dannybuoy

Get a refund and check out the shortscale Mustang PJ for sale in this forum!

If you haven’t played a note on it, send it back to the shop for a full refund, which you are perfectly entitled to.

I had La Bellas come with the Epi Classic Pro I bought, couldn’t whip em off quick enough! I like flats on my P-Bass, but it was just too dark for my liking with the ‘bird.

You don’t usually want a steep roll off on the LPF, since they are typically used as a vintage speaker sim, which has a smooth gradual roll off. The main purpose of the Broughton LPF is at the end of the chain to tame drive pedals before they go to the PA or hi-if bass rig.

Cheap small flightcase from Maplins is a perfect fit if you just st want a basic hard case.

Great thread! Find a problem, try to throw money / gadgets at it before realising the simple solution! "My new bass is too bassy!" "What new pedal shall I buy to fix this?" "Lets come up with an uber patch that uses an LPF and multiple parametric EQs!" "Hmm, I'll just turn down the bass on my amp."

If the band isn't gig ready, and all members are happy doing so, then of course.

My cab collection consists of precisely those cabs, having bought the Barefaced to replace the Ampegs as a one-cab solution. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to compare both setups under the same conditions and now my band has decided to call it a day, I'm not sure when I'll be able to. Not terribly useful, I know! Definitely more low end out of the Barefaced, but the stacked Ampegs end up with speakers right by your ears which is great for being able to hear yourself.

This! Hot pickups do not make cabs rattle. Sending too much bass to cabs that can't handle it does. It's all about what's coming out of the speaker cable, if that's what you need to tame, you need to reduce bass and/or volume somewhere in the chain, and it makes most sense to do that with the amp controls, or a HPF. Setting up the bass to lower it's output will have the same effect as just reducing the gain on the amp. Why get your screwdrivers out when there's a knob for the job?

It's way more expensive, much bigger and the HPF isn't adjustable. The Broughton is all analog as well btw. Depends if you can sacrifice the cash, board space and lack of adjustable HPF so that you can acquire another EQ and DI output? (I thought not!) I would go with the $70 or $95 HPF unless you need the LPF as well to act as a cab sim for dirt pedals (and since you're using the amp drive with it's tone control, the LPF is probably redundant). Or try and pick up a used Thumpinator first, they pop up reasonably often!

If your preamp was overloaded you might hear distortion or see the clip light come on more, but that's it. Basses naturally have different output levels, but this is what the gain control on the amp is for. By all means get the bass set up so it's sounding it's best, but adjusting pickup heights so all your basses have the same volume night not be the best way to go. I did adjust my pickup heights, but it's something I do when setting up all my basses. If your cab is rattling then it is simply getting too much low end energy at a particular frequency or it might have some damping or build issues. Lowering the pickup might stop it rattling simply because you are lowering the volume - but you would get the same effect by simply turning down the gain, bass EQ or master volume on the amp. If you then turned up the master so you had the same output level, then expect the rattling to come back. If you find that a Thumpinator doesn't help, but want to chop off the deepest lows that are making your cab sweat without affecting the audible lows very much (like the bass EQ on the amp would), an adjustable HPF is just the ticket. Give the AcBs Pre (or whatever it was called) in the Zoom a bash, and if it turns out to be a good solution you know you can get that in a standalone pedal from Broughton!

Preamp overload does not make your cab rattle.

Unsure if you're serious but he sets it up like that on purpose!

That is a downside of the hard case - my previous PT boards I could get away with a bit of overhang here and there but not so with these! With bearing in mind if trying to decide which version to get.

I mean it sounds good. The only way you can have the speaker sim off going to your rig is to run dual Sansamps, or maybe go for a Two Notes Le Bass which only applies its speaker sim to the XLR only. But then that's a totally different sound. I understand not wanting to run a speaker sim into an actual cab, as I felt the same way, but in reality it just sounds good so it's no big deal!

It affects both, but I've not found it to be a problem with a speaker sim going into a real speaker. The parallel out is totally unaffected.

From the chart looks like it is better suited to cutting out audible lows than being a sharp rolloff at 30Hz Thumpinator kind of filter. But that's probably just what Al needs if he doesn't want to fix his cab!

I'm sure the person who said the Zoom could be used as an LPF was using the model of the Fishman preamp rather than the generic para EQ?

Not much mention of this one, but it's the original specialist HPF for bassists: https://sites.google.com/site/hpftechllc/home/hpf-pre

As I said, check with Dougie Darkglass but I think the M900 is already rolling off those subsonics. You probably want to roll off a bit higher than you think, which makes the Broughton a good candidate with its adjustable frequency. But also try some other solutions. How and where are the cabs situated? If you’re getting this at home and haven’t tried it out at a rehearsal or gig yet, are you sure there’s not something else in the room resonating that sounds like it’s coming from the cab? Try repositioning the cab or putting some isolation under it (a pillow will do if you don’t have a gramma pad to hand!).

Why not?! There are plenty of great musicians out there who also have careers / families and don’t want to play full time. These guys are obviously at a reasonably competent level and just want someone to fit in.

I think you sometimes have trouble seeing things from other peoples perspectives, not everyone wants or needs to play bass to make a living. Just having a reason to get out and play every now and then around their busy lives is all some people are looking for. Being a family man myself, any band project would be a hobby for me, I could handle 5-6 gigs a year but any more would become a chore. Sounds like they are in the same boat, and are up front and honest about it. I don’t think their requirements are over the top at all, they obviously have little free time so don’t want to waste any more of it than necessary by auditioning people that aren’t up to scratch.

Indeed a lot of amps feature one but just don't mention it, as some designers consider it a standard thing rather than a selling point! Hence @Al Krow might not need one at all with the Darkglass head! Same goes for anything Genz Benz / Genzler, not sure about other makes.

Another thing to realise regarding the eternal oddity of Barefaced 10s... Say you have two generic drivers in a cab, of 8 ohms each. You have a choice of wiring them in parallel (4 ohms) or series (16 ohms). You build a similar cab but with the 10" Barefaced speakers. The One10 is 8 ohms so we assume that is the rating for this speaker also. But this time our end results are either 4 ohms in parallel or 12 ohms in series. However in theory you would only be able to get 12 ohms total if the drivers were in fact 6 ohms each. So it's likely that your One10 might actually be closer 6 ohms rather then 8. In any case, when trying to calculate your total load, try both values out and realise it might be somewhere in the middle!