chriswareham

I was going to suggest Loop until I scrolled down. They're back together again and gigging. Got absolutely hooked on them around the time of the Collision single, which came out while I was at sixth form college, and by coincidence our local heroes were Mega City Four.

Sounds a bit like Trigger's broom. Jaco's bass. Apart from the neck. And the tuners. And the bridge.

[quote name='ash' timestamp='1404382451' post='2492052'] I'm having the same problem, my speaker cab is an earlier Vox 18" from '64 - the amp is a very loud AC50 and they are an original set. The 18" sounds great at low volumes but is underpowered for the amp ( I suspect it was used in a pair) I believe the original Celestion speaker is only rated at 50 watts. Been looking at the Fane Sovereign range which cost around £125 for the 18" and state they are suitable for bass guitar in small enclosures. If anyone has a 100 watt Celestion 18" knocking around I'd be interested though. Added a picture of my Vox stack and the type of Celestion. There's a good site about Vox Foundation cabs here - [url="http://www.voxac50.org.uk/index_07.htm"]http://www.voxac50.org.uk/index_07.htm[/url] Very interesting thread by the way. [/quote] Hi Ash, There was a mint condition Celestion 18" speaker up on eBay a couple of weeks ago. It didn't sell for the original BIN of £80, so the seller then put it back on at £100 and surprisingly it sold. I'd held off buying it as the seller had some negative feedback that looked a bit worrying. However, there is a guy on eBay that's selling Peavey cabs pimped to look like old Vox ones and he had a 2x15" last time I looked.

My office is directly opposite the main stage at the Hyde Park Summer festival site and we had Arcade Fire on yesterday as this years first headline act. The attendance looked poor, no more than half full by 8pm, and the sound was just a dull rumble even with all the windows open although the wind was maybe in the wrong direction. Today it's the turn of the metallers. Despite clashing with Sonisphere the festival site looks rammed and judging by the T-shirts you'd think Motorhead were headlining rather than Sabbath. Hordes of fans wandering around by mid morning, with many of the usual Oxford St tourists looking terrified and giving them a wide berth. Anyway, just before 3pm a distinctive distorted bass sound could be clearly heard. Looking out the window the first thing I see is Lemmy's LK Rick bass on the big projection screens, then the man himself looking surprisingly well. A friend was on a flight back from LA to London with him recently, and said he was walking with a stick which was quite worrying (he also saw Lemmy's hat box going around on the luggage carousel which made me laugh). Faith No More and Soundgarden have been on since, and they are nowhere near as loud as Motorhead.

Blimey, eye of the beholder and all that but the body it looks like a bit of chipboard with a damp patch in the middle.

Just noticed this thread, but I thought I'd comment based on my own experiences of running synths and drum machines through guitar effect pedals. I've put them through various Boss, Electro Harmonix and MXR pedals without issues and I'm aware of many bands both professional and amateur that do the same. It's particularly popular in the "power electronics" sub-genre of industrial music, where they use some pretty harsh and distorted sounds without seeming to cause damage to their pedals. As to Basstractor's curiosity about using a fuzz on a synth, a lot of people use fuzz pedals on "squelchy" acid synth sounds - Novation's rack mounted recreation of Roland's TB-303 even came with an overdrive and distortion effect built in.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1403091597' post='2479618'] I think that the JH/BC correspondence is a little misleading - IIRC, the only part that's mentioned in that is the headstock and TRC, but there are also trademarks on the body shape which aren't mentioned in that. I make no comments on the rights and wrongs of the situation or the vigour of RIC's pursuit of infringements. [/quote] What's interesting in the correspondence is that Hall wont state what design aspects are registered. That's very similar to what happens in my industry, where big players threaten lawsuits over patents but wont state what those patents are. As a result competition, and arguably innovation, are stifled.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1403093403' post='2479650'] Even the footprint of the tailpiece got Hipshot into trouble when they decided to make an aftermarket Rick bridge that intonated correctly & didn't bend in half under string tension. [/quote] I thought RIC lost that case? Meanwhile, it looks like Jason Lollar is fighting RIC's claims that he infringed their rights by producing a real horseshoe pickup as he's filed a motion to dismiss. He should have pretty good grounds, since the patent expired many years ago, RIC don't make a functional horseshoe pickup, and as form is part of the function they cannot register the design for their non-functional look-a-likes. I wonder if he could also cite Hall's claim on a public forum that RIC will release their own functional horseshoe pickup once the market has been [url="http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=409206&start=15#p800439"]"cleaned up"[/url] as trying to restrict competition.

I did wonder how this thread didn't get removed considering the ban. Although having read the email correspondence between a certain CEO and Basschat (it's up on his company website) it appears it was pictures of a faker that he wanted removed. On a related note I've just had my eBay listing for a faker pulled at the request of RIC. I've sent an email to RICs UK solicitors asking them to justify the request under UK and European laws since no mention was made of the R word and I didn't even include shots of the supposedly infringing headstock ...

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1402924962' post='2477910'] How heavy do/did they tend to be? [/quote] Quite light, with a 33.5" scale and I haven't noticed any neck dive on my one. I actually contacted the seller of this one, on the basis that if he's prepared to ship to London I'll get some more appropriate tuners put onto it. There looks to be a fair few scrapes on it, but that's not surprising as the finish is quite thin and brittle on mine. If I do end up with it then I'll probably ask the Gallery if they can strip it down and refinish it in black.

Yep, replacement tuners - the originals are closed back. It's the same colour as my D Bass, which is the best bass I've ever owned. I'd be buying this one if it wasn't for the duff tuners, as I would love to have a spare.

And here's the beast itself, sat under my heavily modified Sound City 120:

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1401468383' post='2463976'] Do a thread search about driver replacement and you'll find reference after reference that you can't just plop a driver into a cab and get a good result. They must be matched. As for not seeing bass dedicated eighteens, that's because with the driver technology that's existed for the last 15 years or so you can now find tens that have higher output and lower response than vintage eighteens, while eighteens have poor highs and virtually no dispersion in the mids. In short, we no longer use eighteens because we don't have to. Chances are your cab is undersized for an eighteeen anyway, and would work better loaded with a twelve or fifteen. Exact internal dimensions would be required to determine what would work best. The driver you linked to is, frankly, a POS. Don't even think about using that. [/quote] Thanks for the advice. I was aware that drivers have to be matched to the cabinet, but in the case of the Vox Foundation they allegedly made the cabinets to the size they wanted (to match the AC50 head) and just bunged in a speaker without concerning themselves whether it was an ideal match. I only bought the cabinet because Peter Hook had one as his first speaker, and subsequently found out he hated it as his Sound City and Hiwatt heads sounded terrible through it. I guess either his was damaged or that I must play at a much lower volume than he did, as I love the sound of mine! By the way, the internal dimensions of the Vox Foundation are 52cm wide, 62cm tall and 36cm deep, although the baffle does slope back slightly.

It's not in the description but based on the pictures accompanying the listing I'd suspect there's a nasty gash on the back of that bass.

Showed that listing to to my wife, who commented that the model has "spaniel's ears". Googled for the meaning of that phrase, and I have to agree.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1401805975' post='2467054'] I couldn't stand anything about Dani Filth.... awful man. [/quote] He's incredibly short - I once rested my pint on his head at a London club about fifteen years ago. He wasn't amused, but it did at least stop the singer from my band from sycophantically fawning all over him.

I want to replace the original driver in my 1965 Vox Foundation bass cabinet with something that can handle a bit more power. The existing driver works fine, but I'm now using an attenuator to push my amp harder and I'm worried that if the attenuator fails the sudden increase in power will destroy the driver immediately as it's only rated for 50W. I've looked all over the web, but can't find any new 18" drivers that are specifically for bass guitar - they all seem to be for PA applications. The most likely looking candidate I;ve come across is this: http://www.electromarket.co.uk/speakers-audio-equipment/parts-components/bass-mid-drivers/cca0033 The accompanying blurb says it's suitable for bass and guitar, but I'm worried that's a standard description they slap on all their drivers. I've also looked at getting a Peavey Black Widow, since I used to have an 1820 cabinet that had an 18" driver in it, but can find no reference to them anywhere on Peavey's website.

One thing I will say in Coldplay's favour, they aren't quite as tedious as Travis.

[quote name='John Schoen' timestamp='1400611698' post='2455496'] A Chinese interpretation of the 4004LK, Lemmy's bass. Plays well, sounds good, looks good, I am a happy camper. [/quote] Oh. My God. Where did you get it from and how much did it cost?

I bought Ivan's Darkglass B3K pedal. It was very well packed and swiftly delivered by Royal Mail Special Delivery. Many thanks!

I'm not going to knock the seller's English - it's better than my Ukrainian, even if they've probably just used Google Translate. I will knock the bass though, as Soviet guitars are all absolutely terrible. If you were behind the iron curtain, then you aspired to having a Czech or other East European made instrument, and only suffered the USSR made stuff if it was all you could afford. Sovtek valve amps were pretty good though, possibly because they were made in military radio factories where the quotas weren't too bad.

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1399108287' post='2441047'] Just wondering about your pickups though, the ones on mines Damn they're loud. Are you finding the same ? I'm gonna lower them and see if it helps,mind you it's easier just to roll the volume back. [/quote] It sounds pretty loud, more like an active bass than a passive! Not an issue for me as I use a compressor when playing at rehearsal or gig volume, but I certainly noticed the difference at home where I plug straight into my amp. I'm going to use the Retrovibe as a backup to my Jolana, so it's going to be visiting the Bass Gallery for a set up to be able to tune to drop Bb.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1399193186' post='2441823'] No worse than human bites. [/quote] Cat bites are worse than a human bite, as they have enzymes in their saliva that can cause problems. They've evolved to have these enzymes that can shutdown the nervous systems of small animals - which is why prey often die even if they aren't badly bitten.

Funny that this topic comes up just as people are arguing over the merits of £3,000 kettle leads in another topic ... I've been using the same Boss TU tuner since I started playing in 1991. I've occasionally checked my tuning against other band members tuners, and I've never noticed any appreciable difference in tuning regardless of make or model.

My new faker - the first version of the Retrovibe Vantage 4: A previous owner put a fake Rickenbacker truss rod cover on, which I'm going to replace with a blank one. They also added a hand rest over the bridge pickup, similar to the one on that was originally on my Jolana D Bass. That had to come straight off, as it was right where I play with a pick. Sound wise, it's more like a Jazz bass to my tinnitus afflicted ears. The build quality is very good, better than the Rockinbetter I once had, and it plays very nicely too.