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I've had two basses left with marks on the bass top due to this pickup. It is aesthetic but I don't know if that's just how it is or if I installed it wrong.

If I had to explain IR vs EQ, I'd probably start with the fact that IR can capture reverberation whereas EQ cannot. Reverb can be that of the room, but it's there baked into the speaker itself. You apply a signal to a speaker and it will vibrate, and when you immediately stop the current the cone will continue to vibrate a little bit due to the stored potential energy and momentum. Many speakers do their best to minimize this but older designed speakers in particular will have this effect. Impulse response isn't perfect. It's a very linear change from input -> output with no accounting for non-linear changes for different input volumes. As I understand it Celestion's proprietary DSR is much better in that regard, but that requires a computer. I'm sure there are other competing products.

Cioks Schizofrenic has a mains out. It does say it's limited to 2A, which probably is OK, but don't hold me to that.

It's quite a coincidence that this is the subject of a recent video by Alex at Barefaced. He's an expert in this field. I know this because he tells us he is several times in his videos.

Thanks Phil. I want downward port as an armchair expert for the following reasons. It's out of sight Usual design of cabinets it to get 'em tall, so that the moving parts are as close to the ear as possible. Why not take advantage of that so that your port can be as long and wide as possible, which would help with efficiency and chuffing minimization? Too much low end? Put the cabinet on its side!

I love it! At that price it's a very tempting proposition for a fool with his tools such as myself. I'm looking forward to seeing the final design. If I have enough scrap wood to make it, I probably will. Failing that, I see that BnQ do some "nice" (for BnQ's definition of nice) 9mm exterior plywood at a reasonable price. I presume there won't be a tweeter option of this cab? Been having some interesting discussion with @GlamBass74 about port placement. I'd personally like to have a downward port, because I think ports are best heard not seen. He has managed to convince me it would affect the tuning frequency but I'm not sure if I'd notice it enough. All exciting stuff. My BC112mk3 building has hit an impasse with the lack of available components, sadly.

I think the Kappalite 3012HO would have been a more appropriate fit for the cabinet in question. Looks identical to the Kappalite 3012LF but is a smidgen lighter so I would double check the weight.

To my untrained eye it looks like a kappalite. I'd weigh it and see if it matches for weight.

Really nice job! Are those braces done with a hole saw?

I've owned neither but played both for a bit. The 100 is fairly bulky. If you already own an acoustic bass and you're purchasing with portability in mind you may be surprised at how large the SLB-100 is when packed down, although yes of course it is smaller than an acoustic. This is all moot if the 200 you had your eye on is no longer available, but I thought I'd throw it in here just in case it's useful.

Size doesn't matter. It's how you use it that counts.

Can I just check this is the Fane Sovereign 8-225 driver? There is a Fane Sovereign Pro 8-225 and I have no idea what the practical difference is other than the difference to my wallet and the stock levels of them at Blue Aran.

I'd like a way to stop seeing topics float up to the top in Fluid view. Fluid view is normally is my favourite way of seeing what's happening on here. My current workaround is to tick all forums except Off Topic [OT], which is a cesspit. However OT does come up with topics that I would like to see. Something like a Mute button on an individual topic similar to WhatsApp et al would be appreciated, but if it exists I cannot seem to find it. After clicking this hypothetical button I don't see it come up on the feed, but fresh OT posts would show up.

According to Wikipedia, the time to crack using brute force increases exponentially with the key length. Using your example above, and assuming upper and lower case letters, numbers and a few symbols for a password, that's around 95 characters available, so average number of tries for the first password is 95⁸/2, or 3.3 × 1000000000000000 tries. For the latter, it's 1.5 x 10⁴⁷, In perspective, if the first took one second to crack, the latter would take around 100000000000000 times the age of the known universe. In other words, even for brute force attacks, password length really matters.

That's a fair distinction. I did wonder if I needed to write that it was the equivalent of a setup running at 1Ω, and yes there are better, and cheaper ways of doing it.

Sorry yes.

Ashdown do actually offer something from their ABM family called the Geezer Butler Head of Doom. This is as far as I can tell an ABM 600, but with the option to daisy chain them, so with a thick enough wallet you can have as many cabinets as needed. I would suggest that there are better ways of doing this, but it must be quite a sight on stage! Diagram below taken from Ashdown's own website shows a setup potentially running at 1Ω

I did this repair on a different brand of headphones, cutting and re-soldering. It was a nightmare. We were talking about homoeopathic levels of copper in the wire, which made soldering next to impossible. Saying all that, it wasn't impossible and someone better than me probably can do it without too much difficulty. The headphones I fixed were cheap so maybe you may be pleasantly surprised with these Boss ones.

Can confirm it's a lot of fun, and thoroughly educational. I'm not on the same level as @GlamBass74, so if you're starting out I'd probably look at what I'm turning out in terms of what you can achieve from a standing start. Here's my BC112. I want to build another but some of the parts are still out of stock unless you build it without a tweeter. In terms of colour, I know you can customize to a certain extent with certain cabinet manufacturers, but there's something rather satisfying about either browsing the shelves of Wilko, or using up the tins of paint in your shed.

While most pros are next level, he's 41 levels above that.

This doesn't sound right. The EA Doubler is a decent amp, and a 12" EA Wizzy 12M has a sensitivity of 103dB. Given you're playing an upright bass I would guess you're not playing thrash metal, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you probably could be loud enough without spending anything extra: I'd be blowing barn doors off with your setup. A few things for you to check: When you blend your two pickups, have you ensured they're in phase? I don't think this has ever happened to me to a significant extent but when blending two sources each one could be cancelling each other out. One way to test would be to dispense with one for a bit and seeing if that improves things. As an aside how loud does your band play? Of course if you like the blended sound of the two pickups then I can't argue with that, but if it's just to tame feedback I've never ever had problems with using just a Full Circle. Are you using a HPF? You absolutely definitely want to be using this. The double bass booms so removing all the bass frequencies paradoxically is what you want to do. I don't know which EA Doubler you have but the manual I'm looking at seems to have a jumper setting for an 80Hz HPF. That's what you want, and don't let any electric bassist tell you otherwise Again I stress I'm saying this without knowing what type of music you play, but I will say that I've played many jazz big band gigs with 350W into one 10" speaker. Sometimes in the absolute worst possible rooms I was left wanting, but not often and I know more about EQ now so perhaps that was down to my naivety. Your setup is on paper (I've never tried it) more performant than what I've used for many years.

The b pentatonic has notes b d e f# a b. The b dorian has notes b c# d e f# g# a b. There's a fair amount of overlap there. In fact the Venn diagram would be concentric circles! I could guess that what this video was saying was that when you'd normally reach for a pentatonic, try using the dorian instead. The added notes won't clash if the pentatonic scale fit already, and it immediately takes your solos to the next level in terms of colour and vocabulary. Now that I'm saying this, I remember a video by Guthrie Govan on this very topic, but your video obviously couldn't have been this one because he's a guitarist 😜 In terms of playing a b dorian over an A major, a lot of jazz and surprisingly a lot of pop centres the solo around the 9th degree of the scale. Playing too many As in an A major piece can get boring real quick. Changing the scale up a tone can help break the mindset of sticking to the root note, something I'm definitely guilty of in my own playing.

Lovely amps, lovely guy. I had the pleasure to talk to Rick over email and on the phone. He came across as knowledgeable and friendly. He had a good chuckle when I scheduled the phone call in GMT: "I had to look up what that meant!" RIP.

Thanks for the review Phil. Just for curiosity's sake how does it stack up against your BC110T? Same dimensions? I'm going to guess that other people will immediately want to compare this to the BF's One10T, but I don't having never heard nor seen the latter . If you class the BF 12" as coloured, then I'd guess that the Monza and the One10T are like chalk and cheese, and only similarity is the size of the driver.