LukeFRC

music company finds some successful musicians to join board and help them make stuff for musicians. Not the stupidest idea ever. Mind you I imagine if I were thinking of electric guitars, and more the rig and effects and modelling stuff then the Edge wouldn't be the worst guy to have around. Not sure what bono brings to the table though!

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1401303832' post='2462303'] ... and the battery compartment will have at least one broken tag or will be held in with gaffa tape. [/quote] unless... you buy an ex warwickhunt one in which case they tend to be in tip top condition!

1991-3 ish didn't the hard wear go from brass Warwick branded made by Schaller to an alloy not made by Schaller?

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1401132465' post='2460455'] I agree with this. Warwick stuff is especially bad for this (or good if you're wanting a warwick I suppose). New value of them is huge (to the point where it's a bit ridiculous IMO) but sell second hand for a fraction of that. I mean I got my corvette for less than £400! [/quote] warwicks are actually a fair bit up in price on where they were a few years back. [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1401225402' post='2461522'] Agree to a point, but then you see this [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/221210827655?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108"]http://www.ebay.co.u...f13=80&ff14=108[/url] Prices of a lot of things have dropped quite a bit over the last 6 months or so. There was a guy selling a TC HOF on here a few weeks ago, it was only about £10 less than a new one, but he'd paid a whole lot more for it only 6 months previous, and didn't realise the price had dropped so much. [/quote] I felt really sorry for the fella with the nice looking TC electronics RH750 and cabs - at not a bad price for a while - just before the shops slashed the new prices to be cheaper than his secondhand price

this is really intriguing me.

I met a guy years ago who was into reggae, ran his own sound system. Good music but the fella wasn't to be trusted any further than you could throw him. .. your sig says you're into Reggae so I'm not sure I can trust anything you say..... that sort of thing what the thread is about.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1401094940' post='2459865'] You mean the Hellborg didn't have enough output for the power amp? [/quote] yeah. As I'm trying to sell the hellborg I'll point out it was for a [i]specific[/i] power amp that Will had. I have no problems with it! Not sure what it was, when I was looking for an amp myself I remember reading how some of the newer class D amp need a higher input sensitivity..... actually rather than repeat half understood things I've read on forums this thread is interesting.... http://www.talkbass.com/threads/crown-xls-drivecore-amps-input-sensitivity.711228/page-2

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1401018584' post='2459125'] Direct from the Status website, they are reasonably priced. I know some people have had issues with a dead string in a set, not something I've noticed but worth knowing before making a decision on whether to buy a set or not. [/quote] I bought a set of status strings years back and had a dead one... one call to Dawn and she put a replacement in the post the same day. Back to the topic... Do you ever wonder how many of the basses for sale as the owner wants something different/better, would not be for sale if they spent the $$ on new strings?

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1401089216' post='2459817'] Guess what I'm saying is whatever you choose, run the numbers and make sure that the sensitivity of the power amp input is right to match up with the pre-amp output. [/quote] what he said - I picked my Hellborg preamp up partly because 2x18's nice power amp needed more output than it could give

where are you based? ACG? the boys at Alpher are good fellas too

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[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1400871868' post='2457827'] apparently my mag 810 goes to 37hz! weird? andy [/quote]is that -3dB at 37hz, -6dB at 37hz, -10db at 37hz or what? it's almost meaningless as a number without that!

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1400847470' post='2457478'] The f3 of a Fridge is 58Hz, and few complain about lack of lows. With drop tuning you might need as low as a 40Hz f3. Those who are aware of the fundamental frequency of their lowest note often think that they need a speaker capable of going that low, but that's not the case, as most of what's actually in the signal is harmonics. Most players who don't have any training in acoustics will be off by a full octave between what they're hearing and what they [i]think [/i]that they're hearing. Raggae has the deepest tone of mainstream genres, and to hear it one might conclude that most of its energy is in the 40-80Hz octave, but actually it's in the 80-160Hz octave. In concert the 40-80Hz octave might be more present than in a recording, but that's due to the contribution of PA subs and a heavy hand on the PA console EQ. [/quote] a fridge is a sealed cab so would have a shallower roll off than a ported cab I guess? when you design a cab for bass Bill do you focus on the low end roll off or making the 80-160Hz range sound good?

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1400829653' post='2457272'] I think that's a great question. Cab design has concentrated on all the stuff below 200Hz because that's the bit the mathematical models and design software address. The bit the box designers control. Then I go in to gigs and roll off the lower frequencies to get the best sound for the band. It's obviously better to have a perfect sound and then shape the lower end but the expensive and bulky bit of amplifying bass is the bottom octave which we can barely hear. If you've not done this before it is worth listening to 41 and 31 Hz [url="http://plasticity.szynalski.com/tone-generator.htm"]http://plasticity.sz...e-generator.htm[/url] if you start at 1000Hz and scan down the sound disappears, you can't really hear low B fundamental in any practical sense, so why do we make such a fuss? To make it a fair test use headphones, your computer speakers won't go that low in all probability. [/quote] I just bought some new headphones... not high end audiophile ones but some nice sony buds. When I bought the I looked at frequency response charts on a load of different models and these ones are nice as they are fairly flat across the mid range... any way I doubt theres that that many headphones that can go that low meaningfully... [quote name='Michael J' timestamp='1400837039' post='2457348'] If you want it to sound "natural" then your system needs to extend about an octave either side of the range of interest, with no massive humps or peaks in the response, no woeful dips, nice and flat (when fed with a flat signal), and low distortion. Anything else is not a speaker, it's an effects box - which is fine if you want that effect... Most music/pa amplifiers and cabs are effects boxes. [/quote] I was about to write a comment working out what the range of that ideal speaker would actually be but then thought that actually

hardly cream of the crop....