Bigwan

Looks and sounds expensive... But VERY interesting all the same!

Focusrite Clarett2Pre Thunderbolt. No latency any more here!

They're so good they prompted me to upgrade my audio interface so I could enjoy them with lower latency than my old USB2 one could manage...

Alas I'm not enough of a guitar player to truly take do it justice!

I did... And Nolly... And Abassi...

Can't disagree with any of that, but I think that's the fault of the users as much as the plugins! I'm no darkglass fanboi (like some I could mention here! Eh @Kev), but Parallax is an outstanding plugin. I wouldn't buy the Darkglass suite as I don't like the hardware versions... except for the v1 900 amp that had the tone control which made a MASSIVE difference for me, but which hasn't been implemented on the DG suite as far as I can tell.

Damn it... As I pointed out in the other thread, I should have hmmed and hahed over an HX Stomp a little longer. Not that it's a bad unit, far from it! But... GAS...

...perhaps I should have held off a little longer... If this is what I think it is it could be HUGE...

I very much like the look of that one...

Strange that they've decided to go larger in the current climate...

Orange are dreaming at that price... That's a fair chunk more expensive than the Darkglass X7 and the Tech21 dUg pedals that have similar feature sets (give or take). Almost into HX Stomp territory. Doomed to fail I'm afraid...

From my limited knowledge that's a pretty tidy looking driver for the price. I'll bookmark that one as a "just-in-case". Xmax of 7mm and quite a wide frequency response. The chambers of this cab are a little small (89 litres or 3 cubic feet, it's quite compact for a 2x15) so tuning is always going to be higher than ideal, but if I forget about fundamental frequencies (bah, who needs 'em), and high pass to 45/50Hz somewhere in the chain then all will be well... I think...

Quickly plugging numbers into WINISD gives a tuning frequency of 50Hz for the 1505KADT using the existing ports. I haven't taken into account the volume of the ports or the volume displaced by the driver yet so we're very ballpark there and it seems a little high to me already...

So does anyone know the difference between a 1505KA and a 1505KADT? The peavey literature I can find seems to suggest they are one and the same, but physically these 2 drivers are different, the basket of the KADT being about an inch deeper than the KA. @3below @stevie @Bill Fitzmaurice

Good call on the foam. Having never experienced BWs before I was unaware of this issue. But that was certainly one of the problems. I've removed the magnets, cleaned out the remaining foam and dust, cleaned the melted goo off the voice coil/mylar former and cleared as much as I can get out of the air gap in the magnet. I'm awaiting fresh mounting screws, t-nuts and gasket tape before remounting the speakers. This'll give me some time to work on the sealing of the cab and jack plate and investigate the correct tuning of the chambers. I found a comment on the other forum from greenboy (of fearless/fearful renown) that the 1505KADT is NOT suitable for bass... So we'll have to see how it works out... I'm reluctant to spend any more on "the heap" so replacement drivers are out of the question!

H&K is quality stuff. I bought a Bassbase 600 cheap a few years back. Haven't used it very much as yet, but when I have I've been seriously impressed by it.

So I've bought a cab on the cheap. My sometime band are toying with the idea of taking up a share of a rented rehearsal space where we leave our own gear, rather than the gear-supplied-charged-by-the-hour variety. So I need an appropriate rig - something butt ugly, heavy as a really heavy thing, difficult to move, but with a reasonable sound. Hence this cab, which cost me the princely sum of £50... It started life as a laney B215, about 20 years old I'd guess, but its had a challenging paper round. It's now loaded with 2 different peavey black widow drivers, a 1515KADT and a 1515KA in separate chambers. I doubt the cab was re-tuned when these were fitted. Each chamber has 2 4" ports fitted. The jack plate on the rear has had 2 of the original old connectors removed (XLRs by the look of them) and the plate is not sealed off from the top speaker chamber. The speaker grill has been off and on A LOT in its lifetime and is held on by 4" long drywall screws driven in at extreme angles. The baffle is pretty chewed up from where the grill used to be attached... And from the time before that... And the time before that... Some of these are bound to have gone through to the speakers chambers. Despite all that, it actually sounds quite good (at least as good as half the charged-by-the hour rigs I've used this past year). Loud, punchy and articulate... But there's a mild, farty distortion on almost every note when I dig in even moderately. I could possibly live with it in a band context, but it would annoy me a bit. The question is, given the description above, could there be an easy/cheap fix, beyond a glug of petrol and a match? Would a badly tuned and leaky cab distort? Help me Obiwan Kenobi, etc.

That's the ones!

Devin Townsend's Empath tour. Mind-blowing.

I THINK it was from about 15-20 years ago. There was UK luthier who made a few basses and sent them to one of the (now defunct) guitar and bass magazines. Positive review ensued, but one of the basses (a red fretless 4 string if I recall correctly) was destroyed on its way back to the builder - the strings were embedded in the fretboard, that sticks out in my head. I think this is from the same maker, but I can't remember much else other than the body and headstock shape, and the fact they used Kent Armstrong pickups. I THINK they were called Evolution... and thought that BEFORE I saw the E on the headstock... Any of that ring a bell with anyone?

That looks VERY familiar... I'm not sure why...

Don't know about you guys but I like the look of this...

Pm'd you

I did have somewhere but can't find them at the minute! Leave it with me...