nige1968

Ick.

Exactly what to choose will depend on the kind of places you're playing, but here's an idiot's guide (ie written by an idiot -- apologies for any egg-sucking unwittingly foisted on any elderly relative) First, amps These are classified by the power stage output. Class A and AB are your traditional ones with massive heavy transformers (and allegedly more of a subjective quality known to bass players as 'heft'). Class D amps are more recent, often featherweight amps with a decent output for the size. These seem to be taking over the 'everyday' market. The power of an amp is usually expressed as, for example, 500w at 4ohms/300w at 8ohms. That would mean the amp delivers 300w to an 8ohm speaker, or 500w to a 4ohm speaker. Ohms refers to electrical resistance (aka impedance). In general, the higher a speaker's resistance, the more electrical power is needed to move the cone. If the amp above has two outputs you can connect two speakers in parallel; in this case, two 8ohm speakers give 4ohms total resistance (thought I knew why but it turns out I don't). What you can't do is connect two 4ohm speakers to this amp -- that would give you a 2ohm total resistance, drawing twice the current the manufacturer has specced for, and things would likely start melting and burning. So to cabs Amp power isn't the same thing as loudness. While more power will push a speaker harder, much depends on the efficiency of said speaker, and how many of them you have. Fortunately, speakers can be made much lighter by things like clever cab design or lightweight (neodymium) magnets. Markbass, Barefaced, Vanderkley and Bergantino all have a good rep in making lightweight cabs; GRBass makes them from carbon fibre. Alas, lightweight does not equal cheap. If you run a low-powered amp into a high-impedance speaker, you risk overheating the amp (bad). Equally, running a high-powered amp turned up full into a lower-rated speaker will create unwanted distortion and risks blowing the speaker. Therefore, you ideally want a speaker set matched to your amp's power output, or slightly less, so that there's enough power available to create a clean sound at the desired volume. If you're still around, here's the tl;dr: Unless you're playing the Albert Hall, get yourself a class D head and a lightweight 1x12 8 ohm. Enjoy the continued feeling of being able to stand up straight without it hurting. Hope it helps; otherwise someone who actually knows what they're on about will no doubt be along soon.

Wow. Even a cynic like me can still find something to be disappointed by here. I'm not sure the real thing would ever have fitted into that box. Did you try soaking the plastic overnight, in case it expands into a functioning XR18?

https://harleybenton.com/electric-guitars/

Fascinating organ, the brain. Conscious processing is single-core (serial) but unconscious processing, which is thought to include rewiring during sleep, is multi-core (parallel). Too much conscious processing is great for filling your head with random loose ends (experiences) but it's only when your mind is elsewhere that the clever stuff happens. YMMV of course. No slight intended to octopuses, who do things way differently but still learn to do crazy stuff.

This one is deceptively simple. Even Flea has admitted to finding it difficult to play at the correct speed, to Kiedis's great surprise.

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Love the RevStars. Hoping for a bass version one day.

Quite fancy one of these, but fear I'd look like mutton dressed as lamb.

Or even Ageing Model Army

Pop Will Eat Himself Sorry, we've had that one already. OK, The Beach Blokes.

Grand-père Ubu

Daddi Minogue

Dad Can Dance (edit: this is the stop posting without reading thread, isn't it? Soz Bloney)

Lady Dada

or Canned Meat

Fair cop guv. DJ Ssadow.

DJ Sadow

We played one in a bar where everyone was dancing and we went down well. When our singer offered to rebook, they told him we were "too mellow" for a Saturday night (the only night they did live music). He's not normally an onanist (in public anyway) so we took that to mean the staff didn't like our act. Random, but there you are.

Missed this the first time round, but surely one like this could be Fender's most lucrative reissue yet

I honestly heard this as "a*se about face"

I think last time this came up, we decided it was OK for some but not for others. This chap may well be one of the others.

Arriving: Left Bank Two by the Noveltones. Reflection: Stoneage Dinosaurs by Cardiacs File-out: The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica), Captain Beefheart & his magics Hopefully someone can sort this out when I cark it. Cheers