forget the rules.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/B-C-Rich-Mockingbird-NJ-Series-Bass-Rare-Made-in-Japan-/110975222701?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item19d6a383ad This one is a warning, not totally sure, but it fits the description, including the coming in pieces, and being missing the neck pickup, along with the laminated neck, of a bass a BCer had with a unfixable bowed neck (hence the note about the action). If it is that one, its a new neck job, not a get it set up one, so price shouldn't be too much higher than it is starting.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1352572052' post='1864798'] When exactly was this? I'm getting the impression it was quite a while ago. Is this Music Ground we're talking about here? It's well documented they were involved in some dubious practices. [/quote] Vintage stuff is more their thing. 'Restoring' serial numbered necks and bodies on to original sets of scratchplate screws.

Tuners, bridge, truss nut, wiring and electronics, scratchplate, all expensive parts, and you can't buy them from Fender because they'd twig what you are up to. Complete rebuild of a bass is skilled labour time. To get a decal that isn't a dead giveaway you need finishing facilities.

Peavey strings. Does it on the shop counter so he's going to be there anyway.

Nut is pretty key to being set up. Not really a setup unless it is right.

This one doesn't seem to be glaringly obviously not a Fender though, don't think I've seen that happen before: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Guitar-Fender-/181021338383?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a25b66b0f The logo placement ok?

I'll file you nut for three bottles of black sheep. Not often you;ll get an offer like that. If its guitar nut filing: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Welding-and-Cutting-Torch-Tips-Nozzle-Cleaners-Set-x-2-R10-/150943007306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2324e7824a for bass, just a tapered round needle file or two is all you need. Nothing specialist about them.