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Count Bassie
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Yeah it's gonna be heavy, there's a big transformer in there! I'll probably go look for some sanded 1/2" ply and do some miter-type joinery so I can get more glue in there. This will be a fine test for Tite-Bond III. I'll be interested to hear how you feel about the Trace head after all that time playing the Markbass...
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I'm going to give it a brushing or and vacuuming tonight, and get some tight detail shots. I emailed Ashdown, and one of their techs responded offering help and links, so that's great. @Matt P thanks for the offer on dimensions, I'll be taking you up on that! This may be a minute, but it's nice to find so many good resources once you decide to dig in. Great encouragement here, thanks all! I'll be back... 😎
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The amp arrived yesterday. It's a little more of a pile than I was expecting, not mounted in a case like I was expecting- but there price was right. I've got communication back from Dave at Ashdown and he's been friendly and forward about offering help and knowledge. My local guy got an email with the photos here, I'm waiting to hear back from him. His response may be interesting, lol. Here's the pile... Woot! 😂
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Count Bassie replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
I hope I haven't already posted this! My head is pretty busy these days, could really use a vacation, or something... Anyway here we go: My second ever bass was an old, poorly-entreated Gibson EB-0. Long story, but my dad and I refinished it during a visit, and it was a great bass. After the re-fin I had a DiMarzio Model One p'up installed. That bass was perfect for me at the time. I sold it, nevermind that part. Recently I found this, a MIJ Epiphone EB-3 Elite. I got it for a nice price, and I dig it a lot. Fit and finish are really good, and I somehow have an appreciation for the "finely built heavy blunt instrument" aspects. I'm playing it with a small cover outfit, and really like the "just fun" aspect. I'm in another band, original, that's the intense one... Here's the lil' beastie... Tombstone headstock, particular to the Japan-built EB-3... With the taller cousin... I put a Model One p'up in this one too. Turns out the Epiphone pickup had a bad winding or some other issue, probably a shorted circuit, which had brought the resistance down to about 1+ ohms. The Model One is more like 11+, and it sounds beautiful. And it's really a fun player! If you can get on with a neck like an old stair railing, it's a really fun bass. -
One last thing, do any of you happen to have one of these old MK IV or MK V heads on hand? If it were convenient, would you mind running a measuring tape too the inside dimensions of the plywood sleeve? I'm going to have to build a new one for this poor old thing. And I realize you'll probably have metric numbers, I'll just convert them to English- I mean American- numbers. Thanks! 🤪
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Great idea, thanks!
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Well the thing was still available, so I'm arranging to get it shipped, and I'm bringing it to an electronics engineer/amp tech friend. I'm going to go for it, get it back to it's original orientation. I know, it may not be the favored rec among some, but I'm sure it's possible. This guy's very good... I'll post as it goes.
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Fair enough.
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Yeah, it's just kinda bizarre to look at...
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Ok, interesting, the seller hasn't addressed any of my questions about this at all.
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That's kind of what I was thinking... And it looks like the UV light cover is upside down as well, mounted at the top of the rack. It just looks a bit weird, like someone did something to it. It would be kinda fun to rescue it.
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Sounding like a bit of work, but, as we say round here, I know a guy... Thank you for your help here!
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Thanks BassBod I may be popping in with some. (Okay here's one!...) This one appears to have had the UV light jig removed, she's in a strange condition that I can't discern. Any thoughts here?... I have sent a message to the original owner about this, I'm awaiting reply.
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How about running both instruments into an A/B box, then that switchable box into your amp? Cheep, ez solution...
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I'm about to pick this old tank up locally, and want to see if I can find a user manual for it. British Audio Service here in the states has no listing for one, and I know this older stuff gets swallowed up in the mists of time and the quiet chaos of progress. Anybody know where I can find one? AH 250 GP11, Mk IV? Thanks for your time!
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It seems that, at the end of the busy day, we find the most efficient method to get the results that gets our mojo out there. Less is, most of the time, more. I'm still gonna get my optimal bi-amp, clean lows/gnasty highs, accomplished. Oh yes. It will be mine...
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Cool thread! Just found it, some great stuff right off. I got introduced to reggae back in '74 or so, Jimmy Cliff (soundtrack to The Harder They Come) and Bob Marley (Natty Dread). I do a summer reggae thing with some locals every year, played my first reggae gig with them 20+ years ago. Hope to get back to Clubland with them this year. Gonna loom around here and cherry-pick awhile! Great stuff, cool experiences here.
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I still, after 40+ of playing, like Jack Cassady's angle, which was to run two amps: a bass rig and a guitar combo. I don't know how he split the signal, but what a sound. He's got a full, funky, solid low end from the bass amp and a lovely distortion from the guitar amp. About the funkiest dirty tone I've ever heard a bass player jam on. I think my next trip is to find a simple crossover and a decent guitar combo. It'll be a small hot mess to carry around, but I could see it being worth the trouble.
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Here's Tubezilla Vol 2... Here's the 810, Vol 3 coming up...
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New thread! Lol...
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Interesting. The way frequencies represent to the ear and to machines... Gotta be different, right? I don't recall exactly what that curve is, but although the bass may be at a level of dB, that's not to say that to the ear it overwhelms the mix...
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Bag End used to make an ELF system- Extended Low Frequency- that generated "lows" from harmonic content of your signal. It sounded like sub-lows but without the mud. I don't know how that works, but you don't see those systems around anymore...
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At FOH that makes sense to me. I send via DI to the board and to the house. On stage my volume is not as hot I don't think, but present.
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Yes. And I'm venturing here that you mean 'relatively loud'. I play with a couple dudes from St Thomas, and they like to hear it low but not loud... It's a presence, not overbearing. I suppose much of that comes from the mid content being de-emphasized and the lower content being given some room to stand up. It's not that the bass is boosted, it's that the more forward, mix-hogging mids are cut and moved out of the way, generally speaking. And yeah, 60-90Hz is a pretty good range. Even up into 100Hz or so has some nice 'push'.
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It's so easy to get pulled in to the whole "Deep" thing! I went through a very unhappy period of working it to death- modding cabs, hauling cumbersome gear around. It was pretty liberating to discover I didn't need anything special to play reggae. I use a hpf as a permanent part of my rig now, and pull down the mids with a lot of harmonic content (most of them, lol) out of my signal for the reggae band. I leave a touch of highs just to get a little definition to my attack, maybe pull the tone knob on my bass back a bit. I keep my touch light, play up closer to the neck with my right hand. I pretty much never boost the bass. Don't mean to "give a lesson", here! Just to say that getting the tone is probably something you can do with what you already have, or most good sounding modern cabs out there. I mean, really, most of us have gone through enough gear-hounding to have probably landed something that sounds pretty good... I'm as guilty as anyone...
