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Here You Come Again- Dolly Parton

Add to the list of customers, Ashdown, Thomann/Harley Benton and more.

I suspect your comment is a little tongue in cheek and that they already do.

I just bought another bass on a whim. The Ari Pro 2 FB. I am told it was made around 1990 but there is nothing on the bass to inicate where or when it was made. The fretboard seems to be varnished or epoxied, was this as made or done by an earlier owner? Sny other info or directions to Aria fan sites? Pictures will follow.

Sounds to me like they have used the standard Sire MM preamp. It is a nice preamp but the knobs and pots on ALL Sire basses are sh1te. The passive tone control also has very little range on mine.

Probably, Peavey have a wealth of experience designing solid state amps. ICEPower have some nice smaller modules now but they were not around when the Elf was designed.

I had thet problem with Thomann on an HB guitar. Sent is back and the replacement had an obvious blemish. In the end I accepted a refund to B stock price.

It really is a positive that BD is interacting on here.

It not a scientific exercise Bill. It is really just a bit of fun although I suspect the beat will still sound better than the rest.

If you are using the PA for vocals alone, 8" drivers should be fine, with the usual caveat that you use a respected make. I would take a pair or really good 8s over some cheapo 15/12s any day. It is interesting that many manufacturer's ranges now go 15/12/8 with 10s being a rarity. Of course you can add a sub or two later if needed.

I will take my Zoom recorder. It does video and high quality audio. 😀

Ampeg went the "design your own" route and had to do around 10 revisions to the PF500 before it was more reliable. With class A/B amps, the power amp design was often a variant of a standard design published by semiconductor manufacturers. The same was true of early valve/tube amps. The beauty of ICEPower or Powersoft is that the power section is tried and tested also already meets the major international safety, RFI and EMI (interference) standards. The problem you have, and several manufacturers have produced Bass amp model numbers implying higher power outputs than specified by the module manufacturer. Of course it is possible. by careful design to extract a bit more from these modules. @agedhorse has developed the techniques to squeeze 800 watts from the ICEPower 700AS1 module. Many other manufacturers use that module and include "800" in the model number when the maximum power at 4 ohms, with reasonable distortion, is 700 watts. I am sure @agedhorse can explain this better than I can but hopefully that answers your question.

I do agree, in my opinion Van Damme Studio, the Blue one is the worst. It is stiffer than most power cables. To be fair to Van Damme, it is designed for Studio installations. As the name implies. However many sellers on eBay sell it for use between heads and cabs.

The GK200 watt Amos/combos use the 50ASX2 BTL amp from ICEPower. The amp is rated at 100 watts into 8 ohms and 170 watts into 4 ohms and they have little heat sinking on board. GK had real problems with the module early on as they did not cool it properly . If driven hard, as it is in a bass amp, it must have fan cooling. Ot should be said that this is a problem of GK’s making as the 50ASX2 was originally designed as a small stereo amp for consumer HiFi.

In someways it might help them. The value of pre-lawsuit instruments could rise and their overall profile increase. I doubt Ernie Ball have a keg to stand on or should that be the brass neck?

I assume the Titans are mine? Looking forward to it.

As a cable maker I often get requests for 4mm speaker cable to connect heads to cabinets, usually 0.5-1m in length. I always advise that this is both expensive and unnecessary. Here is my explanation. The reason thinner cable is OK for shorter lengths is the lower resistance/impedance. The current carrying capacity becomes the most important here as over 0.5-1m it is irrelevant for most cable CSAs. I always argues that 4mm is way overspec'd for bass heads to bass cab connection. The cable current carrying capacity is far higher than even the speakOn connectors and the output of bass amplifiers. 1mm = 10A 1.5mm = 16A 2.5mm = 25A 4.0mm = 32A 10A at 4 ohms = 400 watts 16A at 4 ohms = 1024 watts 25A at 4 ohms = 2500 watts 32A at 4 ohms =4096 watts If your load is 8 ohms the power limit is twice those figures and remember that these are continuous ratings at 25C. If you look at Sommer Meridian Mobile speaker cable, the resistance is 7.5 ohms per kilometre or 1000 meters. So the resistance is less than 8/1000s of an ohm. So of 2500 watts you would dissipate just under 5 watts in the cable of 1 metre. Of course none of us are using 2500 watt amps... 4mm cable was is useful for those massive line array PA systems but not useful for bass amps IMHO. So why do I recommend 2.5mm and why not mains flex of the same size and rating? Well I have it in stock. However the real reason is that the Sommer Meridian Mobile cable 2.5mm is very flexible, unlike either mains cable or many competitors speaker cables. Sommer use 140 strands of copper while some well known competitors use 50 in their 2.5mm cable. So they bend more easily and are a delight to use.

According to Neil they are a bit brighter and longer lasting than the Platinum but with slightly more finger noise. The Platinums on my Sire M2 are yonks old and sound like flats but play like rounds 😀

Be wary of claims of "quiet fans" many cut the noise by running the fans slower. There are two types of fan noise, one is turbulence, the blades disturbing the air and the other is vibration. In my empiric experience, vibration is the worse of the two. A better fan will vibrate less but it is the mechanical coupling with the chassis that causes most of the noise. I have used the Akasa mounts and they do reduce this mechanical vibration. Of course a better fan will also help.

Dissapointing.

A nice little package sped it's way from middle earth, well Derbyshire> My latest two packs of Newtone strings arrived this morning. Sorry no pics as my phone is flat but they are Platinum Round core 40-100s. Feel better under the finger than any I have ever used except the old Picato Groundwounds from Treorchy.