Stub Mandrel
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I've been fast and loose based on my memories of books read in my teens/twenties and written in the seventies. I think my wires got crossed between some of the different case studies. I am pretty sure I am right about a blind test with an audience where they matched a 10W output to the volume of a small orchestra. Looking around, Lowther do 5 and 8-inch drivers for enclosures that cost about the same as a luxury car that claim 35Hz... Horns can be crazy things... these PA horns were my grandfather's, then father's, and were still being hired out (with new drivers) for equestrian events a couple of years ago, because they sounded far better than modern speakers in that application. The photos would be early/mid-1950s.
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I was flirting with the idea of an economical double bass that's on here at the moment. My SO was not amused... hmmm. EUBs...
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A good jazz, neck maxed, bridge dialled down a bit is loudest setting. Bridge turned to about 10% is the sweetest sound. The volume and tone on a p-bass are redundant except for home practice late evening...
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I was playing devil's advocate. I think more likely some people get a sound/feel they really like and simply aren't motivated to try hard with other instruments. Me, I get motivated by playing different instruments.
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I won't buy a bass I can't bond with so I can say some Fenders are ick, but mamy are very nice. I've put plenty back on the shelf, sometimes with real regret. My two most out-there p-sounding basses are a Westone Thunder 1 and a Harley Benton kit build with mega cheap pickups! Personally I prefer the mellower sound of vintage style pups.
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Some genres still sell enough vinyl to be viable.
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As someone who plays both, I'll play devil's advocate and ask is failure to get results out of both types of tried, tested and proven instruments, a failure of the bass or the player?
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I am astounded how many of you report 'out of tune syndrome' ... I thought it was just me.
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For portable amps. A few inches is enough for permanently installed horns, like they used to use in cinemas.
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Been there Usually lasts half a song. It's possible that it's actually someone else being a bit off...
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Unless it's fitted in a well designed horn.
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Was: From the ashes of disaster...now various projects
Stub Mandrel replied to Dom in Dorset's topic in Build Diaries
<Pedantic botanist alert> Sycamore isn't native to the UK, although there's lots of it here. Provenance can therefore be UK. -
The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Went to a gig tonight. Bass player had a Supernatural he's owned for 40 years. I said if someone told me a Jaydee into a Markbass I would have expected super clean funk, but he had a greatn if middley, bluesy growl. -
Springsteen has had a load of grief from Trump. Proves what a sound guy he is, if you ask me. I have a LOT of memories around 'The River'.
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Yes. Not unusual a century ago! What glorious engraving. But the tuners are totally insane!
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Let me fix that for you
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I choose what bass I play 🙂 Jazz bass compared to p-bass? Just crank the gain a bit and enjoy the versatility.
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Hopefully this means they plan to reissue the real Performer.
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I knew you had a squishy hippy progger trapped inside that crunchy punk shell :-)
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Just added neodymium button magnets on top of the jazz pickup pole pieces, which I poked into their holes. Makes up the huge volume difference. -
What's interesting is the frequency/loudness curve that has perceived volume dropping off rapidly below guitar frequencies. Which is why we need more powerful amps than guitarists.
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Did some rough basslines this evening, using garageband for a project I'm helping out with. Relatively small room with lots of gear in so I took the Squier Jag SS. Acquitted itself well. -
Slightly off that line of discussion, on Facebook today was saying they use a class D 3000W karaoke speaker for their bass at home and it sounds great. A bit of digging showed the '3000W PMPO' device as rated at 2 x 150W into 4 Ohms.
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I think that if tuners have rounded ends to the notches, then they are modern ones, no matter how 'aged' they look.
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I would have been impressed by Prime randomly playing me matching mole, except I wanted to hear the CCR track again...
