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Tee nuts. Just be careful if you're tightening/untightening them often as they will eventually damage the ply and won't work.

Lay off the coke.

[quote name='YouMa' post='369336' date='Jan 3 2009, 04:23 PM']That was steve jones chugging his low E on never mind the bollocks.[/quote] Whats your point?

[quote name='pete.young' post='364079' date='Dec 27 2008, 10:27 AM']Just recieved yet another flyer from Russ Andrews - any profit they made on the one pair of earplugs I bought must have been wiped out by the never ending stream of emails and catalogues! Anyhoo, what about this - a 3m guitar cable for £120 ? I've bought quite reasonable guitars for less. [url="http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=6030&customer_id=PAA2757125108803MYBOVFOPNCJVWBOH"]http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?loo...YBOVFOPNCJVWBOH[/url] can anyone beat that?[/quote] I've got a 3m cable with the exact same Neutrik connectors which cost £12

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[quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='367839' date='Jan 1 2009, 04:12 PM']Am still trying to polish Talk Talks' its my life! matt[/quote] Nice, we once covered the No Doubt version. It was, err, interesting

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='366666' date='Dec 30 2008, 10:19 PM']Electrically the diagram is correct. Electrons pay no mind to whether the 10s are in one box and the 15 in another. Since each paired set of tens is series wired those pairs each offer a 16 ohm impedance to the amp, so those pairs will each receive only half the current that the 15 does.[/quote] Thank you for explaining this Also thank you for explaining the current/impedance/voltage/power rather than just putting "YOU ARE WRONG"

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='366505' date='Dec 30 2008, 06:57 PM']Yes the amp only sees a 4 ohm load, [b]but each 8 ohm cab will get half of the watts[/b]. The amp does not care whats in the cab - its an 8 ohm cab.[/quote] Why? It's a single circuit: [attachment=17864:wiring2.JPG] How does the amp know which is the 410 and which is the 115 and thus where to split the power?

[quote name='Pookus' post='366416' date='Dec 30 2008, 05:20 PM']I will do that. Just need to figure out how to set up my router to cut 10inch holes.[/quote] I just went at it freehand, was close enough

Maybe use the tuner/line-out and set the output volume to zero?

[quote name='alexclaber' post='365869' date='Dec 29 2008, 11:19 PM'][b]Full power at 4 ohms will put 225W into each 8 ohm cab[/b], thus 225W into the 15" and 56.25W into each 10". But it's all pretty irrelevant as you only hit full power on the loudest peaks and in that case it's the excursion limited power handling that matters, which unfortunately no-one specifies. Alex[/quote] Surely the amp "sees" a 4ohm load, not two 8ohm ones? If you draw the full circuit out and calculate, it works out as 75W to each 10" and 150W to the 15"

Try building your own, great fun, great end product and lots of people on here who can help you.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='365812' date='Dec 29 2008, 10:11 PM']I dont think so. The amp only see's what is connected and that is two 8 ohm loads that get 225 watts each. The amp does not care if the cab is two parallel pairs of 4 ohm drivers wired in series or four 16 ohm drivers in parallel.[/quote] The amp sees a 4ohm load which gets 450W. You have to treat both cabs as a single circuit.

[quote name='Stewart' post='365790' date='Dec 29 2008, 09:44 PM']No, that would only be true if all the drivers were wired in series or parallel - they are a combination of both in the 4x10[/quote] Aye - quick check, and I've mucked it up slightly - works out as 150W to the 15", 75W to each 10" (assuming the amp is putting out the full 450W)

[quote name='Musky' post='365532' date='Dec 29 2008, 03:34 PM']It's not a problem if you like the sound - it's just that there have been several threads about the 'unpredictable' results of mixing speakers without a crossover. So it's something of an in joke around these parts. That email from Ampeg is slightly misleading though. Although the total power handling of the stack is 700w, the 450w the SVT3 knocks out will be split equally between the two cabs ie 225w each. So that's 25w above the thermal power handling to the 15". In practice that's unlikely to be a problem though.[/quote] No, you will be pushing 450W between all 5 speakers = 90W to each.

I don't like Muse but them bass sounds are just plain amazing...

Several layers of clear nail varnish should sort it.

Take a look at an original Marshall Guvnor.

[quote name='ARGH' post='364348' date='Dec 27 2008, 06:17 PM']No,its a simple case of you have no idea,but you can understand....the 1st 3 notes of 'Black Sabbath',the intro to 'Under the Sun',the pulse of 'Heaven and Hell'..the Main riff of 'Mob Rules'.....If you cant hear the sheer thunder and horror then you stand no chance if someone plays you any Possessed or Autopsy..or Sodom lps.Its was never easy,the equipment was harder to work with,and the communication was different between groups of players..its why/how a band sounds so different from one and another,now its just clones...you can get the equipment off the peg,turn it up,and in a bedroom its sounds awesome,[size=4][b]but everyone ends up sounding the same[/b][/size]....thats why theres nothing jaw dropping anymore....everythings route 1. The wonder of the internet has caused the death of working it out for yourself.....I recall Max Cavelera's story of having a tape with Hellhammer's Apocalyptic Raids on one side and Hear Nothing...by Discharge on the other..both bands looked totally different,but to Max they were the same thing......THEY were the heaviest things Max could find,if he wanted to go heavier,he'd have to find a way to do it his own self. I admire the 'Nu' lot....But theres nothing aggressive,or bleak,or dark,or horrid about them......its commercial,droptuned,guitar based music for the 00s,that sells but dosent scare. Scott Ian hit the nail on the head by saying 10 years back that "This is the first generation that WONT push the boundaries of extremity in music" Studios didnt have a clue how to record this stuff in the ages gone by,thats why whole genres hung around with one producer and one sound,Flemming was good at guitar sounds,at Bass he stank....The best guys in extreme metal at the time was ,in the USA Casey McMackin,and Randy Burns..later on Scott Burns..and in Europe it was Harris Johns in Hansa studios.and in the early days Horst Muller (Caet studios)....In the UK no one had a clue,not until 89/90..maybe 92,did we start having decent studio sounds...DeathMetal had sounds from country to country Basically bands were either stuck with what they had to deal with,or they had a fight...One thing began to kill music off though,sounds were coming not from Bands but equipment...Whole sounds....genre staples were based from a pedal,the technique to make a riff heavy,had started to die off,now anyone can get a guitar,tune it down and go 'UUUUURRRGGGHHH' and complain about their school/parents/girlfriend..its saturated,its got cold,and its got crap....bad bad bad. Its going to have to go back to the start......and its going to have to take a really big set of balls to make anything new,thats why I think the next big thing isnt going to come from the west.[/quote] Everyone sounds the same yet you want MORE people to play P-basses?

[quote name='ARGH' post='363692' date='Dec 26 2008, 02:13 PM']NO...Warwick have an endorsement deal running a mile wide,everyone likes free gear and they are hurling it at players,those guys are using Fenders on records,I see the youngsters click clicking tonally and calling it heavy,it sounds sh*t onstage,and it sounds crap on record...Ryan CAN play,and can play mean,but theres no darkness there,it isnt Heavy,its the post-Fieldy sound,it moves no-one,and yeah,the BASS has to be heard above downtuned guitars,but if Butler can cut through,AND still write lines that stand out without having to resort to boxes to fix in the mix,then theres summat very wrong...thats why the big ol'Fenders are still being used in the studio,they dont cause probs. Theres a lot more to metal tone than a Jappo name brand line6 DI'd into a mates studio......[/quote] Go listen to L.D.50 and then tell us Ryan's playing a P-bass Since Sabbath (allegedly the industry standard of metal? ) also take into account the change in GUITAR tone- i.e. it was a hell of a lot easier for the bass to cut through in that era.