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If you’re looking for medium weight all valve then don’t forget Stoneham’s beautiful 200W amp head. https://www.stonehamamps.co.uk/product/yi200-head/?

So years ago I used to run an SWR Triad which was the sweetest sounding if underpowered cabinet I’ve played through. Then I got my hands on a Schroeder 21012 which whilst probably more a two-way cab was the best single cab room filling solution. When Alex started Barefaced he placed a lot of store in three-way designs with a dedicated mid-range driver although he’s subsequently moved away from that approach. So given the advances in loud speaker design would a modern three-way design be viable as a single cab solution (I’m thinking a 1200W Triad)?

Our PA is probably ‘small’ but handles the full band (drums, bass, 2 x guitars, 3xVOX, 1 x fiddle). The guitars and bass all have back line so I pan the signal in the PA to even things up out front. The PA comprises 2 x EV ZLX15P’s + 2 x Peavey Pro15 powered subs with a Behringer XR18 on desk duties and a Driverack for crossover/speaker management. One advantage of 2 subs is they provide a much sturdier platform for pole mounting the tops than stands and is more ‘drunk punter’proof’ in my experience. In reality, despite the ZLX’s being marketed at 1000W, we’ve probably got closer to 600W per side flat out, but this is more than enough for the venues we play where we are required to provide the PA.

Looking great, very classy 😎

This is a telecaster body I refinished using nitro in rattle cans from Rothko & Frost. To make sure I got a good finish, I stripped it to bare wood and then primed with grey nitro primer and finished with about six top coats flatting each one. After 6 weeks of curing I wet sanded with 2000 grit paper then hand polished with three grades of finishing compound. No lacquer was used. Personally, I wouldn’t clear over black.

One of my earliest recollections of becoming aware of the bass as an instrument was when a boyfriend of my older sister brought his Precision bass to our house. Must have been mid-Seventies and he’d just bought it so it was the big TV logo, and that look has stuck with me since.

The contrast between the stain and the binding looks great and it sets the bass off beautifully. That’s going to look really classy with chrome hardware 😎

Ooh I like that 😍

Haha someone else on the same journey as me. I’ve played for years with a smooth bass heavy ‘fat’ sound believing this to be the best, but then I had a tonal nirvana moment when I realised the power of mids. I now have a much more snarly tone that just sits so much better in the mix and I’m using the same amp and cab, just different eq and more recently the addition of a SansAmp.

My small but perfectly formed bass board. Does everything I want/need and a lot more.

So after a week of playing around with the X3 I am very happy with the purchase. I have made a fundamental pink torpedo-up in the layout of my board as I put the SansAmp before the X3 in the signal path which meant occasional clipping of the Sub’n’Up. This weekends task will be to put the X3 in front of the SansAmp which will hopefully solve that.

There are a few, and the most obvious one is the PJB Briefcase combo that would probably suit your needs.

I'm surprised its not more to be honest. I was talking to a builder pal the other night and he was telling me most materials are on 3 month lead times now. Good quality plywood is extremely hard to come by (I know one expedition camper van builder who is three months behind waiting for plywood deliveries) house bricks are now close to £1 per brick, and there is a shortage of roof trusses! As a small business trying to balance the books I can fully understand why Alex has had to increase his prices and I would expect order lead times to increase too.

Its fine if you shim your monitor 😉

Winner of the internet - Thursday 09-Jun-22 🤣

I was hoping to stimulate just the type of debate we're having. In my forty years of dabbling in bass, loudspeaker performance is one of the biggest changes I've witnessed yet we're still basically repeating the same formula. I always feel I learn a lot from threads like this, so please keep the debate going.

Second vote for the Katsu one. I think I paid £22 from eBay for mine and its perfect for the smaller jobs such as pickup routes and also for making scratchplates.

If my experience with Selectron UK is anything to go by I'd say its time to move on to another brand.

I once saw a guy playing bass in a pub band in Hull and he used the full TE stack of 1x18, 4x10, + Brightbox. Fortunately he was a tasty player as he certainly cut through the mix 🤣

Currently (and for quite a few years) I’ve gigged using a single 8 ohm SWR Goliath 4x10. Prior to this I’ve gigged the 6x10 Goliath Snr, two 4x10 Goliath’s, and the combination of the 4x10 and the Son of Bertha 1x15. All great combinations, but the relative portability of the single 4x10 wins for me. Over the years we’ve seen monster single cab solutions such as the Mesa Boogie Powerhouse and Trace Elliot 4x10 + 1x15 in a single box, and of course the ubiquitous Ampeg ‘fridge’ 8x10, and then more lately a flurry of lightweight 1x12 options alongside innovative designs from the likes of TrickyAudio, Bill Fitzmaurice, and Barefaced. Watching some pro players it seems the 4x10 + 1x15 is still liked, alongside the 8x10. One of my own favourites Geezer Butler prefers a mix of 12’s & 15’s on stage. So if money was no option, and there was a road crew to lug it around for you, what would be your choice of cab and why?

So further experimentation last night showed that the multi band parallel matched the patch I used on my SpectraComp but that the Rudy Sarzo TonePrint is going to be my go to on the X3. Honestly, this unit has to be the bargain of the century given how many boards you can build/tweak without spending money or going through the pain of rewiring your board.

So this arrived today. Only had 30 mins to muck around with it but so far I’m very impressed. Obviously a lot of the default preloaded boards are aimed at our guitar brethren but I was able to get a pedal board setup ready for tweaking in no time at all. Looking forward to spending a bit more time with this tonight 😎

Law of diminishing returns. It’s a question of how steeply the bottom end rolls off in a cab. You can be 6db down at 40hz compared to 80hz so if I’ve got my maths right the 40 hz will be 1/4 as loud as the 80hz but I’m sure someone cleverer than me will be along to correct me 😂