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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='957125' date='Sep 15 2010, 12:53 PM'][url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/rick-turner-piezo/mar-05/3368"]According to Rick Turner[/url], a piezo pickup can have transients exceeding 12V. Don't know how true that is, but I can certainly push the 9V onboard pre in my Skelf into distortion if I really dig the hell in.[/quote] I had to increase the gain on the preamp of my Ashbory because the output (after going through a Baxandall-type network which IIRC has a gain of 1/3, then through an op-amp gain stage with a gain of between 3 and 4, frequency-dependent) was less than half that of my active basses, and even further down compared to my passive Peavey Grind. You'd need to hook your bass up to a scope to see whether you were actually hitting the limits or if it was mechanical distortion.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='954337' date='Sep 13 2010, 08:25 AM']A reasonable point, but in fairness at least there is a well-known word in English that is spelled "Squire". I haven't often come across "Shadowsky". [/quote] Well, there's Shadow, and there's Sky... A perfect bass for anyone considering doing a medley of Apache and Toccata.

I remain completely unconvinced about the headroom explanation. The signal coming from a bass is of the order of 100-200mV p-p, which is considerably smaller than the supply voltage. It's like saying that you run less risk of banging your head if you jump up and down in the Vertical Assembly Building than if you jump up and down in St Paul's Cathedral.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='953262' date='Sep 12 2010, 12:00 AM']As regards the Sado... I'd be inclined to be a tad suspicious of someone that owned a Sadowsky bass and didn't even know how to spell it (especially as has been noted, it is big and bold on the headstock).[/quote] But 95% of [s]Squire[/s]Squier owners don't know how to spell it, despite being writ large upon their headstocks. I don't think it's any worse than that...

[quote name='guybrush threepwood' post='950660' date='Sep 9 2010, 02:31 PM']Ah ok, so do you bypass the preamp in your amp then?[/quote] No, but that is a thought. The fact that the input level is about 15% of line level doesn't matter as there's enough gain on the input side to mean there's an adequate signal passing through the mixer. I send the output to the bass amp at effectively instrument level. While it might be more effective to send the signal to the return side of the effects loop, with the particular band that I'm using multiple basses with, I'm also sending a DI from the amp to the PA and I think that comes before the effects loop , though I may be wrong.

[quote name='guybrush threepwood' post='950630' date='Sep 9 2010, 02:07 PM']Can you get mixers with instrument inputs? I thought the jacks were always line level[/quote] I use a Behringer mixer - the inputs are described as line inputs but the gain available is quite sufficient to bring an instrument-level input up to line level.

Why not just use a small cheap mixer?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='950005' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:19 PM']That's the one that got me. I mean, I don't usually care about this sort of stuff. People want to pay those figures for these basses, so Fodera can charge those prices, and that's fine, but... $999 for a different radius? F***'s sake. [/quote] You missed the one that got me - $499 for a lined fretless. That is, instead of hammering frets in and stoning them all and crowning them etc, you stick slivers of wood in the slots you've already got cut for the frets and sand them down flat. So you pay them $499 for them to do less work.

[quote name='TimR' post='948642' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:06 PM']Then later you stated that your old hughes and kettner bk200 combo had an extention cab port. however adding this would have lowered the wattage. This statement in itself is at odds with the the more watts = more volume thinking as the extra volume from adding the extra cab will more than compensate for the drop in watts.[/quote] I'd have thought that 200W through one speaker would be louder than 100W through two speakers. I can see where the OP's coming from, but I see the information as nice to have rather than essential.

London University, International Hall, 1976. I was 18. "Back in the USSR" by the Beatles, which I'd never listened to the bassline on, so the bassline was my own invention. Hayman 40/40 that I'd just put together with parts from the Fender Soundhouse after it had had a fire and Hayman had gone bust, and I think I went into the PA. Our set was roughly half and half covers and originals.

I'll go with Toasted and BottomEndian - context changes things, and even with lickle hands, fretless is easier with one finger (I think I tend to fret the string I'm playing rather than barre it though). However, on the Ashbory, I tend to use a violinny left-hand position quite a bit of the time, and that makes ring and little fingers the obvious choice.

Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh.

I improvise all the time in the ceilidh band, insofar as I know roughly how the tunes go, and have a few set parts for some of them, but play most of it by ear, including corny fills and nice jazzy runs etc.

Must admit, I forgot completely about this thread and haven't had a look inside the Superduperfly to see what the layout is like. I am tempted to try repackaging it into a full-size 1U box, to try and get some shielding between the switch-mode PSU and the audio circuitry. It does have a bit more high-pitched digital noise than my 500W one did - it's not loud but it's there.

[quote name='ironside1966' post='943270' date='Sep 2 2010, 12:45 PM']Removed[/quote] I wander if that was an affect of this thread, and weather it will effect his cellar rating. Bilbo - if you use Firefox, you can add a spell checker which automagically checks, er, spelling, when you enter text into a text box. As I have dystypia, I use it all the time.

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[quote name='Paul S' post='942136' date='Sep 1 2010, 02:28 PM']That Vantage looks nice. Shame it isn't black...[/quote] They're jolly nice in natural. I played at a friend's party recently, and one of the guitarists had the 6-skinny-string equivalent of this, which I had a little play on. He'd got it very well set up - it was possibly the easiest guitar to play I've ever encountered, incredibly low action. Looked really good too, no horrible black paint over that lovely wood...

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='944257' date='Sep 3 2010, 09:30 AM']I should have gone into more detail, the EQ did nothing and it crackled when I played.[/quote] Ah, I see. That's called "broken".

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='944235' date='Sep 3 2010, 09:15 AM']It sounded sh*t.[/quote] But there are so many types of sh*t. And don't forget, there's nothing so overrated as procreation, and nothing so underrated as defaecation.

[quote name='dave74200' post='944207' date='Sep 3 2010, 08:50 AM']I can tell the guys who know their stuff apart from the little know nothings who are constantly chirping up to tell me to piss off![/quote] Good for you. What a fine intelligent chap you are.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='944210' date='Sep 3 2010, 08:53 AM']Dave, you are really AM1 and I claim my £5.[/quote] I thought he was Beefy, although he hasn't mentioned jazz yet.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='944058' date='Sep 2 2010, 11:12 PM']The problem is the first lightweight amp I had was a Superfly it was sh*t so now I'm sceptical.[/quote] What did you find the problem was?

[quote name='dave74200' post='943619' date='Sep 2 2010, 04:36 PM']No, you're right mate. Ampeg SVT's are total sh*te. You've converted me and i'm going to sell mine at a car boot sale for a tenner. It propably won't sell though cos it's such a load of crap. Perhaps I'll just give it away to some 'fool' who likes having a really bad tone.[/quote] I have no desire whatsoever to "convert" you. I desire nothing that you use in preference to anything that I use, and I'm sure that the converse is also the case. You're rather getting your arse in your hands, aren't you?

[quote name='dave74200' post='941478' date='Aug 31 2010, 10:02 PM']If you care about tone and power, buy an all valve Ampeg head, it's the dogs bra![/quote] I do care about tone and power. That's why I won't touch a valve amp.

Ashdown Superfly or Superduperfly. Listen to it before you have it, using whatever speaker you're going to be using on it.