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[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1428370885' post='2740686'] This is how an EUB should look. This only has 12 strings, and is done properly. [attachment=188725:10670173_1475734249357082_7388294038487589626_n.jpg] [/quote] I think if I was playing a 12-string fretless, I'd need to look for divine inspiration to work out where to put my fingers too.

I'm not a Fender or Squier expert, but surely that headstock bears only a passing resemblance to them?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428407165' post='2740947'] Well that's the problem. It's very hard to describe 'heft'. I only experience it with valve amps. I also call it the 'all-valve bounce'. [/quote] They don't bounce, they make expensive crashing noises...

I have had a neck made shallower (2000 Thumb changed to the dimensions of a 1987 JD Thumb) but that kept the width the same. So that's no help, then. No loss of stability, incidentally.

To quote from the article that I've linked to above, and mentioned the link to above, so no-one has to go to the trouble of clicking on the link above: [i][b]Do valve amplifiers really produce a compressed ‘spongy’ sound?[/b] Yes they can do, but not all valve amplifiers do. So it is incorrect to assume that because an amp has valves in it, that it will automatically exhibit this characteristic. The reason some amps compress is due to the power supply and the rectifiers which convert the incoming AC mains (line) voltages into the DC which the electronics in the amp needs to function. Some valve amplifiers have valve rectifiers, but most have solid state rectifier diodes. The valve amps that incorporate the latter DO NOT compress the signal. So that rules out about 95% of the popular valve amps on the market. If you particularly like the effect that this kind of compression brings, then you should ask your amp dealer if the amp you are trying has valve rectification. Amps that compress in this way seem to be very loud when you initially play a clean loud sustained chord and then it soon sinks down into a mushy semi-distorted tone. Under these conditions, the rectifier valve is unable to deliver sufficient current (known as current limiting) to the power amp, so the voltage across the output valves severely drops to a level where the power is reduced and distortion creeps into the tone. When you stop playing, the power supply returns to its former levels, until you play another loud chord and the same effect repeats. The power supply needs just a fraction of a second to ‘re-charge’, so you don’t really notice anything happening. Usually, it’s only low powered amps that have valve rectification. Larger 50-100 watt amps have solid state diodes. This has been the case since about 1963, when higher powered amps first started to come onto the market and valve rectifiers were unable to be economically used, in what were then, just cheap guitar amps. Everything was down to the cost. But really it was an improvement, because everyone wanted loud un-distorted power back then. Remember, these amps were designed long before distortion was a desirable guitar sound. Classic amps like the Fender Twin Reverb, known for it’s loud ‘n’ clean performance, owe their reputations largely to the fact that they have solid state rectification and two very efficient speakers with large magnets. The classic Marshall 50 and 100 watt ‘Super Lead’ amps also are equipped with solid state rectification. It was really only the low powered amps up to the 30 watt ‘Bluesbreaker’ types that had valve rectifiers. VOX AC30s employ (and still do) valve rectifiers, as did the Selmer ‘Treble ‘n’ Bass 50’, Zodiac 30 Twin and Thunderbird 50 combo amps - using the famous GZ34 on an octal base, but 50 watts is right on the limits of its current capabilities at 250mA. Some say that this is exclusive to valve amps, but again, that’s not strictly true. Tranny amps behave pretty much in the same way as a valve amp with solid state diodes. However, it is possible to build a solid state power supply for an amp which has intentional, and even adjustable, current limiting. So it would be quite possible to surpass the effects caused by a valve rectifier! Just how useful this would be is another question... but it is easily possible. It’s worth saying though, that I have never seen a tranny amp made this way. That’s probably due to the fact that it would make it much more expensive and... tranny amps are expected to be cheap. If player’s prejudices were reversed at some time... then I’m sure a brilliant tranny amp could be designed that would be a top selling product! A classic in time even?[/i]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428355816' post='2740593'] I believe the reason for the perception of 'heft' in valve power amp transformers is due to 'sag'. As I understand it, 'sag' refers to the reduction of the power supply voltage in response to large transient signals which lends an important dynamic 'feel' to the amp that is not found in solid state amps... I could be wrong of course, as I'm no techie. But I do know the most 'heft' I've ever experienced in 40 years of playing bass has been from all-valve amps. [/quote] That's one of the things mentioned in the Stewart Ward article I linked to above. Basically, the power supplies were crap and that made the amp sound good. Next up, a variable-voltage SMPS which emulates valve-rectified power supplies...

Not a comment on the sound, but they do seem to have sneakily incorporated the Fender "F" into the Harley-Benton "H" (wot, no "B"?):

Have you tried reading [url="http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/GEAR_TALK_1.pdf"]http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/GEAR_TALK_1.pdf[/url] ?

[quote name='mike313' timestamp='1428156849' post='2738598'] Now the amp does not produce any sound at all from the speaker, even if the power light is on. If I put on headphones I can hear the bass playing at a very low volume and the sound is heavily distorted. [/quote] You could have damaged either or both of the ICs. You can check if IC2 is damaged by seeing if something played through the CD input comes out through speaker or headphones. If it doesn't, or if it's heavily distorted, IC2 is dead.

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1427958918' post='2736208'] Found the offending article: [url="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recordingmag.com%2Fresources%2FresourceDetail%2F134.html&ei=SOwcVb-mOs7aasyVgeAJ&usg=AFQjCNH8QCeluoHS81jBrbtS3RPE0LLajg&bvm=bv.89744112,d.d2s"]Taming the 5-String Bass : Recording Magazine[/url] [/quote] First he refers to the different timbre of the low B (although there's timbral change across all the strings, regardless of how many you have), then connects this with the notes below bottom E - what about the ones above bottom E? Then he goes on about the structural differences between 4- and 5-strings - yes there are, but any timbral effects this will have will apply to all the strings. And finally this [QUOTE]If the tune you’re recording doesn’t make use of any of those notes on the B string, that lowest string is nothing but a liability. Or a status symbol. Or a thumb rest.[/QUOTE] is unutterable bollocks. Looks like he's a bassist who doesn't understand the 5-string bass.

Might help if you also had the D string strung up in the picture - in fact, a picture with the D string just before you put it in the machine head (showing how far it extends past the machine head) would also be useful. If you haven't got many wraps round the post of the machine head, try just putting a very short bit of string into the central hole (rather than just pushing it to the bottom) which would give you an extra half a turn or so round the post.

Perhaps Thomann send them the sub-deko ones.

Aren't you in Lichfield? For future reference, Flightcase Warehouse are in Tamworth and are both retail stockists and makers of flightcases.

More like a Flying U than a Flying V.

It's been pulled by the seller as error in the listing, so he's done the right thing.

No "Kayleigh", no "Won't get fooled again"? And I'm not sure about most recognisable bassline, I suspect that it might be "With or without you". ISTR learning "Higher and Higher" - just two notes, if it's the one I'm thinking of.

Blink-182 were named after an episode of the spin-off series from the Doctor Who episode "Blink", which was the first appearance of the Weeping Angels. In episode 182, the Weeping Angels encounter the Hells Angels, leading to considerable destruction until Roger Daltrey flies overhead singing and the two sides put aside their differences, at least until an argument starts over the relative merits of Entwistle and Palladino. The spin-off series has yet to be shown on British television.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1427783742' post='2734088'] But will the upper cab not be "coupled" to the lower cab, which is coupled to the floor? The whole stack effectively functioning as a single cab? [/quote] It's acoustic rather than mechanical coupling. See [url="http://barefacedaudio.com/technical-information/stage-or-floor-coupling.htm"]http://barefacedaudi...or-coupling.htm[/url] And the drivers for the upper cab will be well above the floor so they won't couple to it.

No, riding a bike for years with no earplugs did.

Ah, the memory of that USB port is starting to come back to me - didn't seem to be a proper USB implementation, I was never able to make it work through a hub (may have been a rubbish hub, if course).

Use a Tascam GB-10 and dispose of the MP3 player.

How happy would you be to open the amp up yourself and take a look?

With the configuration you have there, the 8 ohm drivers would carry twice the load of the 4 ohm ones. I'd go with dincz's suggestion, which has the added potential benefit that you can use it with amps that don't go down to 2 ohms (ie. the vast majority).

There you go. I say potato, you say tomato.

Manual says it's octaves 0-8. MIDI values: [url="http://www.electronics.dit.ie/staff/tscarff/Music_technology/midi/midi_note_numbers_for_octaves.htm"]http://www.electronics.dit.ie/staff/tscarff/Music_technology/midi/midi_note_numbers_for_octaves.htm[/url]