Mr. Foxen

[quote name='danhkr' timestamp='1340292825' post='1702432'] Yes but how many are? When your average pcb-based valve head is anything from £1200 upwards, that's already above and beyond most people's upper end. [/quote] Handwired ones aren't necessarily any more money, none of mine were even half that. Just because people pay too much for not very well made things, doesn't invalidate the existence of the well made ones.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1340277882' post='1702085'] Maybe we should stop thinking of recorded music as a product and start thinking of it as a service. That way when people obtain a copy of a song that they have not paid for but should have it's the same as not paying someone for having done a job. Surely we can all agree that this is a bad thing? No one wants to work without being paid for it. [/quote] Service would be the gigs part, the actual playing, rather than an ongoing thing from having played under certain conditions previously. Session musicians work on that basis, you get your session fee for your playing, then the product you worked on is someone else's. Otherwise it would be like a bespoke car manufacturer charging a fee every time someone drives the car, or every time someone sells it or parts of it thereof (sampling).

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1340276273' post='1702048'] And yet false accounting falls under the Theft Act too. Conversion is the civil equivalent of theft but also extends to the use of items legitimately held by a person, but being used in a manner not authorised by the person contracted with. [/quote] Are you against the existence of copyright law then? Also in the latter case, where is the contract, and the item?

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340275685' post='1702031'] Yes, and I can also see how people stealing cars is good for insurance companies. [/quote] Manufacturers rather than insurance companies would be the equivalence surely? Further equivalence would be not stealing cars, but making copies of a car you have, and giving them away. Which shows where the theft bit doesn't apply.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1340274908' post='1702012'] I wonder if any of the people making claims about what is and what is not stealing have actually read the entirety of the Theft Act to see what sort of things are covered. I also wonder if those people who claim "nothing has been taken because it is a copy" are aware of the Tort of Conversion and how it operates? [/quote] If the 'Theft Act' applied, then the laws of copyright wouldn't be required. The requirement of 'intention to permanently deprive' as part of the legal definition of 'theft' is key. Have read it. Torts are civil, so not to do with theft or anything criminal.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1340271189' post='1701913'] People also forget (or don't realise in the first place) that setting up for on line streaming or downloads without a 3rd party like iTunes is not particularly cheap. We looked into hosting our own streaming on our website and found that we'd quickly exceed our bandwidth allocation which would put us into a whole new price point for hosting the site. [/quote] Put it up on Piratebay, and megaupload (except that, along with all the Caricatures alternate masters and mixes was taken down) or equivalents.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1340236791' post='1701683'] As far as I know they aren't starved - they light up like a Christmas tree so there must be some decent voltage going through. Funnily enough my Gold Lion 12AX7s don't glow though. [/quote] The glowing bit is the heater than runs on 6.3v. If the starved bit, the plate, is glowing, your amp is broken. If a valve glows especially much in an amp, it will be the LED under it.

ECC81 and ECC83 from my stock of tested good ones, Mullards, or Brimars or various other ones. Mullards would be as original.

The core isn't stainless steel, which is the important bit.

Shuguang GE-KT88.

Bear in mind if you use the same meths for ages it absorbs water, and can still allow strings to rust. Mostly if you use a tub instead of a tube so there is loads of area exposed to air. Also, I found my meths tub after being abandoned for a year or two due to house moves, and all the meths evaporated, and left a tub coated with dissolved out finger jam. Special kind of minging.

Good wood for guitars is defined by sounding good, not by any arbitrary label such as species derived stuff.

If you do go for EMGs remember some you can run at 18v for extra headroom.

In an electric bass the stirngs are earthed in common to the pickup, that might be a good start, but shielding the pickups themselves and earthing might also help (copper foil inside the covers if there is space).

[quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1339973545' post='1697216'] There is a hand-wired (they call it hard-wired) version that is UK built and UK pricier. But (depending on your point of view) the same thing. [/quote] Think might only be the Tiny Terror that is all valve. The Bass Terror is mostly a class D power module and SMPS that will be far too complex to handwire.

Orange's idea of made in the UK is board put into the chassis and chassis into the sleeve in the UK, so wouldn't be worthwhile anyway.

Fat Finger is worth a try, or clamp a G clamp to the headstock and see if its a neck mass/resonance issue. And a detuner on a standard P bass might open up some range without needing a 5, although it won't go all the way to low B, depends how much of that 5th string he really needs.

Yeah, did hit up youtube first. Found my new favourite pedal reviewer (warning: contains swearing): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0TsdvOxlpI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0TsdvOxlpI[/url]

Anyone rocking one? What's it like? Especially in comparison to the VT bass?

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1339895696' post='1696090'] Interesting read. My gas is turning orange. One question: other than price, are there differences between the UK made and China made ones? [/quote] Might be thinking of the Ashdown Little Bastard, that had UK and China made models. If you want a UK made Bass Terror styley, have to wait for the Matamp one to be done (its all SS and probably cleaner though).

Bear in mind the wattages you quote are thermal limits, not breaking limits, plenty enough power there to break both those cabs if you don't listen for them complaining.

Have you tried running each cab alone? Do you prefer the tone of either better than the other or the combination of the two? Also, doe sit sound consistent as you move around the room? Those are pretty far different cabs and attendant phase issues would be expected, which show up as you change relative position to them.

The point of the laminating is to render them more consistent when using a not consistent material. So the inconsistency of material you suggest will have its effect minimised, that's a whole bunch of the point of laminate construction, an inconsistency in a single component laminate will average out to be minimally detrimental to overall consistency.

Bring up the sample size to a a representative sample, and the laminated construction ones will exhibit greater consistency for given material quality because of the nature of laminated construction. Could probably assume Fender use a higher grade of wood to start with mind. The reason laminates and composites are used in mass production is because of this increased consistency.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1339871418' post='1695774'] This may also explain the whole 'nitro paint allowing a body to breathe' myth, which I'm not so sure about. [/quote] That one was totally killed by the pointing out that Fender used a sealer under the nitro coat. Plus the body breathing would be a total fail of warping. [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1339887844' post='1696036'] If you took your bass that has a maple board & played an open A, then swapped the neck for a rosewood board & played an open A, would the fretboard make them sound different? [/quote] Important bit would be swapping a single piece of wood to a multiple density laminate, which is a fairly significant structural thing.