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To lose a fair bit of weight, look at a cricket bat bass like a Hohner B2/B2A/B2AV (depending on strings and activity/passivity). No stupid headstock adding lots of weight levering on your shoulder.

I've got one of these Cobra Direct-One which seems fine.

As one who owns both a One10 and a brace of Berg AE112s, and who likes a sound with a bit of bite to it for playing rock gigs, I wouldn't bother with the One10 for said rock gigs. I think it's a great cab but it doesn't have the same bite as a tweeter-equipped cab.

If you want to make one, google for Sallen-Key high-pass filters - they're second-order (12dB/octave), you'd want two cascaded to give you fourth order (24dB/octave).

IIRC, it's simple to do. You modulate the input signal with the input signal phase shifted by 90 degrees.

Headless, bodyless, and 75% fretless. [url="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980s-Wilkes-Guitars-Headless-Half-Fret-Fretless-Active-Bass-Guitar/142561002891"]https://www.ebay.co....ar/142561002891[/url]

I never use a right-angled lead on the Sei Original, as that would result in embarrassing silence with the plug not able to penetrate sufficiently into the jack socket recess.

[quote name='ricksterphil' timestamp='1510094557' post='3404031'] On a separate but related note, there was an ampeg head and cab on fleabay about a yr ago. The seller had replaced all the internal speaker and main amp internal cable with heavier duty wire which he claimed improved the sound - his point being that it's all very well spending gadzillions on premium gear but the bits of wire inside the speaker and amp are typically cheapest thin bit of wire, so by replacing same with heavier duty stuff, vastly improved the sound. No idea if he was right as I din't buy the amp and cab he had for sale....but it seemed logical Captain! [/quote] I had a GK 200MB (that's the little combo, forerunner to the MB150) that I had to replace the driver on. When I opened it up, I was very surprised at the thinness of the wire going to the speaker. I think the outer sheath was no more than 1.5mm diameter, and that was for a 25cm or so cable run.

Unless the mains supply is exceptionally bad, those of us with class D gear should be fine without mains conditioners. Might sneak some noise in through the primitive power supplies of class A and AB amps though. (A slight simplification, class D and SMPS power supplies aren't always twinned up).

Not a bass, but I swapped an early 80s Squier Strat which I'd put a Shadow MIDI pickup onto for a Roland U20 keyboard. More fool me.

Half an hour to 40 minutes (plus load-in) for my bass gear plus the PA.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1510072560' post='3403765'] I've got a Monster HDMI cable which VirginMedia paid £80 for me for it & I have a £3.99 no brand HDMI cable. I've A/B'd them several times & apart from the Monster cable looking cooler, there's no difference in sound or picture. As Monster sell such with false marketing guff, I'd never personally buy any of their products. [/quote] That'll be because it's a digital connection. Same as USB leads, if it works, it'll be just as good as anything costing ridiculous amounts of money. What I find faintly amusing is that there are audiophiles (and, indeed, audio magazine reviewers) who pretend that there is actually a difference in sound between different digital cable interconnects. I only find it faintly amusing because there's always the chance that this sort of delusional person has some important job somewhere that might affect me, and I don't want any facet of my life under the control of someone who doesn't grasp the fundamental difference between digital and analogue.

I've done one gig with the originals band, and we used the PA the drummer bought for a few quid from a club that was closing down. Next gig, I've said I'll take mine. Drummer's PA - Peavey speakers, needs two people per speaker to carry them. My PA - RCF 7 series 12" active speakers and a tiny Behringer mixer, one person can carry two speakers in.

I ran the guitar straight to the connections for the crystal pickup on my parents' radiogram, didn't need a separate pre-amp. I had a Carlsbro Stingray guitar combo that I modified for bass by taking out the guitar speakers and putting in bass speakers. Used that for a few years.

Surely 4 a side is for 8-strings? Can't understand why people want headstocks, stupid primitive things that make a bass heavier and less well-balanced, and more likely to unintentionally jab the vocalist in the ear. With a headless, I have to actually mean it.

I did suggest we call it "Old age kicks". I often get people recognising me and talking to me at half-time or afterwards (and don't get any abuse, for some reason). Wearing a T-shirt with "Bassist" on it helps.

[b]Best purchase:[/b] Sei Flamboyant 5-string headless from Flamencito. Agreed the sale in December 2016 but money and bass changed hands in 2017. [b]Runner-up:[/b] At the other end of the expenditure scale, Zoom B3n. [b]Best value:[/b] Barefaced One 10. A good little cab for my intended use, though it won't be replacing the Bergs. Turned up rather cheap on That Ebay, so I snapped it up.

Presumably the builder had never heard words like "aesthetics", or, indeed, "truss rod".

Looks moderately attractive, though not exactly inspired. Am I missing something?

Are there a lot of black Sei Jazz 5s around, or is this one completely unable to find a new home? Personally, I love Seis, but despite it having the right number of strings, it's black, it's got a head on it, and it looks like a Fender, so I'm out.

Isn't the idea of pole pieces on pickups that the strings go over them?

I use one for one band where I'm not doing any effects changes - it's easy to have one effect switched but trickier when it's more than one. Not really viable in the same song but as long as you remember to switch the active effect between songs, it's fine. Good tuner, and the effects are good too.

I think I'm in three of my current bands through JMB, though I find it extraordinary that their search function should be so utterly appalling. I'm in the fourth band because I'm married to the other 50% of it.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1508523803' post='3392801'] Trace Elliot Elf or GK MB200 - both will fit in your gig bag, or even your back pocket! [/quote] So, does anyone know what the E stands for?

I don't know if it would be called flamed, but I have an example of that sort of figuring in bubinga hanging on the wall at the other end of the room. A 1987 Thumb. Not as extreme as yours but still quite unusual.