tauzero

Tim had an unloaded Omni 10.5 off me, all went very smoothly. Hope the band gets properly under way soon! Cheers, Mike

There's a theoretical advantage if you have two outputs from the amp to run one to each cab, as if you daisy-chain cabs, the signal to the second one passes through two leads and four connections. I doubt very much that you'd hear any difference unless you were using particularly dreadful leads.

I meant GK MB150 or 200MB as a possible replacement for the Hartke. About as small as a 12" combo can be and very light.

[quote name='SingleMalt' timestamp='1421864621' post='2665981'] Picture three looks like it's been used as a hi-hat.... [/quote] You've got to hammer the marquee pegs in with something.

[quote name='Badass' timestamp='1421348478' post='2660276'] Already have a light weight set up, but very powerful. Just wanted to have a small portable combo for practice once a week, and the Hartke always fulfilled this until now. [/quote] GK MB150 or 200MB?

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1421224922' post='2658510'] With a bit of luck everyone should leave with a prize worth more than the entry cost. [/quote] You realise that if everyone wins a 25% discount voucher then people will get suspicious?

Our guitarist is unavailable that weekend, so no gigs for us - will definitely try to make it, I enjoyed the last one. tauzero - perm a few from Sei Original, Status Series 1, Antoniotsai, Dean 10-string, Warwick Thumb, Mrs Zero.

One band - "I saw her standing there" followed by "Sex on Fire" (and we use "Comfortably Numb" to finish the first set) The other band - "Born to be wild"

I normally play fretless, though I can swap between the two and my backup bass is fretted - as, indeed, are most of my basses.

On the original topic - drove to a gig and found that the silver aluminium case I'd brought was the one with Mrs Zero's wireless mic in it, not the one with my bass amp in. "I'll use the Crate Powerblock that I leave in the car for emergencies" I thought. Then I found that I didn't have a jack to speakon lead, which was the only way I could connect amp to cab... On a completely unrelated occasion, after a break, we did the first number and I got a message from the guitarist's wife in the audience that she couldn't hear the vocals. I'd taken the mains down and left the foldback on, so I hadn't realised.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1421215324' post='2658465'] Any of you older guys want to chime in on this? [/quote] Yes. I'm 57 and I have both a Zoom B3 and a Zoom MS60-B. They're very good.

Up and down or forwards and backwards? I had one which was my first bass (barring that unfortunate brief episode with a Rosetti 7). Pickups adjust vertically, not horizontally. The pickups are switched rather than blended. The bridge is a rather odd mix of perspec/acrylic and steel. Truss rod adjustment is with a cranked rod at the body end. I shouldn't have PXed it for a P.

Could I add my covers band please? [url="https://www.facebook.com/TheLightningUK"]https://www.facebook.com/TheLightningUK[/url] Just finished going through the list and liking everyone else, and discovering that there is another band that does Don't Speak (hello The Carbonites ).

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1421407912' post='2660802'] There's an old thread about this where one of the basschatters (Stevie) did some measurements to show that the effects of running in a speaker are negligible. In any case just using the speaker will run it in so it's not something you can avoid and not probably something to worry about. [/quote] Although this is focussed on hi-fi systems, the principle is the same: [url="http://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/speaker-break-in-fact-or-fiction"]http://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/speaker-break-in-fact-or-fiction[/url]

I should add that I use the kettle system because it's handy (kettle's ten feet from where I do my soldering and other electronic playing around). I've used a cigarette lighter in the past. There is no one right answer. Just don't burn anything, including yourself.

[quote name='Biglump' timestamp='1421275782' post='2659423'] I was wondering (and searching) if anyone has converted a defunct practice amp to 12 volt operation successfully. I was given a Rocktek amp with a duff power supply. A dead PC donated its PSU to get it going again. But I am just wondering about converting it to 12 volt operation by striping out the PSU and wiring 12 volts direct. (though an appropriate fused connector, of course) [/quote] So you've used the 12V off the PC PSU and that's doing the job? You'd probably be OK running it off the nominally 12V supply, though as Dad says it's actually more like 15V. If you feel you may worry unduly, there's 12V regulators you can get (off That Ebay for example). Assuming there's an 8 ohm speaker in it, the maximum current that it will need to cope with is 12/8 = 1.5A (roughly, the speaker will never be taken up to the maximum 12V but then again the circuit won't be 100% efficient).

[quote name='MarshallBTB' timestamp='1421432590' post='2661233'] Thought this was worth sharing.... a lot of effort but still pretty cool. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3IFQjP-4k"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Xy3IFQjP-4k[/url] [/quote] Is it your work? Rather more sophisticated than what I've put together.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1421402863' post='2660726'] Wont it get sealed in by the shrunk tubing ? [/quote] I only use it on the barrel of the plug, not covering barrel and cable end.

Look very handy. I've got a Behringer CT100, which falls between those two in price, and it doesn't do speakons and only caters for 3 cores on the DIN sockets (so it's fine for MIDI but anything using 5 pins won't be fully tested). But it does show the interconnections all at once, and also has "intermittent" indicators. I don't think I'll be replacing it but should it ever die, one of the Studiospares ones would be a definite candidate.

[quote name='Osiris' timestamp='1420800773' post='2653497'] By the way, do you ever have any problems with condensation or water affecting the cables if you're using a kettle to supply the heat??? [/quote] No. It's pure H[sub]2[/sub]O and it'll evaporate off reasonably quickly.

I use a Zoom B3, or when space is definitely at a premium, an MS60-B.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1420145325' post='2646154'] Convert it to a 2-string, replace the pickup with a cheap Jazz unit jammed into the cavity at an angle, and put it on eBay for £269 as suitable for people with fat fingers. Don't forget to drop a hint about the possibility of it being an early Fender prototype! [/quote] "Made when Fender's Custom Shop was just finding its feet" should do it.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1421313629' post='2659624'] I think the point I was making in the previous is that a used but mint bass might lose value if dinked, a used relic probably won't. It's a safer investemnt all other things being equal. [/quote] I wonder when we'll see the first bass being advertised as a mint relic.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1420666232' post='2652034'] Haha! I used to manage a quality department, too...never thought of that In that case, it must be just the un-pictured jack-plug panel...very minor. It must mean their quality standards are pretty high even for economy ranges... [/quote] The only thing I could see wrong with mine was a scratch in the lacquer about a centimetre long.