Bigwan

I know there's another sealed cab thread running but I don't want to muddle it. I recently bought an old Peavey 410TX cheap. It has had the 4 original drivers replaced with 4 (older model) Eminence Beta 10 drivers. There's been no attempt to retune the cab for the replacement drivers, and it was originally a 4 ohm cab, but the new drivers have been configured to 8 ohm. I always run the cab with the tweeter all the way off. The cab sounds... mediocre, although all I have to compare it too is a Barefaced 2x10 which is unfair in the extreme. My question is, rather than going to the time (which I have little of) and effort of retuning the cab for optimum ported performance, could I take out the crossover and tweeter, patch the cutouts for the port and the tweeter, add some stuffing to the cab and use it as a sealed cab?

Guma drive and antique kits ordered!

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474915273' post='3141516'] Yes, what I did was - Mount pots in enclosure, straighten legs and align pots as good as possible - Put a piece of cardboard with double-sided tape across the pot backs (Holds pots in position and at a distance from the circuit board) - Turn over and drop the pot assembly out of the enclosure - Mate it with the circuit board, making small leg adjustments where necessary - Put board plus pots back in enclosure - Tighten nuts lightly - Solder legs [/quote] Good work! [quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1474926147' post='3141619'] Has anybody built the Growling Krizzly from musikding ? [url="http://www.musikding.de/Growling-Krizzly-Deluxe-kit?lang=eng"]http://www.musikding...xe-kit?lang=eng[/url] I've got a feeling it would be beyond me but that's never stopped me,course I could see sense and get somebody to build it [/quote] Haven't seen any built, but they must sell some of them as they were recently out of stock. Looks moderately complicated that one. The electronics wouldn't be the problem for me. Drilling and finishing the enclosure is where I get bored...

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474833927' post='3140952'] Finished the Into The Unknown, moment of panic when nothing worked at first but luckily found two bad solder points. This is a quite mental pedal ... [/quote] Did you mount the pots first? Did it help?

[quote name='FretNoMore' timestamp='1474738794' post='3140176'] Halfway through assembling a Musikding/Parasit Studio kit, Into The Unknown. It will be a fun task for tomorrow to line up 8 pots, three switches and two diodes ... [/quote] Let the enclosure do the hard work for you. Mount all the pots and switches to the enclosure as straight as you can, then offer the pcb up to them, then solder. Worth a try!

Agreed it's a good skill to have as a DIYer, and if I was better set up at home I would tackle it no problem. I just don't see the point of risking it myself when I have the correct equipment at work is all. I think with the loss of a lot of FETs, etc. as through hole devices it's likely that there will be a lot more SMD required for DIYers in the near future.

[quote name='DanEly' timestamp='1474557593' post='3138809'] Interesting, what is stopping you from attempting the SMD soldering at home? I'm a huge Darkglass fan so I'm very attracted to this kit because I'd actually use the pedal a lot. Do you really think it's no wise to have a bash? [/quote] ESD for one, no microscope for another. And my soldering iron tip is a little too chunky!

Just a word of caution. The Guma drive is NOT a good kit for a beginner. There are a few surface mount components involved - I wouldn't attempt that at home and I'm an electronic engineer with years of experience dealing with SMT! I have all the right tools at work so I'll be doing that portion there. Personally I'm not a huge fan of the darkglass sound, but I'm going to build both the Guma and Antique anyway (still waiting for payday Si! Not long left now...) as I could see me using them on occasion, just not enough to warrant owning either of the real thing! I'd highly recommend any of fuzz dog's bass kits. All the ones I've built have been great quality. Personal favourites of mine are the blueberry (mine's heavily modified and I'm planning to modify it more!) and musket fuzz clones. I'm reserving judgement on the Ezekiel as I installed the switch on the wrong side of the board and destroyed it taking it off the pcb! I found the RC booster wasn't for me - too subtle. I'd like to build the BB preamp at some point. I've a meatball clone (on a Risole PCB from oshpark, into a ready etched enclosure from Dan Minner in the states) and [color=#006621][font=arial, sans-serif]parasit studio arcadiator from Musikding waiting to be built, but time is against me these days...[/font][/color]

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1474453430' post='3138074'] Those 2x10" cabs further up the page are unusual - I don't think I've seen whizzer-cone drivers used together with a tweeter before. Usually whizzer-cones are used to extend the range of the driver upwards a bit without the complexity and expense of using multiple drivers with a crossover, so both together seems like a quirky choice. [/quote] I believe Accugroove did it with their 2x10 but I haven't seen anyone else do it....

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1474043778' post='3135276'] Less talk more action Si [/quote] Still waiting for payday!

I'm starting to think both drive kits in one 1590xx enclosure... With a Deadpool coloured etch...

The nothing to declare lane makes it $629 = £476 though. Still more tempting!

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1474017195' post='3134896'] This is a discussion we've had many times! I now take it for granted that a product costing $X in the US will cost £X in the UK. I do like the concept of those tone controls, nice to hear they work too. @Opticaleye, will you have a chance to gig or rehearse with this soon? [/quote] This I know. Doesn't make it any less frustrating! At least it's not hamstrung by being fixed voltage per region like a Mesa...

[quote name='Opticaleye' timestamp='1473950875' post='3134459'] There's now a UK dealer [url="https://www.wembleymusiccentre.com/quilter-bass-block-800-bass-amp.html"]https://www.wembleym...0-bass-amp.html[/url] [/quote] Yeah, but that price is pants when it's $599 in the states and has universal power supply (100-240v). Next person I know heading to the styates might have to make a wee purchase on my behalf...

As Mike has already said it depends. Standard pub covers, probably do ok if you don't mind a bit of fur. It won't be pristine clean. Hard rock/metal, I doubt it. I had an LB30 (and now have it's more sensible twin) and through a pretty sensitive 4x12 cab (Tech Soundsystems) I would have struggled with the loud stuff. If you don't mind a bit of dirt then consider pushing the front end a little harder to get as much out of it as you can. Doesn't take much - switching from parallel to series pickup config on the dingwall i had at the time made a big difference! And report back with your findings!

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1473752914' post='3132703'] In discussions with Tom for another custom. Going for a T-16, 66 and Tarkin in one enclosure with a master foot switch and order changing foot switch so I can swap the 66 and tarkin round. [/quote] Nice! What size of enclosure?

I'll order one after pay day I think. Might get the B3K kit too...

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1473451853' post='3130437'] Yeah the Guma Antique is very tempting, just not doing much soldering at the moment due to the 5month boy lol. Might just purchase for a rainy day lol Si [/quote] I know all about it Si! I'm only really getting my head above water now and my boys are 3 and 4...

It might appear yet! I'd seen the B3K kit before, but not the Vintage so it's fairly new. The Duality might be on his "to do" list... You could try contacting the seller about a PCB. I did read somewhere yesterday that he offered the PCB on its own, but when I visited the site there seems to be only kits. I like that he offers enclosures pre-drilled AND pre-drilled with powder coating/printing. I'll probably go for the Antique kit and finished enclosure. I'd love to etch my own enclosures eventually but I find drilling a MAJOR pain!

Hughes and Kettner bassbase 600 and Peavey 4x10 for £300. Sire V7 5 string for about 320 new (from memory!). Heavy setup, but sounds it!

The Mastotron is indeed great - it's a Woolly Mammoth with a few extra bits. The pedalparts kit I linked above has the option to add the important input impedance control which is the best thing about the Mastotron. Makes it play nice with upstream pedals!

[quote name='Johnny Wishbone' timestamp='1473339004' post='3129272'] So could I! Very interesting stuff indeed. I had wondered, given the popularity of Darkglass, how there doesn't seem to have been much progress in terms of clones. At least not from the usual suspects (Sabrotone, Tagboard etc). [/quote] I find that odd too. Doug from darkglass did have the schematics and pcb layouts for the first version of the b3k (old knob layout) up on one of the diy pedal sites but he pulled down the schematics at some point. I have the layouts downloaded somewhere. I did spend a few hours trying to decipher them, but gave up when it dawned on me that I didn't like it enough to put the effort in! I know it had a LOT of buffering going on (tL07x with inverting input tied to the output) and only a single CMOS gate used in the design, but there was something unusual about the way the clean was blended in.

Think I might be building some of these! http://schalltechnik04.de/en/kits Although not the biggest fan of the original designs of the drive pedals, it was mostly a "I can see where they could be useful, wouldn't use them all the time and it's a lot of money in a pedal I'll only use sparingly" sort of deal, but at this price I could put up with it!!! The compressor is an interesting diy alternative too.