LukeFRC

i'm not sure a 60s style P with flats will ever sound like an active Traben - and the Traben will never nail the P bass thing either. What you have just discovered, in time for christmas, is a reason to get another bass.... or two.

rest looks kosher to me. It's a meddled with JV

I tried one in a shop. I liked. I probably would have changed the pups and pre to make it amazing but good feel

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1417021231' post='2616252'] John, Bill, excuse me jumping in on this one but I have a spare EA wizzy 12" speaker i bought when i thought my EA wizzy Mline speaker was shot, it turned out to be a connection problem on my amp - now resolved. If I was to make a sealed box for this, for ease of condstruction is there a known volume i should work to, are they Eminance? If so would they or EA be the best people to give me the volume. Or is the actual origins of EA's wizzy a closely guarded secret Bill. [/quote] I'll point out that I'm not Bill. Or particularly clever.... but if it were me I would be going looking at the cab you have and making a clone. Actually sounds like a really fun project to do.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1416905334' post='2614786'] Can you expand on that at all? After reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_%28magnetic%29 I'm going to guess it's effectively a form of compression [/quote] nope! I was hoping someone with more brains would have turned up by now.

if you need any layout help making a nice PDF I can stick on my graphic designers hat for you.

Zoom b3..... and when you find in 3 months you only use say the sans amp pedal model go buy one of them...

I think I've played through about 5 different Barefaced cabs.... and it's useful to point out that tonally I found them all quite different between the "big" series and the non-big ones. For what it's worth I didn't like the tone on the Super 15, or compact. The midget was good for the size, but I probably wouldn't buy any of them. I hated the big one and [b]loved [/b]the big baby. Interstingly a Fearful 15/6 I heard, a similar design to the original Big one was way nicer sounding- but the big baby was a bit special (to my ears anyway) The "BF all sound like barf" is obviously rubbish as they all sound different. [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416826070' post='2613855'] Not really... but to put it into some sort of context... Examples of things I've come across recently... You have a bass heavy amp..paired with a bass heavy cab and you then have to ask questions about boom and do you need a gamma.... Or that so much bass coming out is a tone killer combination.. or...you want the cab to be ultra clean and so you get out what you put in... but then you add a pre signal to dirty things up.. These approaches sound muddled to me... [/quote] the first one... some people just have cloth ears, and/or don't know how to mix a bass sound live. the second one though... that makes sense to me- I wouldn't mind a powered PA cab as a rig (if someone knew one that would work!) - uber clean and then let me control the sound through the preamp. I also thing that that's quite good as most gigs I've ever played most the bass sound comes from the FOH and I'll be DIing into the PA desk - if I can set my tone on a preamp and then have a neutral reference point on stage that works for me. I also don't have space or money for lots of different cabs in order to get different tonal goals from different rigs.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1416824717' post='2613835'] What is low frequency magnetic saturation? [/quote] how the transformer transmits the sound through.

if you've just acquired them shove them in and have a try. Easy enough to switch them out if you prefer the other ones.

1975.... [quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1416565364' post='2611447'] My experience of buying a YOB bass (and indeed my observance of others purchasing a YOB bass), is that they rarely work out. I understand the sentiment behind it, but purchase a bass because it speaks to you and feels great, not based on the year it was made. After all, what are the chances of two awesome things being made in the same year?! That said, maybe I'm just bitter and being born in '83, a pretty dry period, especially for Fender Si [/quote] I'm '84. It's my 30th next month.... but ended up finding the $$ and buying/being given a 1985 warwick thumb last year. One year out in both respects!! Early streamers would be '83 I would think? [quote name='Hooch' timestamp='1416571719' post='2611546'] My guess is 1983 isn't the worst era for a fender-ish YOB bass. With Fullerton AVs and first Japanese Squiers, you got there fine basses and various price range. YOB bass isn't necessarily a keeper I agree - though your birthday gift is, that's were it becomes tricky. Short story: I was born in 1977 and sought after a YOB bass. I finally found a '77 Stingray, a nice one with the date on the neck stamp 2 days earlier from my real birthday. Nice catch, but the fact was I preferred my '79 Stingray, which I kept - and sold the preeeecious YOB '77 Stingray. But it wasn't my birthday gift. If it had been, I'd have kept my '77 Stingray for sure. And probably would have sold my '79, which is a better bass for me though. [/quote] '77 is a good year to have. Esp some fun stuff coming out of Japan. I've a '77 BB1200 - amazing bass!

musicians egos are odd things.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1416700739' post='2612835'] I've only heard one, and that was EQed so far differently to what I'd do that I couldn't give an opinion of the sound. As for seen, though, you have just been slavering over this and yet this is so ugly you wouldn't give it house room. And although the S112 doesn't use shelf ports, other cabs in tks's range do - a design feature that you have railed at in BF cabs but which is apparently perfectly acceptable from other manufacturers. [/quote] but as taylor swift explained "Cause the players gonna play, play, play And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate Baby I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake Shake it off" Which of course means that that kind of perfect logic isnt going to work here... but dont let it get to you

anyone of the age that they remember the computer game Duke Nukem? remember the wait for the 3D version? Everytime I see this thread I think of that....

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1416679814' post='2612617'] This - Peavey do some cheap (albeit older) Class D amps in their DPC range. The one you probably want to keep an eye out for is the DPC 1400. Alternatively Dood was selling a Powersoft power amp for reasonable money last month. [/quote] I missed seeing that one.

are you soon going to be one of those people who pop up in every thread suggesting the answer to every problem is a Jazz bass and that Leo got it right [s]first[/s] third time?

[quote name='Acebassmusic' timestamp='1416500343' post='2610938'] Oooh! Do tell me more [/quote] internet rumour and things I've read/heard/seen suggest this series [url="http://www.soundsliveshop.com/p/Alto_Professional_APX1000_Power_Amplifier/ALTO-APX1000?CAWELAID=1830891980&CAGPSPN=pla&gclid=CM_4qZrdjsICFfHKtAodA2gAyA"]http://www.soundsliv...CFfHKtAodA2gAyA[/url] has a digimod 1000 or higher inside..... (from a german forum)

[quote name='Acebassmusic' timestamp='1416490108' post='2610757'] Powersoft do good reasonable weight Class D amps with plenty of grunt. Best check the secondhand options unless you have a hotline to Santa! [/quote] some v cheap amps use their digimod modual

In terms of your preference for weight not what is subjectivly "better"

Seeing as your thread about the db750 went into "big heavy iron tranny vs switch mode power supply" I guess the same q applies here...

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1416000289' post='2606128'] Yeah, I'm not sure he's much of a player. . . [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjgH6m57O0[/media] [/quote] GK fusion 500 and a berg cab?