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Why would you need an 8x10 tho?

And me! No octaver at all. I want!!!!!

Learning your scales is a good thing. Boring as hell, but worth it to be able to step into an originals band & play bass like you spent ages writing the line. Having another musician to learn with is a help too. My best friend plays guitar & we taught each other as kids anything we learned about theory & practised together regularly. Ironically, we've never played in the same band! Simple rock basslines are good to get your right wrist loosened. I found playing along with The Cult & Van Halen to be most enjoyable & very easy to play. Oh, & learn your blues scales & simple blues patterns, they'll come in handy later.

It could be used to wedge a cab back as a monitor.

I've got one. Had it since 1990 & never owned any other basses since buying it. It has a huge range of tones from top clanky sounds to dubby bass & just about everything inbetween. Pretty light with a very thin neck (good if you play fast). I put TI flatwounds on mine & the only downside for me is that it hasn't got 5 strings Sounds like a fair price to pay for one (they was £700 new in '90).

Going by my board with only 2 MFs & 2 boss sized stomps & the EP2 on it, I'm gonna guess it weighs more than everything else in your rig put together (amp, cabs, bass etc)? A sack trolley would be next on my list!

I got a Godlyke Powerall (1.7A & has a few different connector adaptors & a daisy chain with 2 polarity reversers). I run the Murf, CE2 & Distortion from it but had to put the 101 on it's own supply as it was getting a buzz. I tried shielding the sides with copper which reduced it a bit but said "sack it" in the end.

I'd try both & see what you like as it's gonna be down to personal taste. I love the sound of the MB cabs but I haven't tried TC before.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='1022681' date='Nov 13 2010, 05:43 PM']I didn't click the links but I am reliably informed that pornography is indeed available on the internet [/quote] [quote]Feel free to PM any mod you see online at the bottom of the board index in the future .[/quote] Put's a new meaning to Basschat

My MB combo is of kickback design. I've only used it once as a monitor in this position tho as I normally have it standing vertically.

A cab that looks like a bendybus? The mind boggles!

Oops answered. Yes to your 2nd Q. Although it will only draw about 60% of the power that the 2 them was.

Yes & No. If you wire two 16 ohm speakers in parallel, you'll get 8 ohm. If you wire two 4 ohm speakers in series, you'll still get 8 ohm.

I had a wee spy at these too. Look like a decent alternative to the Ashdown MAG range.

In most instances I learn someone else's songs either by ear, by watching what chords one of the other band member's are playing (that's if they know the song) or have a quick google if I struggle with any of it & find either the tab or score (preferably score as it's often more accurate than tab). The majority of (cover) songs I know have been learned as a kid from music books (whatever happened to them ), but I hardly find the need to read music all that often in my current bands (but can come in handy) as we put our own take on anything we cover.

Give your rig a test run. set it to a bassy tone & whap it up (in increments of course) & see if the speakers break up. Personally, I don't see why your rig wouldn't handle it but I've only ever used one trace rig & it was a 4x10 combo & I don't think it would have handled it. My 2x10 shifts a lot more air & handles a lot more bass than it did. On second thoughts, you might wanna start looking for a new rig.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1016770' date='Nov 8 2010, 07:15 PM']It's OK, mate. I think most people respond to my threads because of the avatar. [/quote] Shhh, don't let the Mrs hear that!

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1016747' date='Nov 8 2010, 07:05 PM']I've already admitted the 'versus' was probably innappropriate.[/quote] Sorry Pete, I never read that bit (or 4 other pages ). I still don't understand why anyone wouldn't be interested in theory tho? Knowledge is a good thing (when it comes to music, that is).

I've not read all this post (there's a surprise G, just jump in with your daft ideas), but Groove vs Theory? Really??? I would have thought every bassist would want both? I know I do. Wanting groove but not theory is a bit like being able to speak English, but not being interested in learning how to read or write it or even what the words mean. Vice versa, wanting to learn theory but not groove is like being able to write words but not managing to make a decent sentence (I think I actually fall under this category when it comes to speaking . ). What's next, strings vs leads?

But X with 2 8 ohm cabs is usually considerably louder than X with 1 of the same cabs that's 4 ohm.

But the downside to standard 4x10s & 8x10s is that the drivers are on the horizontal plane next to each other & frequencies could cancel each other out, causing a narrower dispertion.

I've never has this problem. I normally just plug straight into the line in on the mac & turn feedback protection off & use my ears & eyes to balance the input.

Akai Unibass - 1 Ashdown Chorus - 1 Boss CE-2 - 1 Boss ODB-3 - 1 Boss TU2 - 1 Boxx chorus ensemble - 1 Digitech Whammy - 1 Dunlop Bass Cry Baby - 1 DHA VT2 - 2 EHX Bass Micro Synth - 2 EHX POG2 - 1 EHX Qtron+ - 2 Guyatone MD-3 delay - 1 Maxon CP9+ - 1 Moog MF-101 - 1 Moog MF-105b - 1 Sansamp Bddi - 3 Way huge swollen pickle - 1 Quick edit to say the Boss CE2 is borrowed from a friend, but on my board. I have a Zoom thing, but we'll keep that with the mandolinist!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1012860' date='Nov 5 2010, 03:19 AM']You mean stacking the 2x10s on their narrow ends? Anyone ever done this and not worried a bit about how wobbly it looked?[/quote] It depends on how skinny your 2x10 (or 2x12) cabs are. TC cabs appear to be rather skinny & yet designed to stand on their end where as MarkBass cabs are almost square (there's only @ 4" difference between W, D & H). Some extra heavy duty velcro would see no movement in your cabs & amp on top & you could velcro to a Gramma Pad.

Oops, I'v read the rest of the posts & see BRX & Dan have already said what I was suggesting but in more detail! Getting gear to sync isn't hard, getting people to is the tricky bit.