LukeFRC

[quote name='Torben Hedstrøm' timestamp='1392805588' post='2372866'] Good reading indeed... And some very interesting points. With all due respect for Barefaced (I really really like the concept and the story... Never heard their products though)... When I read their rundown on the laws of physics, an d how to work around them, it strikes me that they don't really dig deep into the compromises they make in their designs. They do describe the pros and cons of, for instance, the passive radiator design... But every design short of the absolute optimum has compromises... So where do Barefaced cut corners ?. Don't get me wrong, I am sure that their products are excellent, but they are measuring themselves against corporations with million dollar R&D budgets, and production quantities that likely lowers the price pr. unit to a level well below what Barefaced can get from their subcontractors. Ofcourse they don't have the same expenses for advertising and PR in general either (they seem to be very popul ar without...). But still, if you as such a small company claim to 'know better' than R&D departments with huge budgets and decades of experience, I get curious as to how and why... As stated, all designs IMHO contains compromises !. And just to emphasize: I am in no way trying to degrade Barefaced products, or their brands... I don't have the tech knowledge nor the experience with their products to do so in any way !. I ma just trying to use common sense and logic... Regards. Torben [/quote] who? i know what you mean but a lot of the forward steps in bass amplification down the years have been smaller companies innovating.

[quote name='Torben Hedstrøm' timestamp='1392765848' post='2372619'] Effiency: I agree that materials today are better than 30 years ago. But you sill need to displace some serious air in the lower register. Smaller unit = more movement = Higher average speed of the membrane = Hard work for the amp (?). Tuning: Dunno... I am not sure we know ALOT more about tuning today, compared to 30 years ago. But we may have become alot wiser on how we as humans percieve sound... Low end response: Requires movement of air... Alot of air. On the note (no pun intended) of tuning, you do have different options. Horn loading, transmissioin line bass reflex to name some of the well known ways of emphasizing low end respnse. But none of these principles are perfect. [/quote] my point was more that there are a lot more variables to what a cab can produce than simply cone size and number.

efficiency... tuning... low end response...

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1392556933' post='2369957'] I've a Gator 2U ABS case that, I'm pretty certain, would take a 450mm amp OK. It's bigger than I need, so I'd be up for a trade for a shallow one... [/quote] cheers for that info - Gator would fit! If i had a shallow one i'ld trade ya! [quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1392597033' post='2370566'] Rack bags have an inch or two give at each end. Maybe try one of those? Can be had cheap on eBay! Truckstop [/quote] would you be able to give a link to the sorta thing you mean please? both for me and any other numpties reading the thread - also why is your interest "no blazers" - you've not gone and got rid of your Basschat trademark Truckstop basses have you????!

I used to have an acoustic, a takamine en10 dreadnaught - and while it sounded great... right i'm not a guitarist so non technical words.... it was quite strummy, it liked that. My flat mates guitar wasn't as strummy, in fact it liked picky picky (fingers not bits of plastic) that was nicer- not quite so much bottom end which I liked and was more bright and articulate. Also wasn't a dreadnaught, Not sure what it was but it was quite curvy. Another two friend had lower end martins, dunno what model but had really open grain stripy necks, esp at the heel (that's what I remember) well the dreadnaught one was a bit meh of an instrument to my ears, but the 00 size one sounded amazing... but that could be shape or what it's made of... I dunno cos I don't know enough So based on my awful explanation above... If I were looking for a new (prob secondhand) acoustic guitar what should I look for?

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1328742789' post='1532160'] Thanks for clearing that up Luke. [size=1]It's Moon[b]Bass[/b]Alpha btw[/size] [/quote] typical me -get yer name wrong. You know I come back to this thread a week or so later and can't for the life of me think why i thought it funny to correct your cr@p to crap. it's not really - I wonder what I was thinking.

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1392660201' post='2371245'] I can't justify this to just list one item with no guaratnee at all of a sale. [/quote] Something on here, at a realistic price will sell, it may take a month or two but someone will be interested. Worst case is maybe you end up in a trade. To high a price it won't sell anywhere on the internet. Other than that gumtree for local stuff, or ebay and their fees, or join preloved or somewhere similar. None of them are stuffed to the gills with bassists.

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1392656062' post='2371144'] Could you not have made this clear in the first place? I've posted the advert three times and gotten this message as well as uploaded a bunch of images. [/quote] under the title there is the "rules and guidelines for the marketplace" every time you look at one of the sales forums it's pinned in as one of the top posts "rules and guidelines for the marketplace" if that's too unclear 50% of the respondents to this thread have a link in their sigs.... really is it asking too much of people to read instructions or rules?

I've got one and think it's great - it really fits with my streamer stage one and I've been so happy with the tone and sound of it. I love the real richness it has. I can understand though why, as Jazzyvee says, it's not for every bass - and sometimes the directness of the sound of a bass with a regular preamp or passive is what you need.

[quote name='Torben Hedstrøm' timestamp='1392544655' post='2369788'] Looks nice, the TC + the Ampeg ! Risking repeating myself... I am very very doubtful about the actual power (or load handling to be precise) of the present Class D amplifiers. My only experience with this concept has been in my HiFi stereo system, where I had a 2x200 Watt poweramp at one point. That one damn near burned down at a New Year's party, driving a pair of power hungry speakers. The episode mentioned above goes years back, and I am sure that alot has happened on the Class D front since then... I am currently looking at the amp market, and very tempted to go for the Glockenklang Blue soul head. But the Class D thing does scare me off a bit... Particularly that most of the heads seemingly won't drive anything below 4 ohm (officially). This indicates to me, that even though they look powerful on paper, there could be some real world 'Ooomph' lacking somewhere. The weight of the things does appeal to me though . [/quote] Check out Bass Gear Magazine, they do reasonably thorough tests on things including power and burst power of amps. They looked at the Blue soul. Look at a few amp reviews also to put one into context. It's quite funny where you've got the review that sometimes is quite careful about not insulting the maker (and normally advertiser's) product and then a test where they pull it to bits and show you the inside. If I recall it might have been them that found that the TC RH450 wasn't putting out anywhere near 450w

No, apparently unrelated.... http://gaskellguitars.com/downloads/77-woods.html

It's not actually Ash, it's a japanese wood called Sen. The "ash" got added in translation. I had another bass, a japanese Cimar from 1975, also made of Sen - it was amazing too.

so if you had your bass amp and plugged it into the mains AC power, in the short time before youyou were electrocuted to death and your amp blew up burning your house down you would hear the frequency of the power... which in the uk is 50Hz if you went to the states the voltage would half and the frequency would be 60Hz. You would still die horribly, with your amp exploding and burning your house down though so don't try it.

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1392541139' post='2369742'] Yeah i know....a coil around a magnet etc and i end up with a voltage at my jackplug socket....so my bass is a voltage generator. i know its an AC voltage millivolts but can go to to volts. but.....does a low voltage give the low notes and the higher voltage the higher tones or is it more a function of current? If i had an AC voltage generator and plugged it into my amp I should get a bass tone....knowing me an electric shock!....and would the wood around my voltage generator...no, I'm not going there! Just asking. [/quote] the voltage is the volume. a note is a frequency, your guitar string makes an acoustic you can hear by vibrating at that frequency. it vibrates over the pickup inducing an AC current in it... the way the AC alternates matches those frequencies....

I think you need to see if there's a TK Maxx near Bass Direct*.... *other high end bass emporiums are available.

So I've a power amp I want to stick in a case... only problem is that it's slightly larger than normal 45cm deep. Which is a bit of a pain as everything seems to be shorter than that. What do folk recommend for a rack case for it as it's that deep? Or should I just build something from some bits of wood? It's 2 unit high. I think I'm going to get a sepeate shallow bag or something for the preamp to allow me to take it to places where I don't need the amp and my cab.

PMed with possible linkage...

some silver series stuff was PAF , the most dreadful construction material known to man - oh it sounds fine on the bass, just don't try and strip it for a refinish....

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392243170' post='2366494'] I've heard that particular bass is... not bad. I'm in London though, so... [/quote] denied by the length of the M1 !

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392242944' post='2366483'] I've not owned or played a Yamaha bass [/quote] really? come have a shot on my bb1200

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"So.....that's me and I am looking for you guys to tell me whether Yamaha basses are the world's best kept secret. "[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]well they were up to 9:52 when you started this thread[/font][/color]

if by cut through you mean a middy tone - then Eq is your friend. if you cut through you mean "be heard" got over to your guitarists and tell each of them to cut the bass on their amps....