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Not sure if this has been linked elsewhere but I just read this: http://www.iguitarmag.com/news/2014/05/wilko-johnson-undergoes-cancer-surgery/

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1399466998' post='2444489'] Yep definitely not a problem with the cabinet. Your bass pickup is picking up mains noise from your amp sat on top of the cabinet. The tweeter in the cabinet allows you to hear that noise more clearly. It's completely normal and some basses will pickup more noise than others. You'll sometimes get the same problem playing under strip lights with basses with non humbucking pickups. So nothing is blown by the sounds of it. Your bass is just very good at picking up noise in the room and your cabinet is very good at reproducing a wide range of frequencies, including those with noise in. [/quote] This supports my theory that the concept of tweeters in bass cabs was invented by Satan

I've visited a few times and have no complaints.

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1399483225' post='2444702'] I wouldn't mind some greater capacity ones (or two, three etc) in an attempt to circumvent a repeat incident tho. [/quote] If you are going to upgrade your caps, don’t go for bigger values, as this can cause your rectifier diodes to fail. By all means go for higher working voltages though, for a wider safety margin.

PM'd

Finally got round to replacing the trim-pot today. First removed the driver valves from the rear circuit board. Then undid the rear panel connectors and ribbon cable from the DI board and popped it out: Ddi the same with the main rear circuit board: Removed the five fixing screws from the board. Had to move the transformer to make enough room for all the sockets to clear the back panel. Twisted the board up, removed the old trim pot, and cleaned up the holes: The new trimpot was a bit small so I put the outer pins in vertically and left the middle pin sticking out: I salvaged a leg from the old trim pot, soldered it in place, and joined it up to central pin on the new trim pot: After everything was back together except the top cover, I set the bias again. I had noted the resistances between the pins on the old trim pot, and set the new one up the same, so it didn't take too long to set it right. The voltages still drift a bit, but no more than a millivolt or so, and it's much easier now to tweak the bias without it suddenly going into panic territory. While I was in there, I realised the cooling fan would be much easier to replace than I had thought, so I noted the details for future reference. Looks like you can only get it from America anyway, but I've found a close equivalent on eBay - a low noise job for linear amps. A couple of hours well spent

Somehow Bert's link has got mangled. Full link is: [url="http://support.fender.com/manuals/instruments/Mustang_Bass_(1966)_manual.pdf"]http://support.fende...tang_Bass_(1966)_manual.pdf[/url]

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1399617940' post='2445830'] For a few years I went to a jam session in a local Kurdish cafe. There was a floating group of around a dozen of us from all over the place (Lebanese accordion player, Polish clarinettist etc) and the deal was we'd each play a tune that we knew from wherever and then the rest would gradually join in and we'd see where it went. Often into unpredictable places and keys and they often came out nothing like they went in but was some of the most fun times I've had playing music. Steve [/quote] Now that sounds like fun!

[quote name='Romeo2' timestamp='1399586078' post='2445737'] Thanks John, can't really put it down. I have to confess. I sold some instruments recently. And I found myself in tremors, in absolute delirium, could not stand the state of not being able to say 'my basses' or 'my guitars', the thought of uttering a sentence where bass was to be in singular form (NOOOOOO!!!!!!!) was just too much. GAS took over, with sweaty palms I entered card details into an online payment form less than 24 hours after becoming single-bassed. Help me ... [/quote] Couldn't help noticing the empty space in your 3-bass stand... Yep, lots to like about G&L basses.

The bass is both there and not there at the same time. The Mrs has given you the benefit of the doubt by assuming it's not there.

12ohms? Not a problem. Impedances are nominal, for which read 'approximate, rough-and-ready, rule of thumb'. With a valve amp you can safely go up or down by a factor of 2 in nominal impedance, so an 8 ohm output can be used into a load between 4 and 16 ohms. It may not sound as good or as loud, but it won't kill the amp. I have seen and heard this demonstrated by a guy who is a certified valve geek!

In general I like Macs but GarageBand drives me nuts. It never seems to do what I want it to! I bought Sagantech Metro for doing MIDI recording - works a treat.

Music notation - another Sibelius user here. Was on G7 until OS X stopped working with it, now using First. Working on stuff - just bought Capo. Will do independent pitch and speed changes, and identifies the notes being played - it will even have a stab at working the chords out for you. Still running Snow Leopard on my old Mac Mini, so having to use version 2 rather than 3 (which requires Mavericks).

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Good job I looked at the first 2 posts, I was about to post a link to the home movie that Mrs Axe and I made the other night

I have no cone-size-based preference, as long as there are no tweeters involved.

How was my gig last night? Different! I am generally playing in social clubs and village halls these days, but last night I depped on guitar with a rock/pop covers band for a moving-in party at the bottom of someone's garden. That's my rig to the right. Note the complete lack of any shelter - just as well it stayed dry! The first set went pretty well in the nice warm sunshine, but it got quite chilly in the second set. I was glad of my hoodie and beanie! We finished, did a 3-song encore, but there was no way that the 100 pi$$ed-up guests were going to let us go, so we had to recycle a few numbers, and I ended up singing a couple while the singer's iPad (with his words) was powered back up! Not the tightest of gigs but another one notched up.

Despite my reservations about Denmark Street being an oligopoly (look it up!), I have always had good customer service there, and never suffered any of the disdainful attitude that is sometimes reported. Maybe it is because I have 'buyer' stamped on my forehead!

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1399297246' post='2442825'] It buzzes between songs? When you are not playing you mean? - If it does that it would suggest it's not the cabinet, more like something else in the signal path. [/quote] True, a cab will only cause a buzz if you put a signal in to rattle it. A permanent buzz will originate elsewhere.

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1399297707' post='2442830'] Which tonewater did you use? [/quote] Could try snake oil?

Check out [url="http://www.studybass.com/"]Study Bass[/url]. This is a chord-based learning approach. I recommend working through it from the beginning, even if there are elements you already know. EDIT: Just realised that site is really for electric bass rather than upright, so the position approach may not transfer so well, but can't hurt to have a look.

[quote name='SubsonicSimpleton' timestamp='1399203634' post='2441997'] Part of the issue with volume wars, is that guitar cabs can be very directional, and you need to crank the volume way louder than it needs to be in order to hear yourself if you are stood in front of the amp stack - try asking the guitarists to sit on the floor in front of their stacks while playing and see if they are comfortable with the volume level, and maybe also try swapping stage positions with each guitarist in turn, so they can hear the instrument mix from your perspective and you can hear the mix from theirs. [/quote] IME many guitarists have their cabs down on the floor, so (lacking ears in their knees) they have no idea of the sonic mayhem being perpetrated out front. If they have their cab at a reasonable height they may revise their idea of what is loud enough. WARNING: Some guitarists are nevertheless happy to stand with their ears right in front of their speakers while they emit eardrum-mangling sound levels. Best to just put them in a sealed room with other like-minded guitarists and let them get on with it.