billynoband

And I can't work my new phone to upload pics. I am however a child of the 60s so I can use a handsaw properly at least , to justify these excellent and easy to build plans.

I purchased plans for the DR250,Tuba24 and I think the omni top 12 from Bill Fitzmaurice some years ago. I say think as I only have pages 5 to 16 left of the omni top plans but I think all the info is there. I built the DR250 and Tuba24 some years ago but never used them properly before selling. So with 32 quid of ply from Wicks and 8 quid of glue, a handsaw, nails, hammer , an old HH dual purpose speaker for the time being , here goes a omni top 12.

Agree and have almost given up on watching gigs due to poor sound.I don't like to slag peoples jobs but most of the gigs I go to watch have a great stage mix when I stick my head over the monitors but when I stand anywhere else the kick drum and bass guitar drown everything else. This gets worse the further back you stand. Is this where the description drum n bass was born? Trouble is nobody I know complains.

Its always been a mystery to me how anyone can understand a conversation with a live band on. Perhaps they are pretending to be popular and have fun or are just rude. They must have money to burn if they spend more time on their phone than watching the gig. Drugs and alcohol are one cause, worse still at the weekend. I remember Stevie Howe telling one usa audience to shut up. Imagine paying recent Yes ticket prices then talking through the gig. You could clearly hear them even on Youtube.

Welcome from Northants also. Poor old Bauhaus they were and still are brilliant musicians. Local apathy pushed them away from the area back in the day when they were great live and gigging locally constantly. The closest any of them has come to playing a local gig recently as far as I know was Pete Murphy at Corby. I don't think Thom Yorke ever bought Radiohead back for a local Wellingborough gig did he? Perhaps somebody knows differently.

I struggle to think of something I would not do to get hold of that Burman head.

Is there one woofer and one speaker in these cabs? The description page is a bit confusing 208 210 212 215?

A nostalgic ornament with green carpet for the over 50s I recon. This one looks good on a shelf next to the table top trace combo to put my beer on I recon. Only second hand ones available now but for someone who likes Trace one of these might be good for home use.The controls have a quality feel to them and a shape button adds some depth of sound as there is no gain available. It maye be ok for practice with a quite drummer but is a bedroom amp really. Taking the speaker out finds a skinny Celestion more suited to guitar probably but it does ok until just after half volume. The construction is nasty chipboard. I suppose it' better than most modern equivalents I have heard but not as good the Custom 16 kba.

I also like this studio hh 60 amp (35 quid) which I cut 10 inches out of to make a head only as a back-up .It sounds really good surprisingly with the gain and boost on full with everything else set flat through a 15" JBL cab with a 300 watt 8ohm Celestion .This setting makes the sound break up a little without sounding too harsh.

Great if you can eventually as I cant be doing with cutting much wood anymore. I built a T24 and one of the complicated ones once, cant remember the name. Sold them without really trying to use them properly. They were too clumsy to carry though so I sold them.

Any more news on the kits?

I think most of the cabs mentioned look very smart and sound very good I have no doubt. They have been built well ,with good materials to the recommended box shaped dimensions and a premium speaker fitted sometimes with a great tweeter and crossover ala Barefaced cabs. All this is ok if you are splashing out. I would own any of these at the drop of a hat. If you are on a shoestring I think a BFM Simplex cab with the best recommended speakers you can afford will sound just as good as anything mentioned so far.

The GK combos are light and loud. Or the latest Roland.

Sorry to name drop. Not my band but. In the early 80s U2 played a local bikers pub music venue. I watched Bono dressed in tight trousers and fluffy jacket trying to persuade a small group of Hells Angels outside in the beer garden to come in and watch. Is that mismatched enough.

I was looking at the new Trace Elliot 10" mini speaker cab the other day, 300 quid. They even gave you the cab dimensions and the type of speaker used in the advert. The size of the port would not be too difficult to guess from pictures. The cab didn't look a lot different in shape to what you have done here. If you have a 10" Eminence lying around you can always build a handful of BFM cabs with it. The plans are cheap enough.

My practise amp does not have a output to enable it to be connected to a high powered amp. It just has a headphone socket. Is there any way of feeding a amp from the practise amp without hanging a microphone in front of it? Could the headphone output signal be used somehow?

I was interested when I saw this as the combos get varied but generally good reviews. Don't forget the Bugera Veyron 2000 too. Various things come to mind like buy cheap buy twice or a secondhand amp on here might be better value. I don't know if I would risk my 300 notes on one but would like to try one. Perhaps the makers would like to give one to Basschat for us to demo?

Behringer do a 2000w lightweight bass amp now. Strange.

I thought that Bill was a member on here. I think I know what he would say from other posts of his on his own forum in that a 2x10 is not meant for bottom end and you would need to match this cab with one of his Tuba designs or equivalent.

I have a Music Man copy by Vintage (at least I think that's what it is) single humbucker and one tuning peg at the bottom, 65 quid. My amp is a old Yamaha 100 1x15 bass combo, 37 quid, which ignoring all the cliché really is nice. Lots of vintage tone control and a Panasonic speaker fitted. It must be better than any expensive rig as the flightcase has the legend Barron Knights sprayed on it. I shouldn't gush but I bet a skilled player with his own guitar could make this amp sound as good as a lot of expensive kit.

Nobody until my mortgage and car is payed off this summer then all the above. Killing Joke must be doing one gig this year for their 40th surely.