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Finally got round to sitting down & learning Sir Duke a couple of weeks back. Good fun to play along with!

That's good news! Good ole Fergal.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1364941' date='Sep 7 2011, 08:56 AM']More speakers = more air moving = more sound. The overall "tone" is another matter.[/quote] Moving air is good, but if you're not moving it in the right direction then that's kind of a waste. Think of mixing drivers like having a fan pointing at you keeping you cool & then someone sitting next to you put's a fan on that crosses your stream & oscillates. You lose your consistent breeze.

I'm gonna go against what the rest are saying & suggest getting an Ashdown 1x15 cab. If you like the sound you're getting, the extra 15 is going to give you more of the same & will have a better dispersion to your audience than the 4x10. Adding the 4x10 does 2 things. 1, it changes your sound & 2, different sized drivers will give you different sounds at different venues. With the same sized drivers you'll get a more consistent sound from venue to venue.

Try changing the lead. I had a buzzing & discovered that one of my cats (kittens at the time) had bitten a couple of very small holes in the shielding.

Raise it off the floor a bit so it's closer to ear level. This is another reason 2 vertical cabs are better. What about building your own cabs? BFM has some impressive designs.

On a standard 4 string it would most definitely be B on the E. I like how the resonant frequencies make it rattle lots of things!

I 2nd buying another 2x10 & maybe flog the 4x10 once you find that you no longer need it & use that money towards upgrading your amp. 2 2x10s stacked vertically will give your audience a better overall volume than any 4x10. The 4x10 will give a nice loud volume to those directly in front of it, but anyone to the left or right will get your bass at a significantly reduced volume (unless you're going through PA of course).

I'd double check first, but your 9v pedals may well accept 12v. Moog pedals will run on anything from 9-15v & I run everything on 11.5v.

If £1k is your budget then you'll find many good rigs in the for sale section on here. There's a good selection of amps (including a Markbass Rocker), & for cabs there's an Acme B2 & a Markbass 6x10 to start with. And you'd still have change left. If you went down the combo route, there's a Markbass 2x10 for just £550! & if you needed further, there's a few matching 2x10s, again all below budget. The last thing I would do is spend money on your old cabs (no offence intended), but reconing an old peavey is gonna cost more than it's worth.

What's your budget? I'd be looking to replace the cabs asap with either 2 2x10s or 2 1x15s (or if you can, either a Barefaced or a BFM self build).

EBS?

[quote name='bartelby' post='1362633' date='Sep 5 2011, 09:58 AM']I can't decide which would be better, the patches in the EHX Ring Thing or the different waveforms on the Way Huge Ring Worm.[/quote] You need to get one just to go with your bass & claim Stingring!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1362570' date='Sep 5 2011, 08:32 AM']Yes, but getting back to the hosepipe and the magic smoke (which is what we're really interested in, after all) am I right in thinking that buying a blindingly expensive oxygen-free hosepipe and fitting it with gold-plated connectors will make my smoke even more magical?[/quote] Not sure. But it will be shinier than your standard Hoselock jobs.

I thought there was a sticky that explains all this. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=135"]Pay homage to the ohmage.[/url]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1358539' date='Sep 1 2011, 10:35 AM']That's so you plug it in the right way round. Wire is directional don't you know. Your tone can get really flustered if you force it to go upstream and it can disturb its mating cycle.[/quote] It's all to do with what way round the cable spirals. If the signal goes down the wire in the wrong direction then they'll be out of phase & can cause the frequencies above 20khz to invert on themselves. This has to be in sync with the earth's gravitational pull. If you're in the southern hemisphere, then your cables have to go the opposite way round!

Now that's a very good & valid reason to not daisychain Funny enough, the only daisychaining I do is on the PA.

Yup, daisychain or one from each output = the same. Some prefer not to daisychain incase the 1st speaker cable fails, though I've never had a speaker cable fail mid gig (it's usually when you first plug it in, if at all).

You've done a stonking job there. I like the fact that it's a trad sounding piece & you've introduced some synth sounds that sit perfectly & don't sound out of place. Nice work!

[quote name='lojo' post='1359123' date='Sep 1 2011, 07:14 PM']Voice pitch adjusters and these devices, we dont need them[/quote] You've obviously not heard me "singing" then!

Nope... I'm afraid I don't know

[quote name='larrybassman' post='1359135' date='Sep 1 2011, 07:28 PM']Hi, Stick with 15 inch speakers or even multiples of 12 inch speakers , 10 inch are far too middly and dont really have that real depth that 15's do. I can honestly say that I have tried them all and found 10 inch speaker far too middy and toppy, we are after all BASS players.[/quote] What a load of baloney! Diameter has 0 to do with how much bass a cab will produce. I used to have a 2x15" rig & it isn't anywhere near as "Bassy" as my current rig. That is down to the cabs & how efficient the drivers actually are & not that the fact that they was 15"s.

Have you thought it might be nothing to do with the cabs you're using & more to do with your EQing? I like a big fat bassy tone & get this using an Ibanez SR1000 through a couple of Moog pedals (the MF-101 fattens everything up nicely) & into a Markbass 2x10 combo stood vertically (EQ set fairly flat with the treble rolled off a little, VLE @ 10 o'clock & VPF @ 9 o'clock). The rest of the EQing from the Bass Murf. Fair enough my biggest gigs without PA are only @ 350 people, but any bigger & we get a PA & the combo is then used just for a monitor.

If you don't mind having some overdrive on your bass all the time, the MF-101 has a drive control (though it can get a little bit noisy if you need fuzz from it) & sounds pretty sweet IMO. Downside, the 101 isn't true bypass, so whatever you set the drive to, it will be going through it regardless. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36164"]Here's a review I did with audio samples.[/url]