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for historical-as-possible bias's ricks fine has made some nice ones. Otherwise start with finding a nice neck... get a body made... get the bits..... actually someone on here has done a really nice job refinishing some jazzes - I can't remember who but apparently the fender nitro is dead easy to strip down to the sanding sealer - maybe a road worn jazz and get it refinished? or just save up and sell things till you can afford the brave wood!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1400109377' post='2450973'] What do you want? Disco lights and go-faster stripes? :-D Seriously though, I feel your disappointment. I was hoping that the resonator would look like a badass Cosworth spoiler [/quote] is it too much to ask? Trace elliot managed the go faster stripes back in the day, and the british racing green!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1400093348' post='2450726'] There was one of the 610 on FB a while back, looks just like the '69er Edit: here you go, '69ers on the left, and Retro 610 on the right: [/quote] oh. 9 pages and it looks the same.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1400063135' post='2450287'] It's a very subjective thing - some people seem to pick up on it, and others don't. I noticed with my AI Focus, Streamliner and TC RH450 that although I could hear the notes, and they were loud, they just lacked impact. They felt almost hollow. At the time, I was doing a lot of gigs with hired backline, and any amp that had a transformer in it just seemed to have a quality the micros lacked. I can't speak for your experience of course, but maybe the Demeter doesn't have the same kind of signal management that you find on the more mainstream lightweight heads? I dunno. [/quote] I know the TC RH450 does some kinda parallel processing - it mixes a compressed signal path with an uncompressed one. So you still get some of the peaks at the attack of the note but then the compressed signal means that the volume appears louder. Of course if it sounds louder then the uncompressed signal can also be limited slightly.... leaving you with a loud sound that doesn't behave quiet right. The comparison I use is a gig where we had the drummer using a (top of the range) electronic kit. We didn't have nice IEM to hear so instead used wedge monitors. Now the drums sounded good, great even in the FOH, and were loud as anything in the monitors - but limiting somewhere down the line meant that I couldn't hear the attack on the kick and snare well enough to lock into. Of course the example I used of the RH450 possibly talks more about the preamp than the poweramp class.... my old Powersoft Tecamp Puma was essentially a very simple preamp stuck in front of one of Powersoft's Digimod 1000 units.... and that didn't display (to me) any of the difficiacies we've been talking about. Shame that Tecamp went for a cheaper set of Class D units... the powersoft was nice

you lot still at it? anyone seen a photo of these new cabs yet. Or would that get in the way of the thread??

though if I had the choice between this and a outboard one I would go for the outboard - you could basically buy any preamp you wanted and mount it in a box.

for the sound.... providing you're happy with your amp's Eq capabilities, then any active buffer would work... reading through the marketing hyperbole this might do the same thing... http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Creation_Audio_Labs_Redeemer.html

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1399892153' post='2448626'] Looks like a Faital tweeter/horn combo in those cabs, and if I'm right about which model is probably the best ever put into a commercial bass cab, and significantly better than a lot of PA cabs too until you get to the middle of the market. I'd hope the implementation is good as well - Alex's claimed off-axis response suggests it is. Most bass cabs with tweeters have nasty peaks around the roll-on frequency (accompanied by distortion) so you get a harsh upper-mid spike, often preceded by a dip. This gets worse if there's a woofer with badly damped break-up spike, e.g. most Eminence. A crossover with enough components to deal with that and give a smooth transition to the tweeter is very expensive! The better ones will have an ok tweeter, and avoid significant peaks around tweeter resonance, so fine for bass in many applications - but put voice through them and compare to a proper, 'real' professional PA cab, you will hear the deficiencies. To give an idea of relative cost, the PA cabs I am just finishing off at the moment are costing me over £100 in tweeter/horn components, and over £50 in crossover components, [i]per cab[/i]! And that design is a compromise on cost grounds... [/quote] do you mean the new "retro" cabs or the new ten 3 stuff? I know if you start adding the cost up off buying the parts yourself, the driver that's the most similar (i know its a custom driver barefaced use), the horn and waveguide, add the cost of wood and that and it's not much different from buying a big baby 2... an that's before you've even got anywhere near building a crossover and the parts for that.... and of course you would need to know how to build it... of all the critiques of barefaced stuff I've heard "they're expensive" is one of the less convincing ones. IMO obv.

I've never played any of his basses but once did have a nice email chat with him about Ibanez Musician basses (he likes them).

could his teacher teach him the technical stuff and you teach him to rock on the guitar. My thinking is that one of the best ways to learn is with other people... and a computer drum beat and you on bass (and the ability to start slow and get it up to speed) might be quite fun for both of you. You might even end up learning a load of metal and emo songs!

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1399807701' post='2447813'] I'd point out that for all the talk of the "antis" being afraid to post, Alex C. has been answering questions about these cabs over on Talkbass but is yet to pop his head up over here. I know he's a busy guy, but you have to wonder if the inevitable multi-page barney that happens on every Barefaced thread on basschat makes it less than inviting! [/quote] it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't post much on here at all anymore- it's not worth his while. In the same way Bill F stopped posting on Talkbass. I don't get the hate people have for builders/makers - like what's the point? If it's really of no interest to you don't post an opinion, you'll find no posts from me in the DB sections of the site as I don't play, If you don't like... try and see why people might like them and just enjoy the fact that different folk have different needs. For example I'm not massively keen on the compression I hear on the TC RH450 - Ild probably never buy one - but I can see that if you like the sound then it's possibly an 'ultimate' bass amp for you. (and I'ld try a RH750 or whatever then next one is to see if I like it) - life seems too short for the hate, or the knocking of our local UK based businesses.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1399799719' post='2447672'] You can find an explanation [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_AB#Class_AB"]here[/url]. [/quote] thanks!

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1399751548' post='2447379'] Yes I am sure, the parts imported directly from US were, pickups, bridges, pots and looms, pick guards , machine heads, body cutting jigs, and even neck blanks only for the whole maple neck / maple fingerboard necks. This from the Fender book "The Golden Era of Fender" [i]"Fender acted by setting up its own official Japanese manufacturing operation, Fender Japan, in March 1982. A joint U.S.-Japanese venture, Fender Japan [u][b]produced guitars with material and technical support from Fender’s U.S. facilities[/b][/u]; Japanese manufacturing facilities even included factories that had been producing the aforementioned Fender copies. By May, Fender Japan had six vintage instruments—’57 and ’62 Stratocaster models, a ’52 Telecaster, ’57 and ’62 Precision Bass® models and a 62 Jazz Bass®."[/i] [/quote] I'm not sure that's true... some of the first strat's had neck radius more in common with the grekko's that the factory had made before. The JV stuff also seems to use metric screws and parts - suggesting japanese origin. Were Fender USA even making vintage reissues prior to 82 which they could then take the parts and jigs from to send to japan? late 70's early 80's fenders I don't think had things like the router hump in the lower horn that the JV and later US reissues copied from the 50's 60's originals. Nor P bass single ply white scratch plates or threaded bridges....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399642280' post='2446216'] ...And vice-versa. I'm not an offended owner - I just don't get why this always happens with Barefaced products. When someone posts a NCD or other thread about Bergantino or Aguilar cabs you don't get this, do you? Why not? [/quote] it is odd. I wonder if Alex had paid some big pro to use his cabs a while back and launched with loads of PR and the pro bigging it up all of us in internet land would be more taken in with the PR and endorsements and folk who dislike would feel the need to go on about it so much. Like to pick another UK builder... if I didn't like ACG or Overwater or someone I doubt I would feel a need to go on lots of forum posts and say how bad they are.... mind you I don't know for certain what i think of ACG or overwater so if someone wants to give me a nice Overwater jazz, theGreek's ACG I'll be happy give an option. And if someone doesn't like their Barefaced either and it needs a new home big baby two pref!

for the stupid amongst us... can you explain the difference? I know that AB or D (or H i've seen somewhere) is one bit they can save weight on, along with the power supply... but apart from that I'm a bit uneducated

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1399750593' post='2447366'] Wow, there's some real talent on here. I'd love to hear some of the diy basses (seems really wrong calling the basses diy cos they all look really pro)through a diy preamp into a diy amp through a diy cab etc etc. [/quote] i found a thread on another forum the other day where they had reverse engineered a thunderfunk amp, I could make one, a green boy or BFM cab... a load of effects pedals... and leave the bass building to blablas as I couldn't get anywhere near his skill!

[quote name='Davebassics' timestamp='1399568874' post='2445477'] Not porn but definitely DIY! My own bass preamp. It never left the prototype phase, mainly because it worked. More info [url="http://audiodomain.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/bit-of-tangent.html"]HERE[/url] [/quote] that looks interesting... interesting enough that I clicked on your blog.... and then went to the most recent post.... now you seem to be making something in a rack case... and after going back through 3-4 pages of blog posts you haven't said what it is! Thought it would be easier to ask rather than keep going back through the blog.... What is it? EDIT: curiosity got the better of me, a compressor!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1399723878' post='2447017'] What peaked my interest was trying out an HK Elements system and whilst it ultimately failed from our POV as it wasn't versatile enough for the gigs we do, it was interesting in that the subs were very easily to carry and the seperation was enough on small gigs. Larger, you have to double up on the subs and carry 4... and if you carried 4, size-wise, you might just as well carry 2 conentional ones. We quite fancy very pokey hi quality tops...like Martin f10, or Nexo PS10's and we then feel we could get away with 1 sub most of the time... maybe an LS500...and add the second for bigger gigs. The 2xPS10 plus LS500 would do a pub very well, I think. Anyway, with that thinking, I would be interested in passive subs with performance in a compact and light shell. By that I mean 60/70lbs max in weight....pref lighter. Basically that P.A needs to carried in a decent hatchback.. [/quote] Have you looked at Bill's designs? might be a ready designed and tested solution for you PA wise there already

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399719598' post='2446941'] I don't think it matters much - it's what you do with it that counts. [/quote]wayhey!

wax naturally should flake out over time - when it doesn't for whatever reason it builds up. like others have said almond or a light olive oil are good for softening it up. the pipet can be bought from any chemist. Ortex ear drops also work sometimes and you can hear it bubbling away... Your GP can then sort out syringing if needed. I have a nose condition that means I sometimes have to use warm saline solution to clean my nose out, I have the plastic parts from syringes which you can squirt the saline solution. Once I was having problems with my ears, lots of wax and putting the oil in had made the wax soften and block it even more... my experiment with the syringe and warm saline solution managed to successfully syringe my own ears... but it's prob not a good idea to do yourself!