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Whatever you want to spend from £515 to just over £1k. Here's the website... http://barefacedbass.com/product-range.htm & this stuff is worth reading regardless of whatever you're going for... http://barefacedbass.com/technical-information.htm

[quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1358201539' post='1934904'] Guys, I haven't really spoken overtely to anyone about this, but after 20+ years away from the faith I have found back to salvation, which is a beautiful miracle really because I really, really felt like the lost son sleeping with the pigs and full of guilt. After a long, long time of travels and ardour I've returned to my native land, and I finally contacted a local priest and she prayed with me, since I found it's not been up to me at all, and finally all fell into place. I pray every day and I go to church every Sunday and it's great, so far not been in contact with any other believers (apart from the other service goers who see me and I guess wonder about who exactly I am) about this really yet and felt that I should, because luke 11:33 and so on so I hope that this little story of mine will bring some joy into somebody's heart. Thanks, Jesus, for your never ending love. [/quote] Amen. I used to lay down the low end for The Lord, but I'm not able to go to that church anymore & struggling to find a new one. Not so much to play at, but just one that has a good worship & service combined. Got another to try this Sunday. If you need some good worship songs to learn (even just for at home), we can post some on here.

I agree with 51m0n, there's a lot of good cabs out there that will lighter, louder & sound better than what you're looking to do. I could add a 2x10 (or two) as a suggestion. I had a Trace Elliot 4x10 & got a MarkBass 2x10 combo to replace it, expecting to need to add another cab. But it's far superior in sound, volume & weight & has so far been more than loud enough for all the gigs I've done. Bigger venues of over 300 people have had PA & I've been asked to turn down at a few beer festivals without PA.

Though it's unlikely, I wouldn't 100% trust that your amp won't damage your speakers as watts is only the thermal rating of the drivers. If you exceed the driver's capabilities elsewhere then damage can occur. You can do damage to a cab rated at 1000w whilst using an amp rated at 100w (in the late 80s I broke a 500w cab with a 120w amp).

At the most, your amp will put 275 watts to each cab. If you go down the 4x10 & 1x15 route, put the quieter of the cabs to the top so you can hear it if you're causing it to fart. This will possibly be the 1x15, but it depends on the sensitivity of the driver (AKA is the 15 louder than 4 10s). I also suggest going with 2 cabs that are the same, but use your ears & see what sounds good to you. Having a read through the "amps & cabs" section on here as well as the barefaced & bill Fitzmaurice's websites can help give you some background & knowledge before buying.

Ive got £3.41 TBH, I don't know what it's worth, but there'll probably be someone along that does know.

I can't listen to the video just now, but if you get a boss OC2 or OC3 & put it on to -1 oct (have no direct or -2 oct audiable), then it's a good start for synth bass. Then put it through a Moog LPF & you can tweak some very synth like tones. Any excuse to get some Moog pedals, eh!

The bassist from Men Imitating Machines uses midi bass. I read Jarman's interview on Shep's blog & he was saying that he likes the ability to assign different sounds to each string. He's also looking at the IR Basses too. They look very promising.

Remind me never to get a Gibson Les Paul. A friend of mine has broke the headstock 3 times in the 4 years he's had it. one was from sitting in his livingroom against the wall & it just slid over & crack, a machine head hanging out & a lump of wood from the headstock on the floor. One of my old guitarists has a Tokai Les Paul that he got in the 80s. It's been dropped, fell over & seen a lot of gigs & it's still in good nick (other than the usual for that age). He said he prefers the sound of it over the Gibson LP (which he has, but hardly uses).

There's also having effects in their own loop within the chain. A simple example could be having a chain going octaver>loop>chorus>amp. In the loop you have 2 or more fx, so say fuzz>filter. So when the loop is bypassed & all pedals are on, you get octaver>chorus. Then you activate the loop & it puts the other 2 on in the chain. This is useful for when you want to turn more than 1 effect on for a section of a song (it saves tap dancing). My board has this (with 3 effects) & also a parallel loop as Pantherairsoft describes, which is only activated within the loop.

Yes, unlined.

What was making the farting noise, cab or drivers? Was it on a specific note & did you try backing off on the lower frequencies?

The last time I went ina shop to try out a bass was last year. I wanted to try a fretless, so the chap plugged it in & passed it to me. I sat there with it on my lap for @ 5 minutes just staring at the neck until a little drool appeared at the right corner of my mouth. I gave it a little wipe & then proceeded to play just a couple of random notes up & down the fretboard to check for intonation & fretbuzz, followed by holding the bass flat up to my eye & looking along the fretboard to check it was straight. I then attempted some harmonics, chords & a spot of tapping & that's when I got chucked out the shop.

So far I've found a guitarist through joinmyband, a singer through banxmix & a drummer through gumtree. Just looking for a keys player. Maybe on here?

[quote name='jackers' timestamp='1358074608' post='1932550'] Ok, so if I go for an 8 Ohm cab I would like it to be a 410 or 210 I reckon. If I get a 410, would adding a 210 from the same manufacturer as a second cab be a good idea? or should I just go with 2 of the same cab. [/quote] It's advisable to get 2 of the same cab, but use your ears. Adding a 2x10 to a 4x10 would mean that the 2x10 would be getting 150 watts to 2 10" drivers & the other 150w is spread across the other 4.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1357885364' post='1929969'] I am a jazz musician. It' s what I do. [/quote] Aren't they called incidentals? I've no idea how many mistakes I make at a gig, it's been a year since my last one. Hopefully let you know soon though!

I got a good sturdy case from FlightcaseWarehouse for less than that. It's designed to go the opposite way (pedals in the shallow side) & has a plain black board with some Velcro to get you started. I put some feet on the back edge of the board to angle it & got some heavy duty Velcro & that was me. Thomann do a 30 day money back if you're not happy with it.

See if you can sell it to a boy racer & have a look in the "Cabs For Sale" section on here. Should be able to get something better for less than £100?

Well here's a crap pic of mine to make you feel better... Starting a new band & our 1st get together is on Friday, so I'll get to put the OC3 to good use.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1357986256' post='1931297'] Doing a last minute recording session today at Derby University, laying down one of our funky breakbeat tracks. It's one of simplest tunes we play and this is the stuff I need to play it... (Messy I know...) Oh... [/quote] Good to see you've gotten rid of the OCD & left some spaghetti. Now I don't feel so bad!

You make some interesting reading there mr Starr & I like that you've backed things up with reasons. I think when it comes to mixing drivers, you should use your ears & go for what sounds good to you. Some rigs sound good with mixed drivers, some don't. In most instances it is going to be unpredictable (not necessarily in a bad way) whereas from what I've read & heard so far, keeping them the same means that you're most likely going to get a similar sound at each venue. I'm no expert on speakers, but I do like to know the reasons behind things when I'm setting things up so I can get a good sound & know where to look if it doesn't sound right.

One of my dad's friends has a function band & they all play direct into the PA with a couple of wedge foldbacks. Silddx does the same but with IEM (AFAIK).

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1357899414' post='1930135'] Thinking about this again, won't the ripples from two stones dropped in water always interfere with each other as they spread out, leading to phasing issues, regardless of the size of the stones? If so, that would suggest that any phasing issues is more to do with multiple speakers not occupying the same point in space and might also suggest that a single large speaker would be better than multiple small ones . . . except that's where the mass of the cone might become too detrimental to the speaker performance. I guess it's all about getting the best trade-off from a number of conflicting parameters. [/quote] Here's where you should keep the drivers on the vertical. Think of your soundwaves as ripples, following the same patterns. You have vertical drivers all the same size, then you have soundwaves all the same size moving across the horizontal plane & the vertical plane has a narrower dispersion. The cone size only determines how much air it can move, not how much of a certain frequency it has. So a vertical 2x15 would be a pretty loud rig. However, a vertical 4x10 array (2 2x10s) will have a wider dispersion on the horizontal plane (the smaller the driver, the wider the dispersion). How much this matters to you is how well your band & audience are hearing you fully. If you're using PA with foldback, then your cab is just for your personal sound. An 8x10 (or 4x10) has the same dispersion as using 20" drivers. So the volume drops the minute you're not directly in front of it. Hope that helps a little. Barefaced's website is worth a read & he probably explains things much better than I do (I should hope so!).

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1357859846' post='1929826'] But Barefaced, Bergantino and Mesa Boogie do. So mixed speakers can work if you get the right ones. [/quote] I agree. Some companies do spend a bit of time designing their cabs so some can be mixed. Sadly, a lot don't & just make what they think will sell (& sometimes it actually works, sound wise too).

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1357857768' post='1929777'] I wasn't excluding crossovers or bi-amping, just thinking about the overall function of converting electrical waveforms back into sound. Perhaps it's all just a matter of compromise. Some Hifi speakers have dual drivers, some have three, some have more. Perhaps the ultimate would be a crossover filter with 20,000 outputs, one for each frequency, driving 20,000 amplifiers and 20,000 drivers? Then each 'channel' could be optimised for it's specific frequency and there would be no interference between them. OK, a ridiculous extreme, but isn't that the basic idea about using multiple drivers in the first place? [/quote] There isn't really a need for the drivers to be different sizes for any other reason than "looks". If you look at a good set of monitors or hifi speakers, they're a vertical array. Some have a driver for the midrange, in this sort of instance there's a crossover that filters "bass" frequencies to the "woofer" & has a small overlap & filters the higher "mids" to a smaller driver (smaller drivers have a wider dispersion). If you Google "Audiophile speakers" or "studio monitors", you'll find that there's very few with different sized drivers. Someone else said something along the lines of "Picture soundwaves like water ripples. Drop a big stone & a small stone in the water at the same time & you get different sized ripples moving at different speeds & hitting off one another. Drop 2 the same size & all the ripples move together". Makes sense to me.