stevebasshead

4U - Ampeg SVP-Pro, DHA Dual Rackmount (acting as a preamp), Aphex 204 (twin Aural Exciters/Big Bottoms ^_^ ), 2 AKG wireless receivers side by side and tucked round the back a Behringer minimixer. All of which serves me right for wanting to go stereo with my Ric... 2U - Yamaha P5000 poweramp The Aphex, as fab as it is, might be coming out soon. If it does, I like the vented blanking plate/flashing blue ropelight idea !! I've got feelings of inadequacy I tell ya because none, [b]none [/b]of my gear has blue leds ! A frosted glass blanking plate would be even nicer though

[quote name='Merton' post='3650' date='May 21 2007, 02:58 PM']Earlier Trace's used Fane speakers, I think they changed over in the late 80's/early 90's to Celestion, though someone else on here (DrP please!!) may be able to give more accurate dates. AFAIK, none of the Trace speakers ever had wadding in, mine certainly don't.[/quote] Thanks for the quick reply Merton. Interestingly my 4x10 (also vinyl covered) has some wadding in there but I've no idea if they were made/bought at the same time as each other, originally.

I have an old Trace Elliot 1518 cab which I've had for about 6 years now. I don't know how old it is but it's from sometime before they carpet covered them and I had reason to take the speaker out last week. It turns out it's a Fane whereas I was expecting a Celestion - was I wrong or do you think the previous owner(s) changed it ? Could this be why it sounds brighter than I was expecting for a 15 inch cab ? Also, there was no sound damping wadding at all in the cab, does anyone know if there should be ? Thanks in advance, Steve.

I read somewhere (I think it was an article on vintage Celestions) that it's the rubbery roll surrounds of the speakers that'd take the damage because guitar speakers aren't built for the back-and-forth excursion that dedicated bass speakers require. Therefore they come under more stress and ultimately fail. The article also said that some of that cone-breakup sound was sought after by guitarists and contributed to the vintage sound. What you could do is a similar trick to what Rickenbacker used to do in the 60's and 70's. They wired a 0.0047mfd capacitor in series in the bridge pickup of the 4001's and early 4003's. This cut out lots of the lows from that pickup and was done because a lot of bass amps at the time weren't able to handle lots of lows. Rather than do that on your bass which would affect the sound going to both amps what you could do is wire in a capacitor (pennies from Maplins) into the cable you're going to run to the guitar amp. Chris Squire (I'm sure you know of, famous 4001 player) used to run his 4001 into a bass rig and Marshall guitar set up so you'd be mimicing that same set up.