Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1347897816' post='1806339'] (which is actually a drying finish rather than a true oil) [/quote] Depends on what danish oil, some is wipe on varnish, some is tung oil based, the latter smells of stale nuts once the solvent smell goes.

Do you take your own PA to gigs? If not, then you are relying on outside forces to be able to play. At least bring own wedge monitors.

Kind of best to sort the caps sooner, some can take the valves with them when they go, and that can get expensive.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1347968436' post='1807252'] so... the kappalite 3015 Is Actually A Better Speaker than the kappa pro 15, irrespective of the fact that its also lighter? Im sorry but i thought they were essentially the same but the neo thingy bit just made it lighter not actually er.."better" if you get my drift... (sorry i just fly the bloody thing...) [/quote] The neo thing allowed a bunch of other technical advances in addition to lightness.

'Studio' makes it sound like it isn't house demolishing loud when unleashed.

If I get the amount of hits/watchers on something a BC thread probably generates, I'd put the price up.

Plus when someone mentions they want something but have no money, you can ferret about and see what goodies they have to pry out of them with your stuff. Or set them to working doing stuff for you.

Checked dates, the edit came after for ass-covering.

Another rig for the kick probably most sensible. The BFM omni15 I have going would probably be ideal for purpose.

The Kappa pro 15 is a whole bunch less suited to the purpose than the Kappalite, different driver. Handles loads less power.

The lighter gas would mess with the cab tuning, better using sulphur hexafluoride in a smaller cab, its a big mollecule so won't leak out easily, is inert, and will make a sealed cab sound lower for its size. Main issue is air pressure variation, usually even in a sealed cab the cones are porous enough to equalise pressure inside and out.

Is there a problem with it being a bit open grained anyway, since it has frets?

Pretty sure the reply is right, don't know American law inside out, but the only use of anything I can foresee being trademarked is fair.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1347836755' post='1805722'] i had a brief look at the working pro cabs but they are to under powered to make them viable. [/quote] What do you mean by this?

Always gonna be beat by people who bid more than you.

There isn't a bridge. It is entirely missing, because it fell off due to tailpiece failure.

Or Squier VM telebass. Edit: Or Wishbass

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1347826797' post='1805570'] However, the lack of bridges flying off bodies means the practical advantage is marginal to nil [/quote] [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Rickenfaker/P1010837.jpg[/IMG]

Running off different amps eqed differently is another story though. Barefaced Compact run clean bassy with a dirty 1x12 guitar combo is mini fun.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1347796902' post='1805024'] I think my assumption has been that the extra downward force on the bridge would create a better connection to the body of the Bass, allowing for better sustain by helping eliminate errant vibrations which would dampen sustain. I would worry about the break angle though, I think having the strings run from the end of the Bass, instead of from the back, would be better. [/quote] The degree of better depends how bad it was previously though, its hard to get through strung wrong though. Break angle depends how far the through part is from the saddles, I like the through body then over a tune-o-matic style.

[quote name='paul torch' timestamp='1347796548' post='1805016'] I guess for me it would be less about compliance and more about tension. A couple of years ago I switched to short-scale as my hands were starting to feel the ravages of time. It works really well for one of my bands but the other band has always tuned down a semi-tone which makes the E string feel and sound like a flaccid elastic band. I thought that the string-through method may have offered a solution but it seems I may have to come up with something else. [/quote] You don't feel tension, you feel compliance, so for a given tension altering the compliance will affect how the string seems to play.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1347796478' post='1805015'] Why would I want ot sustain for ever in any case? [/quote] Once you get a note sounding good enough, you don't feel the need to change to a new one so often.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rockinbette-bass-guitar-/170910593310?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27cb10b11e

Since strings can slide over the witness point at the bridge, free string length before the fixed anchor does affect compliance, and a length of string is another resonant thing, so there is effects from it being there, tension stays the same but compliance is the thing you actually feel. Plus it effectively makes a high mass bridge from the whole body, as opposed to something like a BBOT where the saddles can move side to side slightly. So the difference between through string and a flimsy bridge might be noticeable, but likely in the same was as a chunky bridge and a flimsy one. Pulling strings through various holes can damage them a bit so isn't ideal.

I'd guesss that is more due to trademarked names than the sound though.