LukeFRC

If I were you I would look for a good cab or two first - cost that up and then look for the amp with whatever is left over.

good basses - I had one - made in japan and will be better than a lot of basses. when you're looking at yamaha, esp the japanese ones they do tend to be cheap..... if you double or triple the price you get about where they are compared to other makes secondhand....

Get another cab....

so did I... bit out of my price range though!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411997513' post='2564654'] The answer, perhaps, is here..? If one frequents other sites, one expects to come across rubbish sometimes. Stay on the true path, eschew others and remain faithful to BC. Simple, really. [/quote] we're not as bad as certain american based forums but we're not far off sometimes! It's amazing what can come and go in fashion. Hartke can't be that bad can they, that Wooton fellow uses them and he does ok. They have the market problem that they aren't sexy and they are easy to get. Some more esoteric brand is always going to have a bit more kudos than the brand that every little shop has, and the aluminium cones.... we're fairly traditional at heart aren't we?* * not you big red x

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1411942283' post='2564248'] Well that alone would make them unsuitable, would it not? And don't start talking about Xmas, for God's sake. It's only the end of September... [/quote] maybe, I was kinda hoping one of the resident experts would chime in!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1411940491' post='2564229'] I seem to remember one of the reasons was to do with cost... a PA cab suitable for electric bass (that is not used with a sub) needs to have a high xmax and not be rolled-off at around 60Hz like some mid-priced PA cabs are, and this tends to make them very expensive. Where's Bill Fitzmaurice? He'll know. [/quote] so that RCF model in the video has DSP protecting it against over excursion and is -3dB at 45Hz.... now doing my best to read Bill's charts for his Simplexx line (picked 'cos it's a bass reflex too) the 12 bass cab with a 2512 in it has a similar -3dB point. Most bass cabs don't publish the frequency range with any kind of reference points and it wouldn't surprise me if a fair few of them roll off WAY higher than that. What I was thinking was that the PA cab might not be expecting such an uncompressed transients - like I doubt the drivers have the high Xmas driverswe see in a lot of higher end modern bass cabs.....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1411939296' post='2564205'] Another possible problem is that PA cabs are generally made of moulded ABS or some other form of plastic... I'm not sure if it's the best material for an electric bass cab regarding resonance, etc. [/quote] I'm willing to bet that the average ABS PA cab will be better engineered than the average Bass cab (note the second average there ) properly done I don't see how it would be worse. if you look at this they take a RCF HD12a apart.... not that ABS stuff has a fair bit of bracing there.... also a cab I would love to try sticking electric bass through http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AJrnGKnMY

I asked a similar thing about using powered cabs, a lot of the problem is that the Bass guitar range goes into territory that you would normally cross over into subs - and that the speakers aren't designed to reproduce the transients of bass guitar like a bass rig would. So a lot of the time I've been advised not to pursue... If you go elsewhere in dark corners of this and other forums you will find other people who use PA gear with no problem.... what is the "right amp" anyway?

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1410216124' post='2547318'] I should add that as an electronic engineer of 62 years, no valve will find its way into my pre amp or power amp. [/quote] what do you use out of interest?

Zoom B3 is pretty ace. easy to use, sounds great, and the amp and cab models are good too - check out the mega threads on TB about it

those pickups just look wrong on a gibbo

two different materials to make magnets with - neo is lighter and can be stronger than ceramic. Ceramic is heavier and what has been traditionally used. power and cooling etc is more down to the driver design than the type of magnet used.

I don't know exactly what you mean by "boost the tonal qualities" - the large sweeping bass control from 50Hz to 4kHz - do you mean a suitable bandpass at a set gain? or a low pass filter to take to top off? (like a passive tone knob) if it were me I would use the bass passive and then make or buy a floor mounted preamp to run first in your signal chain - I would probably make a clone of the stingray preamp, mainly as I've been wanting to make one for a while - the sadowsky preamp box is supposed to be pretty good too, something like that.

he's on this site I think - what you thinking of making??

anyone want to win an F bass? (It's blue Warwickhunt so you won't like it) [url="http://woobox.com/avncf8/a633cd"]iBass mag seem to be running a competition - (i've no connection to them)[/url]