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Try a different shaped bass. I was having trouble with my little finger on a standard 34" Fender Jazz. I bought a single cutaway Bass where the hand and wrist position is quite different and since then I have had no trouble. Alternatively move the rear strap button closer to the top of the bass. It will alter the balance and that may help.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1479475003' post='3176817'] try a 2 band stingray next [/quote]Once I finish my amp and 1x12 cabs the 2 band stingray peep is going in my Peavey P. And it is just me or did the newer basses sound a bit brighter? I don't know what pups, are and what magnets, but I am old enough to remember that late 60s when everyone wanted a '57 Les Paul. We all put it down to the way the wood aged as the tone was mellower than late 60s Les Pauls. Turns out it was just the Alnico Pups losing a bit of magnetism.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1479366833' post='3175936'] that is the main function of a DI, to split your signal to the PA and to your Amp / monitor [/quote]Strictly speaking DI means direct injection and is to allow direct input to a live or recording console. One in two out is a distribution amplifier.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1479386367' post='3176125'] My complaint was about the Quarter Pounder model, not Seymour Duncan pickups in general. [/quote]Sorry I was not specific, I meant the Quarterpounders no Seymour Duncan's in particular.

A lot of good advice on here. Firstly repeating what Stevie says, ditch the Seymore Duncan's. They are not good for bass. Di Marzio do some nice bass pickups. Or try an Entwistle PBXN. If you have flats on the P go wirewound. However if you really like the J use the J. As I see it the P sits nicely in the mix with other instruments, the J is good for soloists or virtuosos. The comments about the amp are correct but the P bass has a humbucking pickup and the J has single coils. No matter how you EQ it you will never get a P to sound quite like a J. Also the more EQ you need the less headroom you have. It would be worth using a long lead or wireless system to go out front while playing to check the sound the audience hear too.

I have a small chance that I can get to NAMM 2017. Does anyone have a spare badge?

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1479146732' post='3174331'] The word is compromise. If you take the example of the Hi fi world, if price is no object, what do you buy. A 200W Arcam perhaps at nearly £4,000. And inside surely Class D?.....no. Bloody great torroidal transformers and caps like Heinz bean cans. Heavy, hell yeah. Why because nothing beats a sodding great power supply for great bass and transients. [/quote]Yoh need bloody great transformers at 50Hz. Once you have rectified it you can run a switch mode power supply at high frequencies using much smaller electromagnetic

I bought this a few weeks ago and was about to write a review. I love it I will do it on another thread but in short. It has a 34" scale length and although it looks like hollow body, it is actually has a solid body with hollow chambers. The top and bottom are stuck on to that the finish is excellent and the only thing I had to do to it was replace the strings and lower the action. The pickup is a "Duncan Designed" that is made to Seymour Duncan Specs in the far east. The preamp is a two band Duncan affair and features Volume, Bass, Treble and Blend. I will fill everything else in the NBD thread.

I have to say that although I do not get a good sound many great players do. So is the Jazz a great bass? The best are. As for P/J basses. I have one and the I believe that the sound go the P pickup is affected by the J Volume pot. It is in parallel so effectively reduces the value of the P Pickup Volume control. All P/Js should have a 3 way switch IMHO.

As above, what do you think are the most important effects for bassists? Which 2 could you not live without? I have allowed multiple choices and added some more options

[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1478955447' post='3172930'] Oddly enough I was thinking of posting the very same question, this being a song we currently play. I'd assumed it was some form of filter effect, though I have no experience of such effects at all. There was a thread on here recently about filter effects that go down rather than up - in my mind that sounded like the sort of thing it needs, but that's a wild guess! [/quote]I think I need to change my username to something like yours. Maybe I will look on "The Other Place"

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1432282620' post='2779919'] Had a 410TX for a few years. Great sounding cab,stupid value for the money etc just felt like it was bolted to the floor. Used it with a Trace 500 and it never struggled at all. I can never understand how some companies can charge so much for a cabinet that has say Eminence speakers in it, however 'special' the design. Think Peavey made their own drivers so I guess it could have been economy of scale and bargain chipboard! Even so, think mine was £219 new, when others with not dissimilar specs were three or four times the price. Crazy. [/quote]The driver is one one aspect of the design. The cabinet is as much if not more, that is why some of the boutique makers charge so much. Add to that they are made in the developed world, not the far east and in many cases are pushing the designs, and supporting the customer, in ways that major manufacturers are not. And of course if you don't like the price but the cheaper one.

Watts are precisely defined when it comes to DC power. 1 watt is 1 watt. In fact a watt is well defined for AC power. 1 watt is 1 watt. As an Electronic Engineer that spent some time in a Marketing Departmet I can tell you that every branch of electronics has one Parameter that is stressed above all others. One that does not give you a clue as to how it will perform. For projectors it is Lumens for amplifiers it is Watts. Then the scary marketeers get hold of the spec, add Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Mother Goose and suddenly we know not what is fantasy and what is truth. So I agree with you that watts do not mean much when applied to amplifiers. This is because they need several qualifiers to make the figure meaningful. Also remember that model numbers are not power specs. TC model numbers deliberately decieve by giving a "wattage" in the model number that is far higher than they can achieve. They are by no means the only ones. Oh and did someone mention heft? When I can measure it I will believe it exists. Yes I am tired, slightly unwell and fractious.

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1478887551' post='3172519'] Update. My F112 arrives Sunday. I have decided it somewhat unfashionably to pair it with a Warwick LWA1000. I decided on the Warwick because firstly it provides the power secondly its not 'ice' equipped and has an honest RMS output, thirdly twin channels as I play EUB and bass G, finally I always liked Warwick amps. I will report. [/quote]Not ICE equipped? However it is class D! Do you know what power section is inside?

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1478887551' post='3172519'] Update. My F112 arrives Sunday. I have decided it somewhat unfashionably to pair it with a Warwick LWA1000. I decided on the Warwick because firstly it provides the power secondly its not 'ice' equipped and has an honest RMS output, thirdly twin channels as I play EUB and bass G, finally I always liked Warwick amps. I will report. [/quote]Not ICE equipped? However it is class D! Do you know what power section is inside?

Anyone know how to get it? Sounds like a clipped bass synth to me but I am a novice with effects.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1478689494' post='3170907'] The ST is a great cab but the difference between an amp running at 8 ohms and the same amp running at 4 ohms isn't that noticeable. The 2 12's will add a lot of tone and volume over a 112. [/quote]That of course is very true. However tunnimg at 4 will give you and extra 3 dB and two 12s is 6 dB louder than 1 at the same power. So your real gain is over 9dB. So if you turn the volume up it will sound a lot louder than the same amp running a single 8R 12.

[quote name='deksawyer' timestamp='1478343215' post='3168491'] The original D800 has a built in, albeit fixed HPF. Why would it need to be adjustable? IMO, they should have added a compressor instead of the variable HPF. Much more useful.... D. [/quote]An HPF serves two purposes, one to limit cone excursion outside of the usefull frequency range of the speaker cabinet. As each speaker is different, a variable is best. It can also help tame a boomy room in a way that rolling off the bass may not.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1478464932' post='3169246'] Could you not feed the monitors from the PA? [/quote]I could but I would have to take a feed that included other instruments or vocals and of course others are happy with their monitor feeds. Also the monitor will be a combo amp so volume control is not a problem.

Nice review Kev. To me it was very useful as you compared it to Berg and other 12s over the year. As others have said, Barefaced cannot cheat Physics but by good design and novel use of established techniques they can make cabinets that compare with anything else on the market. Like others, I hope you continue the thread with your future experience.

Can I use a BDI21 to feed the pa and a stage monitor at the ssme time?

I seem to remember that the speaker gurus at Trace lived the "sound" of MDF over ply. Maybe that preference transferred to Ashdown?

Underhang is fine

That is a tidy rig. It looks as though it means business.

Stevie is right, the driver only arrived last week and we have yet to get the driver and cabinet together. For me there are two goals, two must into my car boot and they must be as light as possible. Of course having said that I realise that I need to measure my boot. I have just gone from a Freelander to a littl Suzuki and space is tight. As Stevie says the revised driver still works well in the original design and if you need one soon, build that one. I suspect it will be some time before any revisions are done to the design, if there are any. Finally thanks to Stevie and Phil. They have so much knowledge and they give us so much of their time.